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Blueswarm.org It’s LIVE!
So after 3 days with only about 10 hours of combined sleep we have released our private beta of blueswarm.org. If you’re interested in checking it out send me a note and I’ll get an invite out to you. Or go to the home page and check it out. If you want to see my [...]
pdftotext – Thank You
Due to the nature of my job I spend more time than I’d like making product pages out of PDF documents. Needless to say this process is quite tedious. The simple way would be to use Preview to open the PDF and use the text-tool to copy and paste any relevant text into the aforementioned [...]
$mosConfig_live_site – the ‘www’ could be the difference
Recently Bluehost.com decided to apply a security update to the PHP version on our box. This would appear to be an uneventful occurrence and normally I wouldn’t have even taken notice (especially since I was on a one week vacation due to my son being born), but this update was a problem. Turns out something [...]
Dynamic Joomla! Content Pages
Joomla! is a good CMS as far as CMS’s go, but as with any piece of software, it has it’s limitations. Of course it can’t be all things to all people, but it does a fairly good job. Recently I was looking to create some content pages using Joomla!’s article setup. The idea was to [...]
Migration
We (my hosting partners and I) recently migrated our websites from BlueHost over to DreamHost and so far I must say it has been a very pleasant and rewarding experience. BlueHost treated us relatively well, for shared hosting at a reasonable yearly rate you can’t really ask for a better deal. But DreamHost was a [...]
Web Standards
I have been doing a lot of reading lately on web standards. I’m really beginning to appreciate them. Creating web sites that comply with those standards is no longer a choice it’s a requirement for me. Though I don’t always succeed 100% at doing this I try my best because I see value in it. [...]
BlueHost and SSL
Last Wednesday 10/18/06 the site I work for was experiencing some outages. It would be unavailable to us for 15-20 minutes at a time. Then it would spring back up and go down again randomly. The first time it happened we didn’t think to much of it, but as it continued happening we decided it [...]
Extra Info in Payment Methods
We had to add extra information to one of our payment methods, which seems to be supported in the VirtueMart backend. But, the information you put into the ‘Extra Information’ box below the payment method goes on the ‘order confirmation’ page rather than on the ‘choose your payment method’ page. So if you want to [...]
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