The default flow for adding a new post to Royal Slider is: Create and publish your new post Go into the Royal Slider-plugin and re-save your slider This isn’t very efficient, especially when you want to work with scheduled posts our even when working with …
A common feature for website administrators is to get a backup or dump in csv format from the database. Sometimes this feature is very specific and the PHP developer needs to write code that creates a csv file for download …
We use Puphpet to generate the configuration files for our vagrant boxes. Since 2 days there is an issue with the Vagrant-box “puphpet/ubuntu1404-x64” when it comes to the step were MySQL must be installed. The MySQL package was updated in …
When using WooCommerce PDF Product Vouchers, the default flow allows a visitor to enter a personalised message on the product page. If you want the visitor to personalise the voucher during checkout, this presents a problem since the PDF Voucher …
Secure websockets, authenticated with Basic http authentication. At the client-side they throw a popup and you provide it with an username and a password to authenticate yourself and gain access. At the server-side you have to add this to your request …
Even today, a lot of the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises work in a more traditional way of planning and organizing their work. Many of them having employees in the field relying on paper forms to keep track of work-orders, notes, time …
We use Google Analytics in most of the websites we build. With our apps we have more options. But when you try to add google analytics to your Cordova web-application you will find that it doesn’t work out of the …
I recently got to work with hapi.js for building an api and I like the Hapi way. To add web-sockets I needed to integrate Socket.io. Because I couldn’t find an up to date explanation on how to do this: var …
WordPress is a very commonly used CMS. Just like all the great CMS’s, it comes with regular updates and a UI to easily perform the updates of the core or plugins. That’s where InfiniteWP comes in. As long as you …
Ever needed an easy way to crop images with CSS, plus keeping them scalable? Well here’s how I do it. Let’s say you’re making a news website with a responsive grid filled with posts. You don’t want your images being …
Events Manager plugin One of the most used plugins for managing events on a WordPress is the Events Manager. It is a very easy to use and highly configurable plugin, surprisingly it lacks a feature allowing an admin to search …
By default, most webapplication are created in a single language: English. This seems like a good idea, since more then 50% (according to W3C) of all the pages in the Internet are written on this language. On the other hand, almost 46% …
Since a couple of months we’re developing an IoT (Internet of Things) application. We build our prototype with an Arduino Uno accompanied with a GSM/GPRS shield. It took me a while to make the whole GPRS (re)connect flow stable, except …
When building your own WordPress plugin or theme you will often want to load your own css or javascript files. This is simple in WordPress, you just use a hook where you register and enqueue your style or script… But …
A year ago we kickstarted the Spark Core project on kickstart. When we received our Core we started to explore the use of it. Like so many I started an automated garden project. Living in Brussels and only having a …
My name is David Bos, a 3rd year electronics-ict student from PXL college Diepenbeek. I did my internship at Appsaloon, they develop web apps and maintain websites. But they also organize technology events such as the Arduino Jam and the …
We wanted a system with which we could control the lights and heating of our office as well as reading out some sensors. Here at AppSaloon (where I do my internship) they use Node.js for a lot of things, so …
My name is David Bos, I am an electronics-ict student at PXL Diepenbeek and an intern at Appsaloon. Friday 2 May I went to Antwerp to attend the Zumo Robot War Hackathon.This was organized by Appsaloon in cooperation with HelloBank. At …
Coding more complex WordPress sites means you’ll probably need more than one loop on certain pages. For example a homepage with different sections and categories, or one page designs that are really trending this year. There are a couple ways …
Hello, my name is Robbert Decock. I’m a student at KTA1 Hasselt and I went on an internship for 2 weeks at AppSaloon. Working with the BIG GUYS for two weeks #awesome AppSaloon is a company that is specialized in …