The Magento ecommerce system is a very complicated architecture, fraught with hardware and software tuning, caching systems, and database tuning. On a dedicated server, this can be a challenge to manage on a day to day basis. Moving it to the cloud presents a whole set of factors that will […]
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 […]
UPDATE: 5/9/2013: Major kudos to the Amazon SDK PHP team for contacting us and actually listening to our concerns/issues of their SDK. A standalone download of the library is in the works and a lot of their documentation will be updated with newer examples. Kudos to the entire team and […]
At Silva Tech Solutions LLC, we process and handle a lot of custom reporting tasks for clients in a variety of industries. Typically, we are asked to process an input file (spreadsheet, text file, even a database) , extract the required data, append or manipulate the extracted data, and delivery […]
Recently we ran into a very bizarre issue with a new VM Ubuntu Server 12.04 image and assigning a static address. Using DHCP, the image was completely fine and could complete ping and wget any website on the Internet. When we switched it over to a static ip, we ran […]
As most Magento developers or administrators know, the upgrade process from version to version can be a bit dicey and time consuming. We have run into all sorts of roadblocks and snafus and thought it would be nice to share our tips. 1.) Development box: Must Must Must Must have […]
We have been doing a great deal of work using WordPress and a nifty little plugin called s2Member (http://www.s2member.com). It essentially creates an entire subscription service automatically, complete with secure streaming links to Amazon CloudFront videos, to server content only to paying subscribers. The technology setup is fairly complex, but […]
Just a quick tip. For some reason, trying to add a plugin to a WordPress User is more difficult than it should be. We tried searching all over for a decent, updated and functional plugin that simply allows you to upload a photo image of the user to be used […]
While working on a client’s Magento CE cart, we noticed that their diskspace had jumped astronomically over the past few weeks. Coincidentally, this started right around the time our C# dot net SOAP Magento product feed started running and had a few “bumps” a long the way. Apparently, when the […]
This is an ubber ubber short install guide we came up with to get Glassfish on a virtual server for testing: Make sure you have at least 512 memory free! 1.) Install java sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer
