StoreFront Consulting is excited to be attending the upcoming x.commerce Innovate conference in San Francisco. We're looking forward to Blake Mycoskie of TOMS Shoes, The Shins and of course, finding out what crazy plans Magento and eBay have for the future. Contact us if you would like to setup a meeting while we're in the bay area. [Read more...]
I'm excited to be attending the upcoming Magento Imagine in LA this Febuary. This will be the inaugural Imagine conference and Magento has lofty goals for the event. They say: "the event will bring together eCommerce leaders for two days of discussion, learning, networking, inspiration... and of course – imagination!" Well I'm headed on the road to see what all the fuss is about. [Read more...]
Garth and I turned our road bikes into stationery attention getters and spun for 14 hours at the Fells Point Fun Festival in Baltimore, Maryland this past weekend. We raised over $1600 for cancer research and education. We gave out lots of LIVESTRONG bracelets, CDs with uplifting music, and a few t-shirts. Our efforts were inspired and supported by GIVETOLIVE (http://www.givetolive.ca), an all-volunteer non-profit that organizes an annual bike ride (this year from Vancouver, British Columbia to Austin, Texas) to participate in the LIVESTRONG Challenge.
One hundred percent of the donations we collected were given to LIVESTRONG Foundation. LIVESTRONG has one of the highest rates of funds that actually go to research, and to helping those who struggle with the disease. [Read more...]
Due to some changes in the public Google Base / Google Merchant Center attributes feeds, an issue with Magento’s Google Base functionality has popped up. As far as I can tell, this issue will affect all versions of Magento. I have personally verified that the issue affects 1.4.0.1 and 1.3.2.4 and made the fix for several clients. I have put together this post with detailed instructions about fixing the error in the hopes that it will save some others time in dealing with the issue. [Read more...]
I found myself getting into the PHP game rather late and needed a book to go to for the basics. I have been programming in languages derived from C syntax for over a decade and a half now (C/C++, Java, C#), so I figured I could come up to speed with PHP rather quickly. My assumption turned out to be correct and PHP In a Nutshell turned out to be my guide book and go to reference for basic syntax. [Read more...]
