Customer Management in Joomla! and VirtueMart

When the product catalog is ready, it is time to test the user registration and order management functionalities. We are going to discuss how to manage customers and orders in a three part series. This is the first part that covers VirtueMart's Customer Management. In this article by Suhreed Sarkar, we will:

• Configure the user registration settings for VirtueMart
• Manage users for a VirtueMart shop
• Create and manage fields for a customer registration form

Looking into Apache Axis2

Flexibility and extensibility are the two main design criteria that software designers would like to have in their applications. When it comes to Axis2, its architecture is extremely flexible and extensible. Axis2 has a modular architecture. In this article by Deepal Jayasinghe, we will learn more about Axis2 architecture, its core components, and its main features.

Troubleshooting Nagios 3.0

In this article by Wojciech Kocjan, we will learn about troubleshooting Nagios 3.0 which includes troubleshooting the web interface, passive checks, SSH-Based checks, and NRPE.The article includes various possible errors along with their solutions and detailed explanations for each error listed out.

Creating Your Own Theme—A Wordpress Tutorial

Wordpress is the most widely used content management system amongst bloggers for many reasons. Not only does it make site management seem like a walk in the park, but it also uses a type of shared hosting, which means that most users can afford it. It has plug-ins for any occasion and desire and finally, it has themes.

For many Wordpress users, finding the right theme is a long process that often leads to endless tweaking in the code and stylesheets. However, only a few ever consider learning how to create their own. If you are one of them, this tutorial by Brian Franklin will help you learn how to built and start your own theme.

Interacting with the Students using Moodle 1.9 (part 1)

This article is a two-part series by Mary Cooch. This article is about what the students can give back to us and reaches into the heart of Moodle. It combines classroom tasks with Moodle activities, in a mini-project to plan and design a riverside campsite that will get our students to think and collaborate.

In this article, we shall encourage our students to join in by:

• Allowing them to discuss the considerations in choosing the location of this campsite in a safe, moderated forum
• Giving them an out-of-school hours chatroom in which they can plan their site
• Asking them to suggest creative names for the site and entering these names in a class glossary
• Providing a space (in a database) to send in their designs for the teacher to assess and their classmates to view.

Categories and Attributes in Magento: Part 1

In this article by William Rice, we will learn about Categories, Products, and Attributes in Magento.

The combination of products, presentation, and service makes our store unique. In this part, we will see how to add products to our store. Before adding products, we need to make some decisions about how we will organize our site. A few minutes of planning now can save us hours of work later.

Guided Rules with the JBoss BRMS (Guvnor)

In this article by Paul Browne, we're going to read about the Guvnor rule editor, and use it to write some more sophisticated rules. In particular, we're going to:

• Show how to put information into and out of our rules
• Build a fact model to hold this information
• Import our newly built model into Guvnor
• Create guided rules using this fact model
• Run and test our new fact-based rules