http://vikingcoders.com/log Fantastic Tales from our Adventures in Software Land Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:58:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It started out as a module for Merchant 5.x to display randomly selected products on the storefront page but it turned into quite  bit more than that. The new Features (yes, that's the name) module provides additional Features for your Merchant 5.x store. With the placement of the module's item ... http://vikingcoders.com/log/2008/09/02/a-new-module-release-and-finally-a-post-from-brock/ ...or should that be Brock? Update: And this is his routine for a 3rd place at the Worlds: http://vikingcoders.com/log/2008/08/01/a-chip-off-the-viking-block/ Chuck Lasker makes it into the NY Times. http://vikingcoders.com/log/2008/07/31/politics-is-local/ The New York Times has an interesting article on buying fixer-upper web sites, including online stores. http://vikingcoders.com/log/2008/07/30/find-an-undervalued-asset-fix-it-up-flip-it-now-it%e2%80%99s-web-sites-not-houses/ I had been going about writing the imports for Affiliate Manger 5.x rather piece meal. I had started an import module for the product data, had started on a module to import data from Affiliate Manager 4.x, and had completed a module to import affiliate data from Merchant's affiliate feature ... http://vikingcoders.com/log/2008/04/23/import-for-affiliate-manager-5x-is-finally-done/ Affiliate Manager 5.x (our MivaMerchant module for affiliate tracking, for those who stumble in here out of the dark) has been undergoing some significant development lately. Among other things, the admin has been updated to use our new css layout to brighten your Miva Merchant experience; the default ... http://vikingcoders.com/log/2008/04/10/affiliate-manager-5x-design-settings-and-more-news-on-whats-coming-next/ We are officially releasing two new Miva Merchant 5.x AJAX modules today. The first is Flyout 5. You may have already seen the 4.x version we released that a couple months ago. Flyout adds Netflix type pop-ups to your Miva Merchant store. Any place that you can display a product in ... http://vikingcoders.com/log/2008/04/02/flyout-and-reveal-first-of-the-5x-ajax-modules/ We have just released Flyout 4.055 today. It is now out of Beta. It is compatible with all of our template modules including Storefront Template (it was not in the beta release). I have completely re-worked the token processing in the module. All tokens in all template modules are now ... http://vikingcoders.com/log/2008/03/10/flyout-updates/ A beta release of Pulse was made available earlier this week and we are now ready to make it more widely available. There are still some features we are adding, e.g. better pagination of long reports, more user options, but in terms of data collection, the module appears to be ... http://vikingcoders.com/log/2008/02/26/pulse-elm5-beta-release/ Like it's 4.x predecessor, the Affiliate Manager - Login module provides an interface that Affiliate Manager affiliates can use to view and/or modify (that bit is optional) their personal and referral data including hits, orders, payouts paid, and payout's due. The layout and content of the pages are entirely ... http://vikingcoders.com/log/2008/02/18/hot-off-the-presses-figuratively-speaking-its-affiliate-manger-login-for-5x/