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SSL, INTERNET EXPLORER, AND YOUR E-STORE

Posted Tue, 2010-09-07 12:15 by Brian Tafoya

So having to deal with the issue for what feels like the billionth time I figured I would blog about it and share with the world this wonderful 'situation' known as Internet Explorer (for short, IE) and SSL certificates.

A month ago we launched Fierce Costumes (www.fiercecostumes.com) and shortly after, Fierce and Sexy (www.fierceandsexy.com). Both stores are running on the fantastic e-commerce platform, Magento.

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Magento Dataflow Export/Import form the command line

Posted Fri, 2010-07-09 04:04 by Brian Tafoya

One issue with Magento is the overhead involved in importing/exporting data which can cause timeouts when run from the web. Here is a script which will run from the command line....

How to do an in-place 'import' with Subversion

Posted Sun, 2010-07-04 17:01 by Brian Tafoya

Suppose, for example, that you wanted to put some of /etc under version control inside your repository:

# svn mkdir <a href="///root/svn-repository/etc" title="///root/svn-repository/etc">file:///root/svn-repository/etc</a> \
 -m "Make a directory in the repository to correspond to /etc"
# cd /etc
# svn checkout <a href="///root/svn-repository/etc" title="///root/svn-repository/etc">file:///root/svn-repository/etc</a> .
# svn add apache samba alsa X11 
# svn commit -m "Initial version of my config files"

How to remove CVS and/or .svn files and folders form the command line in Linux

Posted Sun, 2010-07-04 16:27 by Brian Tafoya

So, you copied a bunch of directories from one source controlled project to another and you don’t want to go through and delete all those CVS or .svn directories by hand? Ok, no problem…

Apache 500 error on PHP Fatal Error - How to enable php error messages

Posted Fri, 2010-07-02 16:46 by Brian Tafoya

Somehow along the way the way php returns errors when the display_errors flag is set to 'off' changed, causing me so much confusion! At first I thought it was siolated to ZendServer, but it is somewhere along php 5.2.12 that it was implemented.

So, for those developers having a rough time debugging in a development enviroment, such as using ZendServerCE on windows, make sure you enable the display_errors option in the server's php.ini.

Happy Debugging!

Magento Manage Category Product Grid Edit Link

Posted Wed, 2010-06-30 11:19 by Brian Tafoya

One common request from my clients has been to include an 'Edit' link in the category product list, since strange enough Magento does not have one.

Fortunately this is a very simple task!

in the file 'app\code\core\Mage\Adminhtml\Block\Catalog\Category\Tab\Product.php' location the function 'protected function _prepareColumns()' and add to the end the below snippet.

Magento Update to 1.4.1.0 Soap Fatal Error

Posted Tue, 2010-06-29 11:40 by Brian Tafoya

There is another show stopper if you are utilizing web services.

A typo in Magento Soap.php file at lines 133-135:

} else {
 $this->fault('0', 'Unable to load Soap extension on the server');
 return $this;

to the patched version:

} else {
  $this->fault('0', 'Unable to load Soap extension on the server');
}
return $this;

Add the missing curly brace!

Magento Update to 1.4.1.0 Fatal Error - Blank Front End

Posted Tue, 2010-06-29 06:07 by Brian Tafoya

The latest upgrade of Magento (1.4.1.0) has a minor change with a major impact that affects most templates.

in page.xml under app/design/frontend/base/default/layout (or your custome page.xml) change the line...

<block type="core/profiler" output="toHtml"/>

to

<block type="core/profiler" output="toHtml" name="core_profiler"/>

Also make sure you file permissions are correct and clear the cache.

PHP Developers Wanted!!!

Posted Thu, 2010-03-11 01:53 by Brian Tafoya

We are looking for talented freelance PHP developers in the Phoenix Are for immediate contract work!!!

Experience in the following plaforms is preferred:

  • Drupal
  • Wordpress
  • Magento
  • Zend

JavaScript Experience a PLUS

  • jQuery
  • YUI

We Are Hiring iPhone and Blackberry Developers in the Phoenix Metro!!!

Posted Thu, 2010-03-11 01:18 by Brian Tafoya

Do you have experience in either iPhone or Blackberry application development and are in the Phoenix Metro area, go to our contact form and send me your information. We will get right back to you!

We looking for a developer (or two) who is available immediately for a
moderate size project. This is not an employment opportunity but a
short term project. We would welcome a third party firm who
specializes in iPhone development as well.

- i9 contract, work from your home office with a weekly meeting in Tempe.
- Hourly rate DOE

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