Magento

Setting Up Tax In Magento

As with most things in Magento the configuration of tax is extremely thourough and flexible – but you do have to think a little bit to set it all up, here is a quick guide to doing just that.

Frozen Synapse

Frozen Synapse

Just been gifted a copy of this fantastic game and it made for an entertaining evening of carefully planned tactical moves, mostly going terribly wrong. If you are a fan of tactical games then you will love this game – with it’s simple yet deep gameplay it is rewarding and frustrating in equal measure. So [...]

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Boundary Waters Canoe Area Trip

Just returned from a fantastic canoe trip in the wilderness of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area of Minnesota. There really is nothing like this in the UK, or Guernsey, so it was well worth the effort to go and spend six days trekking by canoe through this genuinely unspoilt wilderness.

Ruby

Don’t Make Your Ruby App a Gem as an Afterthought – Do it Now!

I have been working with Ruby and independently with Ruby on Rails for a few years now and although I am really familiar with Gems I have managed to avoid ever creating one myself – recently I had to convert an existing project to a gem and I realise how foolish I was not to “gemify” it from day one. I’m going to talk through the process I went through to help anyone in a similar situation out but mostly to persuade you to create things as Gems from the start of the project.