Recently, we needed to be able to restart our Rackspace Cloud Servers programmatically and found that the easiest method is to use gem fog. Initially we tried to use the cloudservers gem but found that it cannot return Rackspace Generation 2 servers. Unfortunately we did not discover this until after a support ticket was opened [...]
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Great News! We’ve updated the Easy Restaurant Menu Manager for WordPress again! Here are the new features for the free and extended versions: For the free version (v1.0.8), we’ve converted all newline characters to HTML break tags for some fields on output. This means you will be more easily able to control the spacing and formatting of the [...]
View PostUsing the HubSpot API and CasperJS for Contact Data Scraping
We recently had a client that needed customer data from their web store to be accessible from their HubSpot account. They needed each person who ordered a product to be put in HubSpot as a Contact, along with the customer’s order number, purchase date, price, and a list of products that were ordered. Typically, a [...]
View PostMultiple IP Addresses and SSL Certificates with Apache on Rackspace
The only way to have multiple cross-browser compatible SSL certificates on different domains on one server is to use multiple external IP addresses. Currently, Rackspace is happy to allot up to five IP addresses to one cloud server for $2/month per extra IP. That means having multiple web stores or sites requiring SSL certificates on [...]
View PostWhat is PHP?
PHP is a hypertext preprocessor, meaning that its function is to produce something functional; in this case HTML, the markup language that web browsers understand.
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