Magento Imagine 2012 Conference – Overview

29
Apr
Magento Imagine

The 2012 Magento Imagine conference was held at the fittingly named iMagine Resort in Las Vegas. This annual event sees Magento partners, merchants and developers from all around the globe meeting up to network, attend lectures and share their knowledge with the Magento Community.

I have attended many Information Technology conferences and meet-ups in the past but never the Magento Imagine event, even though it’s a long way to travel, I was very impressed with what Magento had laid on, and not only that, to experience the spirit of the Magento Community in ‘real life’ was really inspiring.

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How To Safely Upgrade Magento 1.4.1, 1.4.2 + to 1.6.2

02
Apr
magento

Updating Magento – Community Edition

Magento’s massive popularity (over 4 million downloads) and developer ecosystem means it’s constantly evolving, creating a very regular release pattern. These new releases contain either New features, Security updates or just simple irritating bug fixes. Whatever the contents keeping your Magento store up to date is something you should consider very seriously as a responsible E-Commerce store owner.
My post will explain the best method of upgrading your Magento store and I’ll show you what to do in case you have problems.

Firstly, before you do anything backup your stores file structure (Etc the public_html) directory and take a full SQL dump of your stores database.
-This is very important; many times upgrades fail and have to be recovered, if you don’t have this safety net you could be in big trouble! Continue Reading

Caching Data in Magento & FirePHP through Zend

12
Mar
Zend build on Magento

Magento is the fastest growing e-commerce platform in the world. Currently there are 19 solution partners listed in the United Kingdom alone. Magento have also recently released training material online at http://training.magento.com which is available for free, I would highly recommend it. It’s great for people starting out with Magento or for people who have been working with it for a while.

In this short article I am going to look at caching data through Zend to increase the speed of Magento, this article is focused at the more advanced developer.

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