Troutman’s Laws of Computer Programming
TweetEveryone loves a list of funny computer programming jokes. I found this email in the Computer Science department of the University of Bath.Date: 15 Jun 1979 2:04pm (Friday) From: MURPHY (not...
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June 2011 eCommerce Survey
TweetThe June 2011 eCommerce survey of the Alexa top 1 million sites found 25,592 online stores. Magento continues to reign as the most popular platform with 4,705 sites, an 15% increase since...
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Browser Beats: An HTML 5 music player for local MP3s
TweetPlay your local mp3 files in the browser with Browser Beats, a hack weekend project by Tomas Gerulaitis and me.This weekend, Storm Consultancy held their second hack weekend. A time for webbies to...
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Oct 2011 eCommerce Survey
TweetOctober 2011′s eCommerce survey found 4% more stores than the June survey, detecting 26,594 in total. The analysis looks at the home page of the top 1 million Alexa sites and analyses them for...
View ArticleHandy regex for adding inline translations to Magento template files
TweetWhen developing Magento themes, you will quite often have flat HTML that you are breaking apart and putting into Magento’s template files. One thing that I have OCD-like tendencies with is the...
View ArticleFeb 2012 eCommerce Survey
TweetThe February 2012 eCommerce survey found 33,632 sites in the Alexa Top 1 Million. The survey visits each site and analyses the HTML document against a set of rules that detect the use of any one...
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What’s new in Magento 1.7?
TweetMagento 1.7 is at release candidate version one with 10 open issues. We should be expecting the full release shortly to tie in with the annual Imagine Conference.It’s time for a whirlwind overview...
View ArticleA Bee on the Wall of Sweet Tooth
TweetFor a couple of days in August I was privileged enough to spend a couple of days working from Sweet Tooth. It was a fantastic opportunity to swap tips and reflect on how to run a business.First, a...
View ArticleMagento Security: Check your app/etc/local.xml file.
TweetThe local.xml that can found in the app/etc/ folder of your Magento installation. It contains the database connection details to your store and the encryption key used to secure data. If a...
View ArticleOctober 2012 eCommerce Survey
TweetThe October 2012 eCommerce survey found 35,218 sites in the Alexa Top 1 Million. This is a 4% increase since the February eCommerce survey.Magento, with a 23% share of the market, is the leading...
View ArticleGet the Latest Post of a Facebook Page
TweetMy awesome friend Lewis King wanted to display the latest facebook post in the footer of a site that he’s building. He’s not a developer, and facebook didn’t make it easy.The tangled web of...
View ArticleFeb 2013 eCommerce Survey
TweetThe February 2013 eCommerce survey found 34,864 sites in the Alexa Top 1 Million. This is a slight decrease on the October 2012 survey.The eCommerce software with the largest market share...
View ArticleMigrate file to a new git repository while preserving version history
TweetFinding myself in a position where I was decommissioning an old project and starting afresh, there was a file that I wanted to copy to my new project and, ideally, retain all of the valuable...
View ArticleMagento Configuration Powered CSS Extension
A problem that we’ve come across a few times at Meanbee is needing to apply different CSS depending on admin configuration settings and images uploaded.It’s not an overwhelming problem but still one...
View ArticleMagento Custom Homepage Per Theme.
Magento’s multi-website, multi-store management is fantastic for handling internationalisation and design variations. One of the features that can help support design variations are using theme...
View ArticleReading and Getting Closer to the Source
In an age where bite-sized content is continually generated and immediately available, it can be hard not to consume it. Whether the fix is email, social media, news, web articles, it is hard to combat...
View ArticleFinding Swimming Pools with IBM Watson
Much of my recent research and development time recently has been spent exploring IBM’s machine learning. For anyone that’s spent time with me will know that I’m a little bit obsessed with the...
View ArticleTools for Managing A PHP Library
I spend an awful lot of time with Magento, but over the past year I’ve been catching up with how PHP has been progressing since the days when Magento was architected.One of the small side-projects I...
View ArticleUniversal Basic Income, What Gives?
Over the last couple of years, I’ve taken an interest in the rise in discussions on Universal Basic Income (UBI). It’s not often that I write about politics or economics but I wanted to compile the...
View ArticleMagento Imagine 2017
Presented at Magento Imagine on beating the competition with Cognitive Commerce.
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