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JB Hi-Fi – Online Shopping done wrong
From time to time you stumble across organizations that are so stunningly bad at something, that it just takes your breath away. JB Hi-Fi seems to have fallen into that category of late in the way they support their online orders. So the premise is simple. You place an order on the JB Hi-Fi web…
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Startrack doesn’t deliver
It’s kind of funny for a courier company that it seems unable to execute its main reason for existence – delivering parcels. Now, I get it that logistically it’s a huge task to deliver huge volumes of parcels around the country every day without some inevitable problems…but why do almost all my Startrack deliveries end…
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“Magic: The Gathering” Proxygate
So, the latest storm of outrage has erupted in the “Magic: The Gathering” community over the decision by Wizards of the Coast/Hasbro to ban any proxy events being run by a local game store, under threat of that store losing its accreditation to run sanctioned WOTC events. Mmmm…so how do I feel about this? On…
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What the Batman: Arkham Knight PC debacle says about software development
So last weekend I needed to buy a new PC graphics card because my old one was starting to act up. I got a brand new latest generation card for a reasonable price which is faster, smaller and uses less power. So all is good. Along with the card, I got a coupon code for…
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The never ending scourge of spam
We all have to deal with spam unfortunately, and it seems to be getting worse and worse every year. At Spiffy Stores, we’ve been testing some new spam scanning and detection software, and one of the features it offers is the ability to define an email address which can be used as a spam honeypot.…
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Windows Automation with Watir and Ruby 1.9.1
We love automation at Spiffy Stores, so with this in mind, I thought I’d alert anyone who uses Ruby under Windows using the Ruby Installer that there are some small bugs that you should be aware of when using Watir. First off, if you want to interact with dialog boxes, then you will run into…
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Spiffy Stores helps with shipping – Product Export and Import
Spiffy Stores has recently added some new features to help online shop owners improve the way they calculate shipping rates during checkout. As part of this process, we added seven new attributes to the Product Variations so this has meant that we needed to update the product export and import CSV files. The seven new…
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Spiffy Stores has moved!
As part of our preparations to open up Spiffy Stores to the world, we’ve changed our default web site from http://www.spiffystores.com.au/ to http://www.spiffystores.com/ Of course, all the old links still work, but now you’ll be redirected to our new home, and hopefully we’ll soon be inviting the rest of the world to try out a…
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How to create featured products with Spiffy Stores
I’ve added some documentation to our Knowledge Base on how to use the ‘Featured Product’ setting to highlight a product in your Spiffy Store ecommerce site. I think it’s a great way to showcase your products using the ‘Featured’ setting and our Super Collections to build custom collections of your most important products. You can…
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Theme Settings in Spiffy Stores Templates
After a huge development effort, I’m pleased to announce that Spiffy Stores have now announced a new feature for their theme templates…Theme Settings. Although the Spiffy Stores Themes have always been highly configurable, this configuration necessarily required some knowledge of HTML and CSS. Not any more. The new Theme Settings ability means that theme designers…