Tech Tips

Google Trusted Store Feeds – The Moving Lines

October 23, 2013 by JTS

Update 10/24/13:

We just heard back from our support person that we should be notified when the badge has an issue. We never received any confirmation or contact from them. In anycase, they did point us to the actual test tool in an obscure post on a Q/A page (Test Drive tool here).

We recently wrote about (source the difficulties we faced while setting up Google Trusted Store Feeds with Magento shopping cart.

Now we face a new challenge, trying to find out why a Trusted Store badge mysteriously disappeared. Thankfully, Google’s Trusted Merchant support folks are very responsive and an awesome group of folks. They were able to point us to the fact that our checkout success page has been incorrectly formatted.

This came as a shock,

Development Servers – Why would you ever pay full price?

October 17, 2013 by JTS

Recently, a project required a certain amount of horsepower, that a standard linux virtual image could not support. We had started to price out a brand new server that we could build from NewEgg, but took a quick look on Ebay. It was there where we had our “DUH” moment.

Vmware Competitor – Finally

September 29, 2013 by JTS

At Silva Tech Solutions, we fully use Vmware for most of our virtualization projects. It has always been rock steady, feature rich and relatively easy … Read More

Magento Holiday Prep Guide

September 16, 2013 by JTS

Magento has just released a website holiday preparation guide to ensure your website is prepared for increased traffic for the holiday season. Its a pretty … Read More

Magento Category – Only Logged In Users

September 6, 2013 by JTS

Recently one of our Magento Enterprise clients, wanted to build a category page such that only logged in users would have access to the page. … Read More

Preventing Spam Leads Using Web Forms and SalesForce

August 14, 2013 by JTS

Lead SPAM in SalesForce can be very costly for businesses, as it wastes time and effort tracking down bogus leads. We came up with a … Read More

Successful Magento Upgrade Strategies

July 19, 2013 by JTS

Planning a successful Magento Enterprise Upgrade. Magento is a very complex and powerful shopping cart system. Customization comes at a price however, when it comes … Read More

EC2 Ecommerce First Step

June 3, 2013 by JTS

During a very busy holiday weekend, one of our clients running their ecommerce site on Amazon EC2 ran into a rather large snag. Their order email confirmations to customers were being delayed and sometimes not being sent out for hours later.

Magento Duplicated Messages

May 22, 2013 by JTS

Recently we had noticed that several of our success messages, such as “Product Name was successfully added to your cart”, where actually being added twice. … Read More

Move Apache2 .HTACCESS Redirects to HTTP.D

April 19, 2013 by JTS

After performing a performance analysis on one of our client’s enterprise magento websites, we noticed that their .HTACCESS file was very large compared to what we typically see.

Upon closer examination we noticed that there were more than 400+ redirects and re-writes that had been carried over from their previous ecommerce shopping cart systems.

Based on Apache’s documentation (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/htaccess.html), they recommend only using .htaccess files when you do not have access to the main server file.

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