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October 4, 2014

When running a Magento site, giving the right attention to the server environment is a must. Magento is a resource intensive application, so making sure it runs fast enough is vital for your business. This guide is not about the procedures to reach best performance, but which tools are needed to make this possible in the first place.

October 4, 2014

Zend Server 7 contains a wonderful tool called Z-Ray, which allows you to inspect code execution from within a toolbar in your browser. It is a must have for any serious PHP developer. This guide explains you how to use the PHP configuration option auto_prepend_file to determine who gets to see Z-Ray and who does not.

October 2, 2014

This years Joomla World Conference - JWC 2014 - will be held in Cancun, Mexico in early November. We are proud to be there and part of it - both as speaker and as sponsor. Let's see what will be happening.

September 22, 2014

Years ago, Yireo organized various bootcamps in The Netherlands - fun events where technical info was exchanged. Well, we're back! Together with Perfect Web Team, we are putting together an expert session on Joomla Usability. So what is the deal?

September 2, 2014

Early august, Google announced that it would take HTTPS as a ranking signal. It's a technical way of saying that your site's SEO benefits from the usage of HTTPS. So how can you tune Joomla to benefit from this? Do you need to run your site through SSL all of a sudden?

June 14, 2014

There is a lot to do these days about HHVM (aka Hip Hop Virtual Machine). Facebook developed this new PHP engine for its own purpose, but released it as an open source project to the public. And recently, using it for Magento has become quite popular due its unmatched performance. In other words: HHVM with Magento is da bomb! So what about MageBridge? Dutch hosting provider HostingXS did some great testing for us!

June 11, 2014

You might be familiar with Watchfulli, which offers monitoring of multiple Joomla! sites from one single dashboard. Their SaaS (Software as a Solution) service is already used by numerous Joomla! admins and easily extendible Joomla! plugins. We are happy to announce that we now also offer a Watchfulli plugin for MageBridge.

June 5, 2014

Another example of the fact that the best solutions are developed because of practical issues. We were tweaking a Magento site for better sales conversion, but when customizing the success page (the page shown after the order has been completed) things got annoying: After a refresh, the cart was empty and we were redirected away from the success page. We developed an extension to tackle the issue.

May 13, 2014

When customizing Magento transactional emails, you have two ways to modify the email content: By using the Magento Admin Panel, which means editing HTML in a plain textarea. Or by using the HTML templates-files using your preferred code editor. Our free EmailOverride extension comes to the rescue to help you with the last option.