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		<title>15 Action Items taken from IRWD 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;m back in New Zealand now and all thawed out after the Internet Retailer Web Design conference &#8211; it was a well oiled machine again this year interesting speakers and many great ideas flowing. For World Wide Access it is a chance to set some high level goals for web development over the next [...]


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		<title>Why I don’t use Flash, ever (and neither should you NZ Herald)</title>
		<link>http://www.aschroder.com/2010/03/why-i-dont-use-flash-ever-and-neither-should-you-nz-herald/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web Development]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.aschroder.com/?p=671</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Seriously, just don&#8217;t do it &#8211; I think I&#8217;m going to have to find a new start page&#8230;

It&#8217;d actually be a really interesting experiment if the Herald just ran Google adwords instead. I wonder if more people would click on ads that related to what they were reading rather than shitty bandwidth consuming banner ads. [...]


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		<title>A new ASchroder.com for 2010 or, why I haven’t written anything for a couple of weeks…</title>
		<link>http://www.aschroder.com/2010/02/a-new-aschroder-com-for-2010-or-why-i-havent-written-anything-for-a-couple-of-weeks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web Development]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.aschroder.com/?p=647</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I released my new wordpress theme &#8211; what do you think? It&#8217;s the bastard offspring of two free themes; SevenFive and Agregado hacked together to make a new theme. In the spirit of the original themes being free, here it is &#8211; I make no apologies for the crude hacking together and all original [...]


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		<title>Mailchimp + Magento: How to get autoresponders working with the API</title>
		<link>http://www.aschroder.com/2010/02/mailchimp-magento-how-to-get-autoresponders-working-with-the-api/</link>
		<comments>http://www.aschroder.com/2010/02/mailchimp-magento-how-to-get-autoresponders-working-with-the-api/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Magento]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[autoresponder]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.aschroder.com/?p=623</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick little how-to on Mailchimp and Magento using the existing extension by Ebizmarts. We want to be able to send customers who sign up for the newsletter through the Magento store a little thank you gift (discount code) X days after signing up using Mailchimp&#8217;s excellent autoresponders. This is supported by Mailchimp, but [...]


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		<title>Sitemap Submit – Magento Extension to Submit your Google Sitemap</title>
		<link>http://www.aschroder.com/2010/01/sitemap-submit-magento-extension-to-submit-your-google-sitemap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Magento]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Projects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sitemap Submit]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.aschroder.com/?p=608</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve made a new Magento extension for submitting your store sitemap to Google, Yahoo, Ask and Bing. My new extension can submit automatically whenever the sitemap is regenerated, or on-demand from the admin UI. More about how I made it and how it works below, but first a little background.

How Sitemap Submit came to be
As [...]


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		<title>Magento Events Explained and a few Gotchas avoided!</title>
		<link>http://www.aschroder.com/2010/01/magento-events-explained-and-a-few-gotchas-avoided/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google Checkout]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.aschroder.com/?p=598</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is about the Magento Event system &#8211; a full explanation of how it works and a couple of issues I had with it resolved. Hope it is a help for people wrestling with the Magento event dispatch mechanism. 
My particular situation was this: when automatically fetching tracking details from our carriers via a [...]


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		<title>A super simple Magento store monitoring tool powered by Google App Engine</title>
		<link>http://www.aschroder.com/2009/12/a-super-simple-magento-store-monitoring-tool-powered-by-google-app-engine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google App Engine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cloud computing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.aschroder.com/?p=577</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I took a bit of a break for the usual Magento development last weekend and had a crack at making a simple webstore monitoring app using Google App Engine. The application was made to monitor our webstores from a reliable, US network &#8211; and who more reliable than Google? So this blog post will detail [...]


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		<title>Pre-release: SMTP Pro / Magento Gmail &amp; Google Apps Email Beta testing (win a prize)</title>
		<link>http://www.aschroder.com/2009/11/pre-release-smtp-pro-magento-gmail-google-apps-email-beta-testing-win-a-prize/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google Apps Email Magento Extension]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magento]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SMTP Pro Magento Extension]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[beta testing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.aschroder.com/?p=574</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a bid to help solve a weird 404 error that Kevin has been experiencing with the self test I offered him a pre-release copy of my upcoming &#8216;unified&#8217; Magento email extension. It will support both SMTP and Google Apps/Gmail along with a few new features.
Anyway, if anyone is keen to try the extension please [...]


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		<title>PHP 1, Java 0: The method assertEquals(Object, Object) is ambiguous for the type</title>
		<link>http://www.aschroder.com/2009/10/php-1-java-0-the-method-assertequalsobject-object-is-ambiguous-for-the-type/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Language Design]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.aschroder.com/?p=564</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Th old Ashley would never say this, maybe I&#8217;ve been working with PHP too long, but seriously, I&#8217;m going to have to side with the dynamic language crowd on this one &#8211; I think I have been spending too much time developing with Magento!
After an Eclipse upgrade a whole raft of my unit tests started [...]


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		<title>3 easy steps to add products to the Magento Home Page (or any CMS page)</title>
		<link>http://www.aschroder.com/2009/10/3-easy-steps-to-add-products-to-the-magento-home-page-or-any-cms-page/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.aschroder.com/?p=557</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to add a small selection of products to the Magento homepage, and I thought I&#8217;d quickly write up how I did it, because it brings together a few little tidbits from around the net. This solution will use a specific category which can either be an actual category with a few products in [...]


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