We recently started work on a DNN skin, where we needed a custom search input box to submit to a page with a search results module installed on it. The input box could not be wrapped in a form layer, since Asp.net serves the entire page in a form. Our solution, while requiring javascript to […]
We would like to welcome Jigar Patel to the Silva Tech Solutions LLC 2014 Internship Program! Jigar is a first-year, B.S. Computer Science and Business Major from Lehigh University. He will be working with us to help launch a new Silva Tech Solutions industry segment, as well as learn about the day to day operations […]
We ran into a problem where a jScrollPane was not showing up on a longer div, when it was slide up using jQuery’s “slideDown”/”slideUp”. After much debugging, we discovered that jScrollPane was actually being applied, however it was NOT calculating the actual DIV height correctly.
One customer was having issues with certain SSL versions of their pages being crawled by Google. They were receiving duplicate content penalties. While Magento does a decent job forcing a user to an SSL page of mandatory secure sections of a website (checkout/accounts etc), it does not handle the opposite. Redirect the user to a […]
We’ve recently set out to convert one of our XP workstations into a virtual image to run on one of our XenServer boxes (GPU CUDA pass-through R&D for another article). We downloaded the latest version XenConvert (2.5 as of this writing) and installed it on the host machine. We made sure to clear the machine […]
We’ve recently started a Dot Net Nuke project, that required IIS 7.5, so we installed a test server on a local Win 7 workstation that we had available to do some basic development work prior to moving to a production environment. We installed the the IIS server via the “Add Windows Feature” in Windows 7 […]
On an enterprise magento client, we’ve recently had a need to move customer reviews from one product to another. The original product had custom options on it, that needed to made into a bundle, so the reviews had to go along with it.
We had a request to be able to link a coupon from a email newsletter back to magento, and automatically apply a coupon discount with one URL. So for instance, clicking on something like http://yoursite/applycoupon/index/?url=some-cool-product&coupon_code=TESTYOURCOUPON would go the magento site, automatically apply the discount to the cart when the user adds something to their cart. […]
Recently, one of our clients started having issues saving products, where it would take almost a full minute between saves. They had not installed any plugins recently, nor have they increased their product counts. The problem just started “happening”. We ruled out the index process, database degradation, network, firewall, etc. Everything we could think of. […]
Silva Tech Solutions LLC was proud to support the MOMS Club of Harleysville South in their drive to send care packages to the US Military, via Operation Gratitude. Our thoughts and prayers are with our troops and their families, throughout this Holiday Season.
