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Varien launch Magento Enterprise Edition 1.9 and Magento Payment Bridge

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Varien have launched version 1.9 of Magento Enterprise Edition: the details are on the Magento website at this link. I watched the webcast that announced the release. There are some interesting new features, which I’ll summarise in this article. Gift registry There is a gift registry in the latest release that allows shoppers to create [...]

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Pod1 to host Magento developer meeting July 28th

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Pod1 are hosting a Magento developer meeting in Westbourne Park, London W10 on July 28th. All the details are at http://blog.pod1.com/technologies/we-invite-you-to-a-magento-developer-get-together-july-28th-at-pod1/ There will be geeks, pizza and beer.

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Are projects actually supposed to be fun?

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

When Wembley Stadium was being built, I remember all sorts of media stories about how badly the project was going, how incompetent the company doing the work must be, and what a disaster it was. Now we have this fantastic stadium, that we’ll be using for decades. Even my recent new kitchen was painful. Often, [...]

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Magento on OS X – Snow Leopard and php

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

A few weeks ago I wrote a post explaining how to get Magento running on an OS X system, using the Entropy php distribution. When I wrote that I was running OS X version 10.5, and I’ve since updated to Snow Leopard: OS X version 10.6. This has presented some problems, as Entropy is not [...]

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Python Magento example code now on Google Code

Monday, March 1, 2010

I’ve been using Python with Magento for small administrative tasks for a couple of months now, and I’ve created a library of useful / example functions that I’d be happy to share and extend. These are now hosted at Google Code, at this URL: http://code.google.com/p/python-magento/ Feel free to comment, extend, ask for extra functions and [...]

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Installing Magento Enterprise stand-alone on OS X

Monday, February 22, 2010

I often have to demonstrate Magento Enterprise to clients and potential clients when I go to visit them, and sometimes that’s difficult, because I can’t connect my laptop to the Internet very easily from their offices. It’d be easier from Starbucks, where I get free wi-fi, and generally the coffee’s better, but some clients don’t [...]

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Such a disappointment!

Monday, February 8, 2010

Why isn’t there a hilarious website on this URL http://www.idontwantoneofthose.com/

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Fantastic customer service

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Graze are worried about the possible postal strike this week. So they’ve reworked their product offering so it doesn’t go off in the post, and sent this very cool email. The brown boxes are arriving at our office in huge quantities now: Pod1′s going to need a bigger mailbox soon.

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Graze.com – fantastic new snack delivery service

Thursday, June 11, 2009

I just received my first delivery from graze.com, a service that delivers healthy (and not healthy) snacks to your home or office regularly. The website’s a great experience (lots of control, rating opportunities, personalised product and some lovely Ajax coding), and the product looks good too. This is the sort of smart innovative new service [...]

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Banana bag, anyone?

Friday, June 5, 2009

Yesterday I was looking at Lakeland’s website and browsed to a particular product by searching for “banana”. Lakeland sell several products that will help you to care for and transport bananas, and their search tool made these very easy to find. Later, I went to Cineworld’s website, to look up when the new Terminator film [...]

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