Tech Tips

Easy to Create Deep Fake Videos

September 4, 2019 by JTS

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.

Voice recognition Party Lights

April 19, 2019 by JTS

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

March 21, 2019 by JTS

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.

Authorize.net Curl 77 Connection Error

October 30, 2018 by JTS

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.

Fixing Square POS Barcodes and Magento

October 23, 2018 by JTS

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 missing barcode data on certain products, can force a Magento store to use a different value for SKU numbers than the actual read-out from a UPC tag.

Add Email to Data Extension in Salesforce Using PHP

September 28, 2018 by JTS

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found a good deal of documentation regarding their API and even PHP examples, however we soon found that much of it was outdated and not very clear as to the best approach to take.

We figured it out and will provide step-by-step instructions in this article.

Tips for hardening your Magento Instances

August 16, 2018 by JTS

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.

Magento Page Speed Success

April 5, 2018 by JTS

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 came in.

Apache2 fixing the dreaded “ssl_error_rx_record_too_long”

January 3, 2018 by JTS

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.

New Ubuntu Server Install/ FengOffice PHP 7 How-To

October 5, 2017 by JTS

We had an older version of FengOffice that needed to be ported to a new Ubuntu server having PHP7. So with the older copy, we followed the update instructions and upgraded to version 3.5.1.5 without any issues.

We then proceeded to migrate to the new server that had a fresh install of Ubuntu LTS (16.04.3 LTS) and the basic LAMP packages.

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