April 19th, 2011
I have come up with a system of managing my emails in Mail (OS X only) that has helped me tremendously in managing the dozens of emails I receive each day. Before this system, I used to mark emails
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April 1st, 2011
We decided Classy Llama Studios would not be complete until we adopted our own mascot. Meet Cindy:
[caption id="attachment_1166" align="aligncenter" width="334" caption="Cindy settling in at David Alger\'s farm, her new residence."]
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March 29th, 2011
The initial flow of love for Wiz was greatly appreciated! I'm not certain how many people actually have downloaded and are using Wiz today. We may never know fully... But the buzz that was generated was definitely invigorating!
We have
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March 22nd, 2011
In case we forget, the guys in suite 104 (the "creative" side of Classy Llama Studios) lovingly decided to give us a play-by-play walkthrough of bathroom usage. Apparently, they were enduring some unpleasant olfactory feedback, and needed to set things
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March 22nd, 2011
We at Classy Llama value public contributions from our team members. We have an open blog policy where anyone on the team can post on our blog about anything they believe is noteworthy and relevant. Over the past 3 years,
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March 21st, 2011
Since joining the team a little over a year ago I've learned some things about myself. One thing I realized early on is that I was allowing myself to settle for "good". It's easy to create "good" design, and it's
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March 21st, 2011
Do you have a site with product images of varying proportions. It can be annoying when Magento gives you that white border to make your product image square. Here's how customize what color that background is: just add backgroundcolor('000',
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March 21st, 2011
The following is an open letter to Facebook. I know Facebook privacy has been an issue in recent times, but I think this one in particular takes the cake (Sorry...
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March 18th, 2011
Classy Llama Studios just recently built
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March 7th, 2011
There is a lot of functionality in Magento that is hard to get to or tedious to work with. There are so many tasks that developers, designers, and administrators do on a daily basis that require time-consuming trips to the
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February 18th, 2011
If you've ever looked at a var_dump() or var_export() of an order, quote, or invoice object, you might have noticed there are a long list of numbers that are present in that object. Here is a sample taken
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February 8th, 2011
I just finished giving a presentation at Magento Imagine conference. I'm posting the link to the Powerpoint and the video I embedded in my presentation:
Powerpoint presentation: http://bit.ly/fqwvlD
Eclipse/PDT Debugging walkthrough video: http://bit.ly/fEQ0Ma
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February 3rd, 2011
Listen up Magento fans! (Yes, Mr. or Mrs. Potential-client-considering-Classy-Llama's-proficiency, that means you, too.)
If you thought Classy Llama Studios was just "in it for the short term" or simply "out to make a buck" then think again! We are, in fact,
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November 30th, 2010
Today I was faced with an interesting task. I needed to update an attribute on as many as several thousand products at once within a reasonable amount of time. My first thought was to load a collection of
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November 1st, 2010
I wanted to do a check on a configurable product to see if it had a specific attribute. But not just any attribute, a global attribute used to create associated products within the configurable product - a "Super Product
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