Brenden Integrations

How to Feed Your Product Catalog to AI for Search, Merch and Purch

If you mean ChatGPT’s “Instant Checkout” (buy inside chat), the most efficient path is not sitemap.xml. It’s: Below is the concrete “what data / what order / what format / what schema”. Step 0 — Confirm eligibility and apply Instant Checkout in ChatGPT is open to approved partners. The official “Get started” flow is: apply […]

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Understanding Celigo with NetSuite, vs Tim Dietrich SuiteAPI

Celigo is the do-it-all battleship to accompany the aircraft-carrier that is Oracle NetSuite. This dynamic duo can be pricey. An equally-capable lower-level framework, Tim Dietrich’s SuiteAPI is a free DIY tool that is designed to be maximally leveraged by integrators and coders for significant cost-savings. Both can be used together. One brings much pre-built possibility; […]

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Javascript from Joke to Joy to Juggernaut in 30 Years

Javascript from Joke to Joy to Juggernaut in 30 Years TL;DR – Standards + easy sharing. Here’s the short version of how JavaScript went from “toy” to a first-class platform, and who/what made it happen. 1995–2004: A scrappy beginning → standards 2008–2012: The engine arms race (speed made JS serious) 2009–2015: The language grows up […]

How to ask AI for help that is tested verified known-good help

How to ask AI for help that is tested verified known-good help …or at least as “knowngood” as can be without testing in a live lab environ. PROMPT is there a way i can make you go thru every step quickly and verify it all works before you run me around? RESPONSE Yes — but […]

Best Practices – Mongo Speed vs Distant WAN

Best Practices – Mongo Speed vs Distant WAN Yes — MongoDB replica sets across WANs can significantly impact performance, especially for read and write operations that wait on acknowledgments or are sensitive to replication lag. Here’s how to speed up your MongoDB replica set: Best Practices: 1. Yes, remove distant secondaries if: 2. Use readPreference: […]

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Madness? Suspect AppArmor FIRST

Madness? Suspect AppArmor FIRST AppArmor has caused silent, hard-to-diagnose issues for many people, and it’s even more frustrating because it’s often enabled by default without any loud warning or clear opt-out. So here’s the full story: who made it, where it came from, and how the hell it became default on systems like Debian and […]

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NetSuite Internals – Several APIs

NetSuite Internals – Several APIs SuiteTalk API (suitetalk.api.netsuite.com) vs Other SuiteConnect Methods SuiteTalk is the SOAP-based API that NetSuite provides for interacting programmatically with its platform. However, NetSuite offers other ways to connect external applications via SuiteConnect, which encompasses different integration options such as SuiteAnalytics Connect, REST API, and ODBC/JDBC. Here’s a comparison of SuiteTalk […]

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Is Oracle NetSuite a Boat Anchor to sink Small Business?

Is Oracle NetSuite a Boat Anchor to sink Small Business? “We literally went from [sub-]second response / redraw times to routinely 5 seconds, sometimes 30 seconds or more, in common functions such as adding an Invoice and displaying a table of Invoices… it is totally ridiculous, ruinous to our productivity. … Several expensive consultants have […]

Oracle Netsuite Monster

Oracle NetSuite for 5-10 employees, estimated cost $37k to $140k startup then $12k to $24k annually plus time investment

Oracle NetSuite for 5-10 employees, estimated cost $37k to $140k startup then $12k to $24k annually plus time investment Oracle NetSuite might be considered as an Aircraft Carrier. Most actual real-world business needs are barely for a destroyer, powerboat, or even a rowboat. The “time investment” seems both up-front in the dev and learning curve(s) […]