Category Archives: Magento

Love it or hate it magento is the best opensource ecommerce package on the market. And a right royal pain in the arse to pick up.

Magento Beginners Guide… Its a Book for Magento Beginners, No-Really

Anyone who already knows me knows I have a ridiculous amount of books; mostly e-books thesedays (the future-wifey takes exception to a book-based house-invasion) and mostly for reference. I am by all definition a book whore.  So when PACKT offered to send me their latest so I can review it and didn’t stipulate any real … Read on Squire

Ever wondered why Magento Layered Cache Was SOOOO Slow and Greedy

Ever wondered why Magento Layered Cache Was SOOOO Slow and Greedy, as in it sees mysql as its bitch and likes to consume as much resource as humanly possible.

This is a SINGLE update query based on my test 'footwear' store, several attributes etc. Course the more attributes you have the slower it goes.

Magento Commerce – Layered Navigation Cache Error – Part Deux

Solution 2 – Running the Layered Navigation Cache in bits from PHP-CLI Part Three Solves a lot (GO BADGER) So not everyone has half a gig of ram to play with, that’s a git. Funnily though, I don’t have PS on the server I’m developing Magento on (why, oh god why?) so I cant build … Read on Squire