XBMC now available

The popular media player XBMC is now available for the Joggler on Ubuntu Maverick, Jolicloud, and Linux Mint 10. To install XBMC please make sure you have the latest image and run the following commands from a terminal. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install xbmc You can then run it from a … Read more

Magento Connect/Pear channel not updated ?

We manage our Magento shops in source control, but upgrade extensions as needed via Pear and Magento’s channels. However since mid December 2009, no upgrades have been showing up. Looking at the pages on the Magento site, there are upgrades available for some of the extensions we are running, but they are no longer being … Read more

Setting default options for configurable products

We are using the configurable products feature of Magento to group together some of our products that differ for example only by colour or number of items in a pack. In our case there is just a single “option” for the product and we wanted it to default to the “first” option in the dropdown, … Read more

Magento Base URLs and dev/staging installations

One of the earlier problems I came across when setting up Magento, was that the Base URLs for the websites/stores are stored in the database. We wanted a scenario where we can have a staging site, and a development site, and transfer the database between them. With the way Magento works, this would require updating … Read more

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