They make you feel good, Apple products – until you try to do something they don’t want you to do..
Full article from Charlie Brooker in the Guardian.
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Magento Upgrade Issues with old shipping and payment methods
I’ve noticed a few times when upgrading to to newer versions of Magento we get a few errors with delivery and payment methods that have been previously installed.. On a recent upgrade the default ‘protx’ and ‘amazon’ payment gateways that were bundled with magento < 1.3 were not been included in later releases and threw up a few errors in the customer area of the frontend and admin…
To remove the old rules, you need to get access to SQL and input these lines which should remove old rules… Always backup your database before doing this, just in case
This is for various shipping rules I had on the install..
[code]
DELETE FROM `core_config_data` WHERE path LIKE 'carriers/controlshipping%'
OR path LIKE 'carriers/export3j%'
OR path LIKE 'carriers/colissimo%'
OR path LIKE 'carriers/byweight%'
OR path LIKE 'carriers/byitem%'
OR path LIKE 'carriers/chronopost%'
OR path LIKE 'carriers/byprice%'
OR path LIKE 'carriers/australiapost%'
[/code]
The below is to remove void payment methods…
[code]
DELETE FROM `core_config_data` WHERE path LIKE 'payment/protx_standard%'
OR path LIKE 'payment/amazonpayments_asp%'
OR path LIKE 'payment/amazonpayments_cba%'
[/code]
IE9 is downloaded more than 2.35 million times on first day
The release on Monday of Internet Explorer 9 by Microsoft, was downloaded just over 2.35 million times in the first 24 hours, according to Microsoft. The beta version of the browser was downloaded “just” 1 million times during its first day of availability.
Compared to other web browsers, the downloads of IE9 are not quite as impressive. In just the first few hours of availability, Firefox 3.5 saw more than 1 million downloads in 2009. By the end of the first 24 hours the year before, Firefox 3.0 had been downloaded a total of 8 million times according to Mozilla sources.
“We would like to thank everyone around the world for downloading IE9 and for the enthusiastic reception,” Ryan Gavin, Microsoft’s senior developer of Internet Explorer, wrote on the Microsoft blog.
The lastest version from Internet Explorer includes HTML5, an improved UI and greater control over data prtoection and the storage of surfing trends (cookies etc). It is available for download at BeautyoftheWeb.com.
IE 9 will soon face greater competition from Firefox, the beta version of Firefox 4 has been widely applauded with a final realeas due on the 22nd of March 2011.
iPhone WordPress app
Just getting to grips with the iPhone wordpress app. It’s pretty straight forward to setup, just login with you user name and password and your ready to start updating.
This is just a text post but there is image and video support as well as document uploads. You can also add multiple wordpress blogs to your app so you can login and update separate sites. Best of all its free and is an official release by wordpress.org
Magento UK, European and Rest of World csv delivery rates
This has cropped up a few times for existing clients so I’ve enlosed the csv file below for anyone who needs it.
Its a delivery rule for UK, European and Rest of the World customers based on their ‘shipping location’.
The first part denotes the whole world so this is where you would put your price rules for say USA/Canada Japan etc. The second part is the UK specific rules, which over ride the first rule and then finally I have the European countries, each listed by their 3 digit ISO code in alphabetical order.
This is tested and working on Magento 1.4.1.
Its specifically for the (free) Product Matrix from Webshopapps but can be modified for the default CSV table rate built into Magento.
Silvatimber.co.uk launches
Today sees the launch of silvatimber.co.uk the online shop for the UK’s leading supplier of speciality timber products, wood finishes and fixings. The website sells the full range of products Silva have to offer including Decking, Shingles & Shakes, Cladding and Fencing.
Designed and developed by igoo the shop is built upon the magento commerce platform and is the fifth large scale Magento development that the igoo team has undertaken this year.
The website includes detailed product pages with full focus on the quality of the wood supplied, an in depth resource and case study section along with an up to date blogging/news facility. The website offers on-site payment with SSL level security for a quick and safe checkout.
Visit silvatimber for timber decking, cladding, shingles & shakes and fencing products.
Quote from Charles Darwin
It’s not the strong, nor the intelligent who survive, but those who are quickest to adapt.
Portfolio section is updated
We’ve finally found a bit of time to update our portfolio section with recent projects. Matt has uploaded his ten most recent projects which include both branding and ecommerce work launched within the past few months.
View a range of igoo’s website design portfolio
