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Tue, 10 Jul 2012 04:40:30 -0400

Welcome to Tumblr Tuesday, where we share some of our favorite random Tumblr blogs of the moment.

Marlo Meekins
This extreme caricaturist makes classy art. Art that provides a stunningly honest portrait of what it means to be human. And farts. (See above.)

Mozilla Webmaker
Mozilla Webmaker wants to help people everywhere make, learn, and play using the open building blocks of the web. Their Tumblr blog showcases the awesome stuff people are making.

Blank on Blank
Blank on Blank brings journalists’ lost interviews back to life via podcast, radio and YouTube. Check out Bill Draper on His $20 Bet with Fidel Castro; Caroll Spinney on Creating Big Bird & Oscar the Grouch; and Jonathan Alter’s interview with President Obama. Also — attention journalists — submit your lost tapes!

The Moth
The Moth is a not-for-profit organization dedication to the art and craft of storytelling. Everybody has a story.

This Belongs in a Museum
Written by a frustrated museologist (that’s a thing), this blog is dedicated to funny, ridiculous and mundane collections found in museums around the world.

For regular updates on what’s fresh, check out the official New & Notable Tumblrs blog!

Countdown to v3.0

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:30:00 -0400

Countdown to v3.0:

oscommerce:

Published by Harald Ponce de Leon

We are extremely proud to countdown to March 31 for the release of osCommerce Online Merchant v3.0 and to cause a disruption in the Open Source and e-commerce community. Our future goals are based on this new foundation that will continually be improved on to meet the demands of tomorrows store…

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Improvements Made to our Blog

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:29:44 -0400

Improvements Made to our Blog:

oscommerce:

Published by Harald Ponce de Leon

Our blog has found a new home at Tumblr and now functions as an aggregator, linking to and publishing interesting articles from the osCommerce team and our partners.

New publications are automatically syndicated to our Twitter account and Facebook Page.

Our blog can be reached at:

http://blogs.oscommerce.com

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Tips!

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:29:22 -0400

oscommerce:

Melinda Odom:

The docs for the Tips and Tricks section of the knowledgebase are just about complete for the ms3 version with the addition of a few more articles today. These all will be tested in the upcoming days as to accuracy to use for the milestone 3 release. Any that are not compatible will be turned off until they are updated.

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OSCOM v3.0 Namespace Usage

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:29:00 -0400

OSCOM v3.0 Namespace Usage:

oscommerce:

Published by Harald Ponce de Leon

Namespace What\Is\It?

Namespaces allow scopes to be added to classes and are used to group related classes and to prevent collision of class names. The larger the framework grows and the more components that become available and integrate with the framework, the greater the…

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Live Shop Submissions

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:28:37 -0400

oscommerce:

Melinda Odom:

We are keeping caught on the Live Site Submissions … thank you Wendy! :P

However, we are finding that there are several duplicate submissions and some are not following the Live Shop rules here:

http://www.oscommerce.info/kb/280

All sites that do not follow these guidelines are deleted.

All sites that put in duplicate submissions are deleted … we have a checker in place so it really does not help you to make multiple submissions.

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OSCOM v3.0 Application Actions

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:28:01 -0400

OSCOM v3.0 Application Actions:

oscommerce:

Published by Harald Ponce de Leon

What Application Actions Do

Application Actions allows functionality to be added to Applications in a flexible manner without needing to edit core source code files. Actions typically define what page content is presented in a given situation and can load nested actions for further…

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OSCOM v2.3 Pre-Release Notes

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:26:58 -0400

OSCOM v2.3 Pre-Release Notes:

oscommerce:

Published by Harald Ponce de Leon

We stated earlier that the next osCommerce Online Merchant releases would be v2.2 and v3.0 and that we wouldn’t be publishing any more alpha, beta, or release candidate labelled versions. The next v2.2 release was declared as “v2.2final” to finalize the versioning cycle it went through, from…

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Open Source Rocks!

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:26:38 -0400

Open Source Rocks!:

oscommerce:

Published by Harald Ponce de Leon

We are fortunate to have a unique relationship with our community that is based on trust. This was built on and earned naturally from the very beginning when we first announced ourselves to the world in March 2000. Our user base has grown from a few people to millions worldwide, attracted through…

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Introducing Checkout by Amazon

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:26:21 -0400

oscommerce:

Amazon Payments Team:

Amazon Payments is proud to be a Corporate Sponsor of osCommerce! We look forward to enhancing the Checkout by Amazon solution with the osCommerce community for an even better customer buying and store owner selling experience.

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OSCOM v3.0 Framework Optimized For PHP v5.3

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:26:04 -0400

OSCOM v3.0 Framework Optimized For PHP v5.3:

oscommerce:

Published by Harald Ponce de Leon

PHP v5.3 and Namespaces

We’re excited to announce the framework for osCommerce Online Merchant v3.0 is being optimized to use the newer features PHP v5.3 provides, primarily focusing on implementing namespaces into the core. In addition to namespaces, the namespace coding…

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Getting Your Business Online - Advantages

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:25:44 -0400

oscommerce:

Andrew Yuen:

You may be wondering why I have not kept up with the site of the month posts. Recently, a featured store option has been added on to the live shops directory. Now, instead of sites of the month, I will be proposing featured sites to the rest of the osCommerce team. When I do select a featured site, I will also blog about why I choose that site if it is approved by the rest of the team.

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London Public Meet-Up

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:25:22 -0400

oscommerce:

Published by Nick Weisser

I registered on the English and German osCommerce forums back in February 2003 when I first got in contact with the project. I posted and answered questions and made some contributions to existing add-ons. Two years ago in December 2007, Harald asked me if I’d like to become an official team member which I gladly accepted. Since then I’ve been helping with the German and English documentation, the German language pack for osCommerce 3.0, as well as some small bug fixes here and there. Currently, I’m working on a wireframe for the front end layout of version 3.0.

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osCommerce and the BSD License

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:24:57 -0400

osCommerce and the BSD License:

oscommerce:

Published by Mark Evans

There have been a number of comments made about the license change of osCommerce 3.x to the BSD. This post aims to dispel some of the confusion around the change and will hopefully be the primer for a proper FAQ on www.oscommerce.com when I have some time. If there are any questions you have…

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sesamestreet: May the 4th B with you. B, as in “Big Bird.”

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 08:16:54 -0400

sesamestreet:

May the 4th B with you. B, as in “Big Bird.”

robdelaney: It’s not surprising that a photo of a terrorist...

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 08:16:29 -0400

robdelaney:

It’s not surprising that a photo of a terrorist with a bullet hole in his face would turn Sarah Palin on. The way she asks for it to be released though, is an interesting bit of dishonesty.

“Show photo as a warning to others seeking America’s destruction.”

I’m imagining a group of terrorists sitting around a computer, pulling up a photo of Osama Bin Laden’s corpse, and one saying “WHOA GUYS, if we try to ‘destroy America’ they might try put BULLETS in our FACES. We better knock this malarkey off ASAP. Return that fertilizer to the hardware store and let’s use the fuel we’ve stockpiled to power the generator at my nephew’s school for a few weeks.”

Terrorists, especially of the Jihadi variety, are frequently prepared for and SEEKING death, whether it comes in the form of a bullet, explosion, or underpants conflagration on a Detroit-bound flight.

But I presume Sarah Palin knows this. So her tweet is both “politicking” and “drama.” It’s theater, in fact.

And way to wrap it up with “That’s the mission.” Though she didn’t shoehorn the words “Islam” or “Muslim” into her clunker of a tweet, she did finish it with a word whose definitions include “a group of people sent by a religious body, esp a Christian church, to a foreign country, to do religious work.”

I’m glad she was so transparent about what her “mission” is. And let’s also salute her for sneaking the word “pussy” in there. Osama Bin Laden is killed while Barack Obama is President, and Sarah Palin’s immediate response is to explicitly link him with the word “pussy.” Would she have worked the word “cocky” in there if he released the photo?

To conclude, her tweet is bloodthirsty, purposefully dishonest, willfully ignorant, xenophobic and rude. It’s a fantastic snapshot of who she is.

Tim Morgan's thoughts that are too big for Twitter: The failures of the Mac App Store's UI, and that of its app, Twitter 2.0

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 08:16:07 -0400

Tim Morgan's thoughts that are too big for Twitter: The failures of the Mac App Store's UI, and that of its app, Twitter 2.0:

riscfuture:

I’m astounded that there hasn’t been a peep from Gruber about the problems and inconsistencies in the Mac App Store application, and those of the apps sold on it. My first experience with the Mac App Store was a purchase of the new Twitter app, of which Gruber had this to say:

My new…

Ryan Freitas: 35 Lessons in 35 Years

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 08:15:42 -0400

Ryan Freitas: 35 Lessons in 35 Years:

My father always told me that the day we stop learning is the day we die. I wrote this as a sort of preparation for my 35th birthday last week. Some of these are poignant, others are simply trite; I attribute the latter to my growing sense of sentimentality as I age. That, and I need an editor.

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Block Fanfic Characters by nothorse

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 08:15:23 -0400

Block Fanfic Characters by nothorse:

safariextensions:

So there you are, trolling through the listings at fanfiction.net. Everything would be just fine, some nice new stories, but there’s this obnoxius character you just can’t stand paired with your personal favourite character. It burns your eyes, yes it does!

Fear not. This extension for Safari will hide any and every story from your eyes, if the hated character shows up in the pairing.

Download and install Block Fanfic Characters to avoid brain bleach and eye-gouging.

If you put your mental health at risk by reading fanfic, I imagine this will come in handy.

Tumblr Notifier by Ethan Sherbondy

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 08:15:02 -0400

Tumblr Notifier by Ethan Sherbondy:

safariextensions:

Notifier was broken for a bit after Tumblr changed they way they handle new post notifications. I’m happy to report it’s now back up and running. If you have Safari and love getting notified when new content appears in your Dashboard, grab it! You don’t even need to enter your credentials anymore.

Source code is available as always.

I don’t usually repost the same extension, but it was a shame when this one stopped working. Good to have it back.