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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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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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Forrester names Magento as an up-and-coming eCommerce solution

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 [...]

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Some challenges for online retailers in 2009

Sunday, February 1, 2009

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 [...]

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