Yesterday I went to Monkok with my friends who visiting from US, and saw some really cool RC kits while we walking by the “Model Street” (The street that selling many model toys). Those little things were just too attractive, and end up I have spent about $2k(HKD) to purchase a set of them(Mr-03 Chassis set, R/C Transmitter, a auto scale collection body). Even though I am a newbie to this, I thought that would be just another “toy” since I had experience how to assemble some 1/10 R/C car before when I was kids(!). Also, I assumed it did not require assembly much and all I had to do was to put the wheel and body on it.
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Microsoft China rips off Plurk’s ?
Today I saw an article from plurk.
Microsoft China rips off Asia’s No. 1 Microblogging Service
Wow. I haven’t tried that MS Club thing, but looks quite similar like Plurk. Sure, there is some copying, but MS should credit back to Plurk! Shame on them!
Magento – Improving Speed
Magento has very nice interface, but it seems to me very slow sometime. I wonder if it is because I am in Hong Kong and the server is in US. However, sometime it is really unacceptable slow to me.. so I was trying to figure out how to improve the speed of Magento. One way is to enable mysql query cache, but I find my server’s mysql already turn on the query cache, so it is not the cause. Then I find you can enable compressing data to send to your client, and it seems my Magento store is improved a lot. You may try what I have done to improve your Magento store. 🙂
Magento Google Base Integration
Adding product to google merchant with magento google base integration:
Magento Screencast: Google Base Integration from Rico Neitzel on Vimeo.
Magento – Change Order Status
Yesterday we got an order from a customer and the order status was “pending_paypal”. It was ok until later we received the payment from the customer, and I found out there was no way to change the order status from “pending_paypal”. After googling for awhile, I find a solution by editing this file:
Magento\app\code\core\Mage\Sales\etc\config.xml. Although I recommend not to edit the original file, I will show you how to edit this file in order to change the order status. First find the code block <states></states>, and add the order status within <statuses> and <statuses/>. For example, I changed
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