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Minor updates to all images, including kernel 2.6.38.4, a few tweaks here and there, and some config default changes. More details on the relevant pages. Said this before, but bar any major issues, this will be the last release of Linux Mint 10, and Ubuntu 10.10.
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
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
Here I will explain how I implemented a simple news feed feature that can be used inside static blocks. Before creating this, I had a look, and only found a commercial offering for this, so I hope this is of use to other people. It also was a learning experience for me, as it is … Read more
For our eCommerce project, we are building multiple websites each with multiple languages, but all managed from one Magento install. We wanted to run each website from it’s own domain, with each store view as a subfolder for the language, such as (The base link urls are configured like this for each store view from … Read more
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