Tom Robertshaw

UK Magento Developer at Meanbee

Handy regex for adding inline translations to Magento template files

Posted in Magento Development on October 4, 2011

When developing Magento themes, you will quite often have flat HTML that you are breaking apart and putting into Magento’s template files. One thing that I have OCD-like tendencies with is the need to make sure that all text is … Continue reading →

Oct 2011 eCommerce Survey

Posted in eCommerce, Magento Development on October 3, 2011

October 2011′s eCommerce survey found 4% more stores than the June survey, detecting 26,594 in total. The analysis looks at the home page of the top 1 million Alexa sites and analyses them for identifying features of 32 different eCommerce … Continue reading →

Browser Beats: An HTML 5 music player for local MP3s

Posted in Fun, Technology on August 22, 2011

Play your local mp3 files in the browser with Browser Beats, a hack weekend project by Tomas Gerulaitis and me. This weekend, Storm Consultancy held their second hack weekend. A time for webbies to descend on “Storm Towers” to code, … Continue reading →

June 2011 eCommerce Survey

Posted in eCommerce, Magento Development on June 15, 2011

The June 2011 eCommerce survey of the Alexa top 1 million sites found 25,592 online stores. Magento continues to reign as the most popular platform with 4,705 sites, an 15% increase since February. Zen Cart sees the largest gains, doubling … Continue reading →

Troutman’s Laws of Computer Programming

Posted in Fun on May 12, 2011

Everyone loves a list of funny computer programming jokes. I found this email in the Computer Science department of the University of Bath. Date: 15 Jun 1979 2:04pm (Friday) From: MURPHY (not authenticated) at PARC-MAXC Subject: Troutman’s Laws of Computer … Continue reading →

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I'm enthusiastic about everything eCommerce. I've worked with Magento since it was launched in 2008. I head up Meanbee with Nick Jones. I graduated from Computer Science with First-class honours from the University of Bath.

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