Blogs

06 Apr

How to Hide Related Products, or Terms, in Ubercart

in CMS

One of our clients is selling laptop parts. The interrelations between the parts (batteries, screens, power adapters and so on) and their matching laptop brands and types are truly threatening. For instance, one single battery may fit about 3,500 distinct brand/types of notebooks. Drupal's taxonomies are handling this entire jungle with grace. Problem is they're handling it too good. Case in point:

05 Mar

Block an Entire Country by IP

in Security

Some web sites need to be so interconnected. Do me a Facebook bridge, and a Flickr one, and of course don't forget the Twitter. Umm, look left, see that grey bar, I'm a candidate myself to all this social buzz, oh... Google Buzz, get it on the list as well.

So we want to get our sites as much exposed as possible. Good thing is that potential socionet followers will help up spread the word about out web deeds and thus give some sense to all this agitation in front of our laptops.

03 Mar

Securing Web Applications in Your Company: Alternative OS, PDF Readers and Google Docs (Part 1)

in Security

Web apps are not web sites. A site is an informative place (or "site"), publicly accessible on the internet, that provides info about your business, staff, locations, offers and so on. A web app is less public, if at all, and provides core functionality for the business processes of your company, amongst your staff and/or between your staff and clients. An unsecured web site may result in defaced pages and a bit of shame, because it is supposed the web site is not storing sensitive data, since its purpose is to make them public in the first place.

How about an insecure web app? Credit card numbers of your buyers, private data of your partners and contacts, sensitive inside documents, logins and PASSWORDS!, bank account data, trade secrets, the list of dreads keeps growing...

25 Feb

New Gmail Features For All our Google Apps Users

in Google.apps

Six Gmail Labs have graduated and are now features of Gmail

1. Search Autocomplete - Gmail will suggest terms to help you find your
item more quickly.
2. Go To Label - If you have keyboard shortcuts enabled, typing in the
search box will autocomplete and suggest a label name.
3. Forgotten Attachment Detector - Gmail looks for phrases in your email
that suggest you meant to attach a file and alerts you if it looks like you
forgot an attachment.
4. YouTube Previews - If you receive a message with a YouTube link in it,
you can now watch the video right below the message.

19 Feb

Hiding All Subpanels in Detail View for a Clear Quote Print out of SugarCRM

in CRM

One of our clients asked for a way to print clear quotes from their SugarCRM secure install.

The annoying matter being caused by the otherwise handy sub panels laying beneath the detail view of the quotes, or whatever some module would display in the main.

Solution: comment out all arrays in the following two files:

/modules/Quotes/metadata/subpaneldefs.php

/custom/modules/Quotes/Ext/Layoutdefs/layoutdefs.ext.php

The above paths are working for the Quotes custom module.
Below goes the path for any custom SugarCRM modules:

18 Feb

Mass Data Import Button in SugarCRM Custom Modules

in CRM

Needing features like quotes, products, invoices, creating and managing in SugarCRM? The custom modules will deliver the required functionality, minus some minimal, but perhaps essential, aspects.

One of this is the [Import] button in the left bar. The one allowing users to import quotes, products, invoices from a CSV [or .xls] file.

Here's the tip for coding in that [Import] button:

http://www.sugarcrm.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45612

And yes, it works for any SugarCRM module, custom or not, which is currently missing this feature.

Give it a spin!

15 Feb

Google Buzz: Best Thing Ever?!

in SaaS

A thread on Slashdot alarmed me, just a little bit, for some minutes. Privacy is indeed a real concern when it comes to email management. When your [mine] gmail account stores gigas of personal emails, all legit stuff yet still private and by no means public!

The alert lady, "thanking" Google for its Buzz exposing her to some stalker, turned out to be her own many unthought-of clicks' victim.

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