We do a significant amount of development on WordPress sites and spinning up new instances for local development work has always been a chore. We are late to the party, but we’ve recently standardized on Ubuntu’s fantastic free system called Multipass .
Magento2 – Guest Checkout Credit Card Messages
With a lot of security improvement with Magento2, one that we found a bit confusing was that when a guest customer checks out and has an issue with their credit card, a generic popup error message appears that says “Unable to place order. An error occurred on the server. Please try to place the order again.”
Coronavirus Will Accelerate World Wide Adoption of Automation Technologies
As part of our new service offerings in regards to startup scouting and technology assessments (Tech Matchmaker), we continuously keep our eyes on technology trends and re-access our positions almost daily.
One trend we have been following closely for the while is with robotic automation of a variety of services ranging from burger flipping to warehouse fulfillment robots. We firmly believed that this trend will continue to accelerate with the onset of lower cost robotics and minimum wage pressures, but mother nature decided to intervene.
Magento Bitrix Exploit
Starting 2/13/2020 at 5:40AM EDT it appears some new bot network is scanning for a new form of exploit regarding a Magento (1) Bitrix connector … Read More
Setting up Incapsula on a Sub-Domain in Route 53
We had an instance where we wanted to host an application over Incapsula, that was on a sub-domain (ie: portal.domain.com).
The DNS hosting was done completely in Amazon Route53. The procedure to get it setup was a bit tricky, since Incapsula only provides you a CNAME record if you are just hosting a sub-domain. Since hosted sub-domain record sets cannot contain root CNAMEs (portal.domain.com), there is a bit of a dns shuffle that needs to occur to getting this to work.
Easy to Create Deep Fake Videos
UPDATE: 9/5/19 added the tutorial videos.
UPDATE: 9/6/19 added our new Harrison Ford deep fake.
UPDATE: 9/9/19 added our final Harrison Ford deep fake.
As part of our R&D background and shiny new technology appreciation, we came across an article about a new easy to use program that builds creates “Deep Fake” videos in minutes.
Anyone with a decent CUDA capable video card, can take multiple video data sets, strip out the characters faces, and swap the faces of the main video characters with another person.
Differentiating Orders on Front and Backend in Magento 2
If you have a Magento2 store that frequently has a lot of customer service representatives putting in orders for customer manually in the admin, it is very helpful to know who exactly put in what order. When a customer calls in with a question about an order, you can immediately reference the order history comments and find out what customer service member full-filled the actual order.
Magento 2 EE – Get Reward Points used on an Order
Migrating some older Magento1 EE code to Magento2, we came upon an issue where we could not figure out how to retrieve the Rewards Points that were used on an order by a customer.
Voice recognition Party Lights
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 as examples of code.
NGINX Removing the Trailing Slash in the URL
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.