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Feb 2013 eCommerce Survey 27 Mar 2013 | 07:25 pm
The 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 continues t...
Get the Latest Post of a Facebook Page 27 Jan 2013 | 07:06 pm
My 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 facebook ...
October 2012 eCommerce Survey 6 Nov 2012 | 06:37 pm
The 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 eCom...
Magento Security: Check your app/etc/local.xml file. 2 Nov 2012 | 02:49 pm
The 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 nefarious i...
A Bee on the Wall of Sweet Tooth 4 Sep 2012 | 07:23 pm
For 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 bi...
What’s new in Magento 1.7? 10 Apr 2012 | 10:56 am
Tweet Magento 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 ove...
Feb 2012 eCommerce Survey 22 Feb 2012 | 04:40 am
Tweet The 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 on...
Handy regex for adding inline translations to Magento template files 5 Oct 2011 | 08:55 am
Tweet When 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 ...
Oct 2011 eCommerce Survey 3 Oct 2011 | 10:25 pm
Tweet October 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 ...
Browser Beats: An HTML 5 music player for local MP3s 23 Aug 2011 | 03:55 am
Tweet Play 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 webbi...
