Du Vien Trang is a Freelance Web Designer / Developer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. This is his portfolio, blog and his digital playground.

TroubleshootingWiki.org is a new website designed to provide users with comprehensive, free guides on software troubleshooting. This site intends to help users eliminate the potential problems that might arise while working with various applications.

It is often difficult finding a resource that is focused on providing quality, relevant, and free information on software troubleshooting at one central location. Launched initially with over 20 tutorials covering different Content Management Systems and other software, TroubleshootingWiki.org is expected to grow into an exhaustive troubleshooting resource where users are able to add their own tips and tricks.
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Talk from The So. Cal. Linux Expo, Febuary 8-10, 2008 in Los Angeles, CA - Roy Rubin - Building an Ecommerce Site with Open Source Tools / An Overview of Open Source Commerce Solutions.

The talk isn't just about Magento, the first half of the session covers other popular open source ecommerce product in the present market.

Today, while developing a new site with Magento 1.0, i ran into a severe problem. The admin menu no longer worked anymore.

After searching high and low i came over a forum post to resolve this js issue. However, the Head.php file did not do the trick. Only when i slightly modified the code taken from the following page on that the same forum post that it resolved the issue.

I've post it up here as well in case some Magento users may have ran into the same problem.

Download the file - Head.php and unzip the file. Replace app/code/core/Mage/Page/Block/Html/Head.php with attached file. Please backup your old Head.php file before you apply this one.

The long awaited production ready version of Magento is out.

This is good news as I've been involved in project to setup an ecommerce shop for selling t-shirts but development had been postpone due to some disagreement with a printing company.  read more »

We are happy to announce the availability for download of Magento Preview version 0.8.17240. This is one of our biggest releases to date and includes many new features and ehnacements.

Magento's production feature set is mostly complete with a few minor adjustments expected later this month. A full list of Magento's features can be viewed here.

* Please note (important): PEAR packages and sample data are currently not available for this release. We will make them available in the next few days.

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We are happy to announce the availability for download of Magento Preview version 0.7.15480. The major highlights of the release include sales order management (invoices, shipments, offline refunds), reorders, advanced search, support for Paypal Website Standard (see video) and design themes management per store, product or category (see related blog post).

Magento

Already over 100,000 downloads and a shopping cart capable of allowing anyone to run an online store like Amazon - say "hello" to Magento.

Magento is an open source shopping cart that has only been out a few months ago and already it is looking very promising. I'm currently testing it out and to my surprise, it is delivering what it promises, quote from Magento's website:  read more »