Harleysville Football Club 2013
We were a proud sponsor of the HFC Silva Tech Revolution this year! Great many thanks to both coaches for another great year of soccer!
phpList and Amazon SES – Perfect together
Generally speaking, sending out bulk email to clients for purposes other than marketing, is frowned upon in most instances. Every internet provider and hosting company on the planet has some sort of “cap” where they limit you from sending a certain amount of messages within a time period (day or hour…see some various caps here). […]
Amazon SES – Not Meant for Individual Consumption
A client of ours was trying to send a ton of emails to clients for important updates. The emails where all true subscribed users, however the methodology of using Outlook provided us with a few “challenges”. Firstly, most email accounts on ISP’s (Fios/Comcast/Cox etc) all have standard caps as to how many messages you can […]
Google Trusted Store Feeds – The Moving Lines
Update 10/24/13: We just heard back from our support person that we should be notified when the badge has an issue. We never received any confirmation or contact from them. In anycase, they did point us to the actual test tool in an obscure post on a Q/A page (Test Drive tool here). We recently […]
Development Servers – Why would you ever pay full price?
Recently, a project required a certain amount of horsepower, that a standard linux virtual image could not support. We had started to price out a brand new server that we could build from NewEgg, but took a quick look on Ebay. It was there where we had our “DUH” moment.
Vmware Competitor – Finally
At Silva Tech Solutions, we fully use Vmware for most of our virtualization projects. It has always been rock steady, feature rich and relatively easy to use through each version. Our only gripe has been the licensing restrictions that are very cost prohibitive for a majority of small businesses. By itself, the ESXi platform is […]
Magento Holiday Prep Guide
Magento has just released a website holiday preparation guide to ensure your website is prepared for increased traffic for the holiday season. Its a pretty decent guide, worth a quick read. If you have any questions, be sure to Contact us for more information. Click for Guide Here
Magento Category – Only Logged In Users
Recently one of our Magento Enterprise clients, wanted to build a category page such that only logged in users would have access to the page. Turns out this is fairly easy to do with a mix of Javascript and customer design pages. Note, this requires modifying design layouts and creating template files, so this is […]
Preventing Spam Leads Using Web Forms and SalesForce
Lead SPAM in SalesForce can be very costly for businesses, as it wastes time and effort tracking down bogus leads. We came up with a solution below which has stopped a signifcant amount of robotic SPAM within SalesForce. First we need to setup a new form field in Salesforce. I called mine “SUPERSPAM_KEY” to make […]
Custom Magento Admin Order Buttons Fix on Upgrade
After upgrade to EE1.12 or greater, some adminhtml custom buttons that were created for Orders, did not work. Magento changed the way the code was structured, and refactored a ton of their code. Our button code used to resolve in the local/Mage/Adminhtml/Block/Sales/Order/Grid.php. Magento moved it to the “View.php” (more logical in our opinion). To fix […]