P’unk Avenue

P'unk Ave Offers Classes

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Announcing the first Apostrophe product classes held by P'unk Avenue! Our vision in launching Apostrophe is to help people make beautiful websites that they can afford, and manage themselves. Today we are offering our first classes in helping artists and…

Apostrophe Gets the Etsy Mini Slot

Using the Etsy Mini slot you can now feature items from your Etsy shop right on your Apostrophe website! The Esty Mini slot is for Etsy sellers and Etsy lovers alike. Sellers can feature their most popular items, while…

Apostrophe: Now it's for Everyone

Last Tuesday while most people on the east coast were heading home from work or enjoying a pleasant happy hour, we ordered Thai takeout and quietly launched hosted Apostrophe. We held our breath and waited for the sky to…

Apostrophe Scales: Part II

Were you longing to hear the words "and one more thing" at the end of Apple's iPhone 4S press conference? Of course you were (even though the 4S is pretty darn amazing, honestly). So here's "one more thing:" serious…

We're eating our own blog food!

P'unk Avenue's blog is now running on Apostrophe. While punkave.com has been an Apostrophe site for a long time, our blog remained a Wordpress site for longer than it should have. That mainly had to do with the need…

Liveblogging Symfony Live

5:35pm, Wednesday Geez o man, I liveblogged the entire conference! I honestly didn't expect to keep it up for two full days. Glad I did as it helped me focus and learn more than I would have otherwise. Lots of…

Apostrophe Shirts!

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Like everyone, we love designing t-shirts (most of which never get printed) and we love wearing them. We decided to finally print some up to support Apostrophe, our open source CMS. We figured it would be a cool way…

Apostrophe 1.5 Released!

At long last, Apostrophe 1.5 has been released! And it was worth the wait. Apostrophe, for the newcomers, is a content management system built on Symfony. It has been through several stable releases and is in use on many production…

Open Source Business Models

Alas, open source by itself is not a business model. Very few people get rich just by coding for free all day. But I've spent a lot of time in the open source trenches over the years, and I'd like…

Apostrophe Scales: Part I

Apostrophe is a beautiful CMS, if we do say so ourselves. In-context editing and thoughtful design make it a joy to use. And this is a problem. It is a problem because people look at it and say "if it's…

Apostrophe 1.4.2 released

We've released version 1.4.2 of Apostrophe. This is a maintenance release primarily made up of stability and security fixes. We strongly recommend upgrading if you are using any 1.x version of Apostrophe. Even for those keeping up with Apostrophe's 1.4…

Apostrophe Updates

Apostrophe has received quite a few fixes and improvements over the past few months. We've made upgraded releases of our open source software available. To learn more, visit the Apostrophe developer site. Read on for a changelog of what's new…

Symfony 2 hub-bub

Symfony is the best framework for building web applications in PHP. The forthcoming Symfony 2 is a dramatic improvement and a complete rewrite with many new features and, even more importantly, better software architecture. Enthusiasts may have heard about the…

Introducing Apostrophe's Blog Plugin

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Apostrophe, our content management system, now sports a nifty new blog plugin. And you can see it in action on GPTMC's Philly360. Wondering where the blog is? In the context of a larger website, a blog doesn't always jump out…

Open Source Help Desk

TOM: "Open source help desk, this is Tom speaking. How may we help each other?" CALLER: "I chose your open source project for my client project and it's due tomorrow and it doesn't work! This is your problem and you…

Apostrophe Speaks Your Language

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We've just released version 1.0.9 of Apostrophe, our content management system. This is an exciting release because it includes French, German and Spanish user interfaces, as well as improved support for translating the actual content of your site into multiple…

Apostrophe has a Point of View

The Apostrophe Google Group has become pretty active lately. It has been so great to connect up with people around the world that are using Apostrophe to make sites for themselves or their clients. It feels great to be…

Apostrophe: the bipartisan CMS

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Ok, so it's Friday and we're all psyched for the weekend: ok ok, it's Monday but you can't let that stop the dance party!

Faster, PHP! Kill! Kill!

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PHP is easy... as programming languages go, that is. You can build sites in a real hurry. With frameworks like Symfony, you can build them faster still, and follow modern programming practices at the same time. And Apostrophe strips…

Apostrophe 1.0!

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We have labored long and hard to prepare for the 1.0 release of Apostrophe. As we said before, it has been stable and in use for a long time now, but we wanted to mark a moment in time with…