27 August 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Melbourne Magento User Group catch up

The Melbourne Magento user group (organised by our friends at Fontis) is meeting again, on September 14th, 2010. This time it is an information event, designed for developers/agencies, clients and those people interested in the platform to catch up and chat. As Magento Developers and consultants it is always nice to meet people interested in [...]

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19 July 2010 ~ 2 Comments

eCommerce Cowboys, the ‘Yes’ Men.

We don’t profess to be the world’s best eCommerce company. Probably far from it. But we have a lot of experience in online  retail and development (10 years+) and we use that experience to help our clients in the best way possible. Recently we have been getting a few Magento & other eCommerce clients coming [...]

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01 April 2010 ~ 7 Comments

A Magento to eBay Extension

So, Magento to eBay extension. Now it’s a reality… I bet Magento users will be interested in this! eBay has been a great platform for us, and so is Magento. Bringing them closer together is an interesting strategy, and for some of our websites, a Magento to eBay Extension would be great. Being long time [...]

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14 February 2010 ~ 7 Comments

Can’t access admin area after upgrading to Magento 1.4?

Me neither. Well, I can now after a manual fix. The upgrade via MagentoConnect seemed to run successfully, but I immediately got a server 500 error when trying to access front and backend. *Sigh*. I reset all file permissions, and cleared cache folders (/var/cache and /var/session). The front end worked then, but no back end. [...]

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26 June 2009 ~ 14 Comments

List of Australian Magento Stores

Magento is popular in Australia. Here is a list of Australian Magento stores that I built up a little while ago, just as a reference. This list is a few months old, there are probably more aussie magento stores active now. I don’t intend to actively maintain this list, but if you come across any [...]

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24 April 2009 ~ 2 Comments

Magento Fraud Detection Module Released Today.

Just a quick blog post to mark the launch of our first commercial Magento Module, the Magento Fraud Alert Module featuring MaxMind. We had developed this for our eCommerce arm or the business to make it much easier to identify possibly fraudulent orders. Using the MaxMind minfraud services we check all available data about the [...]

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20 April 2009 ~ 5 Comments

Magento Performance – Magento 1.3 Benchmarks

Magento Performance is a hot topic at the moment. We recently installed Magento Commerce version 1.3.0 on a test server with a current production database to do some performance testing and I thought I would publish a few results. They aren’t exhaustive tests, but indicative I think. Although we haven’t done a huge amount of [...]

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09 April 2009 ~ 3 Comments

The Fast Rise of Magento Commerce

I follow Magento Commerce and it’s development rather closely. This is because on of my businesses retails online using the Magento ecommerce software and my other business leverages this knowledge (and a lot of other online retail experience) to develop Magento modules and code and shipping automation software. I have written about some of this [...]

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05 March 2009 ~ 3 Comments

What will Magento become in 2009?

Magento Commerce is quickly growing, and according to the Magento website is the fastest growing eCommerce platform at the moment. Magento is still young, but I peronally know more and more online retailers looking at it as a solution. The underlying structure, robust and powerful API, and complete separation of design/themse and core code make [...]

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08 February 2009 ~ 4 Comments

Magento Commerce online store performance

We have been using Magento Commerce for about 3 or 4 months now as a new online store platform for a few of our websites. Magento is a new product, but already growing very quickly in users and features. We are currently ChannelAdvisor customers and had been using the standard ChannelAdvisor store for some time. [...]

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