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I saw this video about Caine’s Arcade and was so inspired by it, you should check it out on the Momii Blog, and maybe do something awesome for someone else! Click the title or head here to view it http://blog.momiihq.com/post/21202240904/caines-arcade-this-brought-tears-to-my-eyes-and

It’s release day over at WooThemes again it’s a WordPress theme called Merchant built by yours truly and Fresh01. I’ve been thinking about an overhaul for this site and will likely be using Merchant. Click the title or head here to check it out: http://www.woothemes.com/2012/04/responsive-design-with-layout-controls-meet-merchant/

Over at WooThemes we’ve been working on some cool stuff lately, and one of those projects is WooDojo – something everyone should have in their WordPress install ‘cos it adds awesome sauce to your WordPress install! It includes WooSidebars, Tabs, Shortlinks, Custom Code, Login Branding, Social Widgets, and other downloadable items! Click the title to the download page or read the release post here: http://www.woothemes.com/2012/04/woodojo-enter-the-ninja/

If you were thinking about learning to code, the answer is yes you should, and you should give this article by Adii a read: http://adii.me/2012/04/learn-to-code/ it’s quite an insightful read about moving from initially coding to running a business and eventually reacquiring those coding skills.

For those that are in Cape Town, there is a WordPress meetup happening on 25 April 2012. It’ll be a good time to catchup with those who came to WordCamp Cape Town 2011 and meet some new faces I’ll be there, so come say hi! Read more by clicking the title or going here: http://lsdev.biz/cape-town-wordpress-meetup-2012/

I blogged about using WooThemes products in the real world over at woothemes.com recently, check it out. It’s quite a cool case study to learn from! Click on the title to read more or here: http://www.woothemes.com/2012/03/case-study-warehouse-on-woo/

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

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/