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wpBlackbird in development

Alex Albino — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:11:36 +0000

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

Latest updates to ZRECommerce

Alex Albino — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 06:57:35 +0000

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.

What is ZRECommerce about?

Alex Albino — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 21:16:39 +0000

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 …

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

Alex Albino — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 17:26:23 +0000

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

Mexican Chocolate Drinks, the drink of champions

Alex Albino — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 03:51:13 +0000

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 …

ZRECommerce is now on GitHub

Alex Albino — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 04:43:00 +0000

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!

Cart Library Updates

Alex Albino — Fri, 21 May 2010 14:54:31 +0000

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.

Analog Audio Blog

Alex Albino — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:05:35 +0000

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.

CART PHP FRAMEWORK

Alex Albino — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:07:50 +0000

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 …

New Zend Framework based e-Commerce comming soon…

Alex Albino — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:01:25 +0000

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? …