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- May 17, 2013 — Thoughts on Auckland Startup Weekend 2013
- April 16, 2013 — Understanding and Detecting Magento Extension Clashes or Conflicts
- April 7, 2013 — Actually running Magento on Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk Cloud platform
- April 3, 2013 — Magento and AWS Elastic Beanstalk – The Scalability Silver Bullet?
- March 19, 2013 — Setting up PHP 5.4 with CGI on OSX Mountain Lion with Homebrew
- February 19, 2013 — Google App Engine GQL queries in the Datastore Viewer console
- January 22, 2013 — Updating your AWS Auto-Scaling AMI to a new version
- December 18, 2012 — What if money were no object?
- December 18, 2012 — App Engine Java MapReduce Example: bulk deleting entities
- October 24, 2012 — We won the Deloitte Fast 50 Rising Star!
- September 16, 2012 — Improving Magento ImportExport module with Better file format and Google Docs integration
- August 20, 2012 — MageSpeedTest.com: New locations, Magento Extension, REST API, Featured Host and Pricing
- July 27, 2012 — An Open Twitter-like Network, Powered by Email.
- July 17, 2012 — Magento SSL Offloading with Amazon ELB
- July 11, 2012 — Opening (and closing) jQuery Mobile Collapsible sections programatically
- July 3, 2012 — Using Git submodules and @import with Modman for Magento
- April 24, 2012 — Magento Imagine 2012: Making the most of APIs
- April 23, 2012 — Introduction to the Magento REST APIs with oAuth in Version 1.7
- March 7, 2012 — X.commerce DevTalk newsletter featured MageSpeedTest.com
- February 14, 2012 — Sending Apple iOS Notifications via Urban Airship on Google App Engine
- February 3, 2012 — New Look for Magento Speed Test, Thanks to Twitter Bootstrap.
- January 27, 2012 — Using AWS Auto Scaling with an Elastic Load Balancer cluster on EC2
- January 7, 2012 — How to Edit and Disable Checkout Fields in Woocommerce
- December 1, 2011 — Java App Engine integration testing with Spring MVC and OpenPersistenceManagerInViewFilter
- November 7, 2011 — Quick update on Site Monitor and Google App Engine D-Day
- November 3, 2011 — Google App Engine billing changes and my website monitoring service
- November 2, 2011 — OrderPipe.com Multi-channel Sales Dashboard for Magento, Amazon and Shopify
- October 25, 2011 — Magento Cloud Backup 0.3 RC – new features and an end to the beta program in sight
- September 18, 2011 — Using SMTP Pro and Ebizmarts’ MailChimp extension in Magento
- August 15, 2011 — Sitemap Indexes now supported on MageSpeedTest.com
- July 6, 2011 — Monitor your Magento Store with MageSpeedTest.com
- June 30, 2011 — SMTP Pro with Magento: A sort-of user guide.
- June 28, 2011 — Clustering WordPress on Amazon EC2 micro instances
- June 8, 2011 — Export New Zealand Finalist: World Wide Access, and I’m on the FM!
- May 2, 2011 — Magento and Amazon’s CloudFront CDN – The Easy Way
- April 28, 2011 — On working from Pukekohe
- April 4, 2011 — Cloud Backup Case study: Detecting if Magento cron is running in your extensions
- March 31, 2011 — Magento, Google XML Sitemaps and my Magento Speed Test
- March 28, 2011 — Introducing MageSpeedTest.com V2 – Performance test Magento from 4 different countries
- March 19, 2011 — Magento + Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) added to SMTP Pro 1.4.3
- March 12, 2011 — Command line Magento 1.5 install on MAMP
- March 7, 2011 — Magento 1.5.0.1 and SMTPPro 1.4.2 Now Working – Free Gmail/SMTP, ahoy!
- February 27, 2011 — Magento Development and Deployment: Setting up a Modman based Magento project on Magento 1.5
- February 9, 2011 — Magento Imagine 2011 Presentation Notes and Links: Engineering your Magento Store
- February 4, 2011 — A Recipe to avoid having your Twitter, Facebook, CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet account stolen at an Airport or Conference
- January 25, 2011 — Creating a Runkeeper RSS Feed – the hack way.
- January 24, 2011 — Magento 1.4.2 and Google Checkout – Debugging weight-based table rate issues
- January 18, 2011 — New Version of SMTP Pro now supports Magento 1.4.2 and has fewer bugs
- January 15, 2011 — Lucky Me
- January 11, 2011 — Downloading a Magento Connect Extension manually before installing it
- January 7, 2011 — 2010 ☑ Bring on 2011
- December 20, 2010 — Making a sitemap.xml for Magento
- December 19, 2010 — MageSpeedTest.com with Siege – Performance Testing Magento Made Easy
- December 13, 2010 — MageMojo Magento Hosting Review (and Free Magento Hosting!)
- December 6, 2010 — Laying Siege to Magento: Performance testing your Magento webstores
- December 4, 2010 — Just Checking In; Google App Engine, Hosting Reviews, but no actual Magento
- October 30, 2010 — Magento Product Audit Extension – Monitor and Record Changes to your Products
- October 24, 2010 — Magento Developers Paradise By The Numbers
- September 30, 2010 — Shipwire Tracking API – Mapping API carrier codes in Tracking updates within Magento
- September 30, 2010 — New Version of Magento Cloud Backup Available: bug fixes, stability and self testing.
- September 18, 2010 — A New Theme, A WP 3.0 Upgrade, Flickr, Tumblr – But No Actual Content
- September 9, 2010 — Magento and Google Checkout: Tax on Shipping incorrect in Merchant Calculated callback
- September 6, 2010 — New in Cloud Backup: Platform Independent Magento Backups
- September 3, 2010 — 10 Steps to Magento Ecommerce on a (small) Budget
- August 30, 2010 — Magento Backup extension: Cloud Backup – it’s finally approved!
- August 22, 2010 — Magento vs Wp-E-Commerce: a comparison case study
- August 14, 2010 — TweetBeeper.com – A Free Email to Direct Message Service (and Email to SMS too)
- August 12, 2010 — Magento Backups: How To Ensure Your Data Is Safe with Magento Cloud Backup
- August 11, 2010 — Improved Custom Magento Order Number Functionality for SetStartOrderNumber extension – v0.3
- August 4, 2010 — Magento and Google Analytics – Use ‘First Touch’ Tracking To See How Your Customers First Visit Your Store
- July 25, 2010 — Latest version of SMTP Pro Finally Uploaded to Magento Connect
- July 24, 2010 — Easily Set a Custom Order Number in Magento With My Free SetStartOrderNumber Extension
- July 14, 2010 — Why are my Magento products not showing up?!
- July 7, 2010 — Structuring your Magento project for Engineering, not Hacking
- June 30, 2010 — WordPress: Blank page after posting comments and Akismet
- June 15, 2010 — Toshcomputers: (mis)Adventures in Buying a new iMac
- June 4, 2010 — New SMTP Pro Magento Email extension released
- June 4, 2010 — Latest Magento Development projects, MageBase.com and Magento spotting
- May 19, 2010 — Hosting Magento in New Zealand
- May 9, 2010 — Magento contact form error: Unable to submit your request
- May 3, 2010 — Installing a Magento Extension manually via FTP or SSH
- April 25, 2010 — Magento 1.4.0.1 Tax Calculation error – Out by a factor of 100
- April 23, 2010 — New Magento SMTP features: Email logging and email sending events
- April 20, 2010 — Magento Developer Conference vs Volcanic Ash
- March 26, 2010 — Gmail and Google Apps 500 emails per day sending limit and Magento
- March 21, 2010 — More Internet Retailer Web Design Conference tips to improve your ecommerce store
- March 20, 2010 — Magento SMTP, Gmail and Google Apps Email combined extension released (at last)
- March 10, 2010 — 15 Action Items taken from IRWD 2010
- March 4, 2010 — Why I don’t use Flash, ever (and neither should you NZ Herald)
- February 28, 2010 — A new ASchroder.com for 2010 or, why I haven’t written anything for a couple of weeks…
- February 1, 2010 — Mailchimp + Magento: How to get autoresponders working with the API
- January 30, 2010 — Sitemap Submit – Magento Extension to Submit your Google Sitemap
- January 23, 2010 — Magento Events Explained and a few Gotchas avoided!
- December 13, 2009 — A super simple Magento store monitoring tool powered by Google App Engine
- November 17, 2009 — Pre-release: SMTP Pro / Magento Gmail & Google Apps Email Beta testing (win a prize)
- October 21, 2009 — PHP 1, Java 0: The method assertEquals(Object, Object) is ambiguous for the type
- October 4, 2009 — 3 easy steps to add products to the Magento Home Page (or any CMS page)
- September 27, 2009 — Sneak Peek at the New Magento Gmail/Google Apps and SMTP extension
- August 29, 2009 — SMTP Pro Magento extension, free and open SMTP support for Magento
- August 29, 2009 — Google Apps Email/Gmail Magento Extension v0.5 released
- August 14, 2009 — Magento Hosting Review: Crucial Web Hosting
- August 11, 2009 — Magento Google Base error: Expected response code 200, got 403 Service forbidden: Account not registered for Google Base
- August 11, 2009 — Web Hosting without the lame-duck stock photos: Fat Cow Hosting
- July 12, 2009 — Removing the Compare function in Magento, the easy way
- June 28, 2009 — Masking Password fields in Magento Extensions
- June 6, 2009 — Funniest Magento keyword search
- June 5, 2009 — Another Free Magento Hosting Competition
- May 28, 2009 — New feature for Magento Gmail or Google Apps Email Extension
- May 24, 2009 — Using Gmail or Google Apps email with Magento
- May 16, 2009 — Nexcess Magento SIP Hosting Review
- May 12, 2009 — Magento javascript 404 breaks Admin menu…solved!
- May 10, 2009 — Fixing Magento Login Problem after a Fresh Installation
- May 10, 2009 — Magento Error: It is not safe to rely on the system’s timezone settings
- May 8, 2009 — Simple Helix Magento Hosting Review
- April 21, 2009 — Free Magento Hosting Competition
- April 18, 2009 — How to Bulk Enable Products when Google Checkout is Disabled in Magento
- April 17, 2009 — Whoops: Magento supports PHP 5.2.0 or newer
- April 14, 2009 — How to use Apache Virtual Hosts over a local network with MAMP
- April 2, 2009 — Another Magento install success, Only 2 Free installations left!
- March 24, 2009 — First Happy Customer: Free Magento Installation reviewed
- March 24, 2009 — Magento Installation: Database server does not support InnoDB storage engine
- March 20, 2009 — A simple way to password protect your Magento store
- March 17, 2009 — How to use the MAMP Mysql command line client in a terminal
- March 16, 2009 — Top 3 Solutions when your Magento Categories are not displaying
- March 15, 2009 — shuffle() or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love PHP
- March 3, 2009 — Magento CSRF attack: A Simple Explanation
- February 28, 2009 — Google Checkout disabled – Not available with these items
- February 28, 2009 — Magento Parade – A Magento Design Showcase
- February 24, 2009 — 5 Free Professional Magento Installations
- February 21, 2009 — How to install MAMP on your Leopard Mac
- February 16, 2009 — How to set up Apache Virtual hosting on MAMP for Magento
- February 12, 2009 — 3 Quick Methods To Diagnose Communication Problems between Magento and Google Checkout
- January 10, 2009 — Bad Usability Fixed: No End Date For Google Checkout Payout Transaction Report
- January 8, 2009 — Magento 1.2.0.1 Full Text Search fails after upgrading from earlier versions
- January 8, 2009 — Magento 1.2.0.1 Fails when using Google Checkout Merchant Calculated Shipping Callbacks: An HTTPS URL is required.
- December 1, 2008 — Magento 1.1.7 Google Checkout and Free Shipping (part 2)
- November 27, 2008 — Magento 1.1.7 Google Checkout and Free Shipping
- November 26, 2008 — My list of PHP language features with hard-to-imagine-use-cases: #1 – The @ symbol that supresses errors
- November 26, 2008 — Taking GWT 1.5 RC1 for a spin – a review of the new GWT release candidate.
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