Found this useful contribution which allows you to place the actual product name in the breadcrumb. Not sure why this isn’t part of the core, but that’s not for me to ask: http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/5807 By piggy banking on this contribution, I … Read More
Found quick and dirty online button generator that does a decent enough job. oscButtons allows you to quickly mock up buttons, dump into your images directory and give a you a decent idea of what it would look like. Check … Read More
I’ve just recently began a project using osCommerce and needed to streamline the checkout process. I wanted to allow the purchaser the options of navigating directly to payment, instead of having to first login or create an account. I found … Read More
This addition to the Joomla Documentation addresses adding/editing/managing images for both Static and regular Content Items. The editor an Administrator will be using is JCE Editor, which provides more advanced tools then Joomla’s default editor TinyMCE. The following instructions will … Read More
In most versions of Linux edit the file: /etc/my.cnf Anywhere under [mysqld] add the line: log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log If log file doesn’t yet exists add and set permissions: touch /var/log/mysqld.log chown mysql:mysql /var/log/mysqld.log Restart MySQL in: cd /etc/rc.d/init.d ./mysqld restart
Nice little blog post on “How to recognize a good programmer”: http://www.inter-sections.net/2007/11/13/how-to-recognise-a-good-programmer/
There’s a bit at the following blog on Google’s launch it’s new social networking api: Google has announced OpenSocial, a new open API for social networks. The new standard will allow developers to create Facebook-like apps on any social network … Read More
There’s a component from the Joomla Extension Gallery called perForms which helps you create custom forms for your Joomla powered Web sites. I’ll list below the simple steps to install perForms. The first thing to know is that perForms is … Read More
Those Russian spammers are hard working folk. I’m starting to see lately that my visitor logs receive pretty predictable traffic patterns from what I’m going to come out and guess are Russian spammers. You’ll see a pretty standard traffic pattern, … Read More
There’s a few discussions on password management when building Web applications. The first post from Coding Horror entitled, “Your Probably Storing Your Passwords Incorrectly” urges developers to NOT store passwords in plain text, which is the true and correct method. … Read More
