technical

Open-source software has a well-established feature where creators of software code share their knowledge and experience. This community based concept leads competitivly to very high standards of code development by peer-review. Juicy Media is a strong supporter and contributor to the Open Souce community.

27.04.12

ID or not ID? that is the question

There are times when it’s necessary to make CSV exports for clients.

I was producing an export for a client and I found that the CSV I was creating was producing weird errors where Excel was claiming that it was an SYLK file when it wasn’t!

19.03.12

When you have just too many attributes…

We’re currently developing an e-commerce site for a very large retailer in the North West of the UK and an interesting problem came up.

13.03.12

Product Export memory issues in Magento

If we have trouble getting exports from other sites due to memory issues we can expedite the issue by doing a little core hack for profile Export 1 (Export All Products)

05.03.12

Don’t try this at home!

From time-to-time we cause problems without being aware it could happen.

07.12.11

Web site accessibility and W3C compliance

The minimum standard of accessibility for all public sector websites is Level Double-A of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

01.12.11

Apache optimisation for Magento

The following common Apache vhost headers are used on some of our sites with the heaviest traffic...

06.05.11

Rackspace Cloud Debian and Virtualmin

This is the fastest way to get a Debian server running Virtualmin...

24.02.11

mtop - Access denied for user root

This had occured on multiple systems...

24.02.11

PHP_CodeSniffer - checking PHP 5.3 compatibility

Install Code Sniffer...

07.02.11

Virtualmin and Apache Suexec /home issue

I just had a machine upgrade to Debian 6 after a package update - Virtualmin had a bit of a complain when it came to the suexec base directory, and all of the websites on...

17.01.11