Coder’s Eye

Many stores use GNU Mailman to maintain a mailing list for store sales and newsletters. Satchmo has this as a built-in option, for example. It isn’t too bad an option, after all. You can easily set options so that it is “push only” and therefore only the mailing list owner can send mail.
(Yes, it really […]

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My latest client Farinaz Taghavi is finally in beta on her site, and one of the last steps to push her live was to set up SSL for her.
Luckily, I’ve done this a number of times, so it was quick and easy to do, but still I had to refer to various reference sites and […]

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At the request of people on the satchmo-users mailing list, here’s my step-by-step guide to installing Satchmo on a Debian server.Debian is a wonderful base for Satchmo, much easier to set up and maintain than RedHat in my opinion.

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I’ve gotten a lot of interest in my posting about my SSL configuration for Django/Lighttpd.

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Finding this technique took more time than I thought it should, so I thought I’d share a quick and simple music transcoding tip.Converting WMA to MP31) Get mplayer and lame installed.

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Usually I am satisfied by the commandline tools available in OSX.

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I upgraded the site to Wordpress 2 this morning. This wouldn’t be a bit deal, since the dev team has made it so easy to upgrade.

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