Category Archives: Magento

Why OS X sucks as a web development platform

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Clive Sweeting

So I thought it was time to end the external summer that is the Apple love in here at Sweet-Apple, and be a little bit controversial. As a whole, OS X makes an excellent web development platform – it’s got … Continue reading →

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Bulk updating prices in Magento e-Commerce

Posted on August 14, 2010 by Clive Sweeting

Keeping your product catalog up-to-date is always a bit of a pain. Whilst Magento provides you with a very sophisticated multiple product/attribute editing system, you can only do this on 200 products at most. So what do you do if … Continue reading →

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Learning from the Magento core…

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Clive Sweeting

Learning any framework is complex. Learning one as labyrinthine as used by Magento e-Commerce is positively painful. So why not learn from the people who programmed the system? When you are in the Administration interface, note down the url path … Continue reading →

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Exporting data from Magento

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Clive Sweeting

Often when using web applications it’s quicker to export any required data directly from the database using SQL queries. Magento e-Commerce is a very different beast, due to the fact that much of the important data is stored using the … Continue reading →

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Enforced discipline when creating Magento Themes

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Clive Sweeting

Magento is a beast of an eCommerce platform. It has a rigid set of conventions for the location and name of your theme files. And your theme should never overwrite any of the base installation that Magento creates. So how … Continue reading →

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