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Glassfish Ubuntu 12.04 Ubber Quick Install Guide

This is an ubber ubber short install guide we came up with to get Glassfish on a virtual server for testing:

Make sure you have at least 512 memory free!

1.) Install java
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer

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Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS to 12.04 Lots O Dragons

We ran into a TON of problems upgrading our ubuntu servers to the latest version of Ubuntu. We suffered everything from Kernel panics, to python issues, to broken upgrades mid-way through. It was a vastly different than the typical upgrade cycle we have been used to.

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Magento C# Adding Product Images

We are full of quick “tips” this month!

We have been doing some automated product system integrations using a third party data feed and a pre-existing Magento install. The C# Sharp calls to Magento’s API work quite well (seemingly a bit slow), but we ran into a brick wall recently. Essentially, while adding images to a product, they would NOT load automatically into the default view of the store. So on the front-end the images would always appear “broken”.

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