If you’ve ever moved websites between hosts or wanted to set up a development version of a client site then you’ll have copied files from one and made them available to the other. The basic method for doing this is to ftp into the source server, download the files to your computer, ftp to the [...]
Just got wind of some great desktops. Rope and Arrows are my favourites. Then again there’s always the 70s testcard. The clown is just plain creepy!
After a few months of waiting my copy of Windows 7 finally arrived in its shiny new box with the rounded corner yesterday morning. Since then it’s been sitting on the table waiting for me to get round to installing it onto the Mac Book Pro, which has been quivering in the corner for some [...]
I’ve just been looking at the BBC review of Windows 7. I ordered a copy a few months back to get it cheap so I’m fairly interested to hear what they have to say. To be honest though, it’s a pretty superficial review as it focuses on the features such as the windows ‘dock’, window resizing [...]
After a quick review of the WordPress plugins available for Twitter (and there are a lot!) I finally plumped for bird-feeder. I only want a lightweight plugin that pushes my blog posts out to twitter using the title as the text. Something that bird-feeder is designed to do and that’s it. I looked at tweetsuite [...]
Magento is a great piece of kit and is taking the e-commerce world by storm. However, unless you have a good understanding of object-oriented programming and are familiar with extended classes you’re going to struggle a little. At the moment I’m redesigning a client’s site to incorporate an intial splitter page as the home page [...]
This helped me get to grips with RT (re=tweeting) in Twitter: http://www.ruhanirabin.com/the-art-of-re-tweeting-in-twitter/. Seeing as tweets only have a two-week lifespan it’s an important concept to keep things alive that need to be, though overuse would get a bit much I imagine. Better to write a blog entry in some cases.
If you want to join in the testing of Wordpress 2.9 then sign up at http://wordpress.org/development/2009/10/getting-involved-with-the-2-9-beta-testing/. You’ll need to use a beta tester plugin on a test version of your site. They’re looking to release at the end of October.
In community version 1.4 of Magento a new option to add user-designe widgets will be available. This represents a big step forward for Magento, the shopping cart software to use. For more information see http://www.magentocommerce.com/blog/comments/introducing-magento-widgets/. Getting dynamic data onto your pages will be a fairly simple process soon.
(Taken from the Magento blog)
Dynamic product data in [...]
