You seem to have a funny definition of "open-source"… Code you have to pay to see is not open-source code; maybe their license will let you modify it, but I bet it won't let you share the modifications, much less the original code. When I said "open-source PHP-based e-commerce scripts," the word "free" was implied to everyone except you, apparently.
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RE: Making a (non-WTF) commercial website
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RE: Making a (non-WTF) commercial website
@sootzoo said:
@Albright said:
Unfortunately, until recently, there haven't really been any other capable open-source PHP-based e-commerce scripts out there
You haven't looked hard enough.
Hmm? you yourself said…
There are about a dozen better alternatives, but none of them are free
but there's a new one called Magento which seems to be maturing nicely (it's still in beta)
Red flag.
as are some e-commerce modules for Drupal -- though using Drupal for an online store is a bit of a sledgehammer/fly-swatting thing.
Bigger red flag. I'm thinking you should leave the e-commerce consulting to the non-marketroids for a while.Okey-doke. Instead of coming in here and trying to slag me, why not tell me what you would use to set up an online store on the cheap?
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RE: Traveler's Online Security WTF
Besides the student loan, I also had to do the same recently to pay my AT&T bill online; they had an option to call you on your phone instead of mailing the code, but since I just get internet service from them (I don't have POTS in my apartment), I had to go the snail-mail route.
Is it inconvenient? I suppose, if you have to pay your bill right now lest you get nicked a late fee or something. But really, I didn't mind too much having that money sit in my bank account for a couple more days.
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RE: Can you look my ChronoJournal/weblog software?
If a person fills out all the fields and then decides they want to change their input, they can change their input just by typing over what they want to change. If they decide they want to not submit their input, then they can simply navigate to another page.
There really is no reason for the Reset button's existence. Think about it this way: is there a spreadsheet button out there which has a button that, when clicked, immediately and possibly not-undoably deletes the contents of all the cells on the sheet? Google Mail, Yahoo! Mail, Blogspot, LiveJournal… Hell, even this shitty forum software doesn't have a Reset button, regardless of how many fields are on the page. The button should never be used; no exceptions.
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RE: Please remove error message. Thanks.
@Arenzael said:
It is my experience that users have developed an uncanny ability to totally ignore error messages. Even if they go to the trouble of taking a screen capture or quoting the message to you verbatim, they don't even realize what they are reading. I put instructions in some of my custom HTTP error headers and 9 times out of 10 when someone hits one they tell me about it, I ask them if they actually followed the instructions, and they say "what instructions?".
I'm sorry, are you expecting users to dig through HTTP headers whenever they see an error message? I'm surprised even one out of ten is finding the instructions, then -- maybe one in ten will know what an HTTP header is, much less be reading them whenever anything goes wrong that they themselves didn't develop for!
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RE: Review WTF
Fuck that edit limit bullshit. Here's a quick screenshot I'd be adding to my post above if this forum didn't suck an entire mountain's worth of goats. The question is how he found the option to make the time separators flash, but missed the option to not show the weekday next to the time.
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RE: Review WTF
@The Vicar said:
@Jonathan Holland said:
So, why can't you just open a terminal under OS X and type:
sudo apt-get install gcc
I thought that both sudo and the apt-get package manager were also on OS X.
Sudo is, apt-get is not part of the default install (and isn't supported by Apple -- Mac Software Update works by other means). Nevertheless, apt-get is available -- it comes with Fink, for example.
My preferred package manager is MacPorts, but by all means use Fink if you're already familiar with the workings of apt-get.
As for the OP… after thirteen years of being a happy Mac user, it's all water off a duck's back. Idiots and trolls will never go extinct, so there's no use wasting the energy getting worked up over them. This one seems to be a bit more dumb than most, though (saying iTunes is the only media player available -- apparently he never checked to see if the VNC he mentions using under Windows is available for Mac -- and saying he can't change the formatting of the clock -- did he even try clicking on it?).
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RE: CMS System WTF
Drupal is my CMS of choice… it's free, of course. We've been making a lot of sites with it at work recently, and once you learn how to write for it, it really is a joy to use. Seriously, who would pay for a half-assed CMS when you could use the entirely non-assed Drupal for free?
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RE: No bathroom for you!
Whoops, someone posted before reading past the first couple of posts in this thread.
(Or maybe they're just recycling the joke intentionally and hoping nobody notices…?)
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RE: Making a (non-WTF) commercial website
@Daniel15 said:
I work for a smallish marketing firm. We use OSCommerce at work whenever a client wants an online storefront.
It's garbage. Absolute garbage.
What about scripts based off OSCommerce, like CRE Loaded?
I've never really looked at CRELoaded, but I can't imagine it'd be much better than OSC itself… garbage in, garbage out.