Super Soft Cafe

ZenCart vs PrestaShop is a difficult comparison. Not because they are similar, they are not, but because they both have different qualities that endear them to me. 

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I recently read an article on Anandtech about the NVIDIA Ion platform. To give you a brief lowdown, it’s an Intel Atom sitting next to an NVIDIA all in one chipset. Get that, two chips and a stick of memory equals one computer. However, the icing here is that it is a pretty serious chip NVIDIA have chosen. This little beauty can play 1080p hidef at only 27% CPU!..  ON AN ATOM!

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Apache and htaccess are an amazing combination. Many write that the use of htaccess is a performance bottleneck, but I find that the facilities it exposes change the way that I build sites, and enables far more efficient solutions that I would otherwise have to produce.

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I’ve just managed to build a first attempt at a site driven by Amazon Web Services, and boy was that an effort. Forget preconceptions, Amazon do things their own way. They have a kind of tree, a browse tree, made of (you guessed it) browse nodes. Within that tree you will find a node for DVDs that really means all disc based video, and for DVD comedy, that means all disc based comedy video. You will also find a node for DVD exclusively, so no Blu-ray. And you’ll fund a node for Blu-ray exclusively, but under these nodes there is nothing else, no categories, no comedy.

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Do you use GD library, Imagick, or the ImageMagick command line?…   For me command line was the answer, here’s how I did it in PHP.

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I’ve recently been building a site for Photosomething, and came across the problem of cross browser testing. How to have a copy of every version of every browser, or at least such that is reasonable and you are willing to support. At first I thought I was going to have to install a virtual machine…   Then google came up with the goods!

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