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Posts Tagged ‘magento’

What will we see in Magento 1.4 Release

Dec

1st

Our concerns Whilst we know 1.4 will bring a much improved e-commerce platform, our only concern lies in template compatibility. Those that suffered the upgrade from 1.1 to 1.2 or 1.2 to 1.3 will have been forced to change a small portion of their template to suit the newer methods devised. The major point upgrades were...

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Magento Version 1.3.2.4 Security Update

Sep

24th

As of Wednesday September 23, 2009, Varien have released a security update covering XSS vulnerabilities. We recommend all users upgrade to the latest version to protect their stores – but please remember to backup prior to an upgrade!. Backing up your store is extremely quick and easy, there are two methods, manually via Sonassi domain backup...

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3 days until MageBenchmark goes live

Aug

29th

Almost 8 weeks ago, we invited all Magento hosts to take part in a project we oversee. In the spirit of a little light-hearted competition, MageBenchmark (www.magentobenchmark.com / magebenchmark.sonassi.com) aims to sift the wheat from the chaff and show who can really help your Magento store boom. Fast, reliable hosting can be the key to your...

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Further testing with Zend Server

Aug

10th

We have been experimenting with Zend Server over the past few days, trialling its performance and suitability for a replacement of mod_php on our servers. So far the results have been promising and it could be a system-wide roll out within coming weeks. We have been testing several software combinations and are finding our custom build...

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ZendServer and Magento

Jul

11th

I had awaited the Zend Server webinar on Magento performance for a good few weeks and could honestly say that the geek in me was looking forward to it. After reading an interesting article by Philippe Humeau, NBS System – my interested was peaked by the promise of better performance using ZendServer. The two flavours available...

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Magento 1.3.2.2 has been released!

Jul

2nd

Changes Added configuration to control redirection of customer after login to current page or account dashboard (default) Added events for before/after product validate Added method validate to Mage_Core_Model_Abstract Added validate before save on Catalog Category API Made urlrewrites controller load layout after initializing registry. Fixed wrong helper calls. Implemented modifiers for Email Template Filter var Directive Added ability specify frontend_class for add...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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