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This PDF includes 67 Pages and around 1MB size, Below are the Table of Contents of the PDF.

Table of Contents

System Admin’s Guide to Magento. 6

Installing Magento Enterprise stand-alone on OS X. 6

Changing and Customizing Magento Code. 8

Subversion. 8

Upgrading to a newer version. 9

Custom Modules. 11

Blocks. 12

Pre-Production System Configuration Checklist. 14

1: System -> Configure -> General 14

2: System > Configuration > Sales. 15

3: System -> Advanced. 16

4: System -> Transactional Emails. 17

Multi-site Domain Name Setup. 19

1: Categories. 19

2: Store Configuration in the Magento Admin. 19

3: Store Configuration in the Server. 22

4: We’re Ready to Go!. 23

Varien’s Popular Open Source Magento eCommerce Software to Ship with Zend Server Community Edition PHP Stack  24

Availability. 25

Magento Database Repair Tool 26

Magento Database Repair Tool More. 27

Usage Instructions. 27

Crash-course for the impatient. 27

Test it before running on a Production Environment!. 27

Step-by step. 28

How to Set Up a Cron Job. 30

Magento and crontab. 30

Windows. 32

Other solutions. 33

Inner workings. 33

Error logging. 34

Configuration. 34

Magento’s Cronjobs. 36

How to restore a broken admin access. 37

Log in with the new account. 38

Further information. 38

Using Magento on Amazon EC2. 39

Optimizing Performance with Apache. 39

1. MySQL Configuration. 40

2. Apache KeepAlives. 40

3. PHP Opcode Cache. 41

4. Memory-based Filesystem.. 41

Public and Free Magento AMIs. 41

Launching an EC2 Magento Demo Store. 42

Benchmarking with ApacheBench. 42

Benchmarking with Pingdom.. 42

Optimizing Performance with Nginx. 43

Data Persistance with EBS (Elastic Block Storage). 43

EC2 Pricing and FAQs. 46

Performance Improvements in Next Magento Release. 46

Todos. 46

Understanding Magento Scalability and Performance. 47

Easy Wins. 47

Measure your Magento. 49

Three Steps to Improve Scalability and Performance. 51

Going Further. 52

Conclusion. 53

Magento & Zend Server Benchmarks. 54

Methods & Tools Used. 54

Magento Version Benchmarks. 55

Apache + mod-php VS Apache + Zend Server. 56

Zend Server Configuration for Magento. 57

Response time. 59

Additional technical details about the tests. 61

Things to test in the next benchmark campaign. 61

Conclusion. 62

Speed up your store by combining, compressing and caching JS and CSS– Fooman Speedster. 63

Upgrades Made Easy. 65

CSRF Vulnerability in Web Applications (and how to avoid it in the Magento Admin). 66

How To Setup Multiple Magento Stores. 67

Video: Google Website Optimizer Integration in Magento 1.1.7. 67

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Google Search: This week in search 5/30/10

Safety, security and privacy are important parts of the search equation for us at Google, particularly as we continue to bring you the best possible search experience on the web. Security in particular can be an important part to your interaction with the Google search box, so we’re always looking for ways to make changes and enhancements to that interaction secure. Especially as we all spend more time online, the importance of security has taken center stage. So in addition to this week’s secure search enhancement, you can read our latest news and insights at our Online Security Blog.

More secure searches
Years ago we added Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption to products ranging from Gmail to Google Docs, as part of our effort to advance the safety and security of our products for you. Now you have a new choice to search more securely using https://www.google.com. When you use this https address, an encrypted session is established between your browser and Google that uses an SSL connection. Just like on an online banking page, the “https” confirms that you are using a more secure connection that will help protect your search terms and your search results from being intercepted by a third party. For more information on this security enhancement, read our announcement.

Example of encrypted search: [flowers]

Whether you’re planning a trip by train or scouring the real-time web, this week’s roundup also includes two search enhancements that should greatly improve the richness of yor search results — no matter what you’re looking for.

Images in real-time search updates
Ten blue links on a search results page can provide you with a lot of really helpful information, but sometimes you’re searching for content that is richer than a textual web page. For instance, what are people saying about Lady Gaga’s latest garb? Until now, it’s been hard to get this kind of rich visual detail that’s really fresh. So this week we began rolling out a feature for images in real-time search. When searching for the latest content across the real-time web, you’ll be able to quickly see the images people are talking about right now (based on URLs of those images in their public updates.) To view this new feature, click on “Updates” in the lefthand panel when you complete a search. Then click on “Updates with images.”

Example search: [pac-man doodle]

Transit search enhanced
Often when we search, it’s to get from point A to point B, such as when the best route is by train. Then it’s important to know the specific details of the train station near you, like which lines it serves. Now you can easily get this information in the lefthand panel on Google Maps by searching for the transit station. The lines are colored and grouped by transit type to make it easier to find the line you’re looking for. For rail trains, you can see the departure time directly. For other types of transit like subways, buses and commuter trains, you can click on the line name to get the next departure time of each direction—all without having to leave the current page.

Example search: [Broadway-Lafayette St Station]

Thanks for reading, and stay tuned next week for more search news. Search on!

Posted by Johanna Wright

Download Magento Designer Guide and User Manual for Free

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This PDF includes 40Pages and around 1MB size, Below are the Table of Contents of the PDF.

Table of Contents

Designer’s Guide to Magento. 3

Magento Design Terminologies. 3

Website and Store. 4

Interface. 5

Themes. 6

Blocks. 7

Working with Magento Themes. 8

How Magento Does Themes Different from Others. 9

How to Create a Theme. 10

Say Hello to Multiple Themes. 13

Hierarchy of Themes. 14

Building Your Theme. 16

Introducing Blocks and Layout. 16

Step by Step Guide to Building a Theme. 20

Intro to Layouts. 23

How Layout Works. 23

The system is built this way in order to allow seamless addition and removal of modules without effecting other modules in the system. Anatomy of Layout. 24

Rules of XML. 26

Quick Exercises to Get You Started. 26

CSS Resources. 28

Creating CSS buttons vs Image buttons. 30

The CSS. 31

Add Home Link with functional active state to Menu Bar (Alternative Method). 34

Embedding HTML in the Footer. 39

Blank Theme available through MagentoConnect. 40

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Best Ever Comparison of WordPress vs ExpressionEngine In 2010

Comparison of WordPress vs ExpressionEngine

WordPress is a simple and easy blog , where as ExpressionEngine is a professional CMS, where many features will come built in package. For WordPress we need can add all the features by different plug-ins.

This is just the initial version of comparation, I will update this with the plugin links and many features available in WordPress

Table of Comparision

Current Applications Features	WordPress	Expression Engine
Mobile Edition	Available
Feed-Burner Feed-Smith	Plug-ins
Easy Tube : Embedding You tube Videos	Plug-ins
User Sign Up, Login & Forgot password with integrated used for 3 sites	Available	Available
Search	Available	Available
Category Feeds	Customize	Available
Printer Pages	Plug-ins	Available
Captcha ( Register, Comments)	Plug-ins	Available
Social Book Marks  ( ShareThis, Add it)	Plug-ins	Available
Ad-Sense Manager	Plug-ins	Available
User Roles	Admin, Editors, Authors, Contributor	(Executive Editors, Editor, Associate Editors, Contributors)
Related Articles	Plug-ins	Available
Tags	Available	Available
reTweet	Plug-ins	Available
Follow Facebook	Customize	Available
Gallery	Plug-ins	Available
Google sitemap generator	Plug-ins
Entry Versioning	Available
RSS	Available	Available
Multiple Weblogs	Plug-ins	Available
Custom Entry Fields: Each section can have its own unique set of entry fields. These can be input boxes, pull-down menus or textareas.		Available
Search Engine Friendly URLs	Available	Available
Relationships between entries in different sections of your site, enabling information to be shared.		Available
Custom Statuses: assign your entries to, like “first draft”, “revision”, “final edit”, etc	Available	Available
Multiple Categories	Available	Available
Ping servers	Available	Available
HTML Formatting Buttons	Available	Available
Future Entries	Available	Available
Expiring Entries		Available
Pagination	Available	Available
Article Pagination: split your articles into multiple pages.		Available
Image and File Uploading	Available	Available
Image Resizing and Thumbnailing	Available	Available
Image and File Browsing	Available	Available
Emoticons		Available
Bookmarklet: Post entries using a convenient bookmarklet		Available
User Commenting System	Available	Available
Comment Membership	Available	Available
Comment Moderation	Available	Available
Comment Expiration		Available
Comment Pagination		Available
Trackbacks	Available	Available
Auto Typographic Formatting	Available	Available
Auto Convert MS Word Characters	Available	Available
Auto Convert High ASCII to Entities	Available	Available
Automatic Linking	Available	Available
Email Anti-Spam Encoding	Plug-ins (Email-Immunizer)	Available
Referrer Tracking	Plug-ins	Available
Hit tracker	Plug-ins	Available
Statistical Tracking	Plug-ins	Available
Online User Tracking	Plug-ins	Available
Search Term Log	Plug-ins	Available
Full Page Modeling: Each template represents an entire web page		Available
Conditional Operators: Use conditionals to show targeted content to users that meet any criteria you set.		Available
Custom Global Variables :Create your own variables that you can use in any template.		Available
Sub-Templates		Available
Template Access Control		Available
PHP in Templates		Available
Custom SQL Queries		Available
Template Exporting		Available
Template Library		Available
Template Versioning System		Available
Customizable Workspace: Each user can customize the size of the template window.		Available
Template Notes		Available
Multi-Protocol Support (SendMail, and SMTP)	Available	Available
Flexible Email Options HTML email, priorities, word wrapping, CC, BCC and any combination of recipients		Available
Mailing List Manager		Available
Mail Caching		Available
Batch Processing		Available
Search Engine	Available	Available
Search Term Log	Available	Available
IP data can be searched for in entries, comments, forum posts, etc.	Plug-ins	Available
Blacklist/ Whitelist	Plug-ins	Available
CAPTCHA	Plug-ins	Available
Comment Time Interval		Available
Rank Denial		Available
Secure Form Mode	Plug-ins	Available
Duplicate Data Denial		Available
Trackback Pings Per Hour		Available
Trackback URL Randomizer	Available	Available
Site Membership	Available	Available
SQL Manager	Plug-ins	Available
Extension Manager	Available	Available
Admin Logs		Available
Search and Replace		Available
Data Export	Available	Available
Member Manager	Available	Available
Forum	Plug-ins (WP-Forum(	Add-on Personal 49.95$
Multiple Site Manager	Plug-ins (WordPress MU FREE)	Add-on Personal 79.95$
E commerce	Plug-ins (WP- ecommerce)	Available
Pod casting	Plug-ins (WP-Pod casting)
Moblog	Plug-ins	Add-on
WIKI	Plug-ins	Add-on
Mailing List	Plug-ins	Available
Photo Gallery	Plug-ins	Available
Blogger/MetaWeblog API	Available	Available
Commenting/Trackback	Available	Available
Recently Updated Sites	Available	Available
RSS	Available	Available
Search	Available	Available
Referrer	Available	Available
Statistics	Plug-ins	Available
Query	Plug-ins	Add-on
Multi-User System	Available	Available
Member Groups		Available
Custom Member Fields	Plug-ins	Available
Member Activation	Available	Available
Profile Management	Plug-ins	Available
Subscription Management	Plug-ins	Available
Member Localization		Available
Member Communication		Available
Email Console Logs		Available
Member Quick Links		Available
Note Pad		Available
Data Caching	Plug-ins	Available
Password Encryption	MD5	SHA1
Duplicate Data Removal	Plug-ins	Available
Password Lockout	Plug-ins	Available
IP Banning	Plug-ins	Available
Email Banning	Plug-ins	Available
Username Restriction	Plug-ins	Available
Jabber instant messaging clients	Service	N/A
Language Translation	Plug-ins/ Service
Premium Hosting	Available	Available
Price	FREE	For an Year Personal99.95$ Commerical 249.95$ +Additional for addons http://expressionengine.com/overview/pricing/

WordPress: Real-time delivery of posts and comments via standard Jabber instant messaging clients

Now WordPress.com delivers blog posts and comments in real-time. We started by providing a firehose for our partners but that was only the beginning. Anyone can subscribe to their favorite WordPress.com blogs and receive posts and comments the instant they are published. Soon the conversations on blogs will be as fast as chat rooms.

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Opera Mini for iPhone Finds 2.6 Million Users In Just 2 weeks

Safari on the iPhone is by no means a bad mobile browser — in fact, it’s arguably the best one out there. Just because people have something good doesn’t mean they don’t want to peek at what else is out there, though. Even if someone’s dating the finest supermodel in all the lands, they’ll still sneak casual glances at other potential mates. Its just human nature. People like having options.

For quite some time, Apple blocked third-party apps that challenged those that came on the handset out of the box, citing “duplication of functionality”. When Opera submitted the Opera Mini browser to the App Store, much ado was made over whether or not it would be approved. It was — and naturally, people looked. 2.6 million of them, in just 2 weeks.

Read the rest at MobileCrunch >>

Google officially acquired AdMob!

Last Friday, Google said that mobile advertising was moving fast. Today, Google acquired AdMob. Omar Hamoui has built a great team and great products at AdMob.

It’s clear that mobile advertising is becoming a much larger part of our clients’ and partners’ strategies and with this acquisition, it’s now a central part of our own business. In continuing to invest in this highly competitive area, we’ll be bringing together our technology, resources and expertise in search advertising with AdMob’s innovative solutions for advertising on mobile websites and in mobile applications.

Mobile search is central

One of the key ways that people find and access information on their mobile devices, just like on the desktop, is through search. As smart phones have proliferated, we’ve seen dramatic increases in mobile search volume. Over the past two years, Google’s mobile search volumes have grown more than fivefold, at an accelerated pace. In the first three months of 2010, people with smartphones with “full” WebKit browsers (such as the iPhones, Android devices and Palm Pre) searched 62 percent more than they did in the previous three months.

Increasingly, people aren’t just typing search queries into their mobile devices. They speak them, they take photos of them and they even translate them from different languages.

In addition to traditional search ads on mobile devices, we’ve worked to develop entirely new search ad formats. “Click-to-call” search ads, for example, have been really popular. They enable advertisers to include a local business or national phone number directly in their ad text that you can click to reach the business directly via phone. This is a really great way for you to easily get information from a relevant business (say, a local restaurant), and a highly effective way for advertisers to connect with interested customers.

With many more advances to come, search advertising will remain the central way that many businesses connect with consumers on mobile devices.

Mobile websites and apps

In addition to search, another key way that people access information is through mobile websites (accessed through a browser) and mobile apps (available through Apple’s App Store, the Android Marketplace and more).

Mobile display and text ads make it easy for publishers and developers to make money from their mobile websites and apps, and enable advertisers to extend the reach of their campaigns to relevant mobile content. In this area, AdMob has been a real pioneer and has innovated at a tremendous pace, building a successful business and working with thousands of advertisers, publishers and developers.

AdMob was one of the first companies to serve ads inside mobile applications on the Android and iPhone platforms. They’ve developed a host of engaging and creative ad units for Android and iPhone apps—for example, interactive video ad units and expandable rich media ads. Google has also been developing new features for in-app ads. For example, last week, we announced that we’ll be making “click-to-call” ad formats available to developers who run AdSense in their mobile apps. With Google and AdMob starting to work together, there’s lots more innovation to come in this area.

The future

It’s clear that mobile advertising is growing incredibly fast with lots of businesses innovating at great speed. Every day, more marketers are looking to take advantage of the mobile-specific capabilities, extended reach, great returns and value that mobile advertising provides. Advertisers are now starting to see mobile as an essential part of their overall campaigns, not just a silo-ed experiment on the side.

We want to unleash agencies’ and advertisers’ creativity on all mobile devices and deliver them better results from their campaigns, drive better returns and more choice for publishers and developers, and help people get better ads and more free mobile content.

We believe that mobile advertising can play a significant role in every single marketing campaign. We’re passionate about the unlimited possibilities in this space. Today, with AdMob, our work to make them a reality begins.

Posted by Susan Wojcicki, Vice President of Product Management

Stock Repurchase
As previously announced, Google intends to repurchase in the open market a number of shares equal to the number of shares issued in the transaction and issuable upon exercise of outstanding options to purchase common stock issued by AdMob. The repurchase program is expected to commence shortly after the completion of the acquisition. The repurchases will be funded from available working capital.

Happy Birthday to you!! Happy 1st birthday, Google Wave!

Last week, we opened sign-ups for Google Wave to everyone as part of Google Labs and made it available for all Google Apps domains. Here is the quick (seven minute) update on the state of the product from this year’s Google IO conference:

Today, it’s been a full year since the Wave team first got on stage at the Moscone Center and demoed a new vision for communication and collaboration to a crowd of developers. In a guest article on the Huffington Post last week, Lars described innovation and working on Google Wave as a rollercoaster—and this year has certainly been a fascinating ride. For the past year, I’ve had the pleasure and the challenge of explaining why this new technology is useful. Unlike some other products that I have also been lucky enough to work on, Wave is not a more advanced approach to a known application like webmail or the browser. It’s actually a new category, which can be kind of hard to wrap your head around.

I work in Wave every day, and we have identified a number of clear use cases for getting things done in groups at businesses and at schools. But people also ask me how I use Wave outside of work to understand how they should start using it themselves. As it turns out, the ways I use Wave aren’t revolutionary or groundbreaking—I communicate about everyday things, but it is these incredibly ordinary and important communications that are transformed in unexpected ways when you use Wave.

I wave with my family—with my mom, who is across the country, and with my sister who is a graduate student. We’re all on different schedules and very rarely all online at the same time. In one wave, we decided what to wear for a friend’s wedding—adding suggestions for each other with links and pictures, updating the wave as we had side conversations and made decisions. My mom and I chatted about my dress choice when we were both online, and then my sister was easily able to catch up later, adding her ideas. It kept all three of us up to speed in one place, rather than having several phone conversations, emails and chats. Sharing these small personal projects in a wave removes the little bits of friction to make the discussions more dynamic and productive.

From talking to other people who use Google Wave, I know I’m not alone. I’ve been struck by the really personal nature of communicating and working together in Wave, and the emotional response people have to their first uniquely wavey experience, what we call the “Wave a-ha moment.” For many people it’s the live typing that does it; for others it’s the first time they create an in-line reply, embed a YouTube video or edit someone else’s text.

You really do have to try it to believe it, though—so if you checked out Google Wave six months ago and found yourself at a bit of a loss, take another look. The product is much faster and more stable and we have templates and tutorials to help you get started. Next time you find yourself taking notes while you are on the phone, do it in a wave and add your colleagues, or pull a couple friends or family members onto a wave for a small project… like going to the movies.

So head to wave.google.com and sign in. You can get more updates on our blog and even share your stories (ordinary or otherwise) with wave.stories@googlewave.com.

Wave on!

Magento: Announcing the Launch of Magento Mobile

Watch efforts to stop the oil spill live and submit your ideas

As millions of gallons of oil pour into the Gulf of Mexico from the BP oil leak, ideas for stopping the leak and cleaning up the aftermath are needed. Today BP began their “top kill” procedure, which will attempt to send mud and cement into the well to block the flowing oil. You can watch what’s happening through a live stream of the leak on PBS NewsHour’s YouTube channel, the Google Oil Spill crisis response page or below.

You can submit your ideas on the best way to stop and clean up the oil spill via Google Moderator by 2:00 p.m. PT on Thursday, May 27.

Posted by Meryl Stone, Product Marketing Manager, Google.org

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