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If you’re researching Magento for your business, the first question is always the same: what’s it actually going to cost?
The honest answer is: it depends. But “it depends” isn’t useful, so here’s a real breakdown — built from what we actually charge and what our clients actually pay. Continue reading “How Much Does a Magento Website Cost in the UK? (2026 Guide)”
The idea of this post is to create a script that validates the wp core integrity to be run by a cron job when ever you want
Continue reading “Ant hacking techniques: bash wp-cli command to validate wp core”
It is very common when we are prototyping to need some dummy data to populate our websites or applications.
This are some of the tools we use
php artisan migrate
[ErrorException]
is_file(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/usr/local/bin/php) is
not within the allowed path(s): (/usr/local/apache/htdocs:/tmp:/usr/local/l
ib/php:/usr/share:/etc/xml:/etc/pki:/usr/bin-safe:/home:/home2:/home3)
Continue reading “Error running Laravel Artisan in a share hosting”
Many clients are interested in knowing how much the maintenance costs of running a website. Free open source software has lowered the barrier of entry for new websites. Of course that will depend of many conditions, from the speed and size to factor like traffic or other factors, However as a good starting point to know some of the running cost regarding online presence.
Some days ago an artist friend from the yard where we work ask me to print a barcode to link to a song hosted in a server.
Why a barcode for an artist? Well he paint music but this is a matter for another story… here a link for his blog: http://davidcowleyart.co.uk/html/
Continue reading “How to create a barcode to open music, video or site”
With the release of Magento 2.0, many developers are comming to terms that is time to get a started with Magento2. As usuall we want to setup a box with Magento2 to start playing around a “perfect developer machine” with all required toolsets.
I was one of them, and I faced a lot of trouble while trying to just run Magento 2 on my machine. So today I am going to share with you all the post that help me to set up a perfect LAMP/LEMP (or WAMP for Windows users) environment on their machine. No matter what system you use you would find a dedicated post for your configuration, from LAMP, to Shared hostings, ans OSX machines.
Continue reading “Step to step guides for Installing Magento 2”
One important part about your video it is the background music.
Probably will be just a second or two but you will need some music to make it easer to view.
If you are in a tide or no budget at all other that your time you will be looking for “free music” thats this post about…
Sometimes we need to update some taxonomie or values into a serialized value within a meta_value.
The problem with serialized data is that can’t be updated with mySQL queries.
