It is a very tedious & time consuming task to deploy a website to it’s destination trough FTP, not to mention the possibility of human errors due to this cherry picking process. It all started with: hmmmm….FTP is so 1990 …
The Internet is a free and open platform to share knowledge and information. Over the years, organisations with less good and honest intentions abused the free and open character of the Internet to attack its users. This for money, data and …
Until some time ago we used Docker Cloud to manage our web applications. But with Docker Cloud shutting down these services, we had to find a new way to setup and manage our applications. So we set out to look …
Dockerized ExpressJS app over https. I realise that this may be a somewhat niche situation, and even if you are using a Dockerized ExpressJS application, maybe you already have your own https solution? Nevertheless we came up with an interesting …
Getting notifications for UptimeRobot monitoring You may have wondered if it is possible to view the status of your websites at a glance in your Slack or HipChat. And it turns out to be relatively simple. In this guide I …
Introduction In this blog post, I will be presenting the React.js application that I started working on during my internship with AppSaloon. Using today’s popular javascript frameworks and libraries, like node.js, react.js with redux, REST api’s and leaflet.js, we developed …
The goal of this post is to enlighten you about the possible configuration to setup your cron and how to make your website faster by choosing the right cron setup. WordPress uses WP-CRON default for the cron setup. However a …
Free download In an earlier blogpost we wrote about GDPR and our expertise. In the meantime, we took action and created a plugin to make WordPress websites GDPR-ready. We have a lot of clients using comments and forms on their …
As a Belgian based webdevelopment team, we often create multilingual websites. WPML is one of the most-used plugins to make WordPress websites translatable. We used it for multiple websites like musichall.be One of our clients uses Themeco’s Pro theme to build websites …
May 2016, we received the final text of the new European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It will become enforceable in all EU member states on 25 May 2018. This regulation aims to address the new ways of exploiting personal data …
Normally time functions are not hard to handle, but the presentation “What every developer should know about time, no excuses” by Joeri Sebrechts in Antwerp changed my point of view. Countries change time zones whenever they want (Russia) or change time …
In 2013, a progressive entrepreneur came to AppSaloon and asked us to create a WordPress Website with a built-in tool to give friends and family the opportunity to show their support to the relatives of a deceased. Over the years, this tool became …
People often make the mistake of classifying WordPress as just a blogging platform. This idea is very limiting to the true power of WordPress. Sure, you can create a simple blog, but you can also use WordPress for your business …
Yesterday we attended GAUC Belgium 2016 and learned a lot about Google Analytics. Every speaker ended his/her presentation with 5 takeaways. Below we want to share 5 takeaways: Install Google Tag Manager on your website. With just a few clicks you can update the tags …
First Belgian WordCamp ever in Antwerp Saturday 4th June 2016 I attended the first Belgian WordCamp to speak about GIT deployment in WordPress during a 25 minute session. I spoke about how to setup, and especially why, to use GIT …
Have you ever been in a team working on the same plugin/theme? How easy was it to maintain custom and 3rd party plugins/themes? For example, when a new update of W3TC is available. You need to update this plugin in …
After using Grunt for a couple of years and changed to Gulp last year, I’m done with configuring and messing with them. As most of the grunt/gulp modules are built on top of a cli (comment line interface), documentation is …
For the 9th time we (Joeri, Erik and me) organised the Arduino Jam at Timelab in Ghent. Bringing 20 people together, spending a weekend creating awesome Arduino projects and having a lot of fun. We started on Friday with a brainstorm …
AMP or Accelerated Mobile Pages is an open-source framework created by Google to speed up the mobile web. It allows you to create two different versions of your webpage, a HTML and an AMP HTML page or just one AMP HTML …
SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer and was created by Netscape. It’s an encryption technology that creates a secure connection between your web server and your visitors web browser allowing private information to be transmitted without the problems of eavesdropping, …