Archive for February, 2009
Learning to Design and Code for Magento Themes
Feb 24th
First off, the first reaction I always hear when others are introduced to Magento [including myself] are complaints about how difficult it is. The truth is it is just as easy as what we’re all used to. I’m going to show you that today by drawing comparisons between Magento and some other popular open-source projects we’re more familiar with such as Drupal and WordPress.
This guide is meant to be a quick-start supplement for the official Magento Design Guide, and not a replacement for it. It assumes you are already familiar with and have completed themes for Drupal and/or WordPress.
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Loading ...Introducing Zend Core PHP Stack for Windows
Feb 13th
For anyone who doesn’t know, Zend Core is a new solution for PHP developers as of 2008.
Prior to this all we had were solutions like XAMPP, WAMP, with a surprising number of others still pursuing the hard way. Personally, I’ve been relying on XAMPP Lite and the good people at Apache Friends to provide me with timely updates and seamless upgrade paths between versions for the better part of 3 years. I have to admit, it was hard to part, but there are clear benefits to making the transition.
(5 votes, average: 3.20 out of 5) Loading ...Magento Crashing Apache on WinXP XAMPP with PDO Enabled
Feb 12th
Very frustrating! With XAMPP Lite 1.6.8 on Windows XP SP3, I could get Magento 1.2.0.1 to work but Apache would crash randomly every 3-5 minutes triggered by new page loads or refreshes. Upgrading to Magento 1.2.0.2 and then 1.2.1 didn’t help. Upgrading to XAMPP Lite 1.7.0 made it worse because Apache would crash on every page load, finally making it impossible to work with. That’s when I realized these types of problems were known issues between Magento and XAMPP.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Introducing Magento eCommerce Platform
Feb 11th
For anyone who doesn’t know, Magento is a new open-source e-commerce platform first stable released Q3 2008 using the PHP5 Zend Framework. What is amazing about this platform is in less than one year it has rocketed to the top of Google search volume trends closely rivaling—and soon to overtake—the long-time osCommerce project. Today the project is supported by Varien, an Open Source eCommerce software development and consulting firm who started the project, and an ever-growing community of over 68,000 users and developers.
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Plesk 9.x DNS Settings Missing or Hidden from Domains
Feb 10th
So I took the plunge and upgraded from Plesk 8 to 9. Among the many changes, the most pervasive and frustrating change is the GUI reorganization. The new one sucks to be quite honest, but in particular they’ve made it nearly impossible to locate the DNS Settings icon for each apache virtual host / domain name. If you’re having the same problem, here’s where to find it.
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