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 plugin doesn't have this feature. Our solution was to add a custom checkout field using […]
Secure websockets, authenticated with Basic http authentication. On the client-side they throw a popup and you provide it with an username and a password to authenticate yourself and gain access. On the server-side you have to add this to your request headers. There are a lot of websocket client packages available on npm, but they don't have […]
Even today, a lot of the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises work in a more traditional way of planning and organising their work. Many of them having employees in the field relying on paper forms to keep track of work-orders, notes, time spent, .... Many of these repetitive, manual tasks can be replaced with a custom made mobile […]
We use Google Analytics in most of the websites we build. With our apps, we have more options. However, when you try to add google analytics to your Cordova web-application, you will find that it doesn't work out of the box. Because your application is running from file:// google analytics won't work. You need to […]
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 Hapi = require('hapi'); var server = new Hapi.Server(); server.connection({ host: 'localhost', port: 8000 }); 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 stick with a few WordPress websites, you can do this manually. Once we reached 20 […]
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 all different sizes because it makes your page look messy. We want our website to […]
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 bookings. The goal One of our clients asked for a solution because they lost too […]
By default, most webapplications 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 in this language. On the other hand, almost 46% isn't written in English, so it's a good idea to think about i18n when you […]
Since a couple of months we’re developing an IoT (Internet of Things) application. We built our prototype with an Arduino Uno accompanied by a GSM/GPRS shield. It took me a while to make the whole GPRS (re)connect flow stable, except for one annoying bug. If we would lose connection while sending data to the server, […]
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 what if you wanted your styles or scripts only to load on specific admin pages […]
One year ago, we kickstarted the Spark Core project on kickstart. When we received our Core, we began to explore the use of it. Like so many I started an automated garden project. Living in Brussels and only having a balcony full of plants makes data gathering pretty easy. Having the Wifi close-by, made this […]
