Instant Magento performance optimization howto

I just finished reading the Instant Magento performance optimization howto ebook by Packt and I’m about to write a quick review. First of all this book is short (50 pages), quick and easy to read. Don’t misunderstand me, for me this is a big plus: Magento is a big universe and for me it’s better to [...]

So you want PayPal Express Checkout on Magento 1.3?

And you get some weird errors… open your app/code/core/Mage/Paypal/Model/Api/Nvp.php file and search for SOLUTIONTYPE, change its value to “mark”. Edit your PayPal preferences from Magento backend and use this PayPal Url: https://www.paypal.com/au/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_express-checkout&useraction=commit&token= You should be done. Good luck.

“Mastering Magento” first look

I just received the Mastering Magento ebook from Packt a few hours ago, I’m really out of time in these weeks but I wanted to share a couple of thoughts from the first look at this book. If you’re a Magento developer, than get it, from a really quick view (I’m gonna review it later) I [...]

P4A’s tools changes

In the last months we had problems with the past infrastructure, our mediawiki was heavily attacked and become useless and SourceForge’s bugtracker was completely destroyed by spam. So I took the suggestion of one of our followers to rethink about everything and give it a spin: First of all I moved the code repository to [...]

Magento 2.0

News are coming out about our new loved/hated Magento major (and it’s gonna be really major) release: Magento2. First of all a technical overview video, not too recent actually: One amazing thing is that the development moved to github: https://github.com/magento/magento2 with all the benefits we know. Another nice improvement is that we have public tests [...]

UCK 2.4.6 is out!

A new maintainance release is ready just for you, giving you full precise compatibility, here’s the changelog: ———– – 2.4.6 – ———– * Frontend: * Unity was added to the desktop manager choice Fixes #946404 * Backend: * Languages list was updated to precise * A bug with /etc/resolv.con on precise was fixed Fixes #946480 [...]