Toronto Joomla Users Group Night
My first Toronto Joomla Users Group meet-up. Thank you for bringing the gang uptown this month, a pleasure to meet y’all.
I learned many things, including “the Joomla resource...
With year-end now upon me, I am digging into QuickBooks 2009 Pro. Very well done.
Definitely built to integrate with other apps, especially to receive accounting data from other sources. The customer profile is quite detailed...
Gotta take a moment and fill you in.
My Backup/Disaster Recovery Service is on the cusp of Phase One roll-out. Just a handful of sites are slated for what is essentially a beta-test phase.
I have update on tap for my Canadian...
If you or your clients have Virtuemart sites, then check out what I have in “store” for you.
I’ve been s-l-o-w-l-y building a network of freelancers to sub-contract. Boy, it takes a while.
Not only does...
In all the excitement of running your ecomm site, you forgot to actively manage your backups.
“But it doesn’t matter”, you tell yourself, “my webhost backs up my sites”.
You are feeling lucky!
Until...
As far as your backup, I am confused. My host backs everything up nightly as part of his hosting service. Am I missing something with your backup service. It is different?
Great question!
Know what you are getting...
It took a while, but I have my sites, and three handpicked client sites, running on my Backup Service.
I have a computer devoted to backups. Each night:
site files are copied to my local computer;
a database “dump”...
I just finished adapting my Virtuemart Canadian Tax add-on for an American site. What was incredible was excising most of my core Canadian tax calculations for this site. That Quebec PST-on-GST just wasn’t a must-have...
My upgrade for my Canadian Tax add-on for Virtuemart 1.1.3 is now available in my downloads section at http://forum.CanadianVirtuemart.com.
The HST update portion is sponsored by www.PriTrade.com — Thank You!
Now available for your free download, my Canadian Retail Sales Tax add-on for Virtuemart 1.1.3 with two changes:
a bug fix in line 258 of basket.php;
a new optional message that displays in the cart whether or not a Canadian...
UPDATE: MY BETA VERSION IS DONE.
GOTO http://forum.canadianvirtuemart.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=11.
My very first “Alpha” release of my Canadian Retail Sales Tax add-on for Virtuemart 1.1.2 is here!
It’s...
My Shipping Bypass for VM 1.1.3 is out.
It’s the same ol’ thing that I did for my Shipping Bypass for VM 1.1.2.
Except that, well, now it’s migrated to VM 1.1.3.
Download it at http://southlasalle.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=73.
Demo...
My Shipping Bypass add-on is now incorporated into Virtuemart’s core, starting with VM 1.1.2.
Some nice-to-have features are still absent, and so I am releasing my add-on specifically for VM 1.1.2.
That confusing...
My enhanced Shipping Bypass for Virtuemart 1.1.0 is now available on my forum at http://www.southlasalle.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9.
There are 2 enhancements:
Payment Bypass - when you offer free downloads, my new...
Two sponsors got the ball rolling with my Gift Wrap add-on migration to Virtuemart 1.1.3. Now I am sending it to them for user testing.
Virtuemart 1.1 moved the “template” files, which caused a bigger headache(s)...
I should mention — having received more enquiries — that I have put my Gift Wrap upgrade on hold.
Why?
Because something had to give (couldn’t resist!). So much going on. The CB-VM integration is a higher...
My Gift Wrap feature for Virtuemart 1.0.14 is released.
See it at my demo site at http://giftwrapforvm.com.
New! Administrator demo is now available on my Gift Wrap demo site.
I fixed and refined after a period of user testing.
Visit...
Right now, my CB-VM integration is not a priority, so I am leaving it alone. My download remains available, but I will not update it; nor, will I provide free support.
-Bob
Yes, I am working on version one of my Community Builder 1.2 “stable” - Virtuemart 1.1.3 integration using Joomla 1.5.9.
The Virtuemart plugin for Community Builder is done!
It works with CB 1.2 “stable”...
Now that I’m using Sugar day-in-day-out, it’s starting to “click”.
These different “leads”, “opportunities”, “contacts”, and “accounts” are driving me...
You need customer management.
Customer management app is free.
Connect your site’s contact form with your customer management app.
Never let a lead slip through the cracks again.
Handle tons of leads. Delegate low probability...
I just spent some time on the Virtuemart eCommerce bundle.
Do not use it!
The Virtuemart version is 1.1.2, not 1.1.3. Just install Joomla 1.5.9 as usual, and then install Virtuemart as usual.
What surprises me is that the...
I’m in the midst of answering a FedEx question in my forum: http://southlasalle.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=77
Which reminds me that FedEx will discontinue all development of their “API” server this...
I have four (!) free Virtuemart add-ons for you!
(1) Canadian Retail Sales Tax add-on for VM 1.1.3
(includes my Shipping Bypass for VM 1.1.3 add-on)
http://CanadianVirtuemart.com
(2) Gift Wrap for VM 1.1.3
http://southlasalle.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=79&p=193#p193
(3)...
RocketTheme.com’s July “Affinity” template looks really good. The RT offerings are improving each month.
Having a RT Joomla & phpBB “Pro” subscription, I can distribute these templates...
R.I.P. Joomla 1.0.x on July 22, 2009.
http://community.joomla.org/team-blogs/developer-team/509-an-old-friend-comes-of-age.html
But now it’s time to say our farewells to our old friend Joomla 1.0. As of July 22, 2009,...
I think Joomla 1.5 represents an improved “value proposition” over Joomla 1.0.
I anticipate that as I get deeper into Joomla 1.5, and as native Joomla 1.5 extensions are released, I’m going to discover that...
“So, Bob, what’s the difference between Joomla and this guy’s content system?”
Earlier this month, my friend comes over with a print-out of a company that does websites in Toronto. They sent him a...
No doubt about it: I see Wordpress through Joomla coloured glasses.
Especially the themes. So Joomla calls ‘em templates and Wordpress calls ‘em themes.
I bought the “Mimbo Pro” theme from ProThemeDesign...
Blogging for dollars, absolutely!
Now that I have Wordpress in my toolkit, I have a revenue generating tool to offer my clients.
Wordpress + Feedburner.com = serious revenue geneating tool.
It started innocently enough. I...
Short and sweet conclusion #1: Magento looking very promising.
Short and sweet conclusion #2: Magento + WordPress = possible workable and potent combination.
Short and sweet conclusion #3: If #2 is right, then Magento + WordPress...
Virtuemart is the only full featured Joomla ecomm extension out there. Hard to believe that there are no others. Sure, there are other carts but none built for Joomla that has such a full array of features. I’ve been...
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