Author Archives: Randy

climb test 1

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Randy

Test climbing entry 1

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More Gadgets

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Randy

Another birthday and watching Dr. Sanjay Gupta on CNN show off his favorite gadgets prompted me to take the plunge and order a fitbit and a withings blood pressure monitor.  I’m already tracking some health information with Google docs, but … Continue reading →

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More fun with vQmod

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Randy

Yes indeed, the weekend’s over and I’ve “almost” finished everything I wanted to do with vQmod.  I’ve made about a dozen vQmod input files and just have one bug to track down. Turns out it’s pretty easy to clone a … Continue reading →

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First OpenCart vQmod

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Randy

Coming back to my OpenCart project, I decided I wanted a way to preserve the changes I’d made to the code across upgrades and patches. Fortunantly the OpenCart community has a tool for that. vQmod is a preprocessor that modifies … Continue reading →

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OpenCart Project goes Live

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Randy

I’ve been playing around with OpenCart, an opensource eCommerce engine, and implemented a new storefront for my son’s online store. It took about two days to do a fresh install, select and implement a theme, modify the code to remove … Continue reading →

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