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Announcing the winner of the Free Magento 1.3 Theme Design book giveway.

To decide who gets the free book each new followers' names on my Twitter list was written on a piece of paper and folded up, then shuffled around in a box. Without looking into the box, I then proceeded to pick out a random name.

And the lucky winner is BradAngelcyk

Congratulations! you will be notified later on Twitter and many thanks to everyone for the follow

But don't be disappointed there's still another chance to win a free book. This time it's a Drupal book and i'll announce the give away prize very soon :)

Note: You have a week to get in touch to claim your book. Please DM me on Twitter. Otherwise, this free book is back up for grabs again.

The lovely folks at Packt Publishing has given me a free book to giveaway for this contest.

This book 'Magento 1.3 Theme Design' is a great introduction and material to start building sites with Magento eccommerce system which is already gaining huge popularity from small to large high profile companies.

It's simple to enter for this free book. All you need to do is follow me on Twitter and i'll randomly select a name from my twitter follow list as the winner.

Please retweet this post if you want (it's optional).

I'll be running this giveaway prize for a whole week (Starts now and ends on the 15th Feb 2010 - that's next Monday). The winner will be announced next Tuesday, good luck.

NOTE: Winner from UK only will receive a printed copy of this book. Winner from any other countries will receive a downloadable PDF ebook.

I've been testing out the recent release of a Drupal module created by Adyax that allows for a 3rd party ecommerce system called Magento to be fully integrated into Drupal. But was it really a full integration?

One of the reason why i was excited to try this out is because at my previous job we were using Magento almost exclusively to build online shops because it was fully featured to run any type of online store. Even better, it allows for multiple stores from one installation without the need for a multi-site setup. Magento has certainly been one of the most exciting open source ecommerce application to hit the Internet last year causing a huge buzz and interest. Now with over a million downloads and top brand names using it, it's certainly is living up to its expectations. read more »

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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.