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All links in Magento should be generated via url model. Here is simple examples working in backend.

You can create and remove Magento product attributes from model. It’s quite simple if you know how.

CodeIgniter library to generate high quality thumbnails

Library is based on excellent * Smarty plugin “Thumb” * created in 2005 by Christoph Erdmann. This version is a little different, we are using core from Thumb, and some modification which gives more flexibility to work with it.

Features

• thumbnails are generated “on the fly” no additional actions required,
• cache for generated thumbnails,
• clear structure for generated thumbnails,
• thumbnails sharpening function,
• cropping function,
• fill space function

Usage

You need to upload file img.php into directory application/libraries. In controller, you need to load library:

Sometimes you can’t create only description. Sometimes you need to record a screen cast on your Mac OS X. Under Windows environment I used excelent simple program called WINK . It is really simple, fast and efficient solution for creating screen cast using Windows. Unfortunately I didn’t found any similar solution for Mac until now… It’s also really simple and it called:   Jing .

I just got activation for Google Storage for Developers . Service is similar to Amazon S3 but it’s served by Google and it’s still in beta mode – that’s mean that you can’t just register and use, and you have limited warranty about quality and uptime.