One of the most criticized factors of modern web-applications is their resource intensiveness.
Especially modern Object Oriented Applications, like Magento, produce huge overhead and require therefore powerful hardware.
A step closer towards a solution comes, unexpected wise, from Redmond:
Microsoft adds dynamic language support to Silverlight 2.
This enables Python and Ruby scripts to be executed on client side and offers developers to build much faster and interactive Rich Internet Applications (RIA). Reducing cost on server-side.
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A recent article on computerworlduk.com talks about the fact that the usage of open source software in e-commerce cuts down the ongoing costs in maintenance and licensing by 35%.
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or
“How can I downsize large product images but not enlarge small images?”
simple as:
syntax:
$this->helper('catalog/image')
->init($_product, 'image')
->keepFrame(false)
->constrainOnly(true)
->resize(650);example:
$this->helper('catalog/image')
->init($_product, 'image')
->keepFrame(false)
->constrainOnly(true)
->resize(650); Read the rest of this entry »
