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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

News for May 2014

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It has been a while since the last update, but we can say that 2014 has been a great year for our customers.

In February, WooCommerce 2.1 was released. Unfortunately, such new release broke backward compatibility with several plugin, including ours. We worked hard to fix all the issues that were reported, and we are proud to say that we made it before the estimated deadline. For this, we would like to thank our customers, who helped us spotting issues occurring in edge cases, that we could not have easily found by ourselves. Read more

Unplanned outage has been resolved

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Yesterday, 04/12/2013, at approximately 18:08 GMT, a misconfiguration of our server caused visitors to be redirected to another site. The issue has now been resolved. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Apology – Content removed due to poor quality

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This post is an apology to all the readers for having published a post, now removed, which was not constructive and contained poor quality content and that upset one of our readers.

The purpose of this blog is sharing experiences related to Software Development, in the hope that they might be useful to fellow Developers. The removed post did little to achieve such objective, and contained excessive remarks that should have been avoided.

As the person responsible for the content of the blog, I would like to apologies to the reader who reported the post, and to anyone else who could have found it upsetting.

I will make sure that such type of content won’t be published again.

Regards,

Diego

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.