Less bandwidth thanks to WebP
Monday, 13 February 2012
(Almost) every website has images, and (almost) all images are of the format PNG, JPG and GIF - formats that have existed already many years, but have rarely been updated. Because a lot of the bandwidth of the modern web is taken up by images, it is logical to see research in the direction of reducing the sizes of images dramatically. Google has introduced such a new format - WebP - and we are happy to code along by offering a free Magento extension for this new WebP format.
ByAttribute 1.0.0 brings you widgets
Tuesday, 07 February 2012
About a week ago, we released ByAttribute version 1.0.0 for Magento - the so-called stable version that everybody was waiting for such a long time. The first feature of this stable version is that nothing has become more stable than it already was - it's just a version-change. The second feature is that this new release brings widget-support. At last, something easier than hard-code XML-coding ...
SimpleLists 1.6 is out
Monday, 30 January 2012
About a month ago, we released SimpleLists 1.6.0.0 as a beta-version, and since then, we have released various intermediate versions to fix the latest bugs: By now it's time to state that SimpleLists 1.6 as stable, and give some hints on what is new with this new version.
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Joomla! 2.5 and Yireo extensions
Tuesday, 27 December 2011
Joomla! 2.5 will be released early in 2012 and with the coming of this new Joomla! release, the question is ofcourse: Will be certain Joomla! extensions be compatible with this new release, and what will happen with the support for older Joomla! released? To answer the question for Yireo extensions: As for know, we will change as little as possible.
RT Visage and YT Catalyst patches for MageBridge
Thursday, 08 December 2011
We just released a MageBridge patch for this months RocketTheme template Visage and a MageBridge patch for YOOtheme template Catalyst. Using these templates together with a MageBridge patch, allows you to build a Magento-shop within no time - spending only time on real customization instead of getting the basics fixed.
GoogleTranslate is not bad at all
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Everybody knows GoogleTranslate, and everybody knows that it's not perfect either. Many sites use it on their frontend-website to translate content automatically to numerous languages. But often the translation is off - leading to funny phrases in foreign languages. Nobody mentions however using GoogleTranslate in their backend instead.
Why SSH instead of FTP?
Saturday, 26 November 2011
When working on customer sites, we often get access to FTP, while most customers give a strange look when hearing about SSH: Isn't that something for the real nerds? What use has SSH for an average user? And why be so picky about SSH while FTP should do just fine, right? Here's the difference between SSH and FTP, and why you should care about it.
PHP 5.4 is upcoming
Monday, 21 November 2011
I hear you thinking: The move from PHP 4 to PHP 5 was dramatic and took over 6 years. But just PHP 5 was not good enough, because PHP 5.0.1 came out already long before PHP 4 was called obsolete. At this moment, PHP 5.3 is considered to be optimal, but software developers still seem to have trouble getting everything updated. And now, PHP 5.4 appears on the horizon. Time for another migration?
Enable Developer Toolbar through the URL
Thursday, 17 November 2011
Many people use the Magento Developer Toolbar when developing in Magento. The extension contains many features that are useful when working with Magento themes. One of those features is that you can enable the Magento templating hints through URL. Call it a feature or a bug, but many site-owners are not aware of this option - which definitely should be turned off in production environments.
Update on Magento 2
Monday, 14 November 2011
Some weeks ago, the Innovate 2011 conference took place, during which some exciting news was reveiled by eBay (the "owner" of Magento). During the conference various talks also discussed Magento 2 - was it still planned (even with the coming of X.Commerce) and which features would it contain then? The first question - will Magento 2 still be developed - can be answered with yes. So that's a good start.
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