Nick Stewart

Senior Developer

Nick Stewart is one of the longest-serving members of the VIA team. Beginning his career with us as an intern, in nearly 10 years he has become a core (and legendary) member of our Development team. His style could be described as unassuming, but his choice words and great work are evidence of a beautiful mind. You’ll find him as dedicated to your work as he is to his own personal growth, community and his limitless future.

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Journal Entries

Replacing Jenkins with GitHub Actions
Replacing Jenkins with GitHub Actions

By: Nick Stewart

GitHub Actions are basically workflows that are trigged by Git actions and live inside GitHub. For example, you want to build and deploy to production when a branch is merged into main.

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Interactions with SharpSpring
Interactions with SharpSpring

By: Nick Stewart

Integrating SharpSpring into a website is fairly simple with the SharpSpring API, which offers many methods/endpoints with a standard REST API. Learn more from VIA's Senior Developer.

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Migrating from FreshBooks to Stripe for invoicing
Migrating from FreshBooks to Stripe for invoicing

By: Nick Stewart

The Jefferson County PVA previously used FreshBooks for invoicing subscriptions to users. Find our how numerous bouts of API downtime and a confusing API migration led VIA to explore other solutions.

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Dynamic Select Fields with Advanced Custom Fields
Dynamic Select Fields with Advanced Custom Fields

By: Nick Stewart

In Advanced Custom Fields, there is the Post Object field that allows you to select a post resource from your WordPress website. This field can return the actual post object or the post ID.

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Development Solutions for Foxhollow.com
Development Solutions for Foxhollow.com

By: Nick Stewart

Between merging the data of two product databases, implementing a new POS system, and other considerations, we had to find backend solutions to make the frontend possible. See how we did it!

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Email @ 50: Email Development
Email @ 50: Email Development

By: Nick Stewart

Email development has always been the bane of a web developer's existence. You have to use outdated methods and don't have access to the full modern web to create a nice looking email that thousands of people will see. It's like asking a Nascar mechanic to create a car using only tools from the 90s - it can be done but its more than a pain.

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Wordpress to Sanity Data Script
Wordpress to Sanity Data Script

By: Nick Stewart

One of the biggest challenges of moving from one CMS to another is getting your existing data to the new platform. In our case, we were moving our existing WordPress platform, which had been around for years, over to the Sanity.io platform.

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WooCommerce Tips
WooCommerce Tips

By: Nick Stewart

Here at VIA, we have many clients that use WooCommerce, which is also our preferred eCommerce solution. Over the years, we’ve found a few helpful tips and tricks that make developing for WooCommerce a little bit easier.

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Nativescript with Vue.js
Nativescript with Vue.js

By: Nick Stewart

At VIA, we’ve been experimenting with the many different solutions to creating mobile applications with web technologies. We’ve done simple applications that wrap a webview (FacePaint Peggy) to more advanced hybrid applications using libraries such as Cordova and Vuetify.js, and naive builds with React Native.

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Nova
Nova

By: Nick Stewart

We are using Nova and loving it. Our developer discusses the uses and benefits of this CRUD admin layer, and how it's improved our process.

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Introduction to the Hubspot API
Introduction to the Hubspot API

By: Nick Stewart

The HubSpot API has been a great new tool to work with, as it offers an easy-to-use API and a clean interface.

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