SilverStripe: The Next 5 Years (StripeCon 2015)

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2. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée Where have

   we come from? Where are we going? SilverStripe The next 5 years

3. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée The future!

4. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée “To know

   your future you must know your past” ― George Santayana

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6. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée 21 November,

   2005 Almost 10 years ago

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13. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée Things were

    different

14. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée Original goals

    of SilverStripe 2 2005 • An Application Framework as well as a CMS • Customise it with PHP code, not with UI • Simple, intuitive UI • Site navigation generated from a page tree • Customisable data model • Solid publication workflow

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    of SilverStripe 2 First two sites • An e-commerce site based on hire purchase • A government department 2005

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    not that different

17. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • Ruby

    on Rails was in Beta • CakePHP was PHP4-based, and PHP framework state-of-the-art • Mobile web? Like… WAP? What else was happening? 2005

18. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée 2007

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20. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée 2010

21. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée A few

    highlights… • Google Summer of Code • 2008 DNCC website • Google Highly Open Participation 2005–2010 In the SilverStripe community

22. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • SilverStripe

    solid international community • Ingo and Philipp had written a German book • ...then translated it to English! • SilverStripe 2.4 had just been released What was happening in 2010? In the SilverStripe community

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    happening in 2010? • Running on a range of platforms important • Database abstraction • Microsoft certification In the SilverStripe community

24. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • Mobile

    websites were starting to become important • Mainly early-adopters or people with big budgets • Responsive design not yet mainstream • Social media increasingly important What was happening in 2010? Elsewhere in the world

25. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée Social Media

    Google Trends https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=social%20media

26. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée Responsive Web

    Design Google Trends https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=responsive%20web%20design

27. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée Mobile Web

    Design Google Trends https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=mobile%20web%20design

28. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée But still

    mainly Desktop websites

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    mainly Self-hosted, physical servers

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31. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • Block-based

    designs • Responsive web design the norm • Lots of great frameworks • Some say “don’t tie your app to a single framework”—hexagonal architecture CMS & Web Trends 2015

32. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée Adaptive Content

    vs. Front-end WYSIWYG

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34. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • Web

    Experience Management • A.K.A Personalisation • Of most interest to bigger customers • Sitecore, Adobe Experience Manager • Data journalism • Blurring lines between “app”, “data”, and “content” CMS & Web Trends 2015

35. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-calculator.html

36. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée CLOUD “People

    won’t shut up about it!”

37. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • Virtualisation

    is well-established—does anyone not use some kind of VM? • Containerisation the next wave • Apps increasingly built around micro-services The C Word 2015

38. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • Support

    for a variety of application stacks—e.g. IIS—less critical • Just run a Linux VM How does this affect SilverStripe? 2015

39. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée ...and in

    the SilverStripe community?

40. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée SilverStripe 3.2.0

    stable 4 days ago

41. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée SilverStripe 4!

42. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée We want

    SilverStripe to be a better citizen of the PHP ecosystem. • Namespacing • Flexibility over folder structure (use Composer’s vendor/ folder) • Including putting code outside the webroot • PSR-4 auto-loader • Simpler bootstrap • Smaller modules Interoperability What’s coming in SilverStripe 4

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    We’re now a member!

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    Allow this kind of architecture Your SilverStripe data model SilverStripe CMS, model admins, etc Application in another framework

45. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • ZIP

    downloads still available, but they will come with composer.phar • We will rely more on Composer features such as auto-loading • This will make it easier to replace components such as Mailer with 3rd party implementations • We want to have less code to maintain! Composer for all What’s coming in SilverStripe 4

46. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée Filesystem Abstraction

    • Support assets on other back-ends, e.g. S3. • Based on Flysystem • It’s in master now! • Next step: versioned assets What’s coming in SilverStripe 4

47. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • Being

    prototyped in a module • Gallery view for browsing • Drag & drop Better Files UI What’s coming in SilverStripe 4

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49. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée Something about

    versioning What’s coming in SilverStripe 4 Ever made a content block system, and had your customers complain that it got published straight away?

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51. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée Meet Paul

52. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • Versioning

    and draft/published for all your content • Pages • Files • Content blocks • An intuitive experience for users that care • An even more intuitive experience for users that don’t Something about versioning What’s coming in SilverStripe 4

53. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée 2020

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55. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée MORE!

56. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • More

    channels to communicate through • More data to bring together More complex problems to solve 2020 trends

57. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • More

    personalised • Better visualisation/interpretation of data • Realtime Higher visitor expectations 2020 trends

58. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • More

    intuitive tools • Both data- and content-based communication • Realtime Higher author expectations 2020 trends

59. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée SilverStripe 4

    SilverStripe 4+ SilverStripe 4++ SilverStripe 4+++ SilverStripe 4++++

60. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée Complex systems

    SilverStripe will be just one piece of the whole Magic SilverStripe Dragons NodeJS

61. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • Modular

    Architecture • APIs for reading & writing to other systems must be • Complete and polished • High-performance • Easy to incorporate Complex systems

62. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • Google

    Docs-style Realtime interaction will be the norm • Anything else will just seem antiquated • Have you used a non-ajax app lately? Realtime

63. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • Much

    richer JavaScript apps • Business logic shared between client & server • Lean, high-performance server components Realtime

64. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée How do

    authors tell personalised, data-driven stories? Richer authoring tools

65. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • CMS

    UX takes a front-seat • Open-source projects are traditionally developer-led • Development of the CMS needs to be driven by users’ needs and not framework limitations Richer authoring tools

66. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée How do

    we get there?

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    Design-driven

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74. Thank you! 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée

    @sminnee sam@silverstripe.com