Category Archive: Current Events

Jan 31

wpBlackbird in development

wpBlackbird aims to provide E-Commerce API as a plugin available for word press. More to follow! Stay tuned.

Jan 12

Latest updates to ZRECommerce

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Plugin tags are now working. New plugins are on the way. To display an array of products, simply add the following tag anywhere in your article: {%plugin type=Product_Array%} And save. In other news, work will now commence on a WordPress plugin that will allow for use of ZRECommerce cart and checkout awesomeness within wordpress installations.

Oct 23

What is ZRECommerce about?

It’s all about collaboration and growth of something that will re-invigorate and unify the idea of a multi-purpose web commerce library. Kind of like how Eclipse is a multipurpose IDE, and the Zend Framework is an all-purpose library. Interested in collaborating? Leave a comment! The project is hosted on github at http://github.com/aalbino/ZRECommerce I’ll be setting …

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Oct 23

The AnyKnife – The most awesome sales pitch ever! …at least for today

Folks, if you have at least one funny bone in your body, check out the commercial for the AnyKnife. It’s awesome.

Oct 18

Mexican Chocolate Drinks, the drink of champions

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The swiss stuff is great, don’t get me wrong. If you have never tried the Mexican brands of chocolate drink mix (a.k.a “Hot Cocoa”), you are missing out. There are three brands I have personally tried, and that I can definitely recommend: Ibarra Moctezuma Abuelita There may be some discussion as to which one is …

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Oct 05

ZRECommerce is now on GitHub

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See http://github.com/aalbino/ZRECommerce/wiki to learn how to check out and set up a copy on your dev machine. The Cybersource ‘Cart’ payment adapter now works, the admin area has been updated to use jQuery instead of Dojo, and the database design has been revised. Have a look!

May 21

Cart Library Updates

Work on the “cart” libray has progressed to the point where payment adapters are the only thing needed to make it fully functional. Planned adapters that will be distributed by default will access the following API: – Paypal SOAP – Cybersource – Google Checkout If anyone has other suggested payment gateway adapters, leave a post.

Feb 17

Analog Audio Blog

A very interesting assortment of analog equipment from yesteryear at http://www.15ips.com …A good read for anyone into analog audio equipment and more.

Nov 06

CART PHP FRAMEWORK

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I’ve built a collection of useful class libraries while working on ZRECommerce. One of which is simply called, “Cart”. As its name implies, it provides a class library upon which to create a “Cart”. This library is abstract and object-oriented. It makes use of an “adapter” based model, so as to allow any developer the …

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Jul 02

New Zend Framework based e-Commerce comming soon…

I’d like to announce that there is a new e-commerce web application under development that is to be made available to the general public. I’ve called it “ZRECommerce” (copyrights 2009 A.Albino) and it will be available under the terms of the GNU General Public License. What makes this e-commerce web application different from existing ones? …

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