Archive for June, 2009
Find the fastest Magento hosts easily …. MageBenchmark is semi-live
Jun
29th
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...
http://www.magentobenchmark.co…
Jun
28th
http://www.magentobenchmark.com/ is semi-live, now farming for...
Magento: Editing a static page using CMS
Jun
26th
This is a flash tutorial, please click to view it.
Magento: “Wrong charset, conversion from `UTF-16BE’ to `UTF-8′ is not allowed”
Jun
10th
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...
Safari 4 released for Mac / PC
Jun
9th
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...
Magento: Admin area stall/freeze
Jun
8th
After noting some downtime issues recently with Magentocommerce.com – it has come to our attention that it has had a possible impact on stores.
When Magentocommerce went down this afternoon – the admin area on all of our hosted stores became non-responsive. As a test, we thought perhaps the version checking facility in the admin (to...
Service Update: Changes to sendmail
Jun
8th
The sendmail application for apache has recently been changed to improve security and performance.
This transition requires migration from the standard sendmail to mini_sendmail which is better compliant with the new Apache configuration. The new mini_sendmail is very fast and perfectly optmized for the average user. It is compatible with the standard sendmail and can be...
Magento: mini_sendmail and Zend_Mail incompatibility
Jun
8th
This article is now deprecated and the issue has been resolved without changes to core code after our service change.
We have recently spotted an issue after traversing our Apache sendmail application to mini_sendmail (read more about the change).
In Magento’s mail headers, the recipient and sender details have both the email address and respective name, however,...
Service Update: phpMyAdmin access has changed
Jun
7th
After reworking our database configuration, access to phpMyAdmin has now changed. Those accessing phpMyAdmin via
http://phpmyadmin-ext.domain.com
need to update their bookmarks to reflect the new...