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Lisa’s Broken Foot X-Rays

Mike — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:24:26 +0000

The X-Rays confirmed that Lisa’s fall - from a crawlspace - on Christmas Eve resulted in a nasty fracture of the fifth metatarsal. The doctor tells us it’s commonly referred to as a “Jones Fracture,” more here at Wikipedia. It’s a bit of a tricky fracture. As you can see in the first X-Ray, there’s a [...]

West Family Obligatory Christmas Elfyourself Dance

Mike — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:31:15 +0000

Starring Trent, Mike, Me, Lisa and Pop-Pop Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Magento - “Accepting Orders” vs. “Not In Stock” vs. “In Stock”

Mike — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:40:46 +0000

Introduction I have several different ways I need to handle product, and nearly chief among these - from a marketing/ credibility standpoint - is the ability to accept “pre-orders” for product that will be arriving very shortly from the manufacturer. Why is this important? It’s important to establish that yes, we are on the leading edge of [...]

Magento - Mail-In Rebates

Mike — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:28:09 +0000

Introduction A Mail-In Rebate is a piece of paper that says “Buy this to Get $x Back!,” and provides a few rules of the program. This means there’s no real programming genius required, other than to provide a link to the rebate form and maybe relieve it from the site after it’s expired. Doesn’t look like Magento [...]

Magento - Export Orders - A function to return USPS state abbreviation

Mike — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:00:26 +0000

It seems the Magento SOAP API is only returning the full state name to me (country being United States). I know that Magento knows the abbreviation - I see it in the source on the customer/address/edit page. But I’m only getting the full state name via SOAP for my SOAP Order Exporter. No matter, here’s a [...]

Magento - Export Orders

Mike — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:56:03 +0000

Introduction I was at least mildly surprised that Magento did not have a built-in order export module. Some folks need to export to QuickBooks; others, I guess, just like to have a spreadsheet format to shake and bake to their heart’s content. Still others, like me, need to export orders for consumption by a warehousing (”ERP”) and [...]