I just posted the (new) THMStore update last night. It was a hard decision to change paths as both store systems have good features. What started me looking for an alternative is the rather poor way osCommerce handled PayPal accounts. (See previous article.) It was possible to pay for an item and it not be recorded in the store. I patched in a fix after extensive reading and tweaking. That is the work you accept...
Continue reading...PayPal Keeps Customers
I had an interesting problem to solve last night. A friend and I are both running osCommerce (osC) software to manage our on-line storefronts. He told me of a problem that his software VAR (for osC) could not solve. It had to do with PayPal and the fact that the customer would pay for an order in PayPal but the order would not appear in the osC store records. I checked and realized I have...
Continue reading...FLASH! Put Something in the Store
When I started my store I experienced what is called an epiphany. Not quite in the Christian sense but still somewhat spiritual. Webster defines it: a. A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something. b. A comprehension or perception of reality by means of a sudden intuitive realization: “I experienced an epiphany, a spiritual flash that would change the way I viewed myself” (Frank Maier). I am steering a complex course with my...
Continue reading...Star Wars
All fans of the Star Wars movies know that Obi-Wan (Ben) Kenobi was a Jedi Knight, raised and trained by the Jedi Master, Yoda. Since prospective knights were seperated from their families as infants to first become Padawan, their true family history is lost to them. Extensive investigation of intergalactic birth records and disturbances within the Force, now reveal that Obi-Wan had a brother named Poinohoh-Wan (Peter) Kenobi. He apprenticed under master machinist Dustin Fue-Tence...
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