Joomla and Magento. To integrate or not to integrate.

There’s been a lot of discussion regarding the integration of Joomla and Magento. Is it worth it? Perhaps.

… but I tend to think not. I’ve recently posted an article on JoomlaJunkie regarding the subject… Click here to read more.

Tags: Joomla, magento, open source, technology, ecommerce, joomla 1.5

Magento is finally out…

I’ve been waiting a long time for this…   MAGENTO is finally out of beta and in stable mode. This is a huge leap for ecommerce.

Tags: magento, ecommerce, store, shop

Speed up little Firefox, speed up.

Sourced from: Light a flame under Firefox’s memory usage | Dao By Design Blog

This is great post, useful information, quick to the point. Be sure to visit the attributing link.

Firefox is too FAT:

Hunting around a bit I found an excellent little post that explains how to stop this memory vacuum from getting away from you.

1. Simply type about:config in your browser’s address bar.

2. On the resulting screen, right-click and select New -> Boolean.

3. In the input box that appears, type config.trim_on_minimize. Press enter.

4. Select True, and hit enter.What this does is causes Firefox to dump to your hard drive when you minimize it. Upon re-maximization, it loads back into RAM, but at a fraction of the bloated size it was. As an example, I just checked Firefox’s memory usage. With three tabs open, I was sitting around 80 MB of RAM being used. On minimization, this immediately dropped to under 10 MB. The upon maximization, it went up to 40 MB or so.

Firefox is too Slow:

If you’re on high speed Internet, you’re also going to want to consider this little speed-up trick. By default Firefox is set to only download pages to your browser with four simultaneous connections. This is alright if you’re on dial-up, but broadband can handle a lot more than that.

1. Again type about:config in your browser’s address bar.

2. On the config page, look for these three entries: network.http.pipelining, network.http.proxy.pipelining, and network.http.pipelining.maxrequests.

3. Change network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining to True.

4. Change network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to a higher number based on your net speed - somewhere between 10 and 30 ought to do it.

5. As a final step, right-click the screen and select New-> Integer. Name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to “0″. This sets the amount of time the browser sits on its ass before acting.See the original article at Forever Geek. And if you are using IE, bang your head against your desk five times and then check out this video for a solution just for you.And finally, if that’s not enough - check out this nifty tool for tuning up Firefox. Appropriately named FireTune, the free application from Totalidea Software tunes up Firefox to work faster (very likely by implementing some of the above).

Tags: firefox, speed, fire, slow, improve, browser, ie sucks

102 Content Management Systems

I thought that I would consolidate a couple of very popular posts… Here it is…  102 CMS Platforms…

FYI - the thumbnails are clickable. 

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No sense losing sleep over insomnia… get Sleeptreatment

This post might seem like a paid post, but it’s not… I truly found a phenomenal solution to my insomnia problems without taking any sleep drugs. I know that many of the people who read OpenJason have similar careers and work-schedules. If you have a spare $20, there’s a book called “Sound Sleep, Sound Mind.” I highly recommend this reading, as it saved my life… really.

I typically go to sleep at 1am and wake up at about 5am. I’ve always been a morning person and have only needed a good 4 hours of sleep each night to feel perfect the next day. If I sleep more than 5 hours, I tend to feel tired throughout the next day. Most people think I’m crazy for having a schedule with such little sleep, but the truth is, quality of sleep is much better than quantity of sleep.

Working behind a computer all day, every day can do some strange things to your body… mentally and physically. After a long day, it’s not hard to feel completely exhausted… again, mentally and physically. I love doing what I do, but with a business to manage and 3 kids and a wife to run me, sleep becomes a commodity. I started having some serious insomnia. Accustomed to only 4 hours of sleep, insomnia issues quickly lead to zero hours of sleep… At first it was tough, but I handled it. After a few days of little to no sleep, it wasn’t tough anymore… it was impossible. I found myself struggling with elementary school math, my mood hit the fan, and my mind was to foggy to keep myself on track.

I have a friend who works at a sleep center here in Albuquerque. He suggested I get a sleep study, but considering my schedule and my family requirements, it wasn’t gonna happen. The alternative was to go out and buy a book called, “Sound Sleep, Sound Mind” by a local Sleep Medicine Expert, Dr. Barry Krakow. As I was reading this book, I realized that Dr. Krakow wasn’t the typical sleep doctor. Come to find out, he has been all over national news and continues to do really good things with sleep research. He’s published several books, one being specific to insomnia. If you’re interested in reading the book, visit sleeptreatment.com.

For more information on Dr. Krakow or to buy his book(s), visit sleeptreatment.com If you’re interested in the book, I have a coupon available… just shoot me an email, or post a comment.