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Tax Display by Country officially compatible with WPML

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We received confirmation from WPML Team that our Tax Display by Country plugin has been accepted amongst the product officially compatible with WordPress Multilingual. Now localisation will be even easier!

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the members of the WPML team who helped us implementing the integration and provided us with a test site and a developer subscription, so that we can continue adding multi-language support to our products. A special thanks, of course, to all our customers, who keep helping us improving our products and making them the leading choices for international web shops based on WooCommerce.

Thank you all for your support!

 

The Aelia Team

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We added Stripe to our payment options!

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Several of our valued customers and readers pointed out that PayPal was not always an ideal solution to complete the purchase. As a matter of fact, PayPal is not even available in some areas of the world, due to restrictions placed by some governments and financial regulators.

To overcome this limitation, we are happy to inform you that we have added a new payment methods to our online shop. You can now buy our products and pay securely via credit card thanks to the service provided by Stripe. The new payment method allows you to simply enter your card details, which will then be processed by Stripe secure servers, and complete the order in a couple of seconds. We trust that you will appreciate the increased flexibility!

Thank you for your continued support and excellent suggestions!

 

The Aelia Team

5 Answers to common (and difficult) interview questions

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After several posts focused on product release, I finally have some time to write about life as a Developer, and to answer some questions asked by my (few) readers. The most common questions I receive are about job interviews. Competition from other Developers is getting higher every day, and Companies are, understandably, getting picky, looking for Professionals who can “tick all the boxes”.

The difficulty in passing an interview, however, is not just showing that you can write code. Ironically, that’s the easy part. The difficult questions come later, when the technical interview is over, and are meant to test your personality. People who spend most of their time “talking” to machines can, sometimes, have a hard time answering human-related questions, therefore it becomes vital to prepare some answers upfront. Read more

Why you should always add Licensing Terms to any software you distribute

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I recently got involved in a debate on the topic of Software Licensing, and I found it sad that there is so little understanding, amongst Developers, of such an important topic. Together with writing complete and accurate documentation, knowing how to license your Software is one of the skills that any Developer worth his salt must have. At the same time, Users must learn how to read licences, and get the habit of doing it, unless they like risking to violate them without even knowing. Read more

How NOT to interact with non-technical Users

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The content of this post has been removed following a complaint received by a reader.

The objective of this blog is to share experience with fellow developers in a constructive way. We acknowledge that the original post didn’t meet such objective, due to some non-constructive remarks that should have been avoided.

We would like to extend an official apology to anyone who was offended by the post, and reassure all our readers that we won’t be publishing such type of content again.

Repetita iuvant: you’re a Developer, not a Priest

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Repetita iuvant (latin): repeating things helps.

In this case, I’d like to repeat a message I sent in the past, but that seems to fall on deaf ears way too often: if you are a Developer, you must not behave like a Priest. I felt the need of repeating it because, in a short time frame, I stumbled upon a couple of websites with messages such as “we don’t support Internet Explorer”. It’s annoying enough to see messages like this on sites made by nerdy teenagers, but when they are written by people who call themselves professionals, it’s unacceptable.

Also, do yourself a favour: don’t be like a guy I met once, who boasted that “his code works 100% on every browser“, when it failed miserably on any version of Internet Explorer. When I pointed it out, he replied that “IE is not a browser, and you are stupid if you use it“. Sure, IE might not be the best browser out there, but calling your potential Clients “stupid” for using it won’t bring you much business.

Being a Professional Software Developer doesn’t just involve coding what you like, when you like and only for what you find cool, but being able to support various technologies and making the most out of them. Keep your Technological Religion wars for yourself, grow up and get over it.

Or keep being stubborn, and just give me the contacts of the Clients you rejected, I’m quite sure I can help them. Your choice.