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It’s taken me a while but I’ve finally managed to create the “My Projects” section started although in all likelyhood I’ll not have much time to devote to my projects. I’ve started off by resurrection an old project that I worked on while I was self employed as Design2Host Ltd.  csNews Pro (formerly V-Desk Newsletter [...]

I am often importing data into a symfony project from an existing site or a CSV file and re-writing this data into the fixtures.yml is usually too complicated or time consuming so I end up writing bespoke import actions. While I am writing these actions I often find that I have to delete the contents [...]

Another day… another magento problem! I was asked to look into a problem with an automated stock level update script not updating the stock levels.  This update script was using the Magento API and on the face of things everything looked ok as the script ran without any errors, the product prices got updated but [...]