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Coming Soon: MaxCDN integration extensions for Magento.

MaxCDN is a commercial Content Delivery Network (a.k.a Content Distribution Network) used by highly trafficked web sites including @Mashable. It costs roughly $40 per month to host one Terabyte of data (that comes out to 1000 gigabytes if you’re a

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Varien Announces Magento Enterprise 1.6 – Complete With All Those Amazon.com-ish Features You Thought You Had to Code Yourself.

Magento Enterprise Edition is arguably the most powerful e-commerce platform ever created. Version 1.6 offers a whole new systematic approach to targeted merchandizing. Here’s how targeted merchandizing can be set up in Magento Enterprise 1.6 Set up rules for Up-selling:

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Securely Setting Unix File Permissions for Magento

Are you getting this error during the installation of Magento? Fatal error: Call to a member function children() on a non-object … The most common reason for this error message is that the Magento Installation script is trying to access

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How to set up Magento with USPS shipping methods and get permission to use the USPS production API

2011 Fresh update: Many people don’t know the news… You can now subscribe to a low-cost, PCI and DSS compliant, managed version of Magento in the Cloud. It’s called Magento Go (formerly Magento Stratus when it was only a nascent

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Magento Installation gives error: PHP Extention “pdo_mysql” must be loaded and PHP Extension “mcrypt” must be loaded

I was installing Magento (E-commerce software) and got the following errors: o PHP Extension “pdo_mysql” must be loaded o PHP Extension “mcrypt” must be loaded To add these extentions, I had to recompile php adding these two parameters to my

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