Friday 2 September 2011

Development Blog - New Look

Apart from HelloTurtle.com itself, we are also working on branded versions of our system for various department stores that offer their own gift cards. The intention is that a custoemr will be able to buy a gift card for someone, and at the same time purchase one of our greetings cards to send that gift card in.

Alex @ Helloturtle on a Friday!

So its Friday afternoon and like a fair proportion of the country - looking forward to chilling out with the England game later on.
  Been working hard on that mail merge today - Finally getting my head around how it is going to work, sorted some of the pages that you will see after customising your card. Added functions that let you select which addresses to send to amongst others...
  Also corrected a broken link on the live site (sorry everyone.. it was my fault) you can now select the correct party pets range!! 
 Have a good weekend everyone!
I know I will!

Thursday 1 September 2011

Alex @ Hello Turtle

My first blog - and ever so proud!!
I am Alex - a developer here at Helloturtle!

Did you like the new-look homepage?
AND the new birthday-ideas page!?
Well thank you very much - I put them together last week!
I can't take all the credit though - The design had nothing to do with me...

Working on a new Mail Merge Function at the moment,
It is slow progress (especially when every bit I try to add seems to break it and I have to have a rethink).

Development Blog - PayPoint

So today I've been looking further into the workings of the PayPoint.net Payment Gateway, and modifying some of the HelloTurtle code to allow for what should hopefully be the correct integration of the payment gateway.

Unfortunately at the moment we are still waiting on confirmation of account creation, and until that is received there is only so much work I can do for the gateway, as without the account I can't test the gateway is functioning properly or correctly design the payment page template.

The gateway system itself is actually reasonably simple (with the integration guide being detailed but not too long) and the page template fairly flexible (at least as far as skinning it goes).

Development Blog Update

Since starting work on this blog yesterday I have been messing around with the skinning options and additional gadgets that could be included in the page, with the intent of providing useful functionality to our users (including post archives, a link to HelloTurtle itself, and a search field to search this blog and any site we link to within the blog), and a visual appearance that is similar to our main site.

Wednesday 31 August 2011

Hello Turtle Development Blog

Yesterday it was decided that each of the staff here at HelloTurtle would contribute a small amount to this blog every day or so, blogging about something related to their work with the company.
As one of the programmers at HelloTurtle, it was suggested that I blog about some of the things I have been working on recently for HelloTurtle, as well as things I planned to work on in the future.

So here is the first of my development blog posts, which given that it will be covering several of the things I have worked on since starting at HelloTurtle might be a little long, so for that I apologise, but please keep reading.

Tuesday 30 August 2011

Exclusive HelloTurtle Eid Mubarak greeting cards

Exclusive HelloTurtle Eid Mubarak greeting cards available now at HelloTurtle.com

Monday 29 August 2011

Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga's male transformation made her look like Ralph Macchio with the greasy hair and unwashed look.

Sunday 28 August 2011

Hurricane Irene

I've just been reading about Hurricane Irene and it says that 14 people have already been killed and that they think it's going to cost them $2 billion to fix everything.