There are many different aspects to consider when distributing a newsletter to clients of your online store: categorization, definition, content, legal conditions and technical facts. In this post, I’ll concentrate only on the technical aspects. Newsletters are emails containing information or promotions that you, as a shop owner, wish to send to your registered customers. In some countries, [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...]
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...]
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...]
Awesome, awesome, awesome :-) I never expected 35 (!) people bringing together after this very short-term announcement, I was really surprised! Obviously, most attendees did not even see the direct announcement but heard it somehow as a rumor from their friends: "Did you hear about that Open Source Meeting? I cannot go but you ought to... ". And this is how it actually shall work. Hey, Leipzig [Read more...]
Again and again I see my website being found with the key word "rewritebase oxid eshop". Obviously this seems not to be a clear case. Let me explain it: The OXID eShop strictly uses so called re-written URLs, known as "permalinks" in WordPress. In opposite to e.g. Wordpress, you cannot choose between "regular" URLs and re-written URLs, it's use is assumed and this, absolutely makes sense: Who [Read more...]
On November 23th at 7 PM the First Open Source Meeting in Leipzig will take place in the cellar of Cafe SPIZZ. Florian Effenberger from OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V. and Carsten Book from Mozilla Corporation will attend and speak about their projects. This evening will be held in a similar style to Webmondays. Many thousand programmers in the world code free software in their spare time or [Read more...]
Of course, you have to announce your new blog posts over Twitter. A cool twitter client is not the worst idea - I personally decided to run Twhirl for this purpose because Twhirl is able to run multiple accounts. As Twhirl is based on the platform Adobe Air, you first have to install this one. Go to http://get.adobe.com/air/, download it to your /home/ folder. Open the command line and type [Read more...]
If you are in business, your companies' IT policy is perhaps to run Microsoft products like Windows OS only. Although you might have a bit of freedom in this manner (let's say because you are presenting on Open Source software fairs and need to run a Linux for this case) the switch might be not that easy thinking about Microsoft Exchange, Skype, VPN, Microsoft Office and so on. For me, it is [Read more...]
After my one-week-trip to Barcelona (maybe another blogpost will follow about it) I will go to Freiburg next week, gladly taking part in OXID's Partner Day 2009 on October, 27th. As usual, a lot of OXID partners will come presenting themselves, discussing about OXID eSales news and attending the so called "Best Solution Award", an award for the best shopping cart software implementation split up [Read more...]