Holiday alert module for PrestaShop

Last year I got a client that needed me to help them with the technical part of the e-commerce PrestaShop. Although I didn’t use PHP for over a year I accepted the challenge and for Christmas they wanted to show an alert to their clients because the orders wouldn’t be processed till January. Continue reading →

Backbone.js internationalization with Polyglot.js by airbnb

In the past few weeks I have been digging deeper into Backbone.js, a really cool JavaScript library that gives structure to any web application providing models, collections and views in the client-side. If you want to know more, there are at least a couple of good links out there you should check out: one is the free book Developing Backbone.js Applications by Addy Osmani; the other is the series of posts by Christophe Coenraets in his blog, where you can see real code in action. For modularizing the app I have followed this tutorial using RequireJS. Continue reading →