Magento Record Continued

November 19th, 2013

Done with the header, top nav, and left nav along with the home page, and whoops,. found that I had an Internal Server Error,.

It was related to the .htaccess file provided by magento 1.8.0.0 in which they disable track and trace, however the method by which they rewrite isn’t working so I replaced them with

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(TRACE|TRACK)
RewriteRule .* – [F]

from…. http://perishablepress.com/disable-trace-and-track-for-better-security/

So, track and trace are disabled.

What else, included jQuery no conflict style, added a custom leftnav block that is included on every 2 column left page.

Need to add products and I can continue to build.

ARGGGG,. so off to the races,. and computer crash, boom, bang,.

November 18th, 2013

Now nothing works of course, as I was updating serious stuff int he admin section when it crashed,.

Going home,. I’ll fix tomorrow., 30 minutes spent today.

How Much Time to build a Magento Website

November 18th, 2013

Ok,. as I constantly say, Magento is a really easy, and painful platform to work with. What, oh, basically it’s really easy to get off the ground, and hard to make work well.

So here it goes, we are building another store from the ground up, and I’m wondering how long it will take me from design to launch.

Step 1) Agree on a design ( as this can take months/years I did it in an hour )
Step 2) It’s 15:18 on 11/18/2013,. and I’ve just downloaded a copy of Magento Community Edition 1.8.0.0,.
Step 3) Confirm first order,…..

Consumers Energy Website

November 15th, 2013

The consumers energy website is such a joke, if you want to make a one-time credit card payment, you have to enroll that card in auto-pay, wait for their system to take the payment, then remove the card.

Why can’t you just make it easy to pay my bill? Why do you screw your customers and charge convenience fees for services that are inconvenient?

Screw you consumers energy!

Chromecast Casting

September 27th, 2013

Ok,. so with expert efforts and an unwillingness to be defeated I’ve gotten my chromecast device to play stuff… go me,..

Well I’ve still not gotten it to work correctly with my Debian laptop, but my Ubuntu workstation at work and chrome 29 work together,…

I still wouldn’t recommend one though.

Forget Chromecast buy an Android Dongle

September 26th, 2013

So, I got sucked in, and shouldn’t have… The chromecast doesn’t work with anything other than Youtube and a couple other items, you can’t stream your own movies or shows, or your own music.

So,. now I’m ordering an HDMI Stick PC,. that way I can run anything that my phone can run and will be able to stream whatever I want to my tv…

Best thing is it’s in stock and I will have it in a week.

explore this

September 26th, 2013

https://plus.google.com/110558071969009568835/posts/G3jF2JynLc2

I hate my chromecast

September 26th, 2013

maybe someday it will be of use, someday.

until then back in the box, I’ll check in a couple of months and see if I can connect to it. Currently it’s sitting configured and plugged in and chrome is the only program that can’t connect.

Chromecast the new Zune

September 26th, 2013

So, if you are like me you run out and buy that new piece of tech the second you can. Well I heard about Google’s Chromecast device and said, ” I need, I need “,

and Now,… I just want my money back!!!

Apparently if you aren’t a windows user you are screwed, who knew that Google would release a windows only device. So far after several hours of trying I’ve not been able to get the thing to work with anything useful

Avoid it and buy the Apple airplay and be happy as everything just works.

F*** You Google,. your device sucks!! email me when it’s supported on something more than Windows.

EWS – 877-318-2091 | Call from 8773182091

September 19th, 2013

Have, you received a call from EWS Collections, apparently they have purchased out “Check N Go” collections for pennies on the dollar and are trying to collect on very old accounts.

I’m not able to verify they are legitimate so my attorney said to ignore them and wait to be served.

DO NOT GIVE THEM MONEY OVER THE PHONE, MAKE THEM SERVE YOU PAPERWORK AS IT IS MORE EXPENSIVE THAN YOUR DEBTS.