Latest updates to the development site of the leading Amazon component for Joomla http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/demo/apf_bridge 2008-07-23T19:47:32+01:00 http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/demo/apf_bridge http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/demo/apf_bridge/images/M_images/logo.png text/html 2007-12-18T19:05:12+01:00 http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/demo/apf_bridge http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/demo/apf_bridge/content/view/45/29/ TinA (Tina Is not Apf) Amazon Web Services script. What is Project TinA? Tina is a PHP conversion / adaptation of MrRat's Amazon Products Feed script which for the last five years has been a leader in the field of not only Amazon Web Services scripts but of Web Services scripts period. The TinA conversion is primarily the work of Dean Marshall although MrRat has been assisting and has promised to continue to be available in a consulting capacity. Obviously without the original APF there would be no conversion and without MrRat's agreement / permission to convert there would be no TinA - so my thanks to MrRat... text/html 2007-09-18T00:12:48+01:00 http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/demo/apf_bridge http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/demo/apf_bridge/content/view/44/2/ The APF Bridge component has been moved from the free 'gratis / no cost' download area of this site to my online store and a nominal fee of ten GBP pounds (approx $20) is now needed in order to buy the installable component. The APF Bridge related add-ons - mambot(plugin), modules, etc - are still free as are upgrades. Buy the Amazon Products Feed Bridge - Amazon Component for Mambo and Joomla (http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/component/option,com_virtuemart/page,shop.browse/category_id,3/Itemid,131/) from the software store on my main Mambo/Joomla consulting website. text/html 2007-08-19T02:48:11+01:00 http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/demo/apf_bridge http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/demo/apf_bridge/content/view/43/29/ My Amazon Products Feed Bridge component (http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/demo/apf_bridge/) which integrates six Amazon stores into the Joomla (http://www.joomla.org/) Content Management System is now compatible with the Mambo CMS (http://www.mambo-foundation.org/). For those who don't know Mambo is the parent project from which Joomla sprang. Making the component work with Mambo is the first step in a program of diversifying the component to run on more CMSs and blogs. Following recent developments over in the JoomlaSphere - I withdrew the APF Bridge component and related modules and Mambots(plugins) from the Joomla Extension Directory (http://extensions.joomla.org/). As well as being available on this... text/html 2007-05-06T20:22:20+01:00 http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/demo/apf_bridge http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/demo/apf_bridge/content/view/42/29/ Following a somewhat extended absence from development of Amazon products Feed Bridge - just when I was on the cusp of releasing a new version - I am now back at the helm. I have spent the last twenty four hours tidying up a couple of minor matters - mainly documentation related and feel that the result is worthy of release. This was to be a significant step on the road to a version 1.0 stable release - I've had a few distractions and a few other issues and whilst the release numbering still reflects this position things are perhaps not as solid as the numbering might suggest. Please... text/html 2006-12-31T05:16:32+01:00 http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/demo/apf_bridge http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/demo/apf_bridge/content/view/41/29/ A new version of Amazon Products Feed Bridge is imminent. I am just awaiting feedback from a few testers, and trying to beef up the documentation on a few questions that are starting to be asked a little bit too frequently. Anyway - I am tentatively thinking of calling these versions Release Candidate 1 - which means that barring major issues they will become the version 1 proper in fairly short order. I don't think all of my originally intended features are present - but the ones that most people will use most of the time are there. The main features... text/html 2006-08-24T02:28:30+01:00 http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/demo/apf_bridge http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/demo/apf_bridge/content/view/38/55/ My frontpage mod file is a plugin for MrRat's perl script Amazon Products Feed - or APF. It will work with APF when used as a stand-alone script or when incorporated into Joomla with my APF Bridge component. The purpose of this mod file is to enable you to add extra text on the frontpage of your store. This is a commercial addon that allows you to: Show any text you want on your store's frontpage Optionally show different front page for each locale. Optionally show the normal 'BrowseMenu' (below) text/html 2006-07-13T04:18:05+01:00 http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/demo/apf_bridge http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/demo/apf_bridge/content/view/15/29/ Well I have just lost another day and a half on what should have been such a simple choice. In essence, if I am to spend more time working on this project I have to be able to justify switching my time from client work. That means requesting payments (donations) from the users of APF and its accompanying bits and pieces. I have researched quite a few Paypal modules for Joomla and frankly I am disappointed. The upshot is that I have had to build my own paypal module. text/html 2006-07-26T04:48:16+01:00 http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/demo/apf_bridge http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/demo/apf_bridge/content/view/24/29/ Well, I haven't had as much time to spend on development as I might have hoped these past few days - but the time I have spent on the component and in particular on the plugin (mambot) has proved particularly fruitful. text/html 2006-07-13T03:48:24+01:00 http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/demo/apf_bridge http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/demo/apf_bridge/content/view/14/29/ While I am on the subject of graphics - what do you think of my new logo for APF Bridge? I took my lead from the Lightfast template logo, I just knocked up the same idea. Amazingly I did this all by myself and in less than half an hour - using 'Fireworks' a fantastic package. text/html 2006-07-13T03:32:55+01:00 http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/demo/apf_bridge http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/demo/apf_bridge/content/view/13/29/ Before I start on this one - let me make one thing clear - recently I have started to do quite a bit of work for JoomlaShack, this article is in no way to be read as an attack on JoomlaShack or my colleagues over there. But I think that this article will highlight the difficulties template designers face. How can they know all the uses (and abuses) that will be thrown at their work. text/html 2006-07-11T16:34:31+01:00 http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/demo/apf_bridge http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/demo/apf_bridge/content/view/12/29/ 12 hours plus lost to a bad database export / import. This one, it turned out, was entirely my own fault. Here is what I was seeing. I had uploaded my database to this server and transferred ALL of the files from my 'base' installation on my own PC. When ever I added any new item to any of the menus things went seriously pear shaped - server 500 errors in the front end. In the /administrator/ section of the site every item in the menu was displayed to the right of the column in 'menu manager'. Every item was in... text/html 2004-08-09T08:30:34+01:00 http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/demo/apf_bridge http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/demo/apf_bridge/content/view/2/ Joomla! 1.0 - 'Experience the Freedom'!. It has never been easier to create your own dynamic site. Manage all your content from the best CMS admin interface. text/html 2004-08-09T08:30:34+01:00 http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/demo/apf_bridge http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/demo/apf_bridge/content/view/3/ Yesterday all servers in the U.S. went out on strike in a bid to get more RAM and better CPUs. A spokes person said that the need for better RAM was due to some fool increasing the front-side bus speed. In future, busses will be told to slow down in residential motherboards. text/html 2004-08-09T08:30:34+01:00 http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/demo/apf_bridge http://www.deanmarshall.co.uk/demo/apf_bridge/content/view/4/ Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by itslef but the wrod as a wlohe.