Just a quick tip. If you are using Magento Enterprise and finding that “loadByRequestPath” doesn’t always work when you try and load a product by the url key, it is because it’s a “feature”. According to Magento Enterprise support, Magento EE, uses its own urlrewrite model.
We do a fair deal of data reporting and extraction on local county tax records for a variety of clients (Tax collection, lawyers, accountants, etc). One of the more interesting aspects of this data mining, is when we are required to retrieve, normalize and create reports based on the data […]
Magento Breadcrumbs are a bit to be desired, when it comes to consistency and SEO purposes. Product breadcrumbs would shift to whatever the latest category they were added to. So if a product goes on sale in a special “sale” category, then the breadcrumb would be rebuilt and shown on […]
We were again a proud sponsor of the Harleysville Football Club. Silva Tech Galaxy had a great run this year! Great many thanks to the coaches for another fantastic year of soccer! Go Galaxy!
On August 12th 2014, several major internet providers and hosting companies were reporting massive outages and network routing issues. At first there was very little information concerning the outage ( Redit thread), but as more information came to light, it turns out it was because of misconfigured Cisco routers (essentially […]
We recently rolled out a new theme update and thought we had worked out all of the kinks. We received an issue where customers could not view any orders within their customer account screens. They could get to everything else, including actually re-ordering.
While we have found eBay to be a very good source for computer and other IT hardware, we have run into several situations that we’d like to avoid in the future. There apparently is a new type of scam involving newly created ebay accounts. The accounts are created in the […]
We’ve recently started on a new Research and Development project to try and compare Oracle 12c with another database system. Our preferred tools are usually Ubuntu and Citrix XenServer, so we decided to create a new UBUNTU with plenty of spindle, memory and CPU power on our Xen Server.
Jetpack for WordPress is a great set of plugins to help publish and share your blog posts. Unfortunately, this functionality comes at the cost of it not always being the easiest to setup and/or install. In our experience we have found a pretty wide array of issues that cause it […]
Amazon announced “Workspaces”, a brand new fully managed cloud desktop environment, built on Windows 7. (Article). It is a very compelling offer for SMB’s for several reasons.
