Following the delay caused by my main PC becoming infected with various bits of nasty stuff, I've now uploaded the latest SmartDD V3 video.
This one explains how to use SmartDD with Aweber to both sign up your new prospect to your mailing list and also generate a customer record and an order within SmartDD so […]
Thursday, October 30, 2008
The first of the new SmartDD videos are up.
I apologise for the delay in doing this, it was because of some reported bugs that it now looks like we've completely cleared (so far). Those bugs were:-
#1 - A foreach() error on the Inventory page for some server configurations.
#2 - No records on the Customer Search […]
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Well, we knew it was inevitable. There's a LOT of code in SmartDD v3 and so we would have been surprised if there wasn't a single bug when we released it.
We've fixed the two reported now, and also spotted a third which has also been fixed. Answering the support tickets and duplicating the circumstances that […]
Sorry for not getting back here sooner, as you can imagine it's been a little busy…
I"ve decided to take the evening off to spend some time with the family, so I'm going to let this "24 hour" offer run until 6pm Saturday.
Hopefully, by mid-day tomorrow we should have upgraded everyone that qualifies, or answered their […]
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Hurrah!
SmartDD v3 is released. I hope you feel it was worth the wait.
But before you go racing off to the members area to upgrade, make sure to READ THIS first so you understand the implications.
#1 - If you purchased SmartDD on or since 1st March 2008, then you get the upgrade for free. Hopefully I […]
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Renowned for putting dates back, I've done it again.
We've decided to go ahead and add this one last feature. I'm positive you'll say I did the right thing when you see what it is.
Paul said that Monday 20th was a bit of a tall order as we'll have to do new screen shots to show […]
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Okay, the two bugs that I wrote about yesterday have been found and dealt with. As I thought, they were fairly minor and Paul fixed them quickly.
While he was having another look at the code, I had a request in (hi Myles) asking if a couple of small changes could be made to accommodate some […]
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
While doing the docs for v3, I've come up against a full stop.
#1 - I've had a new bug reported by someone who got v3 early (sorry Ray) that's now being looked at. It's fairly obscure but annoying, as a customer can't currently order the same item twice. If they do, the second order […]
I know it's been a long time in coming, but SmartDD v3 is ready to release apart from the docs.
I've been using it on a couple of sites, and although I haven't used every new feature in earnest, everything has been tested to my satisfaction. Even so, I guess we'll find a couple of minor […]
Because of the way that SmartDD delivers files securely, it takes up a memory buffer on the web server equivalent to the size of the file. If you're delivering an ebook, it isn't a problem as the zip files involved are only about 3-5MB. The delay while creating the memory buffer is almost unnoticeable.
But if you're delivering a video or an MP3, or any other large file, then it can take several seconds to create the memory buffer.
This became a problem when the file was very large and the time went over 30 seconds. Many servers are now configured to time out after 30 seconds without a "keep alive" signal from the application.
Another problem was that an increasing amount of servers are being configured to only allow 8MB of memory to be allocated to an application. Again this is a problem for people who want to deliver large file sizes securely.
Well, we fixed that in version 2.
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