Overview In the run up to Christmas one of my clients (Skate Asylum for those interested) is going to get a lot of orders. Every year it gets more and more and this year writing out address labels by hand is not going to cut it. What we wanted was a solution that involves less key depressions for the staff, and less pen to paper. http://www.linnworks.com/...

So, something interesting here. A piece of music I wrote a few years ago that sells quite a few copies, overlaid over a video from somewhere in Ibiza. Looks good...

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Sep 5, 2010

Dropbox keeps your files in the cloud and downloads them automatically to other computers. Bye-bye memory sticks.

Sep 4, 2010

7 Plugins in one. Product Comments, Friend Pile, Product Like Button, Recommendations, Wall Stream. A Bargain.

Jan 29, 2010

Whats this rant all about then? First of all let me start by saying that this problem is something that I’ve noticed a lot recently. While I work with various ecommerce and content management platforms, I find myself with my fingers in the templates. When you first install a blog, shopping cart or anything else where the software is off the shelf and you...

Jan 25, 2010

First of all, I suggest you watch this video. http://www.webhooks.org/ It’ll explain a lot why webhooks are pretty fabulous. I’ve been trying to implement them recently in one of my own projects. I want a way to take a subscription payment for a web-service. The payment provider I have chosen is Recurly. This service has a payment page, very much...

Jan 22, 2010

Why cache content? Sometimes, when you are creating custom solutions in PHP, you don’t have the luxury of speedup caches in Ecommerce and CMS frameworks. The problem is that people arent always experts in database design, and SQL, so pages with messy queries in them tend to load slowly. This can lose visitors interest, and if its ecommerce related,...