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Facebook API v2.0 Ubuntu PHP 5.4 #fail
So I finally caught on to the fact that Facebook released version 2.0 of their API at the end of April (to coincide with the F8 developer conference.) and will discontinue pre v2.0 API calls in April...
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Magento Product Data and Attribute Exporter
Over the last few years I have developed a few different PHP scripts to export Magento product data in order to manipulate product pricing, generate Magento EAN barcodes or create product import data....
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Magento Product Attribute Search and Filter
The Magento product database is pretty flexible when it comes to extracting product information. Sometimes however, extracting all the information you want for a product is not so easy. For example you...
View ArticleInstalling / Compiling FFMPEG for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
There are currently no official repositories for an APT install of FFMPEG on Ubuntu, but If you are upgrading to or installing Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and want to recompile or install FFMPEG the process is...
View ArticleUpgrading Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS to 14.04.01 LTS
Back in July I was ranting about the new Facebook API that requires PHP 5.4 or later. My main production server was running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with PHP 5.3, and although the 14.04 LTS had been released...
View ArticleCannot Send PHP Mail after Ubuntu Upgrade
I recently made a list of problems experienced after upgrading from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS, an additional problem that finally came to light about a week later was that mail sent from...
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Magento, Poodle and Paypal – Disable SSL v3 Before December 3rd
The so called Poodle security vulnerability was announced by Google last Month (October 14 2014). The vulnerability effects SSL v3.0 a transport protocol which has been around for over 18 years and is...
View Article5 Magento Modules You Cannot Live Without
Having spend the last few months working on a major Magento upgrade I thought I would share the modules that I would recommend as Must Have magento backend modules for anyone building a new Magento...
View Article5 Ways to Improve Magento Page Speed
Googles Phantom update recently laid emphasis on having a more mobile friendly website to improve search results on mobile devices. This is great for Magento 1.9 with it’s responsive theme design but...
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Magento REDIS : system, session and full page cache management solution
In computing, active data is often cached to shorten data access times, reduce latency and improve input/output (I/O). Because almost all application workload is dependent upon I/O operations, caching...
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Magento Page Load Time and Cache Performance
Having implemented a Magento REDIS cache management solution I wanted to see what effect using the Magento cache had on page load times. To measure the Magento page load time I load the page into an...
View ArticleMagento Matrix Rates Nett Order Value After Discount
If you are using Webshopapps free Matrix Rates module the default module code uses the order value before discount. Most likely you will want to offer Free Shipping for orders with a nett value...
View ArticleUpgrade Magento CE 1.9.1.x to 1.9.2.0
Magento released a critical security patch bundle for Magento CE on July 7th 2015. At the same time Magento CE 1.9.2.0 was released which includes the security patch bundle. The patch bundle...
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BUG : Magento 1.9.2.0 CE Static Block Cache Bug
NOTE – this bug was patched in MAGE 1.9.2.1 If you upgraded Magento to version 1.9.2 to fix the recent (July 2015) security vulnerabilities your Magento shop now has a bug affecting static blocks....
View ArticleMagento Lowest Group Product Price Including Tier Prices
In Magento you can get price data for a product with $this->getPriceHtml($_product, true). The boolean true also returns information for the lowest price of the product. For configurable and simple...
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Magento Google Pagespeed js,css,htmlminify Optimisation
Google PageSpeed is a family of tools by Google Inc, designed to help a website’s performance optimisations. Page speed is important for Magento customers, Google search and for SEO. The question is,...
View ArticleMagento Dev Folder
The Magento 1.9.2.1 release source code included the Magento Test Framework files. The Magento Test Framework (MTF) is a tool that can run automated functional tests, to assist in the development and...
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Magento PayPal Plus Integration
If you are an online retailer in Germany using PayPal chances are you have or will be getting a call from PayPal encouraging you to migrate your PayPal payment methods to PayPal Plus. What is PayPal...
View ArticleMagento iPhone Mobile Admin with Framework 7
I needed to do some simple Magento admin from my phone when I was away from the office, check orders, refresh caches etc. Using the full backend interface on an iPhone to do simple admin tasks is...
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Raspberry Radio – Raspberry Pi MPD Web Interface
Over easter I dug out my old Raspberry Pi which had been gathering dust for the last couple of years and turned it into a headless internet radio player. The radio player part is pretty easy using MPD...
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