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CS-Cart, A Very Excellent E-Commerce Engine

I’ve been in the Web Development Business now for more years than I care to remember. In that time I’ve worked with plenty of E-Commerce engines, some of which were entirely bespoke before ‘off the shelf’ solutions such as osCommerce or Magento existed.
In more recent years I’ve been using osCommerce. I took a look at [...]

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Why You Shouldn’t Just Rely On Subversion For ‘Backups’

If you’re developing a software solution, whether it’s for yourself or for a larger project, there’s plenty of source control products out there from CVS, Subversion or more modern solutions like git and Mercurial that distribute the load. Regardless of whichever you might be using, if you’re just developing personal projects, you’re probably using the [...]

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Telstra iPhone Tethering ‘Call Telstra on 125 111 to enable tethering’

If you’re an iPhone user on Telstra’s NextG network you may have been disappointed when iPhone tethering suddenly stopped working back in July or sometime there about, when a new set of ‘Carrier Settings’ were downloaded from iTunes onto your iPhone. The good news is that this weekend just gone, Telstra issued a new set [...]

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Twitter Causes Death of Blogging

A scary headline. One I’ve read in many places on the web recently and one which I entirely disagree with. The same headline has been thrown around regarding Facebook too. Facebook and Twitter have been credited with the rise of social media, many new marketing tactics and probably the cause of global warming too. If [...]

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Wordpress permalink nextpage doesn’t work

I’ve been struggling with an aspect of Wordpress that should ‘just work’ but didn’t. That is, if you have decided to restrict the number of pages/posts shown on a page, Wordpress automatically generates a ‘next page’ and ‘previous page’ button.
This works fine if you have the standard ‘ugly permalinks’ set up, but if you use [...]