Magento – The radical Ecommerce open source

Magento is the new improved e-commerce platform that gives a superior force to web traders to get rid of obstacles in the way of business process implementations. With downloads surpassing the magical figure of 600,000, Magento is easily the fastest growing commercially available tool for online business solutions.
Don’t be misled by the free and open [...]

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Zend Framework new preview release 1.8

Tools for dependable bootstrapping

A command line client for creating and maintaining projects

Devices for menus, sitemaps, breadcrumbs, and whatnot

Full support for Amazon EC2 and S3

A simple and reliable framework

New additions and bug fixes

Check out Mathew’s blog for more detailed description.

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Obscure Microsoft product behind halt of Windows releases

A compatibility glitch with the latest versions of Windows has thrust the spotlight onto a little-known product from Microsoft’s Dynamics line for midsize businesses.
Just what is Dynamics RMS?
It’s software that enables specialty retailers to handle cash register functions, process payments, and automate purchasing, inventory and other back-end processes, said Michael Griffiths, the group product manager [...]

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Five steps to content management success

Most organisations of substance have come to understand that they need some form of content management system (CMS) to bring order to their online presence. What they may not have anticipated as they embark on this important direction is five change management steps they have to take if they are to succeed in the long [...]

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Celerant Complete Sales Tax Compliance Solution

Celerant Technology Corporation
Leading retail software provider, Celerant Technology, heads a new sales tax initiative with Celerant Tax Connect, powered by AvaTax. This addition, integrated within the  Command Retail system, automates and simplifies the process of manually filling out tax information and provides retailers with a complete tax compliance solution. It provides accuracy, electronic filing and [...]

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Microsoft May Sweeten Offer for Yahoo After Discussions Pick Up

By Zachary R. Mider and Amy Thomson
May 3 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp., closing in on the biggest acquisition in its 33-year history, may seek to end an impasse with Yahoo! Inc.’s board by raising its takeover offer, a person familiar with the matter said.
Talks intensified this week after Yahoo spent three months hunting for alternatives [...]

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Top 10 Careers Right Now

Top 10 Careers Right Now
Sometimes you just need a change. Your career may not be taking you in the direction that you’d hoped to go. You may not have the salary you wanted. There may not be room for advancement.
But there’s good news: continued education can make going back to school easy to advance your [...]

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Drupal’s Test Framework Means Better Releases

Drupal, recent winner of a Webware Top 100 place is at it again. The open source Web Content Management powerhouse has created a new addition to their framework. It’s going to mean either more frequent releases or (ideally) better releases.

Drupal, the open source CMS that is highly utilized by the music industry has created a [...]

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Build Your Own Website with New Book on Joomla 1.5

Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5 is a new book from Packt which is written as a practical step-by-step guide to building a website from scratch. Written by Hagen Graf, this book takes the reader through the tasks essential to create a Joomla! website as rapidly as possible.
Joomla! started as a fork from Mambo in 2005, [...]

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Zend Quick Start: PHP for Experienced Programmers

The Zend Quick Start: PHP for Experienced Programmers course is designed to quickly build an experienced programmer’s understanding of the PHP language. This course covers many of the same topics as both the PHP I: Foundations and PHP II: Higher Structures classes but at an accelerated rate with special emphasis on the differences between PHP [...]

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