Recently we decided to add a list of Facebook events from our Facebook page to our WordPress driven website. The requirement was to add the full list to separate page and predefined number of upcoming events to the home page. To my surprise there was no existing WordPress plugin which will do this. So I […]
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Build Software Better, Together Last weekend I participated in my first Magento Hackathon which also was the first one in Switzerland. The first Magento Hackathons took place in 2012 in Munich and Berlin. Infected by the spirit of the German events, Tim Bezhashvyly (Magento developer at Openstream) and Sylvain Rayé (Magento developer at Rissip) started
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It looks as if this is going to be the most epic community driven Magento developer event ever or in the words of Magento community manager Mosses Akizian: This will be a great opportunity to meet and mingle with fellow developer community members and have face time with Magento key developer core team members. With
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WordPress is really an amazing open source eco system. Just looking at how many different free and paid responsive themes and frameworks there are already is mind-blowing! The new WordPress default theme Twenty Twelve is an elegant, readable, and fully responsive theme that makes your site content look its best on any device, but having
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We regularly integrate the CleverReach newsletter system with osCommerce and swisscart® and initially make an import of all existing shop customers who have subscribed to the shop newsletter. You can use the following SQL statement e.g. in phpMyAdmin to export all customers that have registered after a certain date. SELECT c.customers_email_address, c.customers_firstname, c.customers_lastname FROM customers
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Last weekend I had the chance to participate in the 4th Magento Hackathon which was held in Munich, just as the one before. If you are not familiar with the idea, a hackathon is an event where developers lock themselves up into a space where they will not be disturbed by customers, girlfriends, colleagues or dogs
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Lots of code and fun in the sun is the motto of the Magento Developers Paradise which is taking place already for the third time on the beautiful Canary island of Ibiza from today September 25 through 27. For the first time Tim, Openstream’s senior Magento developer, and myself are taking part in order to
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For some reasons Magento doesn’t have generic functionality to list best selling products, all products with discounted prices (specials), all products in the inventory in general or products with specific attributes (like all products of a specific manufacturer). All those listings share almost the same functionality so I decided to combine them into one Magento
Magento has a nice feature to allow checkout for visitors only from a pre-defined list of countries. But what if one wants to allow access to entire Magento or just some Magento parts to those countries? Magento is determining visitors country by looking into customers address. But visitor can be also not logged in so
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