Mar 11, 2013 ·
3 minute read
git
Managing a web site posses many difficulties. On the technical side of things there are really two big problems which are the database and the code for the site. Managing the database is currently the hardest thing to do right. The best you can do generally is to make sure you have a daily backup. Then if some thing should happen you would only lose up to 24 hours of new products, order and customers.
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Mar 11, 2013 ·
2 minute read
php
The function below is one that we have used a few times to allow certain “admin only” assets to be accessed or visible on the front end of a website. The theory is that the htaccess file in the admin folder will be kept up to date and can therefore be used as the authoritative list of IP addresses that are allowed to access admin assets. This function is simple enough and should be useful anywhere that you use htaccess to protect a certain folder and would like to implement the same white list rules in other places without having to maintain a duplicate list of authorised IP addresses.
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Mar 7, 2013 ·
4 minute read
Mobile optimisation
Mobile internet usage is perhaps one of the defining revolutions of this decade. People love how quick and easy it is to quickly look up something on their mobile that they carry around 24/7. Signs of mobile usage are now all around us. People scroll through websites on tablets, smartphones, notebooks and other web-enabled mobile devices to pass their time. According to the BBC, almost 50% of people have used the internet whilst away from their computer in a survey last year.
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Mar 7, 2013 ·
1 minute read
magento
What EC2 is and how it differs from standard hosting Aside from shared hosting, Virtual Private Servers and Dedicated Servers, another form is cloud hosting. EC2 is Amazon’s answer to this EC2 allows you to run “instances” which are prebuilt images which from your perspective is just like a virtual machine. The difference being that it’s in no way fixed to a physical machine, or even datacentre. Using Magento with EC2 Obviously there are prebuilt images for various platforms (Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian etc) and Magento can be installed on these as with any server.
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Mar 1, 2013 ·
4 minute read
featured
Buckley is a UK based company that prides itself on designing and manufacturing high quality fashion & costume jewellery at competitive prices since its inception in 1989. The company has rapidly expanded into a worldwide brand with jewellery collections available to a vast market of over 200 stores including more than 60 Duty Free shops and 120 airlines . We are glad to hear that Buckley has contributed over US$3 million to the funding of the Royal British Legion through the sale of its elegant Buckley Poppy.
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Feb 25, 2013 ·
2 minute read
phpprogrammingusability
As you might be aware, the UK PHP Conference was held in London last weekend. Having been the lucky winner of a ticket from PHP NW I went along. The Venue The conference was held in The Brewery in London city centre, a well suited conference centre with a variety of different conference rooms. An old Whitbread brewery, it was modern and practical while still maintaining enough of its history to keep its character.
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