Media Player for Apple Darwin Live Audio Streams
I am a great fan of the Apple Darwin Media Streaming server and use it for streaming live mp3 audio content. (by live I mean content that is heard concurrently by all listeners). I use the jQuery...
View ArticleCannot log into Magento Admin? Magento Admin not loading? Magento Cache...
It is possible to lock yourself out of the Magento back end admin interface simply by disabling a module which affects html rendering and stops you from logging back into the admin interface – which...
View ArticleEnable Magento iPhone Theme for Mobile Browsers
Do you know how many of your customers are visiting your site using a mobile device? If you don’t, take a quick look at your Google analytics and check the figures under Audience -> Mobile ->...
View ArticleWhat is Facebook Edgerank?
Facebook is a great social media marketing tool, first goal – get those likes. Second goal, improve your Edgerank to reach more customers with your meaningful Social Media content. You thought that...
View ArticleMagento External – Display Magento Products on External Sites
Magento External allows you to extend your Magento shop to external sites such as eBay or Blogs like WordPress by providing a simple AJAX interface to your Magento Database and a new...
View ArticleDeep Urban Monkey
WordPress 3.6 now automatically embeds Soundcloud URLs in an HTML5 media player.
View ArticleLive Website / WordPress Data logging with Memcache
Memcache is a bit like Jesus, all things to all men. Blasphemy aside, I love using Memcache for PHP application solutions. It is versatile, simple to use and very fast. This year I have used memcache...
View ArticleMagento HTML Invoices, Print, Save, PDF
A Magento invoice display and printing system using PHP that can run externally to Magento. The application displays Magento orders based on a time range in days and lets you display or print them with...
View ArticlePHP Application & Ajax Request Security / Authentication
I have been using Ajax a lot recently in my PHP applications, especially in my Magento interfaces to retrieve order and customer information. Working with Magento in PHP you need to be careful you do...
View ArticleAjaxx Tweet – send direct messages via Twitter from web apps using Ajax
I wanted to be alerted when something changed in a Magento admin web application (new customer registration). I guess notifications by email are a little bit old fashioned and I thought a Twitter DM...
View ArticleUpgrading Magento 1.7 to 1.8.1.0
A few notes after upgrading to Magento 1.8.1.0 from 1.7.0.0. Make sure you backup your Database and Magento source directory first! My first upgrade attempt using Magento connect (via SSH) failed, The...
View ArticleAmazon iFrame X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN error
I didn’t realize that Amazon restricted access to product content in iframes with an X-Frame-Options header until yesterday (16.02.2014) when they applied the same iFrame restrictions to their admin...
View ArticleHTTP Live Streaming using Quicktime Broadcaster and FFMPEG
It’s 2014 and I am still using the Apple Darwin Media server, but after years of being neglected by Apple it is starting to show it’s age. One of the main problems is that for Apple i devices there is...
View ArticleIOS 7.x Jailbreak SSH Access / SSH Tunnel
There are 3 reasons why I always “Jailbreak” my iPad. The Apple iPad is a (bloody expensive) computer. When I buy a (bloody expensive) computer I expect to have 100% usability from it. The...
View ArticleJavascript only EU Law Cookie Notification Message for WordPress and Magento
You know sometimes you just want a quick solution to a problem and wherever you look there are just complex, overpriced scripts that make your simple problem sound like something that needs a lot of...
View ArticleMagento SEPA Migration Check List
The Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) is a payment-integration initiative of the European Union for simplification of bank transfers denominated in euro. If you make or accept payments via direct bank...
View ArticleUse GEOIP2 for PHP Geo IP data in WordPress, Magento, HTML
The above iFrame makes an ajax request to a PHP class querying GeoLite2 data created by MaxMind, available from http://www.maxmind.com. This example displays the location of a single visitor i.e. YOU....
View ArticleGoogle Universal Analytics Update for Magento Version v.1.3.X Old Versions
Google Universal Analytics went out of BETA recently (May 2014) and is now available for all users. Universal Analytics has “more features, better insights”. All versions of Magento include the client...
View ArticleUpgrade Magento 1.8 to 1.9
Magento CE 1.9 has been released. It appears to be a relatively small update introducing a new responsive GUI. See the release notes here. Here are my notes after upgrading my dev store from 1.8.x to...
View ArticleHow to move the Dropbox cache folder
How to move the Dropbox cache folder Dropbox is extremely useful, it can be used in many different ways to allow distributed sharing of files between various systems, Windows, Mac, Unix, IOS devices....
View Article