My first Tedx Talk: From Pain to Purpose – My TEDx Journey

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August 30, 2025 – A date etched in my life for more than one reason. Exactly 11 years ago , I got engaged. And on that very same date this year, I received a life-changing opportunity: my first TEDx talk , hosted at GGI under the inspiring theme “Chase the Impossible.” Standing on that red dot, I felt a mix of emotions — excitement , nervousness , and the quiet ache of loss , having lost my wife, whose memories remain deeply rooted in my heart. In my talk, I shared a story born in the midst of COVID-19 — a time when Ms. Renu and I were both navigating personal grief in different ways. It was during this difficult phase that Mr. Chaitanya brought us together — blending Renu’s deep nutritional expertise with my technical background . That collaboration gave birth to a vision: A platform that could reduce the time it takes to create personalized diets , enabling dieticians to focus more on care, empathy, and connection — and patients to avoid long queues and delays. What began in ...

Resolved: SSL Certificate Problem: unable to get local issuer certificate when doing Woocommerce Integration

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 Hey Friends,

In this blog, I am going to share how I solved SSL Certificate problem on my local environment of php when I was doing a woocommerce integration.

I am talking about Woocommerce only, however, the concept is same when you want to connect with any api which is using https

PROBLEM:

  1. I have a website based on Wordpress using Woocommerce using https
  2. I need to populate the products from the website on my custom application and hence I was using local php environment.
  3. I was using WAMP for the development purposes.
  4. I was following Woocommerce Rest API documentation to do the development
  5. I got the error "unable to get local issuer certificate"
SOLUTION: 

  1. Download cacert.pem from the official curl website 
  2. Open php ssl folder and place the cert there. In my case it was:
    C:\wamp64\bin\php\php7.4.9\extras\ssl
  3. If you use different version of php development server, make sure you place the file in the correct folder. Check  php version with command
    php --version
  4. Open php.ini file and look for openssl.cafile and add the path of your certificate
  5. Restart Apache/WAMP and if you are using VSCode terminal, simply restart VSCode
  6. Yay! your problem should be solved.
Happy Coding!!!