Paid Memberships Pro is a great WordPress plugin that allows paid subscriptions to your WordPress site. It has tons of features and is incredibly flexible with handling subscriptions.
One of my company’s clients uses it for managing all of their memberships and uses Stripe as the payment gateway. Stripe is also a great company – I use it for my own company and have set it up for several clients.
Continue ReadingSo a few weeks ago I started in on a ground-up rewrite of an existing project. Its currently using a framework that based around my CWFC libraries. It works very well, but its starting to show its age. As more and more features got added to the project, things have gotten more and more cumbersome to maintain in a clean way. I started off by ripping out all of the backend code and migrating it to C++ (see my posts on Protocol Buffers here and here), leaving only the front-facing code left to work with.
Continue ReadingSo, I’ve been working with JetBrains PhpStorm for about 6 months or so now. Only recently have I started forcing myself to serious work with it. Part of the reason why I used tabbed terminals and VIM for so many years is that it is very fast. No mouse clicking, my hands never need to leave the keyboard except to test what I’ve just written in a browser.
Continue ReadingI’ve been writing code in PHP for a long time now, both for my own projects and as a freelancer. I’ve seen well written code and truly horrific code and everything in between. Much of the work I’ve done for my personal projects has been using a framework that I’ve built and added on over the years, my PHP Foundation Classes.
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