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Archive :: January, 2009

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Jan 09

Magento Platform Revisited

It’s been almost three weeks now since I’ve started learning the Magento ecommerce platform.  With an impressive array of features, like product comparisons and a web services API, the platform sounds promising.  I had hoped that by the time I’d revisit this topic, I’d be able to say I’ve successfully implemented the software.  Instead I’m having trouble setting up my product catalog (it involves importing).  And how can I forget to mention the overall issue of speed?

Let’s start at the beginning, at installation.  Your web server likely has capable hardware, so you need to be sure that your software configuration meets requirements.  Luckily the host I’m on was set up just fine the way it was.  Obviously you need to download the software – I chose to download the Full Release (version 1.1.8 at the time).  Read more »

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Jan 09

CSS Neatness Technique

css-neatness-technique_0.jpg We’ve all seen long and unmanageable CSS files, sometimes hundreds or even thousands of lines long.  Finding the exact declaration you’re looking for can be a royal pain in the arse.  It’s worse when style declarations for a particular element can be found more than once in a file, such as when the coder wants to separate structural styling from say typography styling.

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Jan 09

iPhone Wordpress App

I had known for a while that there was an iPhone application for Wordpress but for the longest time I couldn’t get it to work properly. Thankfully, we have Google as a resource, and a little querying quickly led me to a solution.

This is a problem that is likely to affect shared hosting. You have to add the following lines to your .htaccess file (or create an .htaccess file with these lines):

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