Magento 1.4 Cookbook
For anyone interested in winning a copy of the ebook Magento 1.4 Development Cookbook‘ there is a competition being run on http://philipoakley.org.

Magento 1.4 Developement Cookbook free ebook competition link

Magento is a fantastic open source eCommerce platform and the Development Cookbook should show you how to:

  • Develop Modules and Extensions for Magento 1.4 using PHP with ease
  • Socialise your store by writing custom modules and widgets to drive in more customers
  • Achieve a tremendous performance boost by applying powerful techniques such as YSlow, PageSpeed, and Siege
  • Part of Packt’s Cookbook series: Each recipe is a carefully organized sequence of instructions to complete the task as efficiently as possible

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  • WebERP – Open source web based ERP

    by philoakley on January 3, 2011

    WebERP logoWhile solutions like Openbravo and OpenERP appear to get the headlines WebERP has been slowly gathering fans and adding functionality.

    webERP is a complete web based accounting/ERP system that requires only a web-browser and pdf reader to use. It has a wide range of features suitable for many businesses particularly distributed businesses in wholesale and distribution. The feature set is continually expanding as new businesses and developers adopt it.

    Features include:

    • Financial Ledgers
    • Purchase Orders Processing
    • Sales Order Processing
    • Stock/Inventory Management
    • Manufacturing
    • Wiki integration

    A more detailed list of features are available on the weberp website here

    The overall functionality of the core integrate ledger looks good and comparible with similar products but one feature that did stand out was the wiki integration.

    Wiki’s, popularised by Wikipedia and the like, are great ways for small and large teams to share and update information so can be great to update information on Customers, Suppliers and products.

    WebERP can be set to work with WackoWiki or MediaWiki (the Wiki software used by Wikipedia) in the WebERP settings and wiki entries for customer, supplier and produce records can be set automatically.

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    Long time no write

    December 31, 2010

    Well it’s been a very long time since my last published post, in fact it we was just about to come up to the two year anniversary. So much has happened in the world of open source in this time so I have no excuse that there was not lots to write about. No excuses [...]

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    Alfresco Release Final Version of Labs 3.0

    January 29, 2009

    Alfresco, open source enterprise content management, have recently announced the release of the final version of Labs 3.0. This is a land mark release for Alfresco and includes many enhancements. Probably two of the key areas of functionality of Alfresco Labs 3.0 is its integration to other open source software and its implementation of the [...]

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    Open Source Accounting Software

    January 23, 2009

    One of our favourite subjects at FLOSBUS is accounting software but it can be difficult in short blog post to explain the benefits of Open Source Accounting Software especially in the current market of accounts and ERP solutions. With this In mind Outserve have written a white paper titled ‘Using Open Source Accounting Software in [...]

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    Blog Action Day 15th October 2008

    October 15, 2008

    October 15th 2008 is Blog Action Day. I have posted a blog entry for Blog Action day here http://philipoakley.org/?p=140

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    Can OpenOffice.org 3.0 change the world?

    October 13, 2008

    Every day it seams a new version of someones favourite software is released somegreatphotosoftware version 5.5.5 or thebestmusicplayer version 1,1,01. Little excitement is seen around the world except by the group fanboys and girls of that product waiting for the latest and greatest, checking the new features list for whistles and bells like children crossing [...]

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    Openbravo ERP release version 2.4

    October 10, 2008

    Hot on the heels of Compiere’s recent new release the ever popular Openbravo has released version 2.4 promising improvements in the user interface. Openbravo is already a very pretty web based product but any improvements to usability of the web interface can only benefit users and help adoption. Keyboard operations and shortcuts have been introduced [...]

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    Compiere releases version 3.1

    October 8, 2008

    Compiere the open source ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software has released its latest version 3.1. Version 3.1 is a major release that, according to Compiere, adds more than 400 functional, technical and business analysis enhancements. For full details of the release see the Compiere website. Competition from other open source ERP software such as Openbravo [...]

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    CiviCRM – Open Source Web Based Management for Non Profits and Association

    October 2, 2008

    The use of the latest web technologies by American Politicians is now reasonably common place with sites such as Facebook and the the use of Twitter in the Presidential campaign http://election.twitter.com/ but probably not so well known was that back in 2004 Howard Dean pioneered political donations on the internet using open source software. The [...]

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