Found this useful contribution which allows you to place the actual product name in the breadcrumb. Not sure why this isn’t part of the core, but that’s not for me to ask:
http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/5807
By piggy banking on this contribution, I was also able to use the breadcrumb to put the Category Name in as the Title.

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I’ve just recently began a project using osCommerce and needed to streamline the checkout process. I wanted to allow the purchaser the options of navigating directly to payment, instead of having to first login or create an account. I found the osCommerce contribution “Purchase Without Account” to be the answer:
http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,355/page,8
Downloading and installing v2.2rc.2a was simple […]

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This addition to the Joomla Documentation addresses adding/editing/managing images for both Static and regular Content Items.
The editor an Administrator will be using is JCE Editor, which provides more advanced tools then Joomla’s default editor TinyMCE.
The following instructions will be based on editing an existing Content Item. To add an image you would:
=> select Content Items […]

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In most versions of Linux edit the file:
/etc/my.cnf
Anywhere under [mysqld] add the line:
log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log
If log file doesn’t yet exists add and set permissions:
touch /var/log/mysqld.log
chown mysql:mysql /var/log/mysqld.log
Restart MySQL in:
cd /etc/rc.d/init.d
./mysqld restart

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Nice little blog post on “How to recognize a good programmer”:
http://www.inter-sections.net/2007/11/13/how-to-recognise-a-good-programmer/

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There’s a bit at the following blog on Google’s launch it’s new social networking api:
Google has announced OpenSocial, a new open API for social networks. The new standard will allow developers to create Facebook-like apps on any social network site that implements it with the same calls.
You can check out the post here:
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/10/google-opensocial-api-launch.html

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There’s a component from the Joomla Extension Gallery called perForms which helps you create custom forms for your Joomla powered Web sites. I’ll list below the simple steps to install perForms.
The first thing to know is that perForms is a Joomla Component, so you’ll need to download the Zip file for perForms and then use […]

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Those Russian spammers are hard working folk. I’m starting to see lately that my visitor logs receive pretty predictable traffic patterns from what I’m going to come out and guess are Russian spammers. You’ll see a pretty standard traffic pattern, something like:
206.63.89.165 17/Sep/2007 “http://diethylpropion-51581sf4.pechenka.info”
206.63.89.165 17/Sep/2007 […]

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There’s a few discussions on password management when building Web applications. The first post from Coding Horror entitled, “Your Probably Storing Your Passwords Incorrectly” urges developers to NOT store passwords in plain text, which is the true and correct method. Within the comments section is a good discussion on the topic with many links to […]

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There’s a blog post with 125 Web Designer resources worth taking a look at:
http://www.paulspoerry.com/index.php/2007/05/18/125-code-snippets-for-web-designers/
This is not my list… I snagged the list from tutorialblog.org, I’ve just compiled it all into a single resource. Below are 125 handy HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and AJAX snippets for your site or blog.

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