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Installing a Magento extension through patch-file

April 30, 2013

Extensions can be installed in Magento using various methods - upload of a MagentoConnect package, automatic download from the MagentoConnect site. Some extensions are only available as a simple ZIP-file. This tutorial covers the installation of that last group of extensions.

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Vm2Mage 0.10.3 is out

April 29, 2013

A new version 0.10.3 of Vm2Mage, our migration-tool to switch from Joomla!/VirtueMart to Magento, was released about 2 weeks but here are the details: Product-relation migration, category-fixes when dealing with multisite and performance.

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Joomla! 3.1 is out - get 20% teabag-discount

April 27, 2013

Joomla! 3.1.0 appeared just a few days ago, and yesterday Joomla! 3.1.1 was released - Joomla! is really pushing it with releases. But to keep you relaxed, we got a special thing for you: A special teabag-discount to keep you in the right mood (and save you some money).

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Book-review "Magento Performance Optimization How-To"

April 18, 2013

Everybody wants a fast Magento shop, but performance-tuning is a vast area requiring a lot of expertise. Luckily enough there are numerous practices that aid Magento performance without requiring too much knowledge. A great bunch of those practices is bundled in this ebook "Magento Performance Optimization How-To" by Nayrolles Mathieu.

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JoomlaDays Netherlands 2013

April 17, 2013

While Yireo speaks English, has some team-members all over the world, and is internationally oriented, I myself personally am still very Dutch. And therefor participating in the Dutch Jooma!Days 2013 is a natural thing. We are looking forward being there this weekend.

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Tune migration performance with Vm2Mage

April 16, 2013

Magento is a complex product, and this complexity comes with a downside: On a non-optimized hosting environment Magento can be quite slow. This whitepaper discusses options on how to optimize things so that the Vm2Mage migration goes as fast as possible.

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Magento Search Engine Page Cache

April 14, 2013

Sometime ago we were optimizing a Magento shop for speed, and discovered that numerous robots were crawling the site daily causing a continuous extra load on the server. It made us think: Did those robots actually need the entire Magento site to be loaded dynamically? Or could we implement something to speed up things tremenduously?

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New Magento extension ProfilerLog

April 8, 2013

When Magento is performing badly, profiling is key: But the Magento profiler only allows you to profile a single page. What if the performance problems are occurring every time you are asleep? You will need to log those profiling-data. This is exactly what our ProfilerLog extension does.

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Book review of "E-Commerce with Magento: Build a Shop"

April 7, 2013

Two months ago, the book "E-Commerce with Magento: Build a Shop" came out - an 18-page e-book on Magento basics written by Branko Ajzele, CTO at Inchoo. Here's a short review of this excellent introduction to Magento.

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