Wiz 0.9.3-beta: Better Admin User Creation, Cache Clearing & Indexing
It has been a while, but Wiz has not been forgotten!
The latest update, 0.9.3-beta, brings the following new features and improvements:
Indexing functions and information are now available.
Caching now supports clearing and viewing invalidated caches.
Caching now has more options to clear all of the various Magento caches.
Errors setting up admin users on linux systems should be resolved.
Adding Admin users should now work for every version... Read more
Posted on July 14, 2011
Posted under Magento
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eBay Acquires Magento (Inside Information)
It is too early to tell, but there are a few things we can be certain of:
1. Magento has a strong development community attached to it, and if the free Community Edition were to be abandoned, the development community would abandon Magento, and that's not good business for eBay. eBay is positioning X.Commerce as a comprehensive eCommerce solution, which means the little guys don't get left out. With Magento Go servicing the entry side of the... Read more
Posted on June 9, 2011
Posted under Magento by Kurt Theobald
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Add Custom Layout Handles (e.g. Parent Categories)
If you ever need custom layout handles in your local.xml, it's fairly simple. In this example the observer method will make a new handle for for categories that have children or not, but you can just modify the method to make whatever handles you desire. (I realized after creating this there's already a handle for anchored categories with no subcategories, catalog_category_layered_nochildren)
First add this to your config.xml in... Read more
Posted on June 1, 2011
Posted under Development, Magento, Magento Development by Kevin Kirchner
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Create a Priority Inbox in Mail (only show unread + flagged emails)
I have come up with a system of managing my emails in Mail (OS X only) that has helped me tremendously in managing the dozens of emails I receive each day. Before this system, I used to mark emails as unread that I needed to take action on. This became very unwieldy as I would lose track of what I had read vs what I just needed to take action on at a later point. I had many emails fall through the cracks, and urgent emails didn't get regarded... Read more
Posted on April 19, 2011
Posted under Productivity by Erik Hansen
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Welcome Cindy to our CLS Team
We decided Classy Llama Studios would not be complete until we adopted our own mascot. Meet Cindy:
We adopted Cindy from Mountain Meadow Llama Ranch yesterday after a few months of paper work and transporting her from Romana California. She's four years old and has two geldings, one in Paris, Oregon and another Versailles, Missouri. We're planning on reuniting her and her young gelding later this Spring.
Charles, biting off more than he can... Read more
Posted on April 1, 2011
Posted under General Business, Llama Culture by Kevin Kirchner
Wiz 0.9.0-beta: Specify Scope, Create EE Admin Users, and more...
The initial flow of love for Wiz was greatly appreciated! I'm not certain how many people actually have downloaded and are using Wiz today. We may never know fully... But the buzz that was generated was definitely invigorating!
We have recently rolled Wiz out to our entire team here at Classy Llama. No doubt within the next few weeks we will see more features being added as our people put it through the hoops. Enough about that. Let's get... Read more
Posted on March 30, 2011
Posted under Development, Wiz
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A Tour of the Bathroom in Suite 104
In case we forget, the guys in suite 104 (the "creative" side of Classy Llama Studios) lovingly decided to give us a play-by-play walkthrough of bathroom usage. Apparently, they were enduring some unpleasant olfactory feedback, and needed to set things straight... This is what resulted:
[caption id="attachment_1056" align="aligncenter" width="1229" caption="Step One: Feel welcome. Step Two: Flush... wait, isn't there something missing... Read more
Posted on March 22, 2011
Posted under Magento by Kurt Theobald
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Blog Posts = Free Chocolate... Smart? Umm, yeah.
We at Classy Llama value public contributions from our team members. We have an open blog policy where anyone on the team can post on our blog about anything they believe is noteworthy and relevant. Over the past 3 years, we've averaged about one post per month. We noticed that our blog represents fully half of our site traffic, albeit less quality traffic, but we like big traffic numbers because it makes us feel better about ourselves, so we... Read more
Posted on March 22, 2011
Posted under Llama Culture, Llama Culture, Magento by Kurt Theobald
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Good vs. Great
Since joining the team a little over a year ago I've learned some things about myself. One thing I realized early on is that I was allowing myself to settle for "good". It's easy to create "good" design, and it's way too popular these days. I know this because I see "good" design all over the web: blogs, portfolios, and galleries. It's cheap.
When I first joined the team it was difficult to hear Joey (the CLS Creative Director) pick apart... Read more
Posted on March 22, 2011
Posted under Design, good enough, great, great design, hard work by Jeremy Wells
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No More Square (White Background) Magento Product Images
Do you have a site with product images of varying proportions. It can be annoying when Magento gives you that white border to make your product image square. Here's how customize what color that background is: just add backgroundcolor('000', '000', '000') before the resize() method
<code>
<img src="<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($this->getProduct(), 'thumbnail',<br/> $_image->getFile... Read more
Posted on March 21, 2011
Posted under Development, Magento Development by Kevin Kirchner
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