Tips for hardening your Magento Instances
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.
Tech Tips Articles
Magento Page Speed Success
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 […]
Apache2 fixing the dreaded “ssl_error_rx_record_too_long”
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
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 […]
Facebook Webdriver ChromeOptions Not Found Issue – Resolved
While working on a few crawling projects we were looking to figure out how the change the USER-AGENT string on a chrome instance.
Debugging SOAP Issues
We recently had a very strange php SOAP issue that cropped up right after an upgrade to PHP on a development server took place. It was a basic SOAP call to Fedex webservices that had always worked before.
Nexcess Magento Remote SMTP Configuration
Quick Tip if you are setting up your Magento hosting at Nexcess and configuring your SMTP mail settings IF you are running an external mail service (ie: Gmail/Office/etc).
Conquering Magento GooglePagespeed Scores – Part 2
Having tackled all of the performance issues you can without making major code changes (See Previous Article), its now time to get “into the weeds” a bit with Magento and resolve some of the other issues that PageSpeed is reporting.
Conquering Magento GooglePagespeed Scores – Part 1
As anyone in the ecommerce industry knows, your search-engine organic traffic is incredibly important. Organic traffic from Google is tied not only to your content, but also to the performance of your website. Performance based factors affect how a user will perceive your website on both the desktop and more […]
Realtime Facial Recognition processing in Python on Windows
We’ve started working on a few machine learning projects and have thoroughly enjoyed diving into Python. One project that we really wanted to explore was the realm of facial recognition, using dlib (http://dlib.net/), a state of the art machine learning library.