Due to my last post, you might have noticed that I was on holiday and didn't check my email and neglected my telephone during this time. Furthermore, I didn't configure an automatic email reply given that I am subscribed to various mailing lists that might have been playing ping-pong with my automated answers ;) Now I'm back and thanks everybody for your patience! Today, I'd like to head back [Read more...]
Yeehaa! It's summertime! Just in case you miss me in the OXID forums and other virtual places: I'll be on holiday from July 11th until the end of the month, back to business then. I will not read my e-mails, I will not be available via mobile phone and I will have no Internet connection for three long weeks. Cheerio!
First of all, you for sure will need the translated front end file for your language that you may find in the language section of OXIDforge. In this example, I am using Spanish. Mark and copy everything that you find under the headline Language file /out/basic/es/lang.php. Make a new file on your computer and name it lang.php. Paste the text copied in #1 and save your file. Copy the [Read more...]
As earlier announced in my blog post on oxid-esales.com, Friday, March 11th, was our first local developer meet-up in Leipzig, Germany. I personally was really surprised to see 16 people attending, including developers from our partners D³ Data Development (Thalheim, Saxony), GN2 netwerk (Coburg, Bavaria), marmalade.de (Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt), dotSource GmbH (Jena, Thuringia) and Ontraq [Read more...]
Some of you might know that, before I came to OXID, I used to work as a Network Operator at the Network Management Center (NMC) of HL komm. HL komm is a local ISP/network carrier that is mostly active in the areas of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, Germany. Although I personally don't like their marketing strategy very much (Knut, where did the "Globish" = English HL komm website which we [Read more...]
like described in https://marco-steinhaeuser.de/switching-to-ubuntu-part-iii-working-with-virtualbox.html, I couldn't get USB devices mounted. for permanent mounting do the following: $ /proc/... installed and connected the VPN checkpoint client without problems installed M$ outlook without problems installed iTunes without problems install guest additions after starting your guest [Read more...]
After publishing my last blog post about switching to Ubuntu, I took a short break for a while. I had a few problems: I couldn't get the VPN running as my company was using a proprietary protocol. I couldn't find a good Exchange client replacement under Linux. My company had bought me an iPhone and iTunes was not available on Linux. I came up with a solution to bypass these problems. I [Read more...]
At the beginning of this year, I wrote about the incompatibility of Zend Guard Loader (formerly known as Zend Optimizer) with PHP 5.3.x. Although PHP 5.3.0 was published over a year ago (November 1, 2009), there is no solution for Zend Optimizer or Zend Guard yet, and Zend Server doesn't properly decrypt files encoded by Zend Guard. This has been a problem for OXID eShop PE and EE customers, [Read more...]
A few days ago, on October 26th, we celebrated the annual OXID Partner Day. More than 150 people working at our partner agencies attended the interesting presentations and workshops held on that day. One of the most interesting and popular ones was called "The Power of the Community" (link leads to a German PDF with the handout), and was held by my friend Sandro Groganz. Over the last few [Read more...]
Daily, there are more and more new online stores using OXID eShop. Some of these shops are supposed to be available in just one language (e.g. German), nevertheless they tend to forget to disable English, which is enabled as an additional language in OXID eShop by default. This issue rears its ugly head if for example a browser's standard language has been configured in English and the shop is [Read more...]