Dear Magento, You need to update your documentation. It’s a consistent message across all the blogs and forums I’ve visited. We want to build plugins that follow best practice, but finding documentation about best practices has proved elusive. Magento, more than most other sites...

Was just viewing a site through the Web Development Network console, to check whether tracking codes were in place, and noticed warning messages from Twitter that our Twitter widget was deprecated and would stop working soon. ?No other announcements? Followed the link, and apparently it was...

Sometimes you find the right plugin. I’ve been playing with WordPress for a couple of weeks, reorganising my AdWords, AdSense, Analytics, Tag Manager, AddThis accounts into consolidated accounts. All managed through the lovely ManageWP interface. This year I’m planning to...

In my world, it’s all about the ads. With a hotdog chaser. There are lots of sites you can visit to see the top superbowl ads: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/03/super-bowl-commercials-2013-watch_n_2612632.html was...

I use my Android tablet for reading. PDFs, emails, books, blogs – everything. I do great guilt, so I try to actually pay for things like books. I had an old paperback Dick Francis novel – a great one about a mystery set on a train across Canada, and had a hankering to read some...

When testing sites I always check the Hostname report in Google Analytics, to make sure I’m not accidentally including local or staging traffic in my clean profile. Lately there has been traffic from www.goo.gl/Qv87. On every site I check. Rather than visit the actual site, which is...

I’ve been waiting for what seems like forever for an upgrade to my Acer Iconia 501 tablet. I forget how long I’ve had it – feels like a couple of years – but given that it first came out late 2011, it’s really only around 15 months. It’s just that I use it...