March 27, 2017
by Lee
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I’m the maintainer of a reasonably well-used WooCommerce plugin that currently generates a full set of product data from a store This is currently done on-demand to make sure the information is up to date. On smallish stores, everything works just … Continue reading
March 7, 2017
by Lee
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Laravel’s eloquent ORM has a nice system for tracking, and responding to events on models. This allows you to create an Observer class that handles code that should run when various actions are performed on a model. There are a … Continue reading
November 15, 2016
by Lee
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IP geolocation is something that’s needed more and more as people publish & trade internationally. Stores want to offer different pricing, currencies, shipping rules to different countries, or provide content in different languages. Many systems have something already baked in, … Continue reading
October 27, 2016
by Lee
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If you’ve done much with PHP you’ve probably come across its image handling libraries. Normally this involves using either the GD, or ImageMagick. These work reasonably well, but there are a number of disadvantages: The APIs are thin wrappers around the … Continue reading