GimmeSoda
The Blog of a Programmer
Wedding Rosary Site
01 year ago
We’ve finally gotten to the point where I’m happy to be pushing traffic to my wife’s new site. She makes rosaries for weddings and special occasions as well as some jewelry, we’ve been selling them for awhile now but didn’t have a nice site for it up till now.
http://www.myweddingrosary.com/
MyWeddingRosary.com is built using the Magento eCommerce platform, it’s integrated with Google Checkout and PayPal for payment processing. Piwik and Google Analytics (with conversion tracking) are both in use, since I like my stats! We’ve also got all products linked into the Google Base.
Advertising is now running for this site and I’m keeping a careful eye on the conversion ratio for both sales and leads. Wish us luck!
How-to Display a Debian Server’s RSA Fingerprint
01 year ago
Need to verify a rsa host fingerprint for a debian server? Have someone connect and run the following command:
ssh-keygen -l -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
Quick Note on Meteor Server Permissions
01 year ago
You don’t need root to run Meteor Server, it can be setup to run under a single user without sudo. If you are running it on the same machine as the website it is serving you also don’t need to run it on anything other then the default port and you’ll still avoid cross site scripting errors.
Good times!
Just a thought…
01 year ago
It’s been a long while since I’ve done any serious amount of writing, I think I’m going to go ahead and give it a shot and see how it goes. At the very least my wife would like it!
Pardon the dust….
0I’m working on reorganizing this entire blog, so yeah things may not be organized the way you may be used to, give me some time and it’ll all be sorted!
Looks like I finished much sooner then expected!
OpenVBX: Useful right out of the box
0More often then not when I’m looking at a new software I find myself thinking about how it can be made useful for my clients, how I would need to modify it to suit their needs, and what the best way to present it would be.
It’s not too often when I come across a piece of software that immediately makes me want to setup a demo, call up clients and simply say, “You HAVE to see this, this software is for you!”
The other day I had one of those rare moments. Looking through my email there was a newsletter which mentioned OpenVBX , so I signed up for an account with Twilio and got my $30 of free sandbox credit, and then went on to install OpenVBX (with the DreamHost One-Click Installer). It took me about 10 minutes to setup my first call flow, menu items, voicemail, and finally get my first call into the sandbox number.
I haven’t tried modifying the themes yet, or taken too close a look at the API, but it all seems so simple, right out of the box, and I’m already thinking about those first few calls.
Thanks Twilio, you’ve already made me into a fan.
Piwik Error: User ‘anonymous’ doesn’t exist.
3There is an easy fix to this; login to phpmyadmin, or whatever you want to use to access the database and execute the following query on the db for your piwik install:
INSERT INTO `piwik_user` (`login`,`password`,`alias`,`email`,`token_auth`,`date_registered`) VALUES ('anonymous', '', '', '', '', NOW());
Basically piwik needs to have an anonymous user setup in the DB as it looks for it when you try and access the settings.
-JJ
Magento Commerce Installer Updated
31 year ago
If you’re looking for an updated version of my old Magento install script for DreamHost, you’re in luck – I went ahead and updated it so it is now installing version 1.4.0.1 of Magento Commerce.
http://www.gimmesoda.com/installing-magento-commerce-on-dreamhost/
JJ G
DreamHost WordPress Backup
11Okay, so it’s a bad plugin name but it does what it says, pretty much.
This plugin creates a copy of your wp-content folder (excluding any backups made by this plugin) and creates an archive, that archive is then uploaded to the DreamHost backup server. A backup of your sql database can also be created and uploaded for you. As per the DreamHost style I went ahead and made this as simple as possible with 1 click backups for each option.
Just enter your backup username and password and click on backup. You can grab a copy of the plugin from here, I’ll be submitting it to the WP Plugin Directory soon.
JJ
New Site: 10DollarBluRay.com
11 year ago
Working on a new affiliate marketing project, http://www.10dollarbluray.com/
The purpose of this site is to locate low cost blu ray movies on Amazon, ordered by purchase rank. I obviously need to proper design and I’m working on adding a few extra features (search and a site map). Anyhow, take a look, feel free to let me know if you have ideas or questions!
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