Silverstripe CMS, currently relying on prototype for javascript and AJAX interactions, seems to be moving slowly to JQUERY : while contributors and developers might think this is a good move, I personnally wonder about the effort required for such a migration on an interface that relies heavily on AJAX. Anyway, I provide below a quick hack opf the famous gallery module, with the following modifications (demo coming soon) :

• uses jquery’s lightbox implementation of modal galleries.
• implements GalleryFolder Page type that displays first thumbnail of each gallery sub page

How to : setup jquery  gallery for silvestripe

• download jquery and add the requirement to your main page OR gallery page
• download gallery-jquery for silverstripe (384ko) and install it as gallery module
• flush your database (/db/build?flush=1)
• include GalleryPageContent in your template or GalleryFolderContent

that should be it, have fun

xls2mysql is a small windows standalone application that  creates a table from Excel file’s name, creating columns from cell values in the first row. Of course this is the kind of task you can perform easily via database administration tools, but the point here is to enhance productivity of Excel TO Mysql data conversion. The application performs various tasks on Excel file load :

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We provide here a modification of Mark Allen ‘ Blogroll page plugin, that inserts blogroll into any page of your blog . What we did here is modify his plugin to create more than just a list : we make pages out the blogroll list, one page per category. The first page lists categories with link to blogroll list for this category. Slight Modification but useful fo SEO. Future implementations should modify title page to integrate category description. Enjoy and let us know how it goes.

• Demo here
• Download : blogroll-links-pages