In the current series of articles I’ve been talking about development of a system to enable premium wordpress plugins to be protected by licenses. While working on the design and going through a brain storming session yesterday with a colleague I had two small realizations. The first is that from the beginning I have planned… Continue reading
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WordPress plugin licensing: Wicket on Google App Engine
For the user interface layer of the licensing system I was interested in using a framework like Wicket. It was a lot of work to setup. The process was made somewhat frustrating by the fact that most of Google’s results are a few years old and deal with older versions. I did finally get it… Continue reading
WordPress plugin licensing: API and class diagram
In the first article in this series, I sketched out some of the basic design ideas for the wordpress plugin licensing system. The next step is to come up with some more concrete details about how the application will work, what information it will manage and what the interfaces will look like when accessing it…. Continue reading
WordPress plugin licensing: Choose a Java framework
How frameworks came to be Engineers have a few potentially conflicting tendencies that can become very pronounced in the software they write. One tendency is that we’re empire builders. In other words, we build, enhance, improve and in other ways expand the scope of our software solutions over time. Not to mention that we want… Continue reading
WordPress plugin licensing: Setup Eclipse for Google App Engine development
Having chosen Google App Engine and Java as the target for initial development it’s time to setup a development environment. Google provides a plugin to Eclipse that makes this easy. They do a great job explaining how to setup the environment at this URL: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/tools/eclipse.html Setup problems One hang up I had was an error… Continue reading
WordPress plugin licensing: Google App Engine vs. Amazon EC2
In the introduction to this series, I outlined some of the requirements for the WordPress plugin licensing platform: Speed, reliability and scalability. These are critical. Just imagine what would happen if any of those were missing. Requirements Justification A slow platform might result in significantly fewer sales. One of our use cases is to provide… Continue reading