Archive for September, 2008
Saturday, September 27th, 2008
At the tail end of National Coupon Month, I am pleased to announce the limited availability of two automatic coupon generation solutions for Zen Cart: Spender AutoCoupon and Chooser AutoCoupon. Spender AutoCoupon allows coupons to be automatically generated on the basis of total purchase amount; Chooser AutoCoupon ...
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Read the interview here.
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Saturday, September 20th, 2008
My Wishpot Integration for Zen Cart is now available on the Zen Cart download site.
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Saturday, September 13th, 2008
A bug has been detected in all versions of my Zen Cart Big Chooser extension.
The issue was as follows:
For set_constraint() parameters with multiple required purchases, passing was based on whether the final required quantity passed. So if you used
$this->set_constraint(CAT, 3, 6, CAT, 2, 5);
and you had 5 category ...
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Harvard Business Review advises, "Don't Wait Too Long to Become an Entrepreneur."
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Better Together 2.0 is now available. The new features in this version are:
The addition of add_cat_to_prod linkages.
Automatic cart sort by price. This means that discounts which use add_cat_to_cat, add_prod_to_cat or add_cat_to_cat will automatically discount the least expensive item that matches the second id.
Related changes to other parts of the ...
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Jason Billingsley of Elastic Path finds that people even search for it during the Christmas shopping season.
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
A wise man once advised t-shirt vendors to use attractive female models, not the hoagie-loving dudes who actually wear the shirts. This was a funny line, but is it truly good advice? GrokDotCom's Anthony Garcia says that seeing female models when he selected Men's 2XL as his size ...
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
I started reading 43 Folders again and stumbled on this gem. Couldn't agree more - most people who claim to be great multitaskers just do a crappy job at a bunch of things at the same time.
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
I use GMail's "star" feature as a giant honking todo list, and I'm pleased to say that this weekend, I'm down to 54 starred items. "Inbox Zero" should be "Starred Zero" for me. :)
I enjoy using Remember the Milk (in fact, I just downloaded the BlackBerry client, which is ...
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