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Posts by martin

The future of eCommerce – mCommerce?

June 23, 2010 - 9:08 pm

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Posted in General, Magento, Marketing, iphone | 1 comment

After participating in the Magento Mobile webinar here is a good review of mCommerce and mobile development in general

MS Internet Desktop Wallpaper

June 22, 2010 - 12:33 pm

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New MS Internet desktop wallpaper available.

Magento SagePay Form

February 25, 2010 - 3:15 pm

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Posted in Code, Magento | 11 comments

SagePay is the UK and Ireland’s most popular payment gateway and Magento is rapidly gaining popularity so the absence of a SagePay Form Magento plugin is not ideal. Hopefully we have helped to fill that gap with our free plugin available at http://www.magentocommerce.com/extension/3060/sagepay-formerly-protx-form.

MS Internet Magento Easy Pre-Installer

February 18, 2010 - 11:42 am

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To speed up the process of uploading the Magento software without SSH access we have created this easy downloader to fetch and unpack the files and install the sample data in a MySQL database.

“Best in Class” Interactive Media Award for www.ehsmithfacades.co.uk

December 18, 2009 - 11:58 am

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We have won a “Best in Class” Interactive Media Award for the site we made for EH Smith Specialist Facades at www.ehsmithfacades.co.uk.

How to get ImageMagick to Convert pdf’s with GhostScript

December 14, 2009 - 5:22 pm

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Ok, this is one for the nerds. I have spent most of today trying to figure out how to get ImageMagick to convert a pdf file to an image. First I installed ImageMagick fine: > wget ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick.tar.gz > tar xvfz ImageMagick.tar.gz > cd ImageMagick-6.5.8 > ./configure > make > make install Then I installed the [...]

How to fix PushIt WordPress plugin wp-admin 500 Error

November 14, 2009 - 8:21 pm

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We had a client with a mysterious plugin related server error when they tried to access thair admin dashboard with output: /*pushit_user_row_phone_variable_define_start*/ $phone = isset($user_object->phone_number) ? get_user_mobile($user_object) : “not set”; /*pushit_user_row_phone_variable_define_stop*//*pushit_user_row_phone_variable_insert_start*/break; case ‘phone’: $r .= “$phone”;/*pushit_user_row_phone_variable_insert_stop*/ They said that the problem had happened immediately after installing the PushIt plugin. So, we took the usual action [...]

We got Sitelinks!

November 14, 2009 - 8:20 pm

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Go to Google and stick in “msinternet” and you will see this: Sitelinks We have miraculously acquired sitelinks after our result. This is an indication that Google sees our site as being unambiguously the most relevent page for the phrase “msinternet”. The funny thing is that we beat Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 hands down. These [...]

We won an Outstanding Achievement Interactive Media Award (Whoop Whoop)!

November 14, 2009 - 8:18 pm

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We are now the proud owners of an Interactive Media Award. The award was for the Trident Housing Association website at www.trident-ha.org.uk . Judged on an international standard we achieved 478 out of a possible 500 points which I think is pretty darn good!

Utility PHP Email Detection Script

November 14, 2009 - 8:17 pm

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I wrote a little function to check the formatting of an email so I thought I would share it with the world: <?php function is_email($email) { if(eregi(“^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$”, $email)){ return 1; } else { return 0; } } ?>