Bob's Joomla Blog

Money Makes The World Go Around

Bob Bloom — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:09:58 +0000

I really don’t know how to word this. It’s been a week of yet again succumbing to cries of help, and paying royally for it. So how ’bout a YouTube clip! If one of your problems is no money, find another consultant. I’ve discovered that clients with no money is not especially lucrative! I have an open [...]

Backups are a Go — Articles & Email in the Works

Bob Bloom — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:52:31 +0000

My Backup Service is a go. Articles & emails in the final stages, offsite storage is being set up. Took some doing, but have a nice independent, and accessible, addition to your disaster recovery regimen.

Offsite Online Alternate Storage Now Sourced

Bob Bloom — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:48:45 +0000

Offsite online alternate storage now sourced (say that three times fast!) . What an odyssey!

New Virtuemart Version is “Upcoming”

Bob Bloom — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:41:44 +0000

The April 2009 Virtuemart upgrade is now upon us, I think! Buried in the forums is the “Upcoming” sentence here. It would be nice to read in the VM blog what the delay is.

Shipping Bypass Tweaks

Bob Bloom — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:54:45 +0000

Shipping Bypass tweaks in progress at http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=39126.15

My Contact Me Form is Fixed

Bob Bloom — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:09:31 +0000

My Contact Me form is Fixed!

Not a One Trick Pony!

Bob Bloom — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:21:20 +0000

An email today: “do you know RocketTheme?”. Yes, I do. Virtuemart is my specialty, but not to the exclusion of the entire Joomla-verse; nor, to the exclusion of other open source apps. In fact, I have a “Pro” membership at RocketTheme.com for both their Joomla & phpBB templates, have used their extensions — including RokBridge. Y’know, I even [...]

Virtuemart Coupon Hack for Multiple Products

Bob Bloom — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:18:23 +0000

If you need Virtuemart coupons that pertain to specific multiple products, contact me. This hack also lets you set a coupon for a specific user.

An American Tax In Canadian Virtuemart

Bob Bloom — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:15:42 +0000

I just finished adapting my Virtuemart Canadian Tax add-on for an American site. What was incredible was excising most of my core Canadian tax calculations for this site. That Quebec PST-on-GST just wasn’t a must-have feature! They want my customized line item display in their basket. They want my per-product tax exemption (over-ride) ability. So if you [...]

RocketTheme’s July “Affinity” Template - Help Is Here

Bob Bloom — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:27:00 +0000

RocketTheme.com’s July “Affinity” template looks really good. The RT offerings are improving each month. Having a RT Joomla & phpBB “Pro” subscription, I can distribute these templates to paid clients. RT is my only commercial template subscription, so I have the most experience with RT. Their RokBridge extension to bridge phpBB3 & Joomla 1.5 really [...]

Virtuemart Coupon

Bob Bloom — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:05:05 +0000

Just finished a hack of a hack for Virtuemart coupons.

You’ve got to ask yourself one question about your back-ups: “Do I feel lucky?”

Bob Bloom — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:51:05 +0000

In all the excitement of running your ecomm site, you forgot to actively manage your backups. “But it doesn’t matter”, you tell yourself, “my webhost backs up my sites”. You are feeling lucky! Until your webhost blows you away when disaster strikes. Hostgator’s Terms of Service: 5.) Backups and Data Loss Your use of this service is at your sole risk. [...]

Installing Coupon Hack

Bob Bloom — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:42:55 +0000

I am installing the Virtuemart per-product coupon hack at http://www.nandebayo.org/blog/?p=45#more-45.

Finally, A Pic!

Bob Bloom — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:04:11 +0000

Finally, a pic on my blog! http://www.southlasalle.com/toronto-joomla-users-group-night/

Toronto Joomla Users Group Night

Bob Bloom — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:52:03 +0000

My first Toronto Joomla Users Group meet-up. Thank you for bringing the gang uptown this month, a pleasure to meet y’all. I learned many things, including “the Joomla resource site has a candle up its ass”. Hey, you have to ATTEND a non-virtual REAL meeting to be privvy to the real tidbits. Yes, I’m the Virtuemart guy [...]

My CB-VM Integration Needs Sponsor(s)

Bob Bloom — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:15:25 +0000

You’ll see that improvements in my Tax add-on are sponsored. My sponsors do not necessarily pay my going rate; and/or, I just do a little more while I’m “in there” anyways. This has happened for my Gift Wrap add-on too. When requested, I have — with pleasure — attributed sponsorship. My CB-VM Integration needs upgrading to the new CB [...]

Possible SugarCRM - QuickBooks

Bob Bloom — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:40:55 +0000

SnapLogic.org might have the SugarCRM-QuickBooks integration solution. I’ll be looking into this!

QuickBooks 2009: Programmed to Receive

Bob Bloom — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:19:24 +0000

With year-end now upon me, I am digging into QuickBooks 2009 Pro. Very well done. Definitely built to integrate with other apps, especially to receive accounting data from other sources. The customer profile is quite detailed — I can see populating SugarCRM first and then importing CONTACTS into QB2009. There are two reasons why I’m upgrading my [...]

Magento First Impressions — Redux

Bob Bloom — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:32:08 +0000

Short and sweet conclusion #1: Magento looking very promising. Short and sweet conclusion #2: Magento + WordPress = possible workable and potent combination. Short and sweet conclusion #3: If #2 is right, then Magento + WordPress + SugarCRM + QuickBooks = major kick-ass online business combination. Short and sweet conclusion #4: I will continue my investigation into Magento. Seeing [...]

Upgrade For My Canadian Tax Add-on Now Available

Bob Bloom — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:28:29 +0000

My upgrade for my Canadian Tax add-on for Virtuemart 1.1.3 is now available in my downloads section at http://forum.CanadianVirtuemart.com. The HST update portion is sponsored by www.PriTrade.com — Thank You!