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I just feel bad for those who just purchased the Canon EOS 50D, knowing the Canon EOS 60D is the same price and of course has a higher and new technology built-in to it, naming a few:

1.  )Max. aperture TTL metering with 63-zone SPC with the following selectable modes:
Evaluative metering (linkable to all AF points)
Partial metering (approx. 6.5% of viewfinder at center)
Spot metering (approx. 2.8% of viewfinder at center)
Center-Weighted average metering

2.) Total pixels: Approx. 19.0 Megapixels: 5432 (H) x 3492 (V) pixels

3.) Effective pixels: Approx. 18.0 Megapixels: 5200 (H) x 3462 (V) pixels

Oh well – Technology as we all know it, travels so fast that we as the consumers are constantly on the chase.

You can see the 50D / 60D Side by Side Comparison – HERE

Overall I was pleased with the results, although power wise, not quite close to my favorite Profoto RingFlash – but for what you need it for, it has great features.  Power wise I was just using it for 2 various F-Stops, so I didn’t really push it that much, since it was not mine and it was my first time using it, the slider where you were supposed to mount your camera was missing a piece, I am not quite sure if it came with one and was attached to someone’s camera.

I had a good experience using it and would love to experiment more on it and post some cool pictures.  Below is a sample of one of the shots.

For now I decided to incorporate my work under one showcase – “PORTFOLIO” later on as I update my images I will break them down into there corresponding categories. – Remember this was an update on my core site files and the look and feel, easier navigation and just direct. Images will come next and boy do I have a lot of images to catalog and edit and upload.

So for now I hope you enjoy the new and simple www.ronosmena.com site and by the way I also changed my blog location, not really a frontend change, as a user, you won’t even notice the change, but yeah I did!

Oh well!  So here we go! It is now time to get indexed by GOOGLE, YAHOO and BING!

Just a little plug – Check out PurpleARO coming soon!!!

Stay happy!  Enjoy your day with family and friends!

Happy Easter Everyone!

Keep it simple.

1.) Back Up your Production DB
2.) Create a new Staging DOMAIN
3.) Create a SAMPLE DB
4.) Install Magento 1.4.x.x in your Staging DOMAIN
5.) Use the SAMPLE DB for the NEW Magento 1.4.x.x Install
6.) Once everything is installed and working (AS A FRESH INSTALL)
7.) Create a NEW PRODUCTION BLANK DB
8.) Restore your Back Up’d Production DB and Restore it to the NEW one you created in STEP 7
9.) Go to /app/etc/
10.) Rename the “local.xml” to any file for example “local.xml-SOMETHING”
11.) Now go to the the STAGING DOMAIN (this should run the INSTALLATION again)
12.) Go through the Installation and use the NEW PRODUCTION DB you just restored in STEP 8
13.) Once you you go to the step after the database information, it may take a few minutes depending on your DB size, mine takes about 15 minutes (BE PATIENT)
14.) After a couple of REFRESH’s on your browser you will see the ENTER YOUR NAME section that means you have gone through.
15.) DONE

This procedure has helped me upgrade all my 6 clients whom run Magento as there backend e-commerce solutions and after documenting all my notes and making a step by step instruction manual, I have more fixes from the above steps.

If you had a very smooth version and less products and customization the above steps should work  flawlessly (I hope) but if it doesn’t as it did not for me, since I had to edit a few tables, my INDEX products / categories was not refreshing, had to DROP a table and edit the operation of one table.  I had to add the WIDGET table, etc.  Then yes it does need further deep fixing.

Please feel free to email me and I would be able to see if I can help you.

Then again to remind my readers that the above steps WORKED FOR ME and I was successful after a few weeks of painful studying.  It may not work for you if you have other customizations done to your site.  But hey!  It’s a staging site anyway and we all can get desperate, so go ahead give it a toy around!

P.S.

Do not forget about the the templates, your OLD templates will not work with the new 1.4.0.1 so again you have to recreate your templates as well.

Yeah yeah I know it is a pain, but oh well, we always love a little challenge.

‘Ciao!

If you as a designer or a programmer after drilling down and using both, it really boils down to client needs.  It’s what you want out of it, both platforms are strong in there own way.

I have to give it up to Joomla because just randomly browsing around the internet I have come across various websites that use there platform and I have to tell you that they are impressive and just as powerful as any heavily coded website.  User Interface (UI) can always be enjoyable no matter what platform you use in the back-end side.

It again boils down to what your client needs and how you want to give the output and of course how much your client is willing to spend.

I am sure the rise of Joomla website backed platforms will continue to rise.