From the source.

2012-09-14

Fun Stuff

Friday Ramblings

A building power outage killed a Linux box and exposed corrupt R1Soft backups, recovered via shell tricks, with Blesta v3 alpha now rapidly approaching.

Paul3 min read

2012-08-17

Developer Corner

Blesta 3.0: More on Security (video)

Security in Blesta 3.0: bcrypt with HMAC-SHA-256 passwords, two-factor authentication, the PHPIDS intrusion detection plugin, ACL, PDO, and encrypted card storage.

Paul7 min read

2012-08-10

Developer Corner

Blesta 3.0: Loginless Payments (video)

Blesta 3.0 Loginless Payments let customers pay an invoice straight from a link in their email, reminders, and late notices, no client area login required.

Paul2 min read

2012-08-03

Developer Corner

Blesta 3.0: NonMerchant Gateways (video)

A Blesta 3.0 developer commentary on building a non-merchant gateway like PayPal, covering the buildProcess() payment form and validate() notification logic.

Cody1 min read

2012-07-27

Developer Corner

Blesta 3.0: Download Manager

Blesta 3.0 ships with a Download Manager plugin, adding a downloads section to the client area where other plugins can register their own links too.

Paul1 min read

2012-07-13

Developer Corner

Blesta 3.0: Dashboard Overview (video)

A video tour of the Blesta 3.0 dashboard: drag-and-drop widget plugins that minimize and customize per staff account, ACL integration, GeoIP, and themes.

Paul2 min read

2012-06-28

Developer Corner

Blesta 3.0: Merchant Gateways (video)

A Blesta 3.0 developer commentary walking through how to build a merchant gateway that processes credit card payments, using a demo gateway to speed it up.

Cody1 min read

2012-06-22

Developer Corner

Blesta 3.0: Client Area (video)

A video tour of the Blesta 3.0 client area: a clean, usable design with staff login-as-client, prominent payment reminders, tooltips, and helpful notices.

Paul1 min read