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Archive: April, 2009

Extending an Existing Class in Magento

April 29th, 2009

One of the key benefits of developing ecommerce sites on the Magento platform is the flexibility of the system. Almost every area of the system can be tweaked and modified to meet exact client requirements. However it’s also worth noting that Magento is a young platform (only just over a year in production) and new [...]

Showing Subcategories in Magento Static Blocks

April 26th, 2009

Whilst the navigation options available in Magento comfortably surpass most other products on the market there are still the occasional problems to deal with. This article offers a quick ‘How To’ which enables the display of a list of Magento subcategories in a static block on a category page.

Less Business

April 22nd, 2009

I stumbled across this article from Matthew Homann on how to trade unfulfilling business for self respect. It resonates well until point 5 which seems kind of unachievable in a down economy.

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