http://www.vikingcoders.com/log Fantastic Tales from our Adventures in Software Land Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:34:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en All Viking Coders modules come with 30 days free installation support and 30 days free software updates. In order to stay current with your Viking Coders modules, you must be on a valid / current SUS plan. Software update subscriptions are a great way to keep your ... http://www.vikingcoders.com/log/2011/08/01/software-update-subscriptions-2/ Important Note: Viking Coders no longer provides general support for any Miva Merchant 4 modules. While we may continue to publish some updates for our v4 compiled series of shipping modules including FedEx, USPS and UPS Custom Integrations, all Miva Merchant 4 modules in our store were considered End of ... http://www.vikingcoders.com/log/2011/08/01/miva-merchant-4-end-of-life/ Hello Viking Coder Fans! In an effort to provide our users with quality Miva Merchant modules, we've discovered and fixed a bug in our Coupon Module. For everyone using the module the update can be found in our store or by using the update link in the module configuration. We thank ... http://www.vikingcoders.com/log/2010/08/26/module-updates-viking-coupon-module/ I recently came across a nice little Firefox plugin called Alertbox that can be used to monitor changes in web pages. The Miva Merchant store I was working on needed needed a way to monitor inventory on a range of products. (Their inventory is updated automatically every 15 minutes from ... http://www.vikingcoders.com/log/2009/11/13/features-a-firefox-plugin-a-handy-inventory-check/ A few fixes were added to USPS Advanced 5 over the past couple of months but some did not make it into the version available on the server. We have made all of these available now as version 5.025. http://www.vikingcoders.com/log/2009/08/11/maintenance-update-for-usps-advanced-5/ This feature is a little late and something of an oversight in our development, so our apologies on that. The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley. We've added a Purge option to the Live Stats table that will clear out the table manually. Future releases will ... http://www.vikingcoders.com/log/2009/08/10/pulse-updatea-purge-in-time/ A Pulse user, trying to track down an issue they were having with customers creating accounts, asked us for a list of that Actions they were seeing in their logs. Here is a list of them and a brief explanation of what they refer to: ALGI    affiliate login UAFL    update affiliate's information IAFL    ... http://www.vikingcoders.com/log/2009/02/24/action-codes-for-miva-merchant/ Google VP Marissa Mayer just spoke at the Web 2.0 Conference and offered tidbits on what Google has learned about speed, the user experience, and user satisfaction...Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic. Half a second delay killed user satisfaction. More at Geeking with Greg. http://www.vikingcoders.com/log/2009/02/04/speed-matters/ Zen Habits is one of my favorite sites and I generally check every tweet. Here's a great article on using Twitter for increased productivity. http://www.vikingcoders.com/log/2009/01/28/how-to-get-things-done-with-twitter/ Hmm, time to take a look at your checkout process? As my brother said when forwarding me the link, this reminded him of Merchant: It's hard to imagine a form that could be simpler: two fields, two buttons, and one link. Yet, it turns out this form was preventing customers from ... http://www.vikingcoders.com/log/2009/01/27/the-300-million-button/