After upgrade to EE1.12 or greater, some adminhtml custom buttons that were created for Orders, did not work. Magento changed the way the code was structured, and refactored a ton of their code. Our button code used to resolve in the local/Mage/Adminhtml/Block/Sales/Order/Grid.php. Magento moved it to the “View.php” (more logical […]
We recently updated a test server to the latest WordPress 3.6, but it immediately failed, missing a “revision.php” file. The resulting upgrade took down the entire website. We are investigating the issue currently, but recommend that you do NOT update your WordPress to the latest version until we can find […]
Mining Website Logs For Hidden Robots. We worked on a project recently, where we had found that a client’s entire site was screen scraped and put up at a different location without their permission. This of course led to a drop in search engine traffic as the new site was […]
The more we have gained experience on the OpenStack platform, the more we began wondering how large of a Rackspace cloud we could build on re-sold enterprise level hardware. This would be perfect for POC (proof of concept) labs, R&D computing development, or even a small office computing cloud. The […]
Recently we were working on a software integration project, whereby we were migrating a php based application onto a CentOS system from an Ubuntu system. The platform requires the ability to call out to GPG and decrypt certain text elements as part of its “data at rest” encryption policy. Prior […]
Apparently there was some sort of global attack against a variety of hosting providers last night (4/11/2013) targetting users of WordPress. The massive botnet attack targeted WordPress accounts and went directly after the login screen. The performance degradation you experienced today was caused by a global attack against websites running the […]
If you are a start-up company that does not require intensive computing resources, you can easily design a full office computing network, complete with resilient backups and Disaster Recovery, for both low upfront and monthly cost. The traditional model of having a server or two in house to serve files […]
Silva Tech Solutions LLC is proud to announce that we are now members of the Cloud Security Alliance, Delaware Valley Chapter. The Cloud Security Alliance is a non-profit organization formed to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and provide education on the uses […]
Silva Tech Solutions is proud to announce the availability of a whole new range of technology services focused on small to mid-level businesses. Details can be found on our new services page. These new services will focus on more enterprise technology solutions as well as a few new infrastructure consulting […]
Great article from Wired discussing the increased use of Open Source technologies within the defense industry. I think its a perfect match. The example in the article mentioned that an entire project failed because a single contractor controlled the system. Seems that an open-source (albeit defense internal) project would have […]
