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  • Getting Started with ikiwiki - part 1

    Written by Patrick Fenner on 16 Jun, 2011

    Recently, I’ve spent some time evaluating ikiwiki as a possible documentation wiki for this site. It’s small size and narrow scope make it attractive over the other wiki candidates that I’ve been looking at (specifically: Tikiwiki - which is also a full fledged CMS, shop, forums, bugtracker, etc. and PhpWiki,...

  • Front Axle Crosstube Revisions

    Written by Patrick Fenner on 9 Jun, 2011

    Unlike the part updates last week, which was a design improvement, this week’s is a change for manufacturing. For the original front axle crosstube (A001_P009_R001) was designed, the two tube bends were sized to an appropriate radius for the axle geometry, but They were described by internal radius. This is...

  • Stub-Axle Adjustments

    Written by Patrick Fenner on 2 Jun, 2011

    Even before I’ve had a full set of parts for the prototype and I’m already making improvements… Almost as soon as I’d frozen the design for the M0.1 Atomic Duck, I realised that it needed a slight adjustment to the front axle mounts to make the mounting more secure. In...

  • International Royal Mail Shipping from OpenCart

    Written by Patrick Fenner on 26 May, 2011

    I found the problem with the international shipping, have corrected it and, in addition, upgraded the logic for shipping selection in the module to remove some unnecessary options at the checkout. it turns out that the royal mail module error was a duplicated array name in the catalog/model/shipping/royal_mail.php file. <code...

  • Now Shipping to 35 Countries

    Written by Patrick Fenner on 24 May, 2011

    Thanks to a little update, the Deferred Procrastination shop is now offering shipping options to the following 35 countries. If your country is not on the list, and you would like to order from us, please contact us. UK Channel Islands EU: Austria Belgium Bulgaria Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland...

  • Shop open

    Written by Patrick Fenner on 19 May, 2011

    Phew, only a week late and and several late night’s work, and the shop is now ready and open, available now at def-proc.co.uk/shop. I have a preference for having each of the site’s functions run by software that was designed to do it (the front-end CMS is MODx, and the...

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    Written by Patrick Fenner on 12 May, 2011

    Shop taking too long… isn’t it amazing how easily php makes your head hurt? On the other hand, I was really pleased to get a quote for almost all the parts for the development kit this week.

  • Tidying the Shop

    Written by Patrick Fenner on 5 May, 2011

    With the last two weekends each having two bank holidays attached, this week’s article seems to have come round very quickly. With three day weeks, and four day weekends, it’s like two articles in one working week! I have a working test shop now, skinned to look like the rest...

  • Got Git?

    Written by Patrick Fenner on 28 Apr, 2011

    While adding the contact link to the bottom of every page the other week, I managed to accidentally upload the new changes and an out-of-date stylesheet, and so messed up the view of the whole website. Live. After testing the changes first. And I learnt two things: Backup * Fortunately...

  • Showing a legitimate front

    Written by Patrick Fenner on 21 Apr, 2011

    As part of launching an online shop, It’s important for me to show that I am a legitimate supplier that deserves your business, so I need to include on my website, the information that I look for when I’m shopping at a new site online. While finding any or all...

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