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 such [...]
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 [...]
Why isn’t there a hilarious website on this URL http://www.idontwantoneofthose.com/
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.
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 [...]
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 is [...]
According to this research Google now has an enormously dominant position in the tracking of which websites we visit every day. They have their Google Analytics tags on millions of websites, including 92 of the top 100. This is important, because it positions them to do extremely targetted advertising when their ad products are used. [...]
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
According to this post on Magento’s blog, Forrester has named Magento’s eCommerce application as one of the up-and-coming solutions. This is amazing, for an application that is essentially free to use. It’s been compared with software costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, and come out of that comparison very favourably.
Being mentioned in a Forrester report [...]
This BBC news story makes the point that online fraud is going to be an increasing challenge for retailers this year, as online fraud matures into something serious criminals do. What used to be a hobby for vandals or gifted amateurs is now seen as a legitimate source of income in illegitimate businesses. It’s not [...]
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
3 of the 4 cables that provide internet connections between Europe and North Africa (and thence the Middle East) are broken at the moment. Repairs won’t be completed for a few more days, because a ship has to find the broken ends, and drag them to the surface, where they will be stitched together fibre [...]