The Magento ecommerce system is a very complicated architecture, fraught with hardware and software tuning, caching systems, and database tuning. On a dedicated server, this can be a challenge to manage on a day to day basis. Moving it to the cloud presents a whole set of factors that will need to be considered. Magento […]
If you are a start-up company that does not require intensive computing resources, you can easily design a full office computing network, complete with resilient backups and Disaster Recovery, for both low upfront and monthly cost. The traditional model of having a server or two in house to serve files mail, security and backups is […]
UPDATE: 5/9/2013: Major kudos to the Amazon SDK PHP team for contacting us and actually listening to our concerns/issues of their SDK. A standalone download of the library is in the works and a lot of their documentation will be updated with newer examples. Kudos to the entire team and their tireless efforts of helping […]
At Silva Tech Solutions LLC, we process and handle a lot of custom reporting tasks for clients in a variety of industries. Typically, we are asked to process an input file (spreadsheet, text file, even a database) , extract the required data, append or manipulate the extracted data, and delivery a report in a file […]
Recently we ran into a very bizarre issue with a new VM Ubuntu Server 12.04 image and assigning a static address. Using DHCP, the image was completely fine and could complete ping and wget any website on the Internet. When we switched it over to a static ip, we ran into a really puzzling situation. […]
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
