I recently needed to allow for a custom note to be shown in Magento’s Grid and List views. My client asked that they be able to add to any product a customized note (text snippet) to announce such things as “Expected back in stock soon”, “20% Off Today”, “Color Red Coming this Week” and so [...]
I recently upgraded an installation of Magento from version 1.1.6 to 1.3.2.1 which lead to a couple issues with the payment system. The first issue was that I had to reset Base URL under Secure in the Configuration. The SSL settings seemed to have gotten lost during the upgrade. This leads to the Payment transaction [...]
The Ultimate Drupal Toolbox collected for us by Noupe. It’s worth taking a look at: http://www.noupe.com/drupal/the-ultimate-drupal-toolbox.html Drupal is one of the most popular CMSs out there, and it’s no surprise considering how extensible it is. You can customize almost every aspect of it through the use of themes, plugins, and a little custom coding. Below [...]
Romance Pro is a Spammer. This MySpace user account was created to build links to the atrocious Caesars Pocono Resorts. This account comments on any number of your blog posts linking to the following url: http://www.myspace.com/romancepro This person should be marked as SPAM across the Internet on all blogs. Caesars Pocono Resorts should also be [...]
A nice list of Drupal Tutorials from MogDesign. Check it out here: http://mogdesign.eu/blog/ultimate-drupal-tutorial-collection/
I needed to create a Magento Staging Area for both common development tasks and testing the latest upgrades. In order to create the staging area for my Magento store I’m going to create a mirror of it at a subdomain. I host on my own Linux server and use Godaddy to manage my domains. My [...]
It’s about the right list covering what Firefox has available right now for Web designers and developers: http://www.instantshift.com/2009/01/25/26-essential-firefox-add-ons-for-web-designers/ Here’s a clip from the post: It’s no secret that web designers and developers love Firefox! Firefox provides an endless amount of functionality that you simply won’t find in any other modern Internet browser. One of the [...]
I recently had a problem with users of Explorer and login problems on the frontend of a Magento store. They were able to login using Firefox, but when using Explorer they couldn’t login as a customer. The backend was fine. I found that I had some configuration issues, primary with server system time and cookies [...]
Smashing Magazine again comes up with a nifty numbered list of steps you can take to protect a WordPress administrator area. All steps are well thought out and there is an active comments section, so checking back may be well worth it: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/26/10-steps-to-protect-the-admin-area-in-wordpress/ A number of their steps rely on the most recent version of [...]
A pretty nifty blog post entitled Why PHP Won lists 4 main points as to why the adoption of PHP for most Web projects today outpaces those built on Perl CGI. You can read the post Why PHP Won here: http://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com/2009/01/why-php-won.html I also begin with Perl CGI/FastCGI on my first major project. I haven’t worked [...]
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