May 2006

Pandemic / Epidemic

by damonp on May 26, 2006

in Dictionary

A pandemic (from Greek pan all + demos people) is an epidemic (an outbreak of an infectious disease) that spreads worldwide, or at least across a large region.

Wikipedia: Pandemic

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ZenCart Shipping and Payment Modules For Development Testing

by damonp on May 25, 2006

in Development,Ecommerce,PHP

Testing the final steps of the order process on a ZenCart can be a pain as you must repeat the steps over and over; selecting a shipping method and entering in payment information.

With these two modules all orders from a configurable list of IPs have access to an additional shipping method and payment option called Development Free Shipping and Development Free Payment. These allow a developer to checkout with free shipping and without processing a payment.

Download zencart_dev_shipping_payment_modules.tar.gz

  1. Upload the module files to the appropriate directory in your ZenCart install (typically includes/modules/shipping/ and includes/modules/payment/).
  2. Upload the language files to the appropriate directory in your ZenCart install (typically includes/languages/english/modules/shipping/ and includes/languages/english/modules/payment/).
  3. Enable each module in the admin panel and set the allowed IPs to your local machine’s IP. A page for retrieving your IP can be found at: http://emailurl.com/myip

Be careful to turn off once complete. Otherwise, you could let some lucky customer order for free if they happen to be coming from the same IP you were using when you were testing.

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Motility

25 May 2006

A biological term which refers to the ability to move spontaneously and independently Wikipedia: Motility

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Diaspora

22 May 2006

The term diaspora (Ancient Greek διασπορά, “a scattering or sowing of seeds”) is used (without capitalization) to refer to any people or ethnic population forced or induced to leave their traditional ethnic homelands; being dispersed throughout other parts of the world, and the ensuing developments in their dispersal and culture. In the beginning, the term [...]

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Pandering

22 May 2006

to pander To offer illicit sex with a third party; to pimp. To tempt, usually by appealing to improper motivators such as religious bias or racist opinions.

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DHL Shipping Automation For ZenCart

19 May 2006

DHL EasyShip allows you to easily automate shipping processes. EasyShip allows a user to weigh a package, supply destination information and print a pre-paid package slip. The EasyShip tools communicate with DHL’s servers over the Internet to rate and purchase the service and can notify them a local pickup is ready. The system can also [...]

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The Pay No Attention Era

18 May 2006

It is well talked about that our attention spans are shrinking all the time. I have noticed it in myself more and more of late. I bought a Tivo in late 2000 and have been watching recorded TV almost exclusively since then (I was already videotaping my few shows at the time). PVR’s and time [...]

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ZenCart Expected / Upcoming Products Page

15 May 2006

ZenCart includes an expected products box to list upcoming products release dates. By default the box only displays on the index and category pages as a center box, low on the page. I am developing a pre-ordering system for a current client and we thought it would be more useful to give customers a full [...]

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PHP Cron Script To Run Automated Jobs

10 May 2006

I use this PHP script to automate running multiple jobs hourly, daily, weekly and monthly. Sure you can create simple scripts for each job and run them all separately via a Unix crontab, but this self-contained script allows running unlimited jobs all from one file. Plus, it provides a framework for building jobs and storing [...]

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BBEdit Documents Drawer Disappears

5 May 2006

I’ve had some problems lately with the BBEdit documents drawer disappearing. Clicking on the drawer open/close button, showed the button change as if it was actually opening and closing the drawer but no drawer action. The drawer just disappered. Closing BBEdit and reopening would solve the problem, but with dozens of files open on multiple [...]

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