As most Magento developers or administrators know, the upgrade process from version to version can be a bit dicey and time consuming. We have run into all sorts of roadblocks and snafus and thought it would be nice to share our tips. 1.) Development box: Must Must Must Must have one of these! It should […]
We have been doing a great deal of work using WordPress and a nifty little plugin called s2Member (http://www.s2member.com). It essentially creates an entire subscription service automatically, complete with secure streaming links to Amazon CloudFront videos, to server content only to paying subscribers. The technology setup is fairly complex, but once its working its an […]
Just a quick tip. For some reason, trying to add a plugin to a WordPress User is more difficult than it should be. We tried searching all over for a decent, updated and functional plugin that simply allows you to upload a photo image of the user to be used at the end of posts/pages. […]
While working on a client’s Magento CE cart, we noticed that their diskspace had jumped astronomically over the past few weeks. Coincidentally, this started right around the time our C# dot net SOAP Magento product feed started running and had a few “bumps” a long the way. Apparently, when the Dot Net service failed its […]
This is an ubber ubber short install guide we came up with to get Glassfish on a virtual server for testing: Make sure you have at least 512 memory free! 1.) Install java sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer
We ran into a TON of problems upgrading our ubuntu servers to the latest version of Ubuntu. We suffered everything from Kernel panics, to python issues, to broken upgrades mid-way through. It was a vastly different than the typical upgrade cycle we have been used to.
We are full of quick “tips” this month! We have been doing some automated product system integrations using a third party data feed and a pre-existing Magento install. The C# Sharp calls to Magento’s API work quite well (seemingly a bit slow), but we ran into a brick wall recently. Essentially, while adding images to […]
We had a project where we are using PhPMailer to send emails out from an existing gmail account. While sending emails from a local SMTP server worked like a charm, we kept getting ” AUTH not accepted from server:” errors every time we tried using our gmail accounts. As it turns out, GMAIL always uses […]
We do a lot of work with Amazon’s S3 cloud. With the S3 you can quickly setup a huge chunk of reasonable cost storage and even serve it over a browser. They provide a really long url like “http://WebsiteBuckname.yourdomain.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/”, which is not very aesthetically pleasing. Using CNAMES in your hosted DNS, you can shorten the […]
UPDATE 12/20/2013: We’ve moved a few clients away from the Google Plugin, in favor of the PHP file feeds. The Google Plugin, in our experience has caused a lot of problem and bugs with other plugins and was not consistent (for whatever reason) in reporting the data to Google. Also, we have added an important […]
