As we upgrade clients to Virtuemart 2 we ran into a small problem where there is no default country on the checkout page even after the shop is all setup. There is an easy way to fix this problem and a more complex way, I will describe both below.
In the easy fix, the only downside is that if you ever change your shop's country location, you would need to redo the change. We really only did the ...
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As I said in my previous post on how to fix your featured products the migration tools for moving to Virtuemart 2 while saving us much time and work occasionally miss something.
One of the problems a we experienced while upgrading virtuemart for one of our clients was that many of their categories became unpublished for no apparent reason. Thankfully these 2 simple SQL queries should fix thing ...
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Upgrading your virtuemart site from 1.1.x to virtuemart 2 is a big undertaking. Thankfully the developers for virtuemart have provided us with a great migration tool that helps bring most of your content over with very little effort.
If one of the problems you are experiencing is that products that used to be "featured" are no longer "featured" the solution is quite simple. You can simple run ...
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Coming off my post about technology and the cool-aid of hype, an article about what the cloud doesn't do resonated with my thinking. It reminded me of being a kid ... "do you believe in magic" ... we all want to believe, but when it comes to your computing, skilled analysis is still critical to your success. Seth Godin points out that when execution gets cheaper, so should planning but counting on ...
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CentOS/RHEL, as most systems folks know, backports bug fixes to the origional software version. In this way they keep their operating systems secure, but also make for an incredibly smooth upgrade cycle. In other words, when we upgrade our servers, our users' applications do not break! Good for us, good for them.
The one time this is a problem is for PCI Compliance. Some of the auditing compani ...
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