Gabor Javorszky

wordpress

Loading templates in WordPress and WooCommerce

WooCommerce has a number of functions to load different templates. I describe what they do and how they're connected in this post.

wordpress

WordCamp Europe 2017 - the first hour

Okay, I’m going to be that person who highlights all my grievances. There will be tons of articles about how awesome everything was, so you can read those. That said here are the things that I found lacking. 1. The location. It’s in an industrial park, which isn’

laravel

Custom error pages in Laravel (for the same Exception)

Occasionally I can’t decide whether the question I’m asking about a piece of technology (in this case, Laravel) is so advanced as to no one understands it, or so simple that no one answers because they all assume I already know the answer. In either case, I didn’

lol

Email security is shit

This is going to be a tale of bullet points because it’s hilarious. So we got a PS4 Pro for my brother’s birthday. He used to have a PS3 until about 5 years ago when he sold that one. He had an account on the PSN (obviously). This

advanced

Why is the list of log handlers in WooCommerce an array?

This is going to be as much a help for me, as, I hope, it will be for you. So WooCommerce 2.7 3.0.0 introduced a new way to handle logs [woocommerce_register_log_handlers], which is brilliant. There are two pieces to it: 1. the logger class

laravel

Re: Laravel / Spark and their token authentication system

A few days ago I wrote a rather lengthy article about how I modified Spark’s built in token authentication system [https://javorszky.co.uk/2017/03/18/i-modified-the-token-authentication-in-laravel-spark/] by extending / replacing some of the classes, adding columns to the table it created, and renaming things. I haven’t had

dns

It’s 10pm, Do You Know Where Your Subdomains Are?

A few days ago I got a mention on Twitter by someone asking me to follow them so they can send me a DM. I did, so I got the following message: > Hi Gabor! Thanks for following. Just to quickly introduce myself, I write about SSL and am currently

laravel

I Modified The Token Authentication in Laravel / Spark!

Okay, that was yet another case of “programming by next error thrown”. It was frustrating. But also hilarious. Hilarious in the sense that I can’t believe how much code I had to shovel to implement something seemingly simple. Background: I set up a Laravel / Spark project. Out of the

woocommerce

The Curious Case of WooCommerce Shipping and the Hackiest Code I’ve Ever Written

We all have those moments when sizing up a programming problem. It usually starts with this: > But really, how hard can that be? Turns out, it can be pretty damn hard. A Tale of Recalculating Shipping Currently on a client project one of my tasks included recalculating shipping costs

woocommerce

New pet project: WooCommerce cloud logging

WooCommerce 2.7 introduced a new class for handling logging. The handler itself can be replaced, which is awesome. The default handler creates log files on the server and stores the entries in plain text. The trouble I have with that: * it's kind of hard to get access

life

Whatever Happened To Games in Boxes

I remember getting my first actual computer game when I was fairly young. My dad returned from Hong Kong, and he bought Diablo (1) with him. It‘s just been released. Early 1997, which would make me 13. It was the first “grownup”, “serious” game that I had. Back then

stories

Blue crows aren't for roos

> Write about a crazy kangaroo who falls in love with a blue crow! That was the first response to me expressing my desire to write stories, novels. So here goes. Meet Bob. Bob is not your average kangaroo. Bob is somewhat of a curiosity among his friends, peers. The

Today I learned about MySQL and timezones

> unfortunately, as you are probably aware, timezones — Gabor Javorszky (@javorszky) June 1, 2016 [https://twitter.com/javorszky/status/737997160344657920] Wow, holy shit, grab a seat, I am going to lead you down the rabbit hole! There are some very nuanced things in how MySQL (and PHP, by the way)

meetup

Scaling WooCommerce talk at WooCommerce London on 23rd May 2016

Let me start by expressing my shock: * Slideshare is owned by LinkedIn * Slideshare has no idea what to do with keynote files Hence this blog post. You can grab my slides by clicking this very link [https://www.dropbox.com/s/0bmvxlige8pkhh9/woocommerce-london-scaling.key?dl=0] (it will open a

Changing focus

This blog has been very much about technical stuff so far. That and minimalism and being a nomadic person. I'm extending this because I will be writing about a whole lot more stuff than these. I no longer want to portray myself as some dude who is really

wordpress

Why disabling emails is harder in WordPress than you thought?

Aww yeah, my first clickbaity title! Anyways, let’s get down to business. Here’s the initial setup so you know why the following things will be annoying: You have an eCommerce website. That eCommerce website sends emails for new orders, renewal orders, etc. As it should. You need to

performance

How I improved a query for our plugin by several orders of magnitude

This is going to be super developer heavy. 99% of the article is going to be about SQL, so don’t really expect PHP or javascript things. Background We’ve been getting support tickets about the admin area being rather slow at times. We’ve recently released a new, 2.

rant

Before you hit “publish”, go through this checklist

There are a number of things people consistently get wrong when writing articles. It’s not even their fault, as English grammar is full of super-weird rules, and a ton of things sound the same. That said, on company blogs, announcements, having easily avoidable grammar problems is just straight up

Turning on general_log in MySQL with MAMP

Backstory: something was screwing up data in my database, and for the life of me I could not find what was being derpy. Possibly seeing the actual SQL queries that the database got would shed some light (spoiler: it did), so here’s what I’ve done: 1. I shall

privacy

Web design vs privacy

How do these two connect anyway? What does web design have to do with privacy, of all things? So normally you’d say: nah, it’s in photoshop / sketch / css / browser / boilerplate / framework. Privacy is what you do with the users’ data once they sign up! Wrong. Here’s why:

rant

Why I stopped paying attention to Twitter?

I’m still there. I reply to mentions, direct messages. I will just not run into your shared thing. I will probably not RT you, I will probably not get into a discussion with you on Twitter. Every time I open Twitter for more than a minute, all I see

travel

Germany, February 2015

Woo, so basically, because my work allows me to travel wherever, I do. In February, I went to Germany, mainly because Fabian told me he wanted to show me Tübingen before he moves away in about April. I bought plane tickets, one LHR–STR, and one TXL–LHR. I’d

3dprinting

A distributed, virtual manufacturing company

Background We were talking about violins in a chat room. One of us makes them the old fashioned way: from wood. Custom made. As you expect artisanal violins to be made. The initial question was whether you can 3d print a violin or not. After a short google search, people

git

Merge vs Rebase

I’m a n00b when it comes to working with git. Sometimes I have absolutely no idea what the difference between merge and rebase, so I set out to answer that. I was learning this as I went along. Here’s what I started out with: / - A1 --- A4

minimalism

Do you need physical books?

I love the works of Terry Pratchett. I have a few of his books on my shelf. Exhibit A: The problem with that though is that I can’t really take them with me if I want to move around the globe with only a carry-on. They do have Kindle