The Classy Llama Studios Social Game Engine - OMG Jeans Deployment
Classy Llama Studios just recently built a very powerful and (hopefully) effective social game engine that we call "a very powerful and effective social game engine," or "The Classy Llama Studios Social Game Engine," but only because we haven't come up with a better name yet.
We first built the campaign to create buzz and attendance to The Llama Manifesto, a launch event for Kurt Theobald's double-book release, and it produced very positive... Read more
Posted on March 18, 2011
Posted under E-Commerce Optimization, game dynamics, Online Marketing, Online Marketing, optimization, social marketing, traffic by Kurt Theobald
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Introducing Wiz, a CLI Tool for Magento
There is a lot of functionality in Magento that is hard to get to or tedious to work with. There are so many tasks that developers, designers, and administrators do on a daily basis that require time-consuming trips to the Magento backend. If you happen to want to do more than one of those operations, you end up having do each of those tasks one after the other... if only there was a better way!
It is my pleasure to announce Wiz: a command-... Read more
Posted on March 8, 2011
Posted under Magento, Magento Development, Management
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A Guide to Currency & Prices for Orders, Invoices, and Quotes
If you've ever looked at a var_dump() or var_export() of an order, quote, or invoice object, you might have noticed there are a long list of numbers that are present in that object. Here is a sample taken from an order object:
<code lang="php"> 'base_currency_code' => 'USD'
'store_currency_code' => 'USD'
'order_currency_code' => 'USD'
'global_currency_code' => 'USD'
'... Read more
Posted on February 18, 2011
Posted under Magento
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Magento Imagine 2011 - "Best Practices for Debugging Magento" assets
I just finished giving a presentation at Magento Imagine conference. I'm posting the link to the Powerpoint and the video I embedded in my presentation:
Powerpoint presentation: http://bit.ly/fqwvlD
Eclipse/PDT Debugging walkthrough video: http://bit.ly/fEQ0Ma
http://bit.ly/fqwvlD
Cheers! Read more
Posted on February 8, 2011
Posted under Magento Development by Erik Hansen
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Llama Loose In LA: Speaks At Magento Imagine Conference
Listen up Magento fans! (Yes, Mr. or Mrs. Potential-client-considering-Classy-Llama's-proficiency, that means you, too.)
If you thought Classy Llama Studios was just "in it for the short term" or simply "out to make a buck" then think again! We are, in fact, all about impacting the globe and everyone in it. To that end, we use Magento as our e-commerce platform of choice. But! We don't stop with just using the platform: we find ways to make it... Read more
Posted on February 3, 2011
Posted under Magento by Joseph Wilson
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Saving a Product Attribute without Saving the Entire Product
Today I was faced with an interesting task. I needed to update an attribute on as many as several thousand products at once within a reasonable amount of time. My first thought was to load a collection of products and then save that collection. Under the hood, saving a collection simply loops through all models in that collection and calls the save method on the model.
I started in this direction when I tested my code, Magento threw the... Read more
Posted on November 30, 2010
Posted under Magento by Jonathan Hodges
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Get Configurable Super Attributes
I wanted to do a check on a configurable product to see if it had a specific attribute. But not just any attribute, a global attribute used to create associated products within the configurable product - a "Super Product Attribute".
So here ya go:
$_product = $this->getProduct();
$_attributes = $_product->getTypeInstance(true)->getConfigurableAttributes($_product);
foreach($_attributes as $... Read more
Posted on November 1, 2010
Posted under Development, Magento Development by Kevin Kirchner
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Magento Developer's Paradise Summary
I just arrived back in the US after a long weekend at the Magento Developer's Paradise. We (David Alger and myself) had a great time at the event (see photos of event below). There were a number of different types of attendees: Magento Professional & Enterprise development companies, extension development companies (like Webshopapps.com and Sweet Tooth), freelance developers, and Magento team members. We had opportunity to meet with a number... Read more
Posted on October 13, 2010
Posted under Magento Development by Erik Hansen
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At a loss for words?
At a loss for words? I may have a solution for you!
If you're a web designer and you're not familiar with the Lorem Ipsum language, then shame on you!
Wikipedia explains Lorem Ipsum as "placeholder text (filler text) commonly used to demonstrate the graphic elements of a document or visual presentation, such as font, typography, and layout." Basically, this gives designers one less thing to worry about, so as not to get in the way of the... Read more
Posted on September 19, 2010
Posted under Design, Design, Lorem Ipsum, Tools, Widgets by Jeremy Wells
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How to get Google Instant (any browser and not signed in)
Google has just come out with their new search page - it searches as you type. It's apply named "Google Instant".
Here's the kicker, as of this moment, you can't use it unless you are signed in with your google account. BUT if you're dying to try it and either don't want to sign in to use it or don't have a google account, just use this link and start searching, instantly!
Try Google Instant NOW!!
Enjoy! Read more
Posted on September 8, 2010
Posted under Uncategorized by Kevin Kirchner
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