ActiveCodeline

Hi guys, and girls. I have a quick one… Does anyone of you use any kind of code snippet manager software. I’m thinking of implementing that philosophy into our team. A lot of code parts has been rewritten from scratch so I would like to speed some thing up. I only have one condition for code snipper management software. I need it to save passwords in a “open” manner, like plain text or XML files or even to database. Basically I would like to make a intranet solution latter based on those code snippets. Any ideas? Please, share some thoughts.

General code, snippet

Recently our company decided to switch to GIT. First thing i noticed about GIT Version Control System is that it’s written by Linus. Cool I couldn’t help my self so I watched entire Google Tach Talk speech that Linus held.

If you are just starting out with GIT, I would strongly suggest you check out the above video. After that I suggest you jump to gitcasts.com. There are some great screencasts to get you started on using GIT. And finally, go to official GITs documentation at git.or.cz.

Finally there is github.com, the GIT hosting solution. All of these are free so they should get you up n running with GIT in a day or so.

Although GIT is somewhat harder to learn than Subversion is, these materials should get you up n running.

OpenSource

For those interested, I wrote an article on listing items on sale in Magento. I already wrote somewhat similar article before, however this one is far more useful and flexible. You can read it at Inchoo.net or access it via direct link.

Magento

For the last few days I’ve been trying to redesign site in my head. Finally I decided to ditch my previous theme and go with the free one. I wanted to give a lighter look to my site and emphasize the content over graphics, however I have no free time of my own to play around with Photoshop. I feel much comfortable with this one

General

It’s been a while since my last post. I simply have to much on my mind and under my fingers, typing all that code. Last weekend I started development of a wordpress plugin I call ActiveDealers. Here are two screenshots for all of you interested in what’s it about.

Dynamic addition of attributes during application lifetime

Entities (dealers) with dynamicly added attributes

Main idea of building the plugin using EAV database model came from Magento platform. My job focus is entirely on Magento and Wordpress development so some ideas and application design philosophie of Magento seemed so tasty so I decided to implement them in WP plugin. Still need to implement the Google Maps and photo upload to specific dealer (entity), then some testing and possible code refactoring until I release it. Not sure on the license yet. Will keep you posted.

If some of you are looking for a quality custom WordPress plugin development, feel free to contact us at Surgeworks or Inchoo.

Wish you all the best for holidays… Cheers…

WordPress eav, plugin, WordPress