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There are many different frameworks available to developers, currently at Kudos Web Solutions we are enjoying a healthy relationship with Ruby on Rails. However, Ruby is not a practical solution for every development project for a variety of reasons. In such cases we tend to turn to PHP which we have over a decade of experience in developing with. The drawback with PHP is that you tend to end up creating masses of function files for completing the simplest of tasks which a framework such as RoR can handle out of the box. As a solution we have begun to use the Yii Framework to develop in.

With such a vibrant community of avid developers, the choice of plugins available for industry-standard blogging tool WordPress can sometimes be overwhelming.

We sort the wheat from the chaff and list some of our favourites here for your convenience. Enjoy!

This tutorial explains step-by-step how to take the existing way of selecting a currency in Magento E-Commerce (an html select box) and convert the process into images allowing you greater customisation potential, without any usability loss.

The easy to follow steps are broken down so that an understanding of the processes involved can be gained and allowing you to easily add this functionality to your Magento E-Commerce installation. No advanced programming knowledge is required, while all code is provided ready to paste in to place! The only part supplied you is the images for your currencies…

If you’re programming in Ruby on Rails, then you’ll be familiar with RubyGems. RubyGems is a package manager that provides a standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries. Gems are essentially snippets of pre-programmed code that save you loads of time during development by providing useful out-of-the-box functionality. You could spend hours searching through the different Gems located on www.github.com, but here are a few of our favourites…