Author: Adrien Tibi
Magento Version 1.3.2.4 Security Update
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 … Continue reading
Return google search to smaller sized boxes
This week, Google updated their homepage to incorporate a large style search box and button. However, this change does not sit well with every user. We decided to knock up a little CSS override script that will return Google to … Continue reading
Magento benchmark performance results are in - sonassi is still the fastest
MageBenchmark (Magento Benchmark) was launched as planned on Monday August 31st. After every single Magento host was painstakingly contacted, few actually replied and felt they were up to the challenge. Those brave Magento web hosts, from Sonassi in Manchester as … Continue reading
Magento: mini_sendmail and Zend_Mail incompatibility Version II.
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 … Continue reading
Magento 1.3.2.2 has been released!
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 … Continue reading
Find the fastest Magento hosts easily .... MageBenchmark is semi-live
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 … Continue reading
Magento: "Wrong charset, conversion from `UTF-16BE' to `UTF-8' is not allowed"
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 … Continue reading
Magento: Admin area stall/freeze
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 … Continue reading
Magento: mini_sendmail and Zend_Mail incompatibility
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 … Continue reading
PHP: Combine and compile CSS and JS into Gzipped files
This has actually been the secret behind a lot of our great system performance, but as it was open source originally, it's going back to the people. Its a relatively straightforward script and speeds up JS and CSS performance by … Continue reading