Ashley Schroder
Hi! I'm Ashley Schroder, the head software engineer at World Wide Access, a company that exports New Zealand products to the world.
I'm an active member of the Magento community, contributing open source extensions to Magento Connect and sharing my Magento experiences through my blog, aschroder.com. You can find helpful tips and advice there on a wide range of Magento development issues.
I am also a keen participant at the Auckland Magento User Group, an active, growing group of Magento users. We meet monthly and discuss Magento development, store optimizing and user interface improvements (and drink beer and eat pizza!).
My educational background is in computer science and maths and I have experience with enterprise software engineering on a variety of open-source platforms. I'm a keen Mac user, recently weened almost entirely off my Linux desktop.
Magento supports several methods of session storage: file-storage (the default), database, memcached and tmpfs-backed file-storage. In this article, I will explain and compare them and also present some benchmarks. Continue »
This is a tip from Vitaly Korotun in his presentation at the Magento Developers Paradise on using custom backend models to customize Magento. I thought I'd expand on his tip with a worked example for my own benefit - but you may find it useful too! Continue »
Last night I attended the Auckland Magento Meetup - which was great fun and sponsored by the excellent Parallel Imported. During a site review - I suggested using dynamic content blocks on a site to display a relevant warning note about Telco compatibility (for cellphones) only on relevant product pages,... Continue »
During the week someone asked me if I knew whether a given store was running on Magento. I thought it might be worth documenting my own little set of clues that help me spot a Magento store running in the wild. I'd be interested to hear of other people's tips,... Continue »
This is a review for the Fontis DPS Magento Extension which is very widely used in New Zealand for credit card transactions. As a member of the Auckland Magento Users group I find I am often talking to people about the extension, and even more often wondering about how it... Continue »
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