I’ve been working in e-commerce for a good few years now, for very similar companies (early stage, fast fashion focussed) and there’s always the same sorts of problems to solve. Here’s a very basic, very generic guide to the things you need to get up and running. Each bit has a ‘too long / didn’t […]
Just a quick snippet of code today, it grabs all the products in a certain category (given in category_id), sorts them by age and stock availability (you can adjust the relative weighting of these using $stock_weight) and then updates the category. The end result is a nice mix of newer products, and products with loads […]
Just a quick note, sometimes you need to access the magento database from a script, but don’t want the overhead of loading the whole magento framework….. Here’s a little snippet of code that grabs the database details from the magento xml config, so you don’t have to store them in your script: <?php class db […]
Quick plug for some magento scripts I wrote for development / deployments of Magento 1.x There’s some info in the readme, but I might write a couple of quick tutorials if anyone’s interested: https://github.com/Tall-Paul/mage-tools
This is the first in what will become a series of articles on development processes and techniques in use at my current place of work, Public Desire. To start off with I’m going to take a run through our docker based development environment, then in future articles I might dip into our deployment processes and […]
Hi there, been a long time… nearly 6 months since I last posted anything. Having a kid will do that to ya! Anyway, this week I picked myself up a nifty little 2 in 1 tablet / laptop thingy from a chinese manufacturer I’d never heard of: The Chuwi Hi10 pro. For a grand total […]
For the last couple of months I’ve been working on a platform to solve one of the problems I’ve seen repeated across numerous businesses in the ‘fast fashion’ ecommerce space. The problem is how to update your homepage and site with the numerous promotions you’re running in a timely fashion without impacting site performance. For […]
I’ve just updated my dynamic proxy server in node.js to support file injection, and the stripping of headers that prevent loading targeted pages in iframes. This may all sound very nefarious, but I actually require this functionality in a (super secret) project I’m working on….
So, the time has come once again when I’m looking for new job opportunities. As of the 1st of June I’ll be available for any fantastically interesting permanent opportunities in and around Manchester (Uk) or remote working. you can view my linkedin profile here for a quick history of my experience, and if you want […]
In my previous post, I explored the idea of introducing software development principles to the world of infrastructure, specifically the translation of the ‘MVC’ design pattern to logically divide infrastructure into 3 distinct layers. Today I’m going to take a look at each of these layers in more depth, and examine how they fit together and […]