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Think different.
06 October 2011
It is difficult to envisage a modern world now without the products and services that Steve created - amongst many others the original Mac, the iMac, the iPod and iTunes, the iPhone, the iPad. Continue reading...
REST & JSON support for the Magento Core API
03 September 2011
The super clever people at Inchoo have just released a free extension for Magento 1.5 and above which adds support for REST, JSON and AMF API server to the existing Magento Core API. Continue reading...
Fixing slow .local DNS lookups on OS X 10.7 Lion
01 September 2011
Ever since I upgraded to Lion I had found that it was taking much longer than previously to resolve .local development domains that i had stored in /etc/hosts. It turns out a few things changed in Lion but fortunately there’s an easy fix at StackOverflow. Continue reading...
New Adventures in Web Design 2011 Review
21 January 2011
My review of the first ever New Adventures in Web Design (#naconf) conference held on 20th January 2011 in Nottingham, England. I have just got back from the inaugural New Adventures in Web Design conference which was held yesterday in Nottingham. The conference was organised by Simon Collison, a veteran speaker at events like this himself, and so hopes were understandably high. Continue reading...
New Adventures in Web Design Preview
18 January 2011
This week sees the first big web conference of 2011 - New Adventures in Web Design - which takes place in Nottingham and there's quite a buzz building. Continue reading...
Introduction to Magento Theme Development
18 January 2011
Nick Jones, Technical Director of Meanbee in Bath has written an excellent article over on Sitepoint covering the best way to approach Magento theme development. Continue reading...
Setting a default custom option in Magento
20 April 2010
Custom Options in Magento are a great way to offer non-stock specific options on products that are being sold - for example allowing the customisation of an item by adding text. This is very simple to do with the standard functionality. On the site I am currently building I had a need to offer a custom option on a product - in my specific case it was the nib type on a fountain pen. This article covers how I achieved this with Magento 1.4. Continue reading...