So another week draws to a close,
and some dreaded holidays draw ever nearer!
Christmas is less than 100 days away now - a potentially busy time for us here at HelloTurtle - And still lots of work to be done to get ready!
As for todays work?
Added in a method of changing your email address - it had been missing for sometime.
I added it to the account details page (thought that was an obvious place for it) and it appears in a lovely iframe box - much like the login system. I have done a bit of testing on it - a bit more on Monday and it should be live by lunch time!
I also carried on with setting up things for the printers side of mail merging! Everything the printers need to carry out the work correctly is passed to them. Just a shame I havent written the function for them to print yet! - That should be the start of next week for me!
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Friday 16 September 2011
Thursday 15 September 2011
alex @ HelloTurtle
We had an exciting morning here at HelloTurtle as our overnight sales record was smashed - the startings of our very own brand awareness? Theres no reason to doubt it - our cards are well priced and excellant quality!
On the coding side of things today i worked mainly with the basket and "route_card" pages for my Mail Merge - Found a couple of bugs in the existing system in the process (the system is being tested in new ways - with the currently working mailmerge system i can throw 50+ cards at the basket at once and see what happens..). So I narrowed these bugs down and they have been resolved. I also added in functions to the basket to keep one instance of a mailmerge card but tell you its mail merge and x many cards lie within it. (Will be self explanatory when you see it - or at least I hope it will be). All that really remains now is setting up the printers side of things to read in tokens and replace as necessary and print x cards from 1 job!
As always - lots more to do tomorrow!
On the coding side of things today i worked mainly with the basket and "route_card" pages for my Mail Merge - Found a couple of bugs in the existing system in the process (the system is being tested in new ways - with the currently working mailmerge system i can throw 50+ cards at the basket at once and see what happens..). So I narrowed these bugs down and they have been resolved. I also added in functions to the basket to keep one instance of a mailmerge card but tell you its mail merge and x many cards lie within it. (Will be self explanatory when you see it - or at least I hope it will be). All that really remains now is setting up the printers side of things to read in tokens and replace as necessary and print x cards from 1 job!
As always - lots more to do tomorrow!
Wednesday 14 September 2011
Alex @ HelloTurtle
So its Midweek - the memorial of the 10th anniversary of 9/11 is steadily dieing down and people can move freely around New York again!
Back here at HelloTurtle I have been working hard on the Mail Merge function today - It can now read in ODS format files - after searching for packages to do it (and nothing working). I decided to write the function myself from scratch. Took me a little while to get it to play ball. But i wrote a few .ods files to try and did some testing! I also hacked the order of the code so that it was in the middle of the old .csv code. This means that whether you use a .csv or a .ods it just turns it into something it understands and deals with everything in the same way.
In other exciting news - due to our location we can actually set our deadline for same day postal to 3pm! An entire hour extra to get your card just right before it has to be printed and posted (Compared to most of our competitors). This change will be made very soon - (so keep posting before 2pm in the mean time to avoid disappointment).
As always lots more exciting updates and changes on the way at Hello Turtle!
Back here at HelloTurtle I have been working hard on the Mail Merge function today - It can now read in ODS format files - after searching for packages to do it (and nothing working). I decided to write the function myself from scratch. Took me a little while to get it to play ball. But i wrote a few .ods files to try and did some testing! I also hacked the order of the code so that it was in the middle of the old .csv code. This means that whether you use a .csv or a .ods it just turns it into something it understands and deals with everything in the same way.
In other exciting news - due to our location we can actually set our deadline for same day postal to 3pm! An entire hour extra to get your card just right before it has to be printed and posted (Compared to most of our competitors). This change will be made very soon - (so keep posting before 2pm in the mean time to avoid disappointment).
As always lots more exciting updates and changes on the way at Hello Turtle!
Tuesday 13 September 2011
Alex @ HelloTurtle
Today saw a host of site improvements!
All those bug fixes of the last couple of weeks have now been uploaded! You can now log in from any section of the site, you can log in from the card system without losing your card (or any changes to it) as was the case before.
I resolved an issue with the basket as well - users who had deleted a card may have logged on to see the card price was still there - they would not be charged for this and clicking on the basket set the session up properly.
On another Note - I went for a carvery on Sunday - pub off the A52 towards Grantham - saw two lovely banners on the side of the road... Keep an eye out for them if you pass that way (one facing each way).
All those bug fixes of the last couple of weeks have now been uploaded! You can now log in from any section of the site, you can log in from the card system without losing your card (or any changes to it) as was the case before.
I resolved an issue with the basket as well - users who had deleted a card may have logged on to see the card price was still there - they would not be charged for this and clicking on the basket set the session up properly.
On another Note - I went for a carvery on Sunday - pub off the A52 towards Grantham - saw two lovely banners on the side of the road... Keep an eye out for them if you pass that way (one facing each way).
Monday 12 September 2011
Alex @ HelloTurtle
So its Monday,
As has been the case of the last few mondays I didnt get into work until midday because of acupuncture - was my last session today so can enjoy normal working hours for a while (as well as hopefully no pain - but thats a story for another day!).
As HelloTurtle spreads to the masses we are seeing a variety of users ordering cards. Today we did our first customer service calls and, as you would expect, customers problems being sorted very quickly and giving excellant feedback!
Obviously the fact that customer service calls had to take place means that we have a few things to look into, but positive feedback hopefully means customers will be returning!
Today I worked on my mail merge function - some bugs have been removed and instructions have been added to the first page. I went on a wild goose chase for another bug - first test of a new bit of code delivered an error - however, without changing any code I have not been able to replicate the error... So I am at a loss as to why the error occured - but did have to fix the damage the error caused!
Should be a lot more exciting stuff to talk about tomorrow!
As has been the case of the last few mondays I didnt get into work until midday because of acupuncture - was my last session today so can enjoy normal working hours for a while (as well as hopefully no pain - but thats a story for another day!).
As HelloTurtle spreads to the masses we are seeing a variety of users ordering cards. Today we did our first customer service calls and, as you would expect, customers problems being sorted very quickly and giving excellant feedback!
Obviously the fact that customer service calls had to take place means that we have a few things to look into, but positive feedback hopefully means customers will be returning!
Today I worked on my mail merge function - some bugs have been removed and instructions have been added to the first page. I went on a wild goose chase for another bug - first test of a new bit of code delivered an error - however, without changing any code I have not been able to replicate the error... So I am at a loss as to why the error occured - but did have to fix the damage the error caused!
Should be a lot more exciting stuff to talk about tomorrow!
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