Wooooo! It seems the big 1.0 has finally be released, and is out of beta. From the Magento Blog:
To everyone who spread the word about Magento, told a friend, wrote in blogs, posted and commented in the Magento forums, subscribed to our newsletter, downloaded one (or more) of our 11 preview releases, reported bugs, participated in the Magento community, to the online merchants who waited for Magento 1.0, developers and designers who convinced their clients to wait for the product and our partners who recognized the potential — Thank you for believing
Looks like there are plenty of bug fixes and even some new features in this version! Hooray! Looks like it’s time to update the Dreamhost Magento Installation Guide.
I’ve been watching the Magento e-commerce project for about the last month and a half - since Ben sent me a link to it. It’s an open-source e-commerce package, that primarily aims to pickup and improve where OSCommerce, Joomla + VirtueMart, and ZenCart have left off - streamlining a CMS (Content Management Sytem) and E-commerce shopping cart. This also means built-in SEO (Search Engine Optimization), Google Checkout integration, varied customer groups, and much more…. straight out of the box. The problem appears to be that there are a lot of people on the Magento forums who are running into problems, and don’t have a clue on how to get it running under their Dreamhost hosting account. Unfortunately it also looks like the previous article(s) for Magento+Dreamhost installs have disappeared, or are outdated. And that’s where this article comes in… Continue reading ‘Magento Installation Guide for Dreamhost’
I’m sure all of our readers can type 70+ words a minute (right?), so no one really cares to make writing any quicker. That is, except for the fact that we’re a bunch of lazy bastards that hate data-entry tedium and loathe trying to grab snippets out of our clunky IDE’s. Even Zend’s snippet IDE leaves a lot to be desired - and it’s one of the best we’ve come across. To help alleviate the problem, LifeHacker’s got a tool called Texter built on the Autohotkey framework.
What Texter does is fairly simple - you write a “function” in Texter that keeps an eye out for when you type certain keywords. If you type a keyword then hit the trigger key, your keyword gets replaced with the function you wrote in Texter. It’s fun, really!
Continue reading ‘Top 10 Texter Uses for Code Monkeys’
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