One thing you realise in technology is that nothing stays the same. Today Bob Schwartz added himself to the steady trickle of departures from Magento this year. I remember Yoav pointing Bob out to me back in 2010 at the Magento offices. He seemed an authoritative corporate kind of guy at first glance, a little […]
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Magento API – Get Product Details
I was writing a little code snippet tonight to get the name and url for products in a particular category. Its quite simple to do with the Magento API, here is the code: <?php $soapUrl=’http://www.testdomain.com/’; $apiUser=’karen’; $apiPass=’my_api_key’; $proxy = new SoapClient($soapUrl.’api/soap?wsdl’); $sessionId = $proxy->login($apiUser, $apiPass); $productArr = $proxy->call($sessionId, ‘catalog_category.assignedProducts’, array(’33’)); $extnDetails=array(); foreach ($productArr as $product) […]
Magento Extensions Follow Up
What’s it all about? A little over 3 weeks ago I posted a blog about Magento extensions, and how I felt that there was not enough regulation around the marketplace, or enough information for merchants, web design agencies to make informed decisions. A few things happened after: The community responded. Mainly around twitter, but also […]
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Some of my beautiful customers
Today a customer nearly made me cry. I’m not an emotional person, and never has a customer made me feel that way. Why? Because he gave me advice. Not many people give me advice, so I appreciated it more than he would ever realise. This led me to think about my customers, and the interesting […]
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Extension Meeting Schedule
Agenda The goal of this meeting is to get on the table the major concerns around extensions, and get a list of ideas around how we could act as a community to improve this space. Overview – 5 mins Major concerns – what’s the problem with extensions today? – 15 mins Ideas for improvement –15 […]
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Magento Extensions in the Spotlight
Back in 2010 I spoke to Magento about, amongst other things, how we could get standards around Magento extensions so that merchants and web designers/agencies could make educated decisions on which extensions and companies are good/bad/trustworthy. Magento staff have moved on, we now have 5000 extensions and the issue remains, in fact I think its […]
Announcing the arrival of Blue Jalappeno!
Back in 2010 I realised that WebShopApps was expanding fast and I needed some help with the non-shipping extensions. I sent a mail to an ex-colleague Genevieve (Gen), someone I consider to be an excellent developer but more importantly one of the best all-round software engineers I have ever met. Gen has taken over some […]
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Announcing the AppShop
Today we are pleased to announce the launch of the AppShop, which will become the place to go to find all the best Magento extensions. Check out the great launch video by The Buzz Lab to see what its all about. Why Launch the AppShop? People have asked me why WebShopApps is launching this […]
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Fedex Ship Manager Retirement in Magento
From May 31st 2012 if you are running CE/EE Magento on versions CE1.5.x or less or EE1.10.x or less you will no longer be able to get Fedex Shipping Rates. If this seems like a big statement, well it is. Fedex are switching to a Web Service based approach and if you aren’t on CE1.6/EE1.11+ […]
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Why are WebShopApps Gold Partners?
There has been some discussion on the worth of the Magento Partner Programmes so I thought I’d explain why WebShopApps did it. WebShopApps became Gold Industry Partners with Magento September 2011, and for us it’s been well worth the investment. We had never done any marketing prior to joining this programme, and part of me […]
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