A huge consolidation process is about to begin amongst eCommerce software providers around the world due to Visa mandating a timetable to remove eCommerce software which does comply with their PABP certification. The relevant dates are as follows: 1st July 2008 all new eCommerce installations in USA must be PABP compliant. 1st January 2009 all […]
Time away from the Computer
From the 8th December for 10 days my family and I walked the Great Ocean Walk at the bottom of Victoria. It was a huge relief to get away from the computer for some time to peaceful days walking. I would recommend anyone to go on this walk. Some of it is absolutely magnificent. I […]
Goals
We are committed to making Freeway rock solid. There are a number of major tasks which we will complete this year including a complete rebuild of the front end templating, localisation, definintions of APIs for extensions and biggest of all, a review and rebuild of the database structure. These are big challenges but in our […]
A big year for Freeway
This is going to be a busy year for Freeway now we are telling the world about what we do. I met Andrew Eddie at the Open Source Developers Conference in Brisbane in late November and subsequently we have talked about us building a set of Joomla! extensions so people can sell from Freeway inside […]
New Joomla works
Some quick info about the next batch of Joomla works we are undertaking to hopefully ensure Freeway becomes the default eCommerce application for Joomla: 1.) Extend the existing Menus for events/services/products/subs to offer the choice to accordion the menu to display a 2nd level of catefgories. If not possible, create a new set called “Freeway […]
Melbourne Joomla Day videos
I am doing a talk about Freeway and the updates to the Freeway – Joomla Integrations at the Byron Bay Joomla Day: joomlabyronbay.com It is going to be on May 11th and should be fun.
Bushwalking on Hinchinbrook Island
From 5th to 14th April, my and another family shared a six day bushwalk on Hinchinbrook Island in North Queensland. We walked the Thorsborn Trail. The ecology of Hinchinbrook is quite beguiling with transitions between rainforest filled with palms to eucalypt forest to melaleuca forest, casuarina forest and then back to rainforest all in short […]
eCommerce software licensing
We have been requested by some users to explain the differences between the GPL license and the Open Software License. This has arisen because of the level of integration between Freeway and Joomla and later Drupal and typo3. From GPL v3 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html ” 9. The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new versions of […]
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