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A few days ago EllisLab released the public beta of Expression Engine 2.0. The system in most areas has undergone significant upgrades however their Communicate module remains mainly unchanged. There has been some debate regarding whether this module justified inclusion in EE2.0 given it’s limited application. SmoothFunction tried to address these short comings with their [...]

Magento keep logging you out of the Control Panel?

Magento keep logging you out of your admin panel? Here’s how to fix it.

First look at Magento eCommerce

Magento could well be the open source eCommerce system we’ve all been waiting for. I have road tested the system for the last 48 hours and here are my impressions on version 1.1.3

How to run OSCommerce (or OSCMax) with Register Globals Off

Need a way to make OSCommerce work with register globals off. We’ve tried and tested a mod created by the team at Magic SEO URL and it’s worked for us, so give it a go.

osCommerce: to try or not to try…

I’ve been experimenting with osCommerce for the past few weeks and it’s an interesting package considering its age. Although there seems to be a lot of talk regarding a version three, the current version (2.2 MS2) has been around for some time. Despite this, the package has tremendous support, with numerous addons being adding to [...]

Adding plugins to Word Press

Having had a quick scan through http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins, I’ve found a few items to extend Word Press that seem worth a look. Adding the plugins to Word Press so far has been dead easy. Below is an example of some code highlighting that should look pretty fancy thanks to the Highlight Source Pro plugin. function foo(){ [...]

Getting on with Word Press

Well so far I’m impressed. For a completely open source tool, Word Press is one of the tightest, slickest units I’ve seen in a long time. I managed to get this blog up and going within 20 minutes (including upload time). The trickiest part was actually trying to find a theme to kick things off. [...]