M-Commerce A Win-Win Situation for All

admin wrote this on Oct 22 2011

The explosive growth of mobile phones offers an opportunity to extend banking and other services to millions of “unbanked” and un-served. More than 60 per cent of the world’s three billion mobile users live in developing countries and hundreds of millions of them do not have access to banking and other...

Is Cloud computing & Mobile Access that safe?

admin wrote this on Oct 22 2011

Much of the internet’s impact on society has been positive, as people are able to connect with each other and with information much more efficiently than ever before.  But cracks in the foundation of trust have been widening as more people have bad experiences in their online travels. Broadband and...

Migrating osCommerce to Magento

Vinci Rufus wrote this on Sep 4 2011

osCommerce is among the  first open source shopping cart applications available on the Internet and grew rapidly during its early days. However lately it has been completely over shadowed by Magento mainly due to the extensive feature list that Magento provides out of the box and also due to factors...

Easily Change Default Magento text and Labels

Vinci Rufus wrote this on Sep 3 2011

Trying to change the default text and labels in Magento usually involves drilling through multiple template files and doing a whole lot of Find and Replace. For example trying to change the default text from 'Log In' to  Sign In or change 'My Cart' to Shopping Cart etc. would require you to turn...

Customizing Magento Core files

Vinci Rufus wrote this on Sep 2 2011

As a part of your Magento implementation more often than not you will need to modify some of the core Magento files. Most novices and even regular Magento developers resort to directly making changes to the php files located under the \app\code\core\Mage. This is a wrong practice because in future if you upgrade your...

Enabling Template Hint Paths in Magento

Vinci Rufus wrote this on Sep 1 2011

While customizing the theme in Magento one of the biggest challenges is trying to understand which block of content comes from which file. Trying to drill down through the various files and folders under a Magento theme can be quite overwhelming. However luckily for us, there is a neat simple option that can considerably...