The Perch Podcast

We talk about why hacking at Perch Core is a bad idea, and also explain how to find your error log and debug errors and issues as you develop. Perch updates 2.3 Preview of role actions New Control Panel documentation Control Panel video Meetups information Perch on GitHub – translations and demo sites You can follow what we’re up to from grabaperch.com/news. Other links How to get help with Perch – help us to help you! A Guide to PHP Error Messages for Designers Turning on debug in Perch Diagnostic Report in Perch

We talk about the exciting new features that will be part of Perch 2.3 and make a public service announcement aimed at those of you on old versions of PHP and MySQL. Perch updates Blog App Update Meetups information You can follow what we’re up to from grabaperch.com/news. Other links 5 Ways to make your admin interface shine Upgrade Your PHP! Nine Four – UI design for Perch, currently working on the 2.3 UI Rachel is a guest on the Bootstrapped podcast Bootstrapped Discuss

This week we talk about not being spammers when sending out our emails to Perchers and trying to stop spammers posting blog comments. What we have been doing? Perch 2.2.10 Perch 2.2.11 Blog 2.8 Combatting Spam – how to add a honeypot field Our recent newsletter Demo walkthrough for the default demo Demo walkthrough for the Swift demo Demo walkthrough for the Nest demo You can follow what we’re up to from grabaperch.com/news. Other links Mail Chimp Akismet Bootstrapped Discuss

In the middle of a British heat wave we talk about front end development tools. Perch updates New videos The latest version of Perch is always at grabaperch.com/update You can follow what we’re up to from grabaperch.com/news. Other links Pete Blakemore – Building with Perch Speak the Web The CSS Summit

In this podcast we talk about feature requests and what might be coming to Perch in the future based on your feedback. Perch updates Blog App Update Gallery App Update FoxyShop Shop version 2 The latest version of Perch is always at grabaperch.com/update You can follow what we’re up to from grabaperch.com/news. Other links Snappy Speak the Web The CSS Summit

The new demo is live, and we discuss a brouhaha in the CMS world which leads us to thinking about business models. What we have been doing Signup for a demo The default site on GitHub The Swift Migrations site on GitHub The Nest Running Club site on GitHub The new video tutorial – this is based on the Swift site You can follow what we’re up to from grabaperch.com/news. Other links Our policy on commercial add-ons blog post Ampersand Conference

With a slightly different format to the podcast this week we talk about the new demo, which we are launching as a beta today. See the links below for details of the demo. It is a beta so please excuse any rough edges – and let us know if you spot anything, or just what your impressions are. Demo Related Links Signup for a demo The default site on GitHub The Swift Migrations site on GitHub The Nest Running Club site on GitHub The new video tutorial – this is based on the Swift site, as of this morning 10 videos are available, another 9 are on their way Email us at hello@grabaperch.com with any feedback Other links Perch 2.2.9 release ConfShop Future of Web Apps London

We talk about the types of projects that are suitable for Perch and Rachel confesses to not being very good at marketing. Perch updates Perch 2.2.8 Perch Twitter 3.1 Perch Blog 3.7.6 Perch Comments 1.0.1 Perch Forms 1.5.1 Perch Members 1.0.3 You can follow what we’re up to from grabaperch.com/news. Other links The 24 Ways site on Github

After a week off for some airplane and conference business we talk about things that make “good demo” and answer some listener questions. Perch updates Upgrade App Update PayPal Shop update The latest version of Perch is always at grabaperch.com/update You can follow what we’re up to from grabaperch.com/news. Other links Converge Conference Edinburgh Karen McGrane – WYSIWTF Drew McLellan – the lure of on-page editing Perch on GitHub

In Episode Eight of the Perch podcast Drew tells us how he has been updating everything and we answer lots of listener questions. Perch updates Gallery Update Blog Update Events Update PayPal Shop update Norwegian Translation The latest version of Perch is always at grabaperch.com/update You can follow what we’re up to from grabaperch.com/news. Other links People love Perch section of the site Converge Conference Edinburgh Blog post – It’s all Custom Fields Navicat

In episode seven of the Perch podcast we revisit the blog topic of last week to discuss your responses. Perch updates Gallery Update Audioboo Field Type PayPal Shop update The latest version of Perch is always at grabaperch.com/update You can follow what we’re up to from grabaperch.com/news. Other links People love Perch section of the site Interview with Urs Bräm Interview with Andrew Rossborough Unfinished Business podcast Smashing Book 4 pre-order Multi-Mania in Belgium Rachel’s Multi Mania presentation slides ConfShop

In Episode 6 we have a bit of a rant about the Blog App being used for naughty non-Blog things. Talk about why VPS hosting might be a good idea for many sites, and explain how caching with Varnish works. Perch updates Perch 2.2.5 SlideShare Field Type CKEditor Redactor Ace Editor Perch Members 1.0.2 MailChimp Widget Campaign Monitor Widget You can follow what we’re up to from grabaperch.com/news. Other links You Can’t Do Everything – Rachel’s first column for A List Apart Varnish Cache Memset Perch Configuration Values Multi-Mania in Belgium – come and say hello to Rachel if you are attending.

In a very nerdy edition of the Perch podcast we talk about servers, how Rachel has been converted to git by way of submodules and discuss development environments when working with Perch. Perch updates YouTube field type update with support for youtu.be URLs Perch 2.2.4 Sass feather update You can follow what we’re up to from grabaperch.com/news. Other links Puppet Github An introduction to version control Mamp Xampp Our tutorial on using Xampp with Perch VMWare VirtualBox Navicat

In episode four of the Perch podcast we talk about our conference travels, Drew talks about performance and we answer some of your questions. Links to things we discussed The new Spanish translation Industry Conference and Rachel’s presentation on supporting Perch. Front Trends and Rachel’s presentation The New CSS Layout Urs Braem’s question about performance perch_content_custom docs Using Perch with a Front Controller

In our third podcast Drew tells us how he held an Oscar, Rachel admits to not getting much done due to being in hospital and we talk about our proposed referral programme and upcoming conferences. Drew holds an Oscar. What have we been doing? Blog 3.7.2 Perch 2.2.3 YouTube Field Type Vimeo Field Type The News page Polish, French and Italian UI translations Newsfeed dashboard Widget We mentioned illustrator Kev Adamson – he designed the birds. Conferences and events We talked about ConfShop, where we will be hosting the discussion about Client work and products. Next week we will be at Industry Conference in Newcastle, England and Front Trends in Poland. Come and say hi if you are at any of those events.

In our second podcast – now on iTunes – we talk about the latest version of Perch and Blog, the Registered Developer Programme and answer some of your questions. What have we been doing? Perch 2.2.2 Perch Blog Updated blog documentation Video tutorial UI Translations on GitHub Rachel on Lanyrd Drew on Lanyrd CSS Grid Layout changes Registered Developers We talked about the Registered Developer Programme. List of Members Full details and how to join On the web Drew mentioned an interesting article on Gadgetopia – The Necessity of a Content Index. Running a software business We talked a bit about the designers that we work with: Paddy Donnelly from Lefft Nathan Pitman from Nine Four Laura Kalbag The bird illustrations are by Kev Adamson

In episode one of the Perch podcast we talk about some things we could talk about, update you on what we have been doing and answer some questions from Twitter. Links to some of the things we have been doing Blog post about the price increase Perch 2.2.1 Perch on GitHub The Textpattern importer on Drew’s GitHub account Sending email with Postmark Rachel’s fitness blog Blog post about using Perch layouts Puppet Puppet Camp London Memset – the hosting company our infrastructure sits on Questions from Twitter We asked Perchers on Twitter if they had any questions for us. If you would like us to answer your questions in another episode then Tweet @grabaperch and we’ll do our best. The below links are from our responses. Original blog post about add-ons, Our policy on commercial add-ons The Perch API documentation. Using Perch with a front controller – useful information if you want to use Perch alongside another MVC framework. Creating Field Types using the Perch