Should You Really Reinvent the Wheel? An Interview in PHP Solutions Magazine

March 12, 2012
An interview I did last year with Michael Gray just came out in PHP Solutions Magazine! Read on if you're interested in PHP frameworks and some thoughts on programming in general.

concrete5 5.5 Sample Content & Starting Points

February 01, 2012
concrete5 5.5 makes it easy to create your own installation sample content with a new file format we call CIF: content import format.

Installing concrete5 from the Command Line

January 30, 2012
Anyone want to install concrete5 from the command line? 5.5 and our command line installer will let you do just that.

concrete5 5.5 Add-On Developers: Create Your Own concrete5 Demo

January 28, 2012
This article provides guidelines and code to let concrete5 add-on developers or anyone setup a concrete5 demo, complete with a limited administrative user, auto-installed packages, and locked down permissions. The demo can easily be reset at any time. (Note this how-to is for concrete5 5.5.0 and later.)

concrete5 5.5: Stacks vs. Scrapbooks

January 20, 2012
In concrete5 version 5.3.0, we introduced a centralized content repositories called scrapbooks. Here you could add Blocks in one spot, and then paste them throughout your site. Now, with version 5.5.0 we've improved on them in every way. Introducing – Stacks.

concrete5 5.5: User Interface and Twitter Bootstrap

January 16, 2012
Version 5.5 of concrete5 is a great leap forward for our interface. Twitter's new UI toolkit, Bootstrap, is a big part of it. Learn about Bootstrap, how concrete5 uses it, and how you can include it in your blocks, dashboard pages and add-ons.

Full Archives >

About Me

I‘m Andrew.  I’m CTO and core team leader of concrete5, an open source CMS, and I write articles about it. I also make music, which you should listen to. I participate in several forms of social media. You can also contact me directly.

Important Stuff

In 2009, I tried to write and record one song every month. I failed to keep pace, but I did release something. 

Listen to The Path of Least Resistance.

Search

Follow @aembler on Twitter

My first thought on reading this: http://t.co/05ZMei2v - "nvALT has an icon" ?

That last tweet brought to you by irony.

If you ever think it's a good idea to combine two words, here's a handy tip: "Portmanteau? PortmanDON'T!"