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 [...]
As I wrote a few days ago, I was asked to review the Magento 1.4 Development Cookbook by Packt so I took the right time to read it deeply and with great attention to point out every pro and con of this mid-length book (249 pages). First of all the book is available at a [...]
I found out Magmi while writing my Esprinet importer for Magento. I think that using Magento API is the cleanest way to do every import operation but importing something like 70.000 products was absolutely TOO SLOW so I had to look for something else… Magmi (which is released under the MIT license) does everything using [...]
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As I wrote a few days ago, I was asked to review the Magento 1.4 Development Cookbook by Packt so I took the right time to read it deeply and with great attention to point out every pro and con of this mid-length book (249 pages). First of all the book is available at a [...]
Hello everybody, it’s been a long time since my last post about Magento, many people keep contacting me for some Magento and also if you may know that I don’t like every aspect of this e-commerce platform, it surely deserve some attention (that’s why I’ll restart translating the official Italian Magento Blog for new releases). [...]
Magento announced today an Enterprise Edition, reading the “compare editions” page I see that all these features will be included only in the Enterprise Edition: Advanced Administrator Roles and Permission Restriction per Site (Website and Store View) Logging of Administrator Actions Gift Certificates/Cards (Physical and Virtual) Customer Store Credits Content Staging and Merging. Support for [...]
BgPatterns is a tiled background generation website, I really love it, it’s amazing and it works flawlessly but I think it has a big limitation: it does not allow users to upload their own symbols. If someone of the BgPatterns admins read this, please consider adding this feature :-)
I was browsing the new Lancia Delta website, selecting my language, clicking on “enter the website”, skipping the intro and clicking on the “discover” link (I can’t provide a direct link ’cause it’s all flash). Here I found a weird behavior, try using the scrollbar on the right and you’ll find it by yourself: the [...]
… if the servers are down? UPDATE: mozilla.com is up now but pointing to a strange release candidate page (showing 2.0 releases + some 3.0 rc3). UPDATE 2: mozilla.com is down again (Http/1.1 Service Unavailable). UPDATE 3: yeah, firefox 3 is out, really :-)