This is not a release, just a "coming soon" announcement.
What - A WooCommerce plugin which allows direct payments to a Dash-Electrum wallet. Or any BIP32 wallet, but it uses the Electrum derivation paths, so the payments should just "magically" appear in an Electrum-Dash wallet.
When - I took a really horribly, terribly written Bitcoin plugin (but unbeknownst to me at the time) and tried converting it for Dash. But it had several dependencies that were really Bitcoin-specific and when I dug in, realized just how poorly it was "engineered". So then I took the initiative to start learning the WP and WooCommerce ecosystem, and decided to re-write it for Dash, correctly. All the individual pieces are functioning, and I'm in the process of stitching them together correctly. It's coming together nicely and looks like I'll be able to release within a few weeks -- I estimate about 3 - 5 at this point.
Where - The interwebs of course.
Why - Because Dash needs something like this. (Bitcoin does too to be honest, but my focus for now is Dash.)
More info:
I should state up-front that I'm not going to be able to release this as an open-source product, at least initially. I was going to do that at first. Then it started taking a LOT of my time — and I've got to draw a salary as well (I am not currently employed by anyone but myself). This is the only commercial endeavor that I'm working on and where 80% of my waking time goes. (The other 20% goes to eating, administrative overhead, etc.)
I am kinda conflicted about this, as I'd really love to open-source this. But given that I have to eat, have been living on savings, etc., I really can't justify that to myself or my family.
A few weeks ago I'd considered a budget proposal for this, to fund the development of a community-sponsored plugin, as well as managing the project (as I was going to co-ordinate it with another dev team/company). But I've foreseen some problems with that approach, in that the MN voting community has flip-flopped in the past. I'm not comfortable with putting in a massive effort to create something only to have that effort questioned later, or for me to not supported at all by a retroactive vote reversal. There are also licensing issues with community-supported things like this, which I can see becoming an issue, especially after the events of the past 3-4 weeks or so.
So, because I have to, ya know, eat, pay rent, etc, and since I really don't have faith in budget proposals being carried through to fulfillment at this moment in time, I have to make this a commercial product. I really wish that I could just open-source this and hope to open it up in the future if possible.
It's intended audience is online business owners, and a small one-time payment for a premium WooCommerce Gateway shouldn't be a problem for any business owners at any rate.
I'll try and give updates on a semi-regular basis (maybe every couple of weeks or so). I'll release a screencast of the prototype soon. It will require current versions of WordPress, PHP (w/the GMP and bcmath extensions), and WooCommerce. And probably Linux, since I have no way to support Windows and also don't care.
Today I created a state transition diagram to manage invoice status through the transitions of the invoice life-cycle. It's things like this which weren't working so well in the previously reference horrible, horse-shit Bitcoin payment plugin, so I'm taking the longer, more proper approach to engineering it. That's an example of why it's taking so long -- I really was not a PHP or WP dev before this, and I've been learning all that and trying do things right the first time. I definitely don't want to just throw out a hack-job. This is another reason why it will be worth purchasing. It should be engineered well.
Thanks for reading, and let me know if you have any questions regarding the functionality of the plugin.
What - A WooCommerce plugin which allows direct payments to a Dash-Electrum wallet. Or any BIP32 wallet, but it uses the Electrum derivation paths, so the payments should just "magically" appear in an Electrum-Dash wallet.
When - I took a really horribly, terribly written Bitcoin plugin (but unbeknownst to me at the time) and tried converting it for Dash. But it had several dependencies that were really Bitcoin-specific and when I dug in, realized just how poorly it was "engineered". So then I took the initiative to start learning the WP and WooCommerce ecosystem, and decided to re-write it for Dash, correctly. All the individual pieces are functioning, and I'm in the process of stitching them together correctly. It's coming together nicely and looks like I'll be able to release within a few weeks -- I estimate about 3 - 5 at this point.
Where - The interwebs of course.
Why - Because Dash needs something like this. (Bitcoin does too to be honest, but my focus for now is Dash.)
More info:
I should state up-front that I'm not going to be able to release this as an open-source product, at least initially. I was going to do that at first. Then it started taking a LOT of my time — and I've got to draw a salary as well (I am not currently employed by anyone but myself). This is the only commercial endeavor that I'm working on and where 80% of my waking time goes. (The other 20% goes to eating, administrative overhead, etc.)
I am kinda conflicted about this, as I'd really love to open-source this. But given that I have to eat, have been living on savings, etc., I really can't justify that to myself or my family.
A few weeks ago I'd considered a budget proposal for this, to fund the development of a community-sponsored plugin, as well as managing the project (as I was going to co-ordinate it with another dev team/company). But I've foreseen some problems with that approach, in that the MN voting community has flip-flopped in the past. I'm not comfortable with putting in a massive effort to create something only to have that effort questioned later, or for me to not supported at all by a retroactive vote reversal. There are also licensing issues with community-supported things like this, which I can see becoming an issue, especially after the events of the past 3-4 weeks or so.
So, because I have to, ya know, eat, pay rent, etc, and since I really don't have faith in budget proposals being carried through to fulfillment at this moment in time, I have to make this a commercial product. I really wish that I could just open-source this and hope to open it up in the future if possible.
It's intended audience is online business owners, and a small one-time payment for a premium WooCommerce Gateway shouldn't be a problem for any business owners at any rate.
I'll try and give updates on a semi-regular basis (maybe every couple of weeks or so). I'll release a screencast of the prototype soon. It will require current versions of WordPress, PHP (w/the GMP and bcmath extensions), and WooCommerce. And probably Linux, since I have no way to support Windows and also don't care.
Today I created a state transition diagram to manage invoice status through the transitions of the invoice life-cycle. It's things like this which weren't working so well in the previously reference horrible, horse-shit Bitcoin payment plugin, so I'm taking the longer, more proper approach to engineering it. That's an example of why it's taking so long -- I really was not a PHP or WP dev before this, and I've been learning all that and trying do things right the first time. I definitely don't want to just throw out a hack-job. This is another reason why it will be worth purchasing. It should be engineered well.
Thanks for reading, and let me know if you have any questions regarding the functionality of the plugin.
