With a great amount of personal assistance devices, inexpensive systems (rasberry pi) and a fantastic programming framework of Phillips Smart Hue, we sought to recreate a hockey fan’s demonstration of party lights going off when his team scored. These are some of the notes and systems we used, as well […]
For SEO purposes, you always want to make sure that the canonical url always is consistent with the url. So if you allow both a URL with and without the trailing slash, you need to make sure that your canonical is the same for both.
We started seeing weird issues recently where a label provider (ShipStation) was running into issues with the WAF firewall Incapsula. The label would print in ShipStation, but ShipStation’s subsequent call back to Magento would set the order as “Complete” and all items shipped, despite the actual shipment details being present.
One concern for page speed is when a user comes to your website using a CPC ad or affiliate ad. Those links usually have tracking parameters on them (ie: utm_content) and as a result can slow down a page being sent to the end user. What is worse, is that […]
If you’ve spent enough time working with e-commerce carts, the chances that you’ve run into the dreaded “CURL Connection Error” are pretty high. Thankfully solving it is not that difficult.
Integrating Square and Magento usually requires the purchase of an intermediary system for synchronizing order and product level data. The largest issue we have faced is the case when the SKU of a product is not necessarily the same as the UPC barcode for a product. Variations of data and/or […]
We were recently tasked to switch a data connection that was pushing contacts to Constant Contact, to a new Salesforce account. At first we found a good deal of documentation regarding their API and even PHP examples, however we soon found that much of it was outdated and not very […]
These are just a few tips that we have added to our standard security hardening service over the years. Some of them are fairly easy to do, while other might require some developmental effort.
A success story of a current customer of the Silva Tech Solutions. The customer sells online boutique clothing in Europe. The customer was very experienced with SEO and knew they needed to configure their store to be as best optimized for mobile as possible. That is where Silva Tech Solutions […]
Recently we started trying to configure an HTTP instance to use a self-signed certificate. No matter what we had tried, we kept receiving the “ssl_error_rx_record_too_long” error in Firefox.
