It’s mainly bug fix release. Update is STRONGLY recommended.

Changelog:

• Changed file name of includes/auto_loaders/config.utis.php.php to includes/auto_loaders/config.utis.php
• uti_install.sql missed some inserts
• Fix to: [DELETE FROM uti_attributes WHERE uti_row_id = ? AND name IN () ]
• UTI tables now use DB_PREFIX

You can download it from: Current version of UTI.

Bug, User Tracking Interface, UTI, Utils

Funny thing (and very annoying) – my FireFox 3.5.5 doesn’t save cookies anymore. It saves cookies until browser is running, but after I close it and open it again only those cookies that are meant to be save until ‘end of session’ are preserved. My cookie policy is ok ( cookies are stored until they expire ), cache isn’t cleared after I close FireFox and there are no sites on ‘Exceptions’ list. Clearing cache & purging cookies does not help at all.

Update: I finally found solution – just delete cookies.sqlite and cookies.sqlite-journal from %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\FireFox\Profiles directory.

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After long break new version of Query Cache for Zen Cart will be released in next week/two weeks. Few of You reported some ‘Out of memory’ errors that could be avoided so new version of QC will focus on memory consumption.  I’m not sure if performance per single http request is going to improve by using less memory – probably it will but possibly not significantly.

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If someone (e.g. on Zen-Cart.com forum) asks You to copy contents of SHOW CREATE TABLE command (or any other similar command) here’s how to do it in phpMyAdmin. I assume that You know how to log in into phpMyAdmin – if You don’t contact Your hosting company.

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I moved my blog from Drupal to Wordpress – unfortunately comments were lost in the process.

Why I dumped Drupal for Wordpress? Drupal is great CMS engine but it’s just too big for my needs. I don’t want to spend my time learning another framework. Wordpress on the other hand is very simple and has great features out of the box. It’s just easier to maintain, write and change.

I hope You like new version of Data-Diggers.com .

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This is mainly note for me for future reference (ideas seem to pop out of my head quite quickly…). In future, I plan to make following modules:

• to track user with cookie (even if he/she is not logged in). [Done, see:  User Tracking Interface]
• to perform REPAIR TABLE on all tables from Admin panel
• to split customers into groups randomly (for randomized tests). For example, We want to know if new ‘Buy Now’ button attracts customers to buy stuff. We could create two groups [old_button,new_button] and present them two different buttons. Contribution would provide basic statistics like order conversion ratio, average order size, average order total etc.
• to split images across few subdomains. It’ll speed up page generation by browser.

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Update: This was premature decision I’m going to stick with Zen Cart for quite a while.

Title says it all… Although it lacks documentation, Varien support is weak and it has very steep learning curve (even steeper then Drupal, but mostly due to lack of documentation) – I still love it for what one can do with it.

Therefore I won’t be releasing any new modules for Zen Cart any time soon. I’ll try to fix bugs in current versions of Query Cache and Query Log soon, but unfortunately no new features will be added.

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