http://andij.com handyman Thu, 28 May 2009 13:54:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en First impressions Upon receiving my copy of the Magento Beginners Guide I took a moment after dinner whilst my girlfriend watched some 'Celebrity Increase My Profile' program to absorb the first chapter.  I was presented with a nice introduction explaining the scope of the book and the conventions that are used ... http://andij.com/2009/05/12/book-review-magento-beginners-guide As I was gutted to miss FOWD in 2008, I decided to make a point of not missing it this year.  So I put my name down on the 'early bird' list along with @robking too as I was sure he'd be up for it. Really looking forward to Brett Welch talk ... http://andij.com/2009/04/29/future-of-web-design-2009-fowd Over the last few months it's become apparent that I enjoy doing a wide variety of different things.  This is not new news to me, it's just that I've come to the conclusion that this is what I should be doing - a bit of everything -. Variety is the spice ... http://andij.com/2009/04/22/new-job-title-handyman Having received an email from the Magento Team the other week bigging-up the latest release of Magento and encouraging me to upgrade as soon as I could, I dutifully upgraded the Mage_Core_Modules to 1.3.0.  This appeared to go without a hitch and after I made a couple of adjustments in ... http://andij.com/2009/04/16/problems-accessing-admin-after-upgrading-to-magento-1_3_0 This weekend, the 4th and 5th April I'm going to BarCamp Bournemouth along with @stunami and @colinmacd. It's a BarCamp event being held in the university campus, organised by @markng, @tepanga and @adammills. Last year I attended BathCamp which was a superb event. I got a lot from it and ... http://andij.com/2009/04/03/barcamp-bournemouth Seeing as today was such a great day, I decided to head down to Yateley Model Car Club after saying good bye to my Aunt and Cousins from yesterdays birthday party. The sun was shining and I had the whole afternoon available as Ellie was up the yard, riding out on ... http://andij.com/2009/03/15/a-day-at-the-races-radio-control-car-style Photography is something that fascinates me and intrigues me. So when I decided to organise the product photography for Bytemart Limited I had not really grasped the concept of how much effort it was going to take. First of all I put together a 'lightbox' to use as the environment ... http://andij.com/2009/03/09/lots-and-lots-of-photos Today was the first of our 'Lounge Fridays'. Ben and I spent the day working together at The Wellington Inn. [caption id="attachment_296" align="alignnone" width="225" caption="The Wellington Inn"][/caption] A great finish to the week mainly spend hauled up in the office taking product photographs for the new Bytemart website. http://andij.com/2009/03/06/spending-time-in-relaxing-surroundings This month I will mostly be catching up with myself, things that have been left to one side while I concentrated on the contract working for Alniro. One top priority on my list was to concentrate on my business accounts to ensure that my tax return was completed properly and my ... http://andij.com/2009/02/07/figures-and-prep This morning entailed lying in bed whilst Ellie dashed about getting ready for her horse riding competition today, whilst stroking Cookie (our cat) it dawned on me that I had nothing to do. After a cup of tea and some Weetabix I was in a quandary, so I began by tweeting:- http://twitter.com/andij/status/1008065628 The ... http://andij.com/2008/11/16/a-totally-free-sunday