Comments for Ernie Leseberg :: Software Developer

Comment on 5 Free Software PHP Issue Trackers by Gunnar Wrobel

Gunnar Wrobel — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:41:44 +0000

Just wanted to note that “Whups” from http://www.horde.org reached version 2.0.0 last year in April and got a nice set of new features.

Whups uses “queues” as it can handle incoming requests via e-mail – pretty much like OTRS.

We successfully use it within the Horde LLC to handle incoming customer requests.

Comment on The Big List of PHP Frameworks by mekele

mekele — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:53:17 +0000

Nette v2.0RC2 just released. English documentation, finally.
http://nette.org/

Comment on WooCommerce – No Thanks by Ernie Leseberg

Ernie Leseberg — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:29:57 +0000

The one site I migrated, most of the product content went without trouble. The missing area was around product attributes. Of course as time goes on the changes are likely to be greater and migration harder.

Comment on WooCommerce – No Thanks by Peter Cunningham

Peter Cunningham — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:00:12 +0000

Very interesting thanks. I was thinking of using a template that uses Jigoshop. Could someone tell me that if I do this and add products etc, later will I be able to use woocommerce plugin without having to re-input all my products?

Comment on WooCommerce – No Thanks by Ernie Leseberg

Ernie Leseberg — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:52:42 +0000

Of the 2 sites I originally set up on Jigoshop, 1 has already switched and the other will probably move as well. The last 2 releases have had a number of problems around variations and attributes. So I am already eating my original words.
I must agree WooCommerce is leaving jigoshop behind. Woocommerce and Mike who seems to be doing nearly all the dev, do need to be careful with their releases as they are coming thick and fast (3 in 2 days 1.22 to 1.24). Thankfully any small issues have been fixed very fast.

Comment on WooCommerce – No Thanks by John

John — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:39:33 +0000

I went with Jigoshop because i didn’t really like the whole “fork” thing. (plus the creators are in the same town as me, so it was nice to support a local company)
Now however, i have just switched the site over to Woocommerce, simply because there are issues with the Jigo version and support/fixes just don’t seem to be happening.
It’s a bit sad, but i have to be realistic – despite rooting for the underdog, functionality support and stability are what matters – and i think Woo are striding ahead of the Jigo team.

Comment on WooCommerce – No Thanks by MacyMyDay

MacyMyDay — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:36:11 +0000

I started with Jigoshop on a new site project in September. at the time JS was v.9.8; I had plenty of issues with the content wrapping to get it to work with a Theme my client had chosen.

Since the forking and questionable behavior of the Woo management, I’ve been keeping an eye out; rooting for the underdog, hoping for a major score by the JS team.

Today JS is v.9.9.3 — not even an official/final release. Woo has made steady improvements, and today has released v 1.3 — the 13th release since launch in September. JS has maybe 4.

Perhaps the resources scoffed by Woo have crippled the development team and therefore they still after more than 4 months don’t have a ‘real’ release.

I’m rooting for them. But I have a client to serve. And it appears that Woo has committed significant resources to the project, for good reason.

I’m trying to stay with JS, but if I read between the lines — of code and otherwise — Woo appears to be advancing what ultimately JS should’ve and could’ve been doing, at a much more rapid rate.

As for the requirement of an email address; come on! I know you’ve used a stale or proxy email in the past. You coulda simply done that!

thanks for sharing!

Comment on WooCommerce – No Thanks by Andy Eastes

Andy Eastes — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:35:38 +0000

Went through the whole setup process, then the checkout does not even work. Spent hours trying to fix, cannot even find the calls in the code. Even tried different templates to no avail…..

Comment on WooCommerce – No Thanks by Ernie Leseberg

Ernie Leseberg — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:05:37 +0000

Touchy from one of the developers.

I saw nothing from the site of WooCommerce that made me think this is yet a substantial improvement of JigoShop. So why add myself to the mailing list, to a company that I believe are ethically dubious.

Create the best WP ecommerce plugin and give me no alternative but to switch. I will be keeping an eye out.

Comment on WooCommerce – No Thanks by Mike

Mike — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:34:06 +0000

Yep, I agree it could be clearer, but its no secret its on wp.org – I think we’ve mentioned it several times in posts etc.

GitHub is where development is going down so it should remain pretty active. I’m happy with the progress we’ve made since leaving JS – I’ve rewritten a lot of my code so it should be nice and stable if you give it a whirl.