by jeffikus
on January 10, 2012
in Freebie, Plugins, Tools, Woothemes
So after having done a customization for African Cartel recently using WooCommerce and a WooTheme, I thought I’d spend some more time with it for a personal project of mine. And (even though I’m slightly biased*) I gotta say that I love it 
It’s really easy to use and to extend. I’m using it as an engine for a manual payment system and it is really powerful.
Check it out – you wont be disappointed - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/woocommerce/ and it’s a FREE plugin.
* Disclaimer: in the interest of full disclosure, I work for WooThemes who built the WooCommerce plugin
by jeffikus
on January 4, 2012
in Development, Freebie, Technology, Tools
I started using the If This Then That service today, after Matty recommended it. Quite a neat service to create social actions, and its free This could be useful for development projects that need automated social elements.
For example - I created a task that posts to my twitter everytime my blog feed has a new article.
There are many more tasks that you can create as well as some preset ‘recipes’. Check it out here: http://ifttt.com/
by jeffikus
on December 2, 2011
in Development, Fun, Video, Woothemes, WordPress
I was interviewed at work recently as part of a “Getting to know the Team” series. Check it out on the WooThemes site.
by jeffikus
on November 16, 2011
in Development, PHP, Projects, Woothemes, WordPress
I recently did some work for African Cartel (I previously worked on the original site) to move them over to using the WooCommerce plugin instead of some of the other WordPress e-commerce plugins out there. I also wrote a content schema plugin so that they didn’t lose their content when moving from theme to theme, and created another plugin that allows them to link 2 different post types together.
Click the title to read the case study on the WooThemes site.
by jeffikus
on November 3, 2011
in Development, Fun, PHP, Video, Woothemes, WordPress
This week I upgraded our Listings directory theme at WooThemes from the Google Maps API V2 to V3 and I thought it would be pretty cool to show you what I actually do when I code.
The upgrade process took about an hour and a half of coding, testing, and deploying. And for those wondering, I’m coding in Coda, and the video was created using Screenflow.
And for those wondering about the music, it’s one of my favorite pieces recorded by JerryC called Canon Rock.
Update: the video was featured on WPCandy.
by jeffikus
on October 3, 2011
in Development, Video, Woothemes, WordCamp, WordPress
I posted earlier about speaking at WordCamp Cape Town about using WordPress as a Development Framework, here is the video for your viewing pleasure!
by jeffikus
on September 16, 2011
in Development, Slides, Woothemes, WordCamp, WordPress
I gave a talk at WordCamp Cape Town yesterday about using WordPress as a Development Framework for building web applications. Here’s my slides, I’ll update this post shortly with a bit more information – like the links to the video clip and code snippets.
