I’ve recently been working on a lot of Drupal based sites recently and one in particular needed to have a bit of functionality that isn’t out-of-the-box with Drupal: creating a thumbnailed gallery. My problem was slightly different, as I couldn’t use something like an image style of the images, as the thumbnails were created using [...]

This post is to outline Observers in Magento. Although there is lots of documentation surrounding observers in Magento, I am only going to indulge in a basic example. Ok, so this example is based on updating prices when added to the cart. It isn’t amazing. It isn’t great and it isn’t probably something you’ll use, [...]

Over the last few weeks, I have been working on several projects, ranging from Drupal, WordPress, OpenCart and Magento. Out of these, Magento has been my biggest gripe. The application itself is extensive, does alot of of the box, but is simply too complex to do anything remotely basic. The documentation is usually out of [...]

We had some bad news in February. Oscar, our first ever pet died. We had him for approx. 2.5 years and was with us ever since we first moved in together. He is sadly missed. But we decided to replace him with 2 new Guinea Pigs: Dennis and Charlie!

So, this weekend me and a few of us from work did the Leeds Abbey Dash. After doing very minimal training, I was hoping for just under an hour. The race went well, but at the 2.5 mile mark, my feet began to seriously hurt. This was due to blisters, which began to get worse. [...]