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Magento Imagine 2012: Making the most of APIs

Ashley — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:29:20 +0000

Just finished up with my API presentation at Magento Imagine 2012, thanks to those who came along, and for the interesting questions and discussions afterwards. Great conference so far and looking forward to more interesting tech topics. As promised here are the PDF slides, links to code examples and the blog post I mentioned that [...] Related posts:

Introduction to the Magento REST APIs with oAuth in Version 1.7

Ashley — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:25:25 +0000

The latest version of Magento (1.7rc1 right now) has support for oAuth authenticated REST APIs, yippee! In this post I’m going to run through the technical aspects of setting up the Magento oAuth and making your first Magento REST API call. I’m presenting on APIs during the technology track at the Magento Imagine conference on [...] Related posts:

X.commerce DevTalk newsletter featured MageSpeedTest.com

Ashley — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:18:05 +0000

Ok I couldn’t resist, this made my day. I was featured in the X.commerce DevTalk email newsletter talking about my Magento Speed Test site. My grinning mugshot made it in to inboxes worldwide, cool! You can check out the actual interview wherein I blather on about MageSpeedTest.com and how great it is and how everyone [...] Related posts:

Sending Apple iOS Notifications via Urban Airship on Google App Engine

Ashley — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:29:27 +0000

In this post I’ll show you how to send an Apple Notification from Google App Engine via Urban Airship. I was mightily impressed how easy it was to do earlier this week. Their docs are excellent, and I love when apps use curl for their API examples – it means the API is simple, and [...] Related posts:

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:

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: