So, I just logged in to my Twitter account via the web inter­face and saw a notice men­tion­ing a new “Lists” fea­ture that Twitter have just launched. The notice read:

“New! Lists. A great way to organ­ize the people you fol­low and dis­cover new and inter­est­ing accounts. (BETA)

Lists are timelines you build your­self, con­sist­ing of friends, fam­ily, co-​​workers, sports teams, you name it. You’re part of a small group receiv­ing this fea­ture, so don’t tweet about it yet!”

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Right. We’re in part 03 of our “Theming for Magento” tutorial col­lec­tion. Time to get down to some theming.

A quick word on conventions

Magento, like many other con­tent man­age­ment sys­tems, likes to fol­low con­ven­tions. Adopting these con­ven­tions when design­ing your theme, as well as dur­ing the them­ing pro­cess, can greatly min­im­ize the amount of code required by your theme. As men­tioned on Part 02, Magento has a “fall back” fea­ture where it looks for required files, when not in your theme, within all other themes in the cur­rent inter­face until it finds the file it requires. This essen­tially allows users to keep a copy of the default theme in the inter­face in which they are cod­ing their theme (either the “default” or a cus­tom inter­face) and to only modify the files that require cus­tom­isa­tion. Continue Reading

I’ve been rolling the idea around in my head for a while now to cre­ate a Wordpress theme, packed with all the fea­tures I find myself repeat­ing on each pro­ject, as well as some new, use­ful fea­tures… and maybe a few whacky ones as well.

Yesterday, I jot­ted down a list of fea­tures I’d like to poten­tially include in this theme… some use­ful, some for repet­it­ive tasks and some just weird and whacky. My ques­tion to you all is, what fea­tures would you like to see?

They can be any of the above– min­im­ise repet­it­ive tasks, new and use­ful or just plain weird and whacky. Lets have it guys. What fea­tures would you like to see in a Wordpress theme?

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I find blog­ging to be such a unique and inter­est­ing medium for com­mu­nic­a­tion. Share news, thoughts and inform­a­tion with the world and inter­act with those who com­ment on your writ­ings. This, on the sur­face, seems like a some­what well-​​known concept. The ques­tion is, is it?
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First week­end down, and I’m engulfed in iPhone mania. Having used Symbian and Java based phones prior to this, the iPhone, app store and over­all approach to the mobile device is quite new and, although there’s noth­ing wrong with Symbian based phones, it’s a wel­come change if pace.

I had one or two things to sort out with the phone when I got it. I’ll write another post list­ing those and how I resolved them.

P.S Written on my iPhone.