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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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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This is about Ununtu, but first an admission. I run Vista, ok I admit it. It’s slick and smooth, but it doesn’t tolerate badly written software and/or drivers. My install was stable for a while, but slowly went down hill..  After a fresh install all is ok and slick again :-).

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I have changed permalinks in wordpress to be pretty. What immediately resulted was a 403: Forbidden.

Well, what really happens when you change permalinks is that wordpress creates a .htaccess file to do some URL re-writing. But often apache security does not allow re-writes, due to FollowSymLinks not being enabled… Don’t ask.. The magic incantation is to add “Options +FollowSymLinks” to that wordpress generated .htaccess file, at the start preferebly.

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