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Closed 10 years ago.
There are good online store building solutions like Shopify, Volution, etc.
I'm looking to build my own small-scale service like that.
Are there any customizable online store building scripts I can install on my own server or companies that offer reselling opportunities?
VirtueMart is another very simple e-commerce app that my clients have used very successfully. It's based on Joomla, but still is an effective and easy tool to deploy.
I'll warn you, there's not a ton of money to be made building e-commerce "services" to resell. There's a million and one people doing it and it takes a LOT of work to get right. Not to mention the heartburn that goes along with payment processors and dealing with fouled transactions, which happens to the best of systems. People don't have a ton of patience when it comes to credit card transactions and I found myself doing tech support at the worst possible times. These are HIGH MAINTENANCE apps if you're not just doing it for yourself...
Magento has a pretty sweet multi-store setup. My company runs a fulfillment house using a single magento install and a store front for each individual client. All our orders are visible under the central dashboard and it's easy enough to create new stores once you get the hang of things.
Check it out here:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/blog/comments/multi-store-retailing-magento-demo/
Note: Magento has a very steep learning curve, not recommended for beginners.
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Closed 9 years ago.
Note: I have been out of touch with the PHP world for quite a long time. I am primarily a Python developer.
I have to build a small app in PHP5. Please suggest me a lightweight framework which:
Has MS SQL Server Support that runs on Linux as the app will be running on Ubuntu.
Is fast to learn, use and setup.
Performance is not a critical issue. As the app will be used on a private LAN by about 10 people for data entry mainly.
Suggestion about a templating engines will also be appreciated
Regards
Let's kill off the easy question first - by tempting, I'm assuming you mean templating. If so, Smarty is usually a very good contender as it is simple to learn and very powerful.
Now, for the framework. A wide variety of PHP frameworks have switched to PDO for SQL requests, which means that most of them will easily accomodate MS SQL. CodeIgniter does, so does CakePHP last time I checked.
Ultimately, pick what you know rather than picking something that looks fancy, unless you need the extra features. The learning curve will be smaller.
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Closed 11 years ago.
I'm a java developer, currently starting developing a hospital management system that will server patients, doctors, accountant, .... etc the system is really huge that may have 900,000 records/day, data is really growing so fast, for that i'm confusing in which database to use since i have the following options: (Percona Server(Mysql), Oracle, SQLServer), since the application will run on network with average of 45 online users.
I hope to find a good answers here.
Thanks in advance
If you have been working with MySQL for 6 years then stick with it!
You don't want to add the burden of learning another database as well as having to develop your application.
If you are unsure if MySQL is up to the job then run some tests. Write an app that runs multiple threads inserting 1M rows and see if your servers can handle it.
I'm guessing the brand of the database you choose will be less important than the performance of the platform (machines) it is running on.
There is no good or bad answer to this question. Basically it is as good as the DBA knowns to manage it.
If asking this question it would be wise to group a team of people well known with various systems to find out the best practice. To answer such a case, even more with very sensitive data, it is not just a simple solution which will do the trick. A thorough process of decision making is very important. Not only from a technical but also from a security and business side.
As per as think your database is large you can go with oracle.but the decision also depends on the expertise of people working with you and availability of resources.
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Closed 11 years ago.
I'm always hearing that RoR is good for Agile implementation. Could someone plaese summarize this statement and explain me why with some examples.P.S I can't read "Agile Web Development with Rails" yet.
Tools are never agile in the matter of software engineering. Tools support in being agile. Ruby on rails is a framework to rapidly build basic functionalities with ease and Agile in most minds is a way to build your system without having the knowledge of every requirement needed by your system.
So tools which support the developers to rapidly bootstrap a software or change functionalities rapidly help you in being agile. Because most of the times the understanding of "How things work" differs between the customer and the developer perspective.
Aligning those perspectives is a success factor on every project and most of the times it is better to show something for a common understanding than painting some flow charts, uml charts or whatever which imply domain knowledge.
Another thing is if you may bootstrap a project rapidly you may react on reordering of priorities more flexible.
For the nitpickers.: Agile is a buzzword. There are lots of definitions and different understandings whats agile is and it may always be that my view on being agile or developing agile differs from some other definitions.
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Closed 10 years ago.
I need your suggestions please, I'm currently using the Magento API for importing products in Magento admin (magento database), and I have noticed that it's really too slow. It's taking approximately 1 hr to add 1000 products, and I have to add almost 260,000 products.
How can I speed up the process? Is there any alternative process to resolve this issue?
Thanks for any suggestion or answer!
Richa verma
The only way to speed up this process would be to simply not use the api. As you have come to find, it is far too slow for this type of task.
Instead, you will have to work directly with the database ( for maximum speed ), but unfortunately this requires you to fully understand at a very low level how Magento deals with inserting products and all of the tables that are touched in this process.
An intermediate solution may be to use the magento models etc. to create these products. For example to create a new simple product you can use this type of code:
$newProduct = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')
->setAttributeSetId($attributeSetId)
->setTypeId('simple')
->setStatus(1)
->setTaxClassId(2)
->setVisibility(4)
->setSku($sku)
->setName($name)
->setDescription($description)
->setShortDescription($shortDescription)
->setPrice($price)
->save();
This is a very simple example and there is so much more you can do here.
I have used a similar method with a custom module for importing products from csv files and it takes a few hours to import around 1500 products.
I think though that with the volumes you are talking about then any way you decide to get these products into Magento is going to take a long time. I would also question why you need so many products in the first place.
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I'm not talking about bug tracking software (like Bugzilla or Jira). I'm looking for something that:
Stores test specifications in text format
Combines test specs into test coverage scenarios
Keeps track of the progress through testing scenarios
Links test specs with bug reports stored in Bugzilla
Generates progress reports
Is centrally managed on its own (i.e. is not a hack/extension on top of something else)
TestLink is a pretty nice open source test tracking tool with the features you need, and is still under active development. Take a look at http://testlink.org/
I haven't used this (yet), but Testopia seems to meet all your requirements, especially the one about Bugzilla.
I'm biased since I'm the primary author, but I think Cuanto is pretty good. It allows you to track historical results for multiple test projects and you can store your analysis with the test results.
RTH is another open source test management tool
I have personally used Trac (http://trac.edgewall.org/) which combines a simple issue tracker with Wiki functionality. Solved the need I had on my project.
A while back I briefly looked at the free version of QaTraq. Although I left the team I was considering it for before we every got very far with the project, it was the frontrunner of the options I looked at at the time.
It's got quite a nice interface, and what seemed to me to be a very sensible test planning structure. I think one of the big downsides was the the open source version didn't have table support in the WYSIWYG test case editor - Not a showstopper, and could be fixed with a little development effort or by spending some money on the professional version.