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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 those links are usually dynamically generated, so each subsequent link will have to be rebuilt from the cache.
If your hosting is slow, this can be a killer situation.
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.
