This week, Oracle announced plans to remove the insecure Java Browser Plugin. Starting in JDK9, the plugin will be depreciated and at some point in the future, removed. They spin this move as a response to “modern browser vendors working to restrict and reduce plugin support in their products”, which while not technically in correct, […]
Magento released two patches today. One is a patch for USPS shipping to take into account some changes to method names of shipping lines, like changing from calling it Standard Post to Retail Ground. The other is a rather serious security patch, which fixes several XSS vulnerabilities in Magento, as well as un-privileged escalations. The […]
Recently, while working on a client’s Magento website, I ran into an issue enabling free shipping for certain products via Fedex. Using a Shopping Cart Rule, I setup the correct conditions/actions for the rule to provide free shipping for certain product categories when one of their main products was ordered. After a bit of playing, […]
Recently, while fixing a clients computer, I ran into an issue uninstalling Driver Support. Driver Support is one of those pesky pieces of Malware that many(most?) antivirus’s like Norton, AVG, and Mcafee will happily let you install on your computer. Driver Support’s stated purpose is to identify/find missing or bad drivers, optimize your computer, and […]
After a long wait, the much anticipated new version of PHP has been released! PHP 7.0 has been released. There are a bunch of cool features in the new version of PHP, along with better performance. You can read about some of the neat ones here. This is a pretty big release, as PHP 6 […]