So, the title got your attention, right? And most of you are probably thinking “FAIL”. Not so fast Mr. Enterprise Developer. Lightweight solutions like FileMaker on iPad can have there place in any business. I’d like to share some insights from a recent project I did for a large utility company.
Please note this article is not intended to be a detailed step-by-step tutorial. It is merely a brief overview of the process we went through to implement this specific solution.
Spring is finally here and a few days ago I caught the “Spring Cleaning” fever. Everything was feeling fresh and life was full of endless possibility. However, at some point I decided to clean up my web server too. Sounded like a good idea, right? Get rid of all those DNS redirects that I don’t need anymore, blow away the databases that are just leeching space on my disk. Until…
So… since we started using Paypal Express in one of our client’s Magento v1.6 Stores, we’ve been getting an exception. In the exception.log file, it logs the following error for the Paypal IPN: “Wrong Order ID: 100000123″.
NOTE: Magento have fixed the cause of this error in the Community version 1.7 Paypal IPN. However, we don’t like the way they fixed it. See “The Code” below.
If you just want the solution, go down to “The Solution”. But first, some of the things it is NOT caused by.
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If you’re reading this, then you’ve probably lost as much hair as we have trying to get Magento and Google Shopping to play nice. We hope this post will help some of you. In this article we specifically address using a custom Google Shopping Category.
With the updated Product Feed Spec that Google has implemented, they no longer accept using a Google Shopping Category of “Other”. What about Magento store owners who need a category that doesn’t fall in the limited range Magento provides? Time to break out your PHP coding skills!
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As you probably know by now, Google Base is now history and “Google Shopping” is the new platform for featuring your products on Google. If you’re interested, you can find out more about the changes here.
If you’re running a Magento store, especially version 1.6 or earlier, you also probably know that integrating your store with Google Shopping is not a clear cut process. Hopefully, our experience can help you out…
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Google broke a unique record on Thursday after agreeing to pay a whopping $22.5 million fine levied against the online search giant, the largest penalty ever to be imposed on a company by the FTC. Apple Safari users finally get justice for Google sticking it’s nose where it ought not by ignoring privacy settings that control cookies designed to track users.
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For those of you who are looking for a reliable email solution to use in conjunction with Magento, we’ve recently been testing the Amazon SES service for this purpose and so far we’ve been extremely happy with the results. There are a few pot holes to avoid along the way, so we thought we’d share our experience with you…
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Ok… so you’re all excited about finally getting your new Magento store installed! BUT, what happens? You log into the Admin area of your site and click on the message popup to “view message inbox” and… It’s a blank list! Even though it says there’s 65 messages there… they’re not listed.
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There is more and more being said and speculated about the role of cloud hosting for eCommerce sites. What continues to be amazing is how one blog post or article can be so completely opposite to the next. Some have had very good results, while others have hated the experience from day 1 until they finally ditched the idea.
At Big Dune we’ve been hosting Magento on Cloud based servers for some time now with great success. Most of our servers are running on Amazon EC2 with CentOS 6.3, Apache or NGINX and MySQL. Our customers are happy with performance and we’re happy with the functionality that EC2 gives us as server administrators. So, to move to the cloud or not, that is the question! To get the answer, it’s good to first understand what Cloud Hosting is and what it is not.
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