Today I discovered a Magento category that would not update. When I tried to update the category properties and save the category the ‘please wait’ dialog box remained on the…Continue reading
Generate EAN Barcodes for All Magento Products – Magento EAN Barcode Generator
Generate EAN Barcodes for All Magento Products Following on from my post about mass exporting Magento data, I had the requirement to also mass generate EAN13 barcodes from scratch for…Continue reading
FFMPEG does not run under Mountain Lion, X11 and XCode update required
I ran ffmpeg for the first time on my Mac after upgrading to Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) and got this message “An application has requested access to X11. Would…Continue reading
WordPress MultiLanguage Support the Simple Way
WordPress is a great multilanguage CMS, for a while I thought of it purely as a blogging tool but now I use it all the time when I need to…Continue reading
Installing Shoutcast for Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS
I am a great fan of Apples open source streaming server Darwin, however for live streaming I also like to use Shoutcast and Icecast streaming servers as they support many…Continue reading
How to Patch the Magento Zend Platform Vulnerability
Magento announced a new Zend Platform vulnerability on July 5th 2012. To patch the vulnerability from the command line simply use the patch command as show below, replacing the url…Continue reading
Magento Discount Coupon Code for Facebook Likes
The Facebook “Like” is an important Social Media Marketing tool. It instills customer confidence and enables new marketing opportunities. Increasing the number of likes your e-Commerce site has can sometimes…Continue reading
Facebook fan page video and audio media sharing application demo
I wanted to integrate my favourite jQuery based media player into a Facebook application as a way to share audio and video media to promote a Facebook fan page. The…Continue reading
Customiseable, Printable, HTML Invoice for Magento – FREE Magento Extension
I needed to create a custom invoice that was easily printable for a Magento store. The built in PDF generation system (at least in earlier versions of Magento) was not…Continue reading
Upgrade from Magento 1.6.x to Magento 1.7.0.0 using the Command Line
In a previous post I documented how to quickly install Magento for a development environment (or a new Live shop I guess). With Magento Community Edition version 1.7.0.0 recently released…Continue reading