Magento Guide, Part 1 - Installing Magento

This is the first part of what will be a series of guides on using the new eCommerce system, Magento. The best place to start is always the beginning, so the initial subject will be Installing Magento in your web space. This guide will include the Installation Guide, a brief Troubleshooting Section, [...]

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PHP5 - Slow on the uptake?

As a developer I always have in the back of my mind the importance of new technologies, and I am constantly thinking – “what should I learn next?” There is no doubt that web technologies move quickly - that’s a given - but after its initial release in 2004, why is PHP5 only just [...]

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Magento Hosting Speed Test Tool

While comparing our new PHP5 Magento Hosting we found this speed test site. Although UK based Magento eCommerce Hosts are, for the moment, few in number, we thought we would create a Spreadsheet Tool to use the Internet Supervision speed test to compare our speed against other Hosting providers. The calculator allows [...]

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Something Old, Something Nu, Something Magento, Something Blue

There can be two very different schools of thought when something new comes out. On one side, you have the people who have to have the latest as soon as it arrives, and will happily be out with the old in favour of the new. Then you have their opposites, the people who [...]

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