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Rob Fowler

@fobbert on WordPress.org

Bio

Where do I start? 35 years software development, Late 70’s Fortran to DBase, then Clipper to FoxPro, then yahoo Windows hit the scene and everything became RAD, once windows became stable around Windows 3.1 went to VB, Access and soon after Visual Studio and have been running around Visual Studio and SQL Server, MySql Server or MariaDB (as have a dislike for Oracle) and that’s basically it.

WordPress Origin Story

I am semi-retired now and I had dabbled in maintaining some ASP.Net then was offered some work on a Word Press site for a friend in 2016, I thought how hard can it be so off to Dr Google, did some R&D found heaps of plugins some okay and some good idea but crap interface and half-ass thought out and limited with development as if it were a one off and it works so that will do. Soon found out I have got to learn PHP, this is going to be a nightmare no dynamic linked compiled library’s, mixture of Java, Html, Ajax and PHP and what the hell are these data tables METADATA, TAXONAMY still can not for the life of me know why WordPress is using a total relational database server and only using a couple of tables and packing it full of delimited arrays, what-tha! I thought this is a totally new fish that has limitations to keep within the WordPress functionallity and that is the challange at the moment of forgetting what I know and as I said Dr Google to the rescue, now I have started putting together my own Plugins and possibly market them on WorPress.org.

  • Member Since: June 20th, 2016
  • Location: North Central, East Cost, NSW Australia.
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  • Created a topic, Great Product, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I have been using for some time and works well on the …

  • Created a topic, [Smush Image Compression and Optimization] Free Version, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    As stated in other reviews, it is mediocre to subscrib…

  • Created a topic, Great Plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Works well and interrogates the mail server perfectly,…

  • Posted a reply to Has Some Problems, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi jdailey, Thanks for the reply, and yes I guess it would be hard to…

  • Created a topic, Has Some Problems, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Where to start. Can not activate PlugIn with xTheme ha…

  • Created a topic, Not Sure, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Have not purposely tested it yet, possibly later but f…

  • Posted a reply to What I think?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Giday, Yes you well have nailed it, I have only been using the past week…

  • Created a topic, What I think?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Absolutely Brilliant Dose exactly what I was hoping fo…

  • Created a topic, Very Functional. Works Well, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I first purchased Elementor and was one of the prefere…