Category: Application design
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Support My Local now sells digital raffle tickets for schools and charities
During the pandemic I founded an online marketplace to help small traders supply local people with food and necessities. Post-pandemic I have pivoted to supporting schools and charities that want to sell raffle tickets online. The technology that I have used is WordPress, WooCommerce and WCFM Marketplace and a lot of custom code that create…
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Should you ever rewrite a large code base?
Here is a very interesting article on whether you should rewrite a large code base. I found it when asking the question “Whatever happened to FogBugz”. The answer is that it is still available.
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Lewisham Underwater Hockey Club
My sport is Underwater Hockey and I help run Lewisham Underwater Hockey Club which is in Forest Hill Pools in South East London. I have just launched a new website for Lewisham Underwater Hockey Club and I am trying to improve its SEO by linking to it with various terms like underwater hockey and octopush.…
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A Tech Stack for a Start-up
I am a fan of IndieHackers and one of the members posted an great article about their own tech stack https://www.indiehackers.com/article/how-i-chose-my-startup-stack-d9bc800e2a My own start-up, CryptoStar uses WordPress as the key platform. This is a good choice for a solo developer because of the huge number of high quality and inexpensive open-source plug-ins that can be…
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Quotes – better straight than bent
I will be launching CRYPTOSTAR.MONEY soon (“Find Rated Crypto Businesses”) which is built on WordPress. JSON Requires Straight Quotes Many integrations are required and at one point I stash some JSON from the database in a DIV and then read it into Javascript (it would be better to use AJAX but I am doing this…
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Designing secure applications with Formidable Forms
I use Formidable Forms for all my web application development using WordPress. The time spent learning the framework is repaid (just) by the speed with which I can build new front ends. In the last year the documentation is improved greatly and the team is targeting enterprise developers. Formidable Forms is stateless and all information…
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API first development (using Postman)
This is a great article about API first development https://medium.com/postman-engineering/api-first-software-development-for-modern-organizations-fdbfba9a66d3 It is often said that every generation thinks that it has discovered sex and in the same way sensible coding practices are “rediscovered” every couple of years. Nevertheless I like this article because it frames API development in a modern context.
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IOT – A review of the Electric Imp
The Internet of Things (IoT) is basically IP connected devices sending data back and forth to servers in the cloud. Computers and mobile phones do this all the time so how is IOT different? IoT devices tend to be “appliances” that do one job well and contain micro-controllers not computers. The data they send back…
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node.js, WordPress and Google App Engine
node.js Google App Engine is very cool. It hides all the complexity of creating a highly available, load-balanced and scalable application. It is a very natural fit for node.js applications. You can quickly and easily achieve “Google Scale”. This is explained in this great video, https://youtu.be/yiOtZDICUfI There is a synergy between node.js and Google App…
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Cool – Smartclient and node.js
My favourite Javascript library for widgets is Smartclient because of its wonderful showcase. Following on from my investigation into node.js I found this link, Announcing SmartClient Server for Node.js: free and open source! This is amazing because it allows you to build beautiful data-rich sites without having to worry about configuring front-end web servers. It support…
Dr James Bayley 