How October Pond will simplify development and deployments

Posted in Announcements, Philosophy on Sep 26, 2017

In this post we want to reveal some details about October Pond, which we are building at the moment. If you haven't yet heard about Pond, it is an installation manager and deployment tool for Windows and Mac.

Say hello to the Builder!

Posted in Announcements, Philosophy, Tutorials on Feb 10, 2016

It's hard to find the words to express our excitement and pride for this announcement! The Builder was a highly anticipated plugin since it was first mentioned in our blog in 2014.

Putting October CMS into words

Posted in Philosophy on Apr 01, 2015

It's official! The Release Candidate version has been let loose! This is exciting news, as of today you can confidently use OctoberCMS for your live websites. For those of you who have arrived late to the party, here is an introductory summary that should answer some of those questions you have about this incredible platform.

Next Level Quality

Posted in Announcements, Philosophy on Feb 16, 2015

You may have heard the recent great news that October is approaching the Release Candidate phase where the codebase will be more stable and reliable. Now there is more great news - we are also preparing the next step in increasing the quality of the OctoberCMS ecosystem.

First OctoberCMS anniversary!

Posted in Philosophy on Oct 03, 2014

Once upon a time there were two boys - Sam and Aleksey. They lived in different countries, thousands miles away from each other. They didn't know about each other, but there was something common between them - they wanted the world to be simpler. One day they met online. That's how OctoberCMS has started.

The Builder idea

Posted in Announcements, Philosophy on Jul 30, 2014

Today we want to tell you about the next big feature we've planned. This feature is mostly for developers, but it's difficult to underestimate its impact on developers building for clients.

Raising The Bar Of Quality

Posted in Philosophy on Jul 02, 2014

Today we're publishing a guest post written by a friend of OctoberCMS, Chad Cantrell. Chad AKA ChadStrat has been developing PHP plugins and commercial products for several platforms over the years.

Upcoming changes in the Marketplace

Posted in Announcements, Philosophy on Jun 17, 2014

At the moment we are finishing several significant extensions and improvements to the Marketplace. We are going to provide authors with new tools and, and sometimes with kind words of advice.

Getting back to basics

Posted in Philosophy on May 15, 2014

Web development wasn't always this complicated. When did building websites become so convoluted and unsatisfying? Sometimes it can feel like a broken record player, making the same things over and over, using a different system each time, not reusing code from the last project.