I’ve been playing with Geckoboard in my spare time (of which I seem to have very little of at the moment). Previously I looked at displaying commit statistics from the code management tool we use, Codebase. So next up, I thought that being able to show the number of downloads that Meanbee’s Magento Community modules had had would be neat.
Geckoboard is an awesome little web app which allows you to show real-time statistics about your business on a screen in the office, or anywhere for that matter!
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At Meanbee, we have started creating our own Geckoboard, but there are a limited number of widgets available as it is still in Beta. We use Codebase to manage our projects, so I decided to write a...
2010 is quickly rounding off and it’s been a great year for Magento, there’s no doubt about it. Early in the year, Magento secured $22.5 million in investment. Throughout the year, streams of companies have been joining the platform, whether it be to the community, professional or enterprise edition. As the turnouts to conferences such as Meet Magento and the Developer’s Paradise suggest, the industry realise it’s power within the marketplace.
I think 2011...
I was interested in what locales are predominantly being used in Magento installations. This kind of information is useful to see Magento’s reach across the world. What’s more, it’s interesting for developers to get some indication about what translations they should be looking to add to their modules.
I used the Magento sites from this month’s eCommerce survey and the first thing I did was look up their IP and hosting location. This isn’t...