I’m Simon Young. I work with companies to shape their ecommerce strategy and then architect and manage the technical implementation of this strategy using best practices for digital development. I work exclusively with the Magento ecommerce platform using Community, Professional and Enterprise editions.

Latest Blog Posts

Think different.

06 October 2011

It is difficult to envisage a modern world now without the products and services that Steve created - amongst many others the original Mac, the iMac, the iPod and iTunes, the iPhone, the iPad. Continue reading...

REST & JSON support for the Magento Core API

03 September 2011

The super clever people at Inchoo have just released a free extension for Magento 1.5 and above which adds support for REST, JSON and AMF API server to the existing Magento Core API. Continue reading...

Fixing slow .local DNS lookups on OS X 10.7 Lion

01 September 2011

Ever since I upgraded to Lion I had found that it was taking much longer than previously to resolve .local development domains that i had stored in /etc/hosts. It turns out a few things changed in Lion but fortunately there’s an easy fix at StackOverflow. Continue reading...

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