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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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Pod1 launches World Cup charity fund-raiser

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Since Pod1 is doing so well in South Africa, we’ve decided to use the World Cup to raise some money for a charity that works in Southern Africa to help orphans affected by AIDS / HIV: Starfish. We’re holding a competition, the rules for which are as follows: •Choose a team in the World Cup [...]

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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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Buddypress – now installed on this blog

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

I’ve installed the Buddypress add-on and theme compatibility on this blog. For an explanation of what that is and why I’ve done it, click here.

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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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Interested in becoming an information architect?

Monday, August 24, 2009

Before the Internet, I used to do something called effective GUI design, which was all about designing Windows applications for the people that were going to use them. Since going online in 2000 I’ve been working with people who sometimes call themselves information architects, sometimes user experience consultants or usability consultants, one guy I interviewed [...]

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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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Pod1 gets audited

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

I’ve just written a post about PCI compliance for the Pod1 blog. You can read it here.

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