When building a new application or plugin, sometimes its important to have detailed information about what actions are taking place. This can be crucial when testing APIs, hooks, and your users actions to make sure your design is having the desired effect.
In the course of creating, testing, and debugging our work at Shockoe, we’ve created a WordPress plugin that gives you the ability to track custom events and pass along any information you need. WP-Logs (catchy title, right?) lets you drop a single line into your plugin code to define an event title, user id, and any extra information you’d like to see. This information will appear under a new ‘Logs’ tab in the WordPress admin panel and can optionally be passed to a Google Analytics account to be viewed inline with your other site statistics.
It’s currently being reviewed by the WordPress staff and will be available soon in the official WordPress Plugins directory. For now, the plugin can be cloned from our github repository. Follow us on twitter at @shockoe for information and updates.
Update: The plugin has been approved and is now in the WordPress plugin directory. Check it out at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-logs/
CEO and Co-founder of Shockoe.com, LLC
Entrepreneur and experienced software engineer, interested in everything that involves mobile technology.
The benefits of using Amazon S3 to store static resources is already well documented. It’s almost a no-brainer if you are building an app that hosts a lot of static files.
We just converted an app that we’re working on to use S3 for all user uploads. It not only sped up our development time, it also basically eliminated the need to worry about file-server scaling in our prototyping stage. And we may not need to worry about it for a quite a while after that.
Check out http://getcloudfusion.com/ for more information on the Amazon S3 SDK for PHP.
CEO and Co-founder of Shockoe.com, LLC
Entrepreneur and experienced software engineer, interested in everything that involves mobile technology.
Bloggers and social media gurus – step up! Shockoe.com is proud to help sponsor this year’s WordCamp!
On October 16, WordCamp, a national touring conference dedicated to WordPress technology and users will pause in Glen Allen long enough for a single day of amazing stuff. From 8:30 AM until 3:00 PM in Glen Allen, attendees will join the best and brightest bloggers in Central VA. One of them will be our own web and mobile app developer, the mystical Neil Pullman (when you meet him, be sure to ask him about Suite Tips)!
Don’t miss out! To keep the Awesome-to-Audience ratio at optimum, only 130 slots are available for this great event. The conference menu includes workshops and panels on design and development, as well as opportunities to meet great bloggers and learn how to maximize use of the versatile e-publishing interface we all know and love.
Pre-registration tickets are available now for only $15. To learn more please visit http://wordcamprichmond.org
Bloggers and social media gurus – step up! Shockoe.com and TECHEAD are proud to help sponsor this year’s WordCamp!
On October 16, WordCamp, a national touring conference dedicated to WordPress technology and users will pause in Glen Allen long enough for a single day of amazing stuff. From 8:30 AM until 3:00 PM in Glen Allen, attendees will join the best and brightest bloggers in Central VA. One of them will be a member of .com’s own web development team, the mystical Neil Pullman (when you meet him, be sure to ask him about Suite Tips)!
Don’t miss out! To keep the Awesome-to-Audience ratio at optimum, only 130 slots are available for this great event. The conference menu includes workshops and panels on design and development, as well as opportunities to meet great bloggers and learn how to maximize use of the versatile e-publishing interface we all know and love.
Pre-registration tickets are available now for only $15. To learn more please visit http://central.wordcamp.org/!
CEO and Co-founder of Shockoe.com, LLC
Entrepreneur and experienced software engineer, interested in everything that involves mobile technology.
It is my pleasure to introduce a new mobile application to promote the easy use of Adobe software products- Suite Tips!
At Shockoe.com we believe that information should be fast, accurate, and above all, accessible. That is why we designed Suite Tips, an innovative mobile easy-access tool for Adobe software users. The application is based on top Adobe instructor Sean Cooke’s quick reference guide, Mr. Cooke’s Little Brown Book. Suite Tips also provides 100% Adobe instructor-tested tips, tools and functions in quick text and video tutorial formats for iPhone. Android and Blackberry apps are soon to follow.
Suite Tips also encourages user participation. Instructors worldwide are invited to test drive Suite Tips and submit their own unique items for possible inclusion in our database. Designers can to submit questions for our support team to upload and answer. We are confident that together we can make Suite Tips an invaluable Adobe quick reference tool.
As Suite Tips is under constant review by Adobe instructors, the one-time $3.99 purchase price supports the constant incorporation and refining of existing material. You will save on software reference and update manuals, and still have access to the latest information. Now that’s Suite bliss!
Try out Suite Tips, and let us know what you think!
To learn more about Suite Tips, please visit www.suite-tips.com, and contact us with any questions.
CEO and Co-founder of Shockoe.com, LLC
Entrepreneur and experienced software engineer, interested in everything that involves mobile technology.
