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ByAttribute 1.0.0 brings you widgets
February 6, 2012
About a week ago, we released ByAttribute version 1.0.0 for Magento - the so-called stable version that everybody was waiting for such a long time. The first feature of this stable version is that nothing has become more stable than it already was - it's just a version-change. The second feature is that this new release brings widget-support. At last, something easier than hard-code XML-coding ...
SimpleLists 1.6 is out
January 29, 2012
About a month ago, we released SimpleLists 1.6.0.0 as a beta-version, and since then, we have released various intermediate versions to fix the latest bugs: By now it's time to state that SimpleLists 1.6 as stable, and give some hints on what is new with this new version.
Setting up XFabric on Fedora Linux
December 17, 2011
Using the new X.commerce, you can combine the power of Magento, PayPal and eBay (and many more services like Facebook) to create cool new applications in the cloud - or actually the XFabric. The X.com site explains you how to install the X.commerce Developer Package in Windows or MacOS. This tutorial explains the steps for Fedora Linux.
client denied by server configuration: app/etc/local.xml
May 10, 2011
You might have seen it in your Apache logs, but with Magento sites, your webserver might show messages that access to the file app/etc/local.xml. This is good, but web-access to the Magento local.xml file could indicate serious security problems. But what is causing this behaviour, and how to stop this from happening.
Troubleshooting Vm2Mage image migrations
April 8, 2011
When migrating VirtueMart products to Magento, Vm2Mage also offers the ability to migrate product-images. Because this involves more than just a simple data-transfer, you could run into problems. This document helps you through the neccessary steps to troubleshoot this.
MySQL server has gone away
March 11, 2011
When your MySQL server is under heavy load, the message MySQL server has gone away might appear as error in Magento. The following tutorial gives some hints on how the performance might be tuned to deal with this.
Disable admin notification popup
February 4, 2011
Every time you log in to the Magento Admin Panel, you see an admin notification popop message telling you there's a new Magento version. As a developer, it's best to stay informed about new releases by reading blogs, tweets and lots of other news channels - besides this, upgrades should never be taken lightly. It's possible to remove this notification popup message.
Magento Site Performance Optimization
November 22, 2010
While many blaim Magento for being slow, it is possible to make the Magento e-commerce application lightning fast. This requires first of all funding, because you will need to add sufficient system resources (CPU, memory) to Magento to make it run properly. But it also requires time and knowledge. For the last part - knowledge - this list helps you further.
Analysing logfiles with Magento
August 23, 2010
Things might always go wrong: Magento is a complex application and when you run into problems, analysing these problems is difficult unless you know where to look. This tutorial helps you with inspecting the right logfiles to track problems down.
