Archive for June, 2009

In the best interests of the community (and the fact we’re always up for a little competition), we’ve soft-launched a new project MageBenchmark. Its in the early stages at the moment as we are just harvesting URLs, we are aiming for a true launch date of 1st August 2009. We encourage all Magento hosts, be them [...]

Tags: benchmark, fast, magebenchmark, magento, performance, reliable, Sonassi
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http://www.magentobenchmark.com/ is semi-live, now farming for URLs.

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Magento hosts take interest: http://www.magentobenchmark.com/

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This is a flash tutorial, please click to view it.

Tags: magento help, magento help manchester, magento manchester hosting, magento uk hosting, manchester magento, manchester magento design, zend hosting, zend manchester, zend server uk
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We have noticed this issue cropping up with Magento. Whilst we originally assumed it was a system level fault, further testing has revealed there is an issue with the implementation of iconv() in Magento. There was a problem with Magento converting strings between character sets, specifically when creating a PDF invoice. Initial testing with a simple PHP [...]

Tags: charset, font, iconv, magento, mb_convert_encoding, utf-16be, utf-8, zend
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Today, Apple released the final version of Safari 4, for both PC and Mac. Features include: Top Sites See your favorite websites at a glance. Open one with a single click. Cover Flow Flip through your site history or bookmarks like you flip through albums in iTunes. Full History Search [...]

Tags: apple, coverflow, mac, pc, performance, safari, vista
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