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Simple Magento performance/load testing with Mage-Perftest 13 Jul 2013 | 08:40 pm
Mage-Perftest is a simple Linux command line tool to test the performance of your Magento store, it can perform a number of clever operations which makes it far more suitable than siege or ab. Its not...
Awesome, Talented and Eager PHP Magento Developers Wanted 13 Jun 2013 | 06:10 am
Hi there potential employee, are you a PHP Developer? Looking for a job in the Manchester area? We’re still hiring … We are Sonassi, a Manchester based PHP development agency that specialises in Mage...
The nolocal theming and packaging methodology 16 May 2013 | 04:39 pm
So this will cause ultimate uproar and go against the grain of every Magento developer – but we’ve got a solid process for theming – that does not use local.xml (more on that later). We always work o...
Running Magento in PHP 5.4′s built-in web server 10 May 2013 | 04:06 pm
Whilst this isn’t a good idea for a production store, if you want to just experiment or develop locally, this works just fine. Instructions for Debian Then make a simple router, that mimicked the ru...
Deconstructing the cache image path on Magento 26 Feb 2013 | 07:56 pm
The image URL that you’ve given is impossible to have with a Magento store. I’m guessing you wanted it to be obfuscated, but in doing so have made it impossible to answer. So using a real example. Eg...
APC and Memcache with Magento 26 Feb 2013 | 02:59 pm
You need to understand the clear distinction between these two products to understand how to use them. APC is both an OPCode Cache and Fast Backend Memcache is just a Fast Backend Using APC as an O...
MySQL and Magento Peformance Tuning 23 Feb 2013 | 10:41 pm
Define performance Do you mean the page load time for a single user, or the overall capacity/total concurrency? The two are very distinctly different – and not strictly related. It is entirely possib...
Multiple SOLR Cores for Magento on Debian/Ubuntu/CentOS/RedHat 5 Feb 2013 | 04:50 am
On Debian/Ubuntu The most straightforward installation is pretty easy using tomcat and your package manager. The dependencies will be met automatically. apt-get install tomcat6 On CentOS/RedHat You ne...
Multiple SOLR Cores for Magento on Debian/Ubuntu/CentOS/RedHat 5 Feb 2013 | 04:50 am
On Debian/Ubuntu The most straightforward installation is pretty easy using tomcat and your package manager. The dependencies will be met automatically. On CentOS/RedHat You need to grab some alter...
Magento with Varnish 4 Feb 2013 | 07:14 pm
Is Varnish right for you? Varnish isn’t the be-all and end-all of Magento performance. Its great to offset load from bots & window-shoppers – but it shouldn’t be your first port of call to actually m...
