Whichever industry you work in, whether you work for yourself or a company and whatever your job description, there are days where things just aren’t going your way. No matter how long you sit at your desk, tapping your pencil, the solution to the problem at hand just isn’t apparent. As a developer, the problem and solution […]
Category Archives: Coding
Custom URL rewrites in WordPress — A Getting Started Guide
7th November, 2009 – 12:11 pm
Hey everyone. I’ve been tweeting quite a bit recently about custom URL rewrites in WordPress. After a few hours of trial and error, I’ve managed to get my specific custom URL rewrites working. After reading through several tutorials online (the majority of which used the same examples to explain only a portion the information I was looking for), here’s […]
Theming for Magento — Part 03 — Theming Basics
18th October, 2009 – 6:54 pm
Right. We’re in part 03 of our “Theming for Magento” tutorial collection. Time to get down to some theming. A quick word on conventions Magento, like many other content management systems, likes to follow conventions. Adopting these conventions when designing your theme, as well as during the theming process, can greatly minimize the amount of […]
Theming for Magento — Part 02 — Theme Architecture
14th August, 2009 – 10:25 am
OK folks, we’re not going to rush things. Lets take this theming for Magento one step at a time. In today’s tutorial, I’ll be discussing the architecture of Magento themes, the reason for this architecture and a brief introduction into a general idea of what goes where and why. The installation… lets get it out of the way The Magento […]
Theming for Magento — Part 01
2nd August, 2009 – 8:27 pm
Magento, the popular e-commerce website platform, has, over the past few years, become a prominant player in the content management market. Utilising its robust array of features as well as its stock and sales management fascilities, Magento is a great choice for a system to manage your online store. When setting up your Magento store, the system comes […]
Obox launches the Obox Theme Store
7th July, 2009 – 10:30 am
Well, guys, launch day is here. The Obox Theme Store is online! After weeks of watching Dave, Marc and Nat at Obox working late nights and early mornings, weekends, public holidays and all other kinds of days imaginable, the launch has happened, the first sale has come and gone and I must say, it’s looking AWESOME! […]
A few guidelines for WordPress plugin development
20th June, 2009 – 10:12 am
The WordPress plugin API is vast and powerful. It allows developers to essentially hook code into almost any area of the WordPress system without modifying the core files at all. It also allows for the creation of standalone plugins that work within the WordPress system but do not hook into the core modules. Over the […]
Coding with the other side of your brain
19th June, 2009 – 6:37 pm
This might seem like a weird topic for a blog post. Let me elaborate. If you’ve ever coded for a system that is build in a convention you’re not used to (for example, coding using a MVC framework, if you’re not used to it), this concept will begin to make sense. It refers to the almost complete paradigm shift required […]
