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New Look for Magento Speed Test, Thanks to Twitter Bootstrap.

Ashley — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:47:19 +0000

Today I released the new look for my Magento Speed Test site – it’s a tool for running Siege tests on your Magento stores. The old version looked pretty shit, in hindsight, so this should be a significant improvement. If you’ve met me you’ll know I don’t have a designer bone in my body, so [...] Related posts:

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Using AWS Auto Scaling with an Elastic Load Balancer cluster on EC2

Ashley — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 05:50:46 +0000

Back in June last year I wrote about creating a WordPress cluster on Amazon’s EC2. In this post I’ll run through a couple of the problems with that cluster, I’ve experienced, and how I solved them with Amazon’s Auto Scaling service. The problems with the cluster A couple of things were not ideal with the [...] Related posts:

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How to Edit and Disable Checkout Fields in Woocommerce

Ashley — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 08:10:36 +0000

This is just a quick post that shows you how to edit or disable the checkout fields in Woothemes WordPress shopping cart Woocommerce. It may make all the Magento developers jealous to see how nearly trivial it is – but I couldn’t see a good blog post explaining it, so here goes. Disabling and Editing [...] Related posts:

Java App Engine integration testing with Spring MVC and OpenPersistenceManagerInViewFilter

Ashley — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:33:23 +0000

In this post I’ll quickly show the technique I used for integration testing of Java services where the services rely on Spring data repositories being injected. We’re using Google’s App Engine to host and run our mobile sales dashboard for Magento/Amazon/Shopify so the tests will use the integration testing environment provided in the SDK. Starting [...] Related posts:

Quick update on Site Monitor and Google App Engine D-Day

Ashley — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 07:08:34 +0000

I’ve made a few changes to the way the monitor works in the hope that it will reduce the load on the app and thus the cost based on the new App Engine pricing. There are three implications you should be aware of if you use the monitor. 1) ‘Up’ emails are not sent anymore. [...] Related posts:

Google App Engine billing changes and my website monitoring service

Ashley — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:43:10 +0000

A long long time ago I wrote a simple little monitoring service on Google App Engine. It’s been happily ticking over for the last couple of years but with the recent changes to Google’s App Engine pricing, I’m going to have to make some changes. This is a blog post for those who do use [...] Related posts:

OrderPipe.com Multi-channel Sales Dashboard for Magento, Amazon and Shopify

Ashley — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:43:54 +0000

There’s been a distinct lack of new Magento content here for the last few months. That’s because I’ve been busily beavering away on our latest internal project which I’d like to share with you. It’s only partly Magento related, so bear with me. We’ve created a multi-channel mobile sales dashboard on Google App Engine called [...] Related posts:

Magento Cloud Backup 0.3 RC – new features and an end to the beta program in sight

Ashley — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:15:36 +0000

We now have over 300 downloads of our Magento Cloud Backup extension, with users storing over 300GB of their store data safe offsite using Amazon S3. As we near a post-beta release I thought it might be worth announcing an early RC, for both initial feedback from other developers/admins and because some of the features [...] Related posts:

Using SMTP Pro and Ebizmarts’ MailChimp extension in Magento

Ashley — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 09:49:19 +0000

This is just a quick blog post that will hopefully help people facing the clash in Magento between my SMTPPro email extension and Ebizmarts’ MailChimp extension. The clash occurs only in one class Mage_Core_Model_Email_Template which we both override to extend the default Magento email sending capability. Because it only makes sense to use either SMTPPro [...] Related posts:

Sitemap Indexes now supported on MageSpeedTest.com

Ashley — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:40:59 +0000

Long time, no post. Sorry about that. I’ve been very busy working on an app for aggregating ecommerce orders on your mobile device. Check out the sneak peek from twitter. I’m also looking for some private beta testers so if you’re keen to try it out and willing to give us some helpful feedback, flick [...] Related posts: