For if you’ve ever been in the situation where you’ve developed a SilverStripe site for a client and now they want to review it before making it live – but you don’t have a staging server set up. What you usually want to do is give the client full access to their website, but prevent [...]

Unit testing can be a useful process to kill those pesky bugs, luckily with SilverStripe its relatively easy to get started unit testing. Running a test can take some time though, a great way of speeding up unit testing (as pointed out to me by Will Rossiter on the IRC channel) is to use the [...]

After reading this awesome post by Aaron Carlino I decided a date range filter was just what I needed to filter search results in my ModelAdmin class. Then I read the comment by Ingo Schommer and that date range widget looked pretty badass so I incorporated that instead of having two fields like Aaron’s solution. [...]

This is a really neat method to include CSS styles into an HTML email inline, which is apparently the best practice for HTML emails.