Yesterday I tried Magento again. As I tried it last time it was a very very slow and buggy CMS. However last days I played with the brand new Version 0.9.17740 of it and I was positive surprized. There are only few bugs remained in that late version, even if I was still able to find some of them. Furthermore Magento-people have really speed their System up, which was enormously important to my eyes....
My last post is nearly ten days ago - unforgivable ;) Unfortunately, I have had no time or better say I had few time, much small things to do and no motivation. Yesterday I had my birthday and thank goodness, that has marked some turning point in me. So today I was more productive and a little motivated, I’ve even begun write this article down. And I’m more confident about today and the weekend....
Initially, I just wanted to report about some experience on Crowd news platform - DIGG, but then i noticed that I try to cover at least two different topics in one post, so I decided to split. In that article, I will cover key factors of success on news-driven social communities like well-known DIGG and will cover my first serious steps with DIGG in the next article. Currently, I’m the number 49 of top users of the Russian DIGG sister RDS1, therefore I think to have some experience and some kind of instinctive feeling for mechanisms in such communities....
New Wordpress plug-in is born. I’ve created a new branch from the latest version of famous Popularity Contest Plugin. While the Popularity Contest Plugin does not support widgets natively, you need to code your templates to show most popular list of post on the Sidebar. My Widgetized Popularity Contest Plugin - short W-Popularity solves that, by providing dynamically widget for it. Here are the features of the first public version of my W-Popularity Plugin:...
You can imagine how angry i’m now!!! I just deactivated this peace o shit (excuse me, but there is no other name for that Yahoo Shortcut Plug-In) i the second. Cause that Plug-in deletes my whole article as I clicked on the button to check the Shortcuts. :( And this is happened to me on the same article two times today! I don’t have any backup for that, cause i write my articles on the browser and it worked fantastic so far....
How many lifetime people spend to administrate their software. Upgrading, updating, patches, bug-fixes etc. Also in case of Wordpress new versions arrive pretty often, and it’s recommended to upgrade, because several security relevant fixes or some very cool features you was long time waiting for, might be included in next release. I’m not kidding with security after my wordpress was hacked But updating Wordpress means download, backup, copy files per FTP, creating an moving of backups....
Pligg engine stands behind of many “public voting” - social web 2.0 sites. Most prominent of such is digg.com (it’s not pligg based i guess). Today I tried out the pligg 9.8.2 beta engine, which is the current released version at the moment. I’m impressed with pligg functions, and configuration possibilities, so I think I can use pligg in my future pet projects. But I’m not impressed with the quality of the current version....
I’ve tried out some of eCommerce shops, but I forgot about them when i discovered a new kind on the block - Magento. Why Magento eCommerce looks promising First of all it seems to be done very professionally, starting from solid architecture but also UI aspects ending with a rich features set. Yes, in my opinion, that describes the most advantages of that shop shortly. Because in comparison to other shop systems it offers very much functionality and flexibility out of the box, combined with a good-looking default template....
It is nearly impossible to compare the advantages and disadvantages of online shop systems because they are complex systems with a variety of functions, that build for different needs. I’m talking about such a system for small and micro-businesses, where processes can be built around the functionality of such systems to some degree. So this post can be only my personal impression of a system that I compared so far....
Today i notice five new comments on my blog that passed spam-filter and waited for approving. They all seemed to be OK. Example is: Yes we all know about that, but you published this on 2005, now it became very famous, moreover it very difficult to handle , all keys are very different so new people couldn’t work properly, its takes too much of time to take download, xp speed is better than vista in pc but in mac vista is best it works nice and speed too, every operation will done easily....