Web design and development has significantly changed over the years, as have the tools and technologies involved. With these advancements come tools to make our lives easier, provide higher quality work and better services for our clients. Communication and collaboration over vast distances is no longer painfully frustrating (or impossible) and project or task management [...]
November 10, 2009
Almost a year ago (wow, time flies!) I wrote a little tutorial explaining the nuances of add_meta_box in WordPress, and how it can be used to create some nifty Custom Write Panels. It was a nice little script, and still functioned great. I use it on almost all of the projects Liam and I have, [...]
November 10, 2009
I use Google Analytics for my web sites, you might use Mint or something else bespoke, but if you’re using JavaScript to track those stats (as Google does), you’re not capturing how many users you have that don’t have JavaScript installed. I’ve written a plugin which I’ll share with you and also explain how it works [...]
November 10, 2009
You don’t want to go putting HTML tags directly into post titles. It might show up OK on your own site, but it can be problematic. For example, your titles through RSS will show the tags as next, not render them. I was wishing for a plugin to handle this better, but until then, here [...]
November 10, 2009
One of the best ways to ensure strong security for your WordPress-powered site is to secure its foundations during the installation process. Of course these techniques can be implemented at any point during the life of your site, but stetting them before the game starts prevents headaches and saves time. We’ll start with the WordPress [...]
November 9, 2009
Sometimes due loosely, undefined, agreement around some feature and deadline that’s thrown upon us, developers need to look for the fastest solution around some requirement. Fastest but stable is the key word here. Here is a practical example of one can easily connect Magento with some other system. In my case I had Magento plus WordPress [...]
October 24, 2009
Recently I was assigned a task to check the slowness of PDF printing on invoice page of Magento admin. It took him around 5minutes to print PDF (return PDF document on Invoice page). After diving into the code trying to trace the issue I found what was the cause of slow printing. PDF document that [...]
October 23, 2009
With all its ORM, model, resource and so on greatness, sometimes platform limitations are too obvious in Magento when it comes to large number of products in store. Recently I faced a simple task, I needed to disable around 6500 products in Magento that were assigned to a single category called “Inactive Products”. Given that [...]
November 10, 2009
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