I’ve got a site on the Ning Network and started getting killed by spammers one day. I wanted to make sure that I was able to approve any new members. What the spammers were doing was just signing up with descriptive member names (ie. buy viagra today) and then immediately posting their junk.
This isn’t rocket […]

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Romance Pro is a Spammer. This MySpace user account was created to build links to the atrocious Caesars Pocono Resorts. This account comments on any number of your blog posts linking to the following url:

http://www.myspace.com/romancepro

This person should be marked as SPAM across the Internet on all blogs.
Caesars Pocono Resorts should also be blacklisted. With advertising […]

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A nice list of Drupal Tutorials from MogDesign. Check it out here:
http://mogdesign.eu/blog/ultimate-drupal-tutorial-collection/

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I needed to create a Magento Staging Area for both common development tasks and testing the latest upgrades.
In order to create the staging area for my Magento store I’m going to create a mirror of it at a subdomain. I host on my own Linux server and use Godaddy to manage my domains.
My main Web […]

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Smashing Magazine again comes up with a nifty numbered list of steps you can take to protect a WordPress administrator area. All steps are well thought out and there is an active comments section, so checking back may be well worth it:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/26/10-steps-to-protect-the-admin-area-in-wordpress/
A number of their steps rely on the most recent version of WordPress. Getting […]

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Magento currently does not sort category products and any product listing for that matter by Newest (highest entity_id). Since my store works best when showing fresh products we felt it necessary to have our Magento installation sort by newest product first (descending) so that just by clicking through categories, users would be seeing the latest […]

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If you’d like to check your loaded extensions on a Linux machine, create a PHP file with this line:
print_r(get_loaded_extensions());
If the file where named print_extensions.php, save and run your file from the command line:
php print_extensions.php
That’s it. This is how you can check the extensions loaded on your Linux server.

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If you’d like to change your shell to bash you can first view your shell by entering the following at the command line:

echo $SHELL

To change your shell to bash you’ll need to know it’s location. For FreeBSD enter the following to change your shell:

chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash

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Below are some notes on how I implemented Google eCommerce Tracking with my osCommerce store. You can view Google’s instructions on enabling e-commerce tracking here:

http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55528

In order to add Google transactions tracking to my osCommerce store I needed to edit both the checkout_success.php and footer.php files. I edited both these files because I’m already using Google […]

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There is sometimes confusion with the setup of state specific tax rates with osCommerce. For instance if you are charging state taxes shipped within state for such states as Ohio (OH) or California (CA) then you need to assure that a few settings are correctly configured.
The primary issue is that even after setting up the […]

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