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Magento Integration: Session Login

Most developers would agree that Magento is hands down, a great platform for e-commerce. One of the pitfalls of Magento however, is it’s lack of true content management. The system lacks any real plugins to extend the platform significantly enough to have a real content manager. Futhermore, there are very few Zend based platforms in existence, and none of them offer Magento integration. So where does that leave us? It often leaves us with a second platform that we’ll need integrate as seamless as possible with Magento. Sessions, products, accounts… these are just a few vital integration components. Today, I’m just going to cover Session/Login integration.

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Tips for Facebook Advertising

Internet advertising is a relatively young industry, yet in a decade we’ve seen skyrocket. While Google holds the most advertising space on the Internet, we’ve watched as Facebook has pushed it’s way into our lives reaching over 500 million users with a platform that they can totally control. Advertisers are discovering that Facebook is very useful when it comes to targeting niche markets and demographics and if you’re thinking of joining the bandwagon or are already on board, check out these three tips that will help you out with your campaign.

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jQuery Mobile

I was stoked to hear about the alpha launch of jQuery Mobile recently, and immediately started playing with the framework. In just an hour I built a small mobile application for budget tracking, and put it up on our dev site for testing. It doesn’t do much yet.. just account creation, login and some simple credits/expenses tracking, but given the fact that this was a from-scratch project and took less than an hour to build.. it shows the power of knowing the right frameworks and development environments.

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