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New in Cloud Backup: Platform Independent Magento Backups

Ashley — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:21:07 +0000

This is just a quick note to say there is a new version of the Cloud Backup extension now available on Magento Connect and also for direct download and manual installation – it is version 0.2.2. Our Magento Offsite backup beta progam has been great so far with many participants offering useful feedback and being [...] Related posts:

10 Steps to Magento Ecommerce on a (small) Budget

Ashley — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:53:13 +0000

This post basically regurgitates greatly expands on an email I sent to a good friend of mine this week when he asked me about building an ecommerce webstore, and whether the quote he had of $25,000 was reasonable for an owner-operator hand-painted pottery website. Hint: it’s not. Naturally enough I didn’t think that was reasonable, and [...] Related posts:

Magento Backup extension: Cloud Backup – it’s finally approved!

Ashley — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:51:21 +0000

Just a quick note to let you all know the wait is over (2.5 weeks stuck pending!), our latest extension has been approved and you can try off site, automated backups for free! by downloading it from Magento connect. There was much merriment in the office as you can imagine: On a related note; I’ve not been [...] Related posts:

Magento vs Wp-E-Commerce: a comparison case study

Ashley — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 08:03:56 +0000

Being a computer programmer typically means all of your friends and family immediately assume you a) can fix their wireless router and b) want to. For the same reason we often get asked to help make a website, blog, webstore, killer web 2.0 app or all of the above – which in the most part [...] Related posts:

TweetBeeper.com – A Free Email to Direct Message Service (and Email to SMS too)

Ashley — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 07:33:30 +0000

I just uploaded Tweet Beeper to Google App Engine. It’s a simple application that receives an email, and then converts the subject line into a twitter direct message (which in turn can be an SMS sent to the recipients phone). A little whimsical, I know, but the weather was fairly average here this weekend! TweetBeeper in [...] Related posts:

Magento Backups: How To Ensure Your Data Is Safe with Magento Cloud Backup

Ashley — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:41:00 +0000

This is a blog post about Magento backups, how you can do them by default in Magento and how a new extension I have made called Cloud Backup will help to make them automatically and send them offsite to Amazon’s S3 storage service – increasing the chance you’ll have a recent backup if (when) bad [...] Related posts:

Improved Custom Magento Order Number Functionality for SetStartOrderNumber extension – v0.3

Ashley — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:10:35 +0000

Well, I said if I got 100 downloads of my latest Magento extension to set custom starting order numbers I’d make some improvements to it, and sure enough it happened. So here are the improvements. Please note I did not actually do the one improvement I promised I’d do, but I did a bunch of [...] Related posts:

Magento and Google Analytics – Use ‘First Touch’ Tracking To See How Your Customers First Visit Your Store

Ashley — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:33:02 +0000

At the recent Auckland Magento Meetup I had the privilege of seeing Mark Hammersley’s presentation on email marketing – Mark’s a fascinating guy and a real expert, I highly recommend checking out his site. One of the things that came up during his presentation was the idea of first touch tracking your visits, particularly in [...] Related posts:

Latest version of SMTP Pro Finally Uploaded to Magento Connect

Ashley — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:34:01 +0000

Geez it’s been a long time coming thanks to Invalid package.xml format errors and duplicate maintainers and goodness-knows-what else. You can finally get the latest version of SMTP Pro – 1.3.4 – even though it’s identical to 1.3. (thank Magento Connect…). For those who want to install the Magento extension manually (and if you are engineering [...] Related posts:

Easily Set a Custom Order Number in Magento With My Free SetStartOrderNumber Extension

Ashley — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 07:34:00 +0000

Every time I launch a new Magento store I have to go and hack the database to change the order, shipment, invoice and credit memo numbers. This just doesn’t seem right, and seeing as I was about to launch two stores (in one week!) I thought it’d be better to make the order increment ID’s [...] Related posts: