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martin
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Homepage: http://www.msinternet.co.uk
Posts by martin
The future of eCommerce – mCommerce?
June 23, 2010 - 9:08 pm
Tags: Android, iphone, Magento, mcommerce
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
Tags: Design, wallpaper
Posted in Design | No comments
New MS Internet desktop wallpaper available.
Magento SagePay Form
February 25, 2010 - 3:15 pm
Tags: Magento, php
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
Tags: Magento, php
Posted in Code, Magento | No comments
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
Tags: award
Posted in General | No comments
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
Tags: Code, ImageMagick, php
Posted in Code | No comments
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
Tags: php, wordpress
Posted in Code | 4 comments
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
Posted in General, Marketing | No comments
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
Tags: award
Posted in General | No comments
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
Tags: email, php, regular expression
Posted in Code | No comments
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; } } ?>