Magento

Magento Commerce Installation on Mac OS X Part 1

First in a series of videos on how to install Magento commerce 1.4 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard from scratch. Follow along on as we install it on Snow Leopard and overcome a few hurdles together. No need for VMWare, virutal boxes, shareware or Linux. We take a stock 10.6 machine, install MySQL, make a few changes to PHP 5.3 that ships with it and make it work! It said it couldn’t be done but I prove you *CAN* install Magento on a Mac!

Web Development

Hardware accelerated HTML5 Web browser comparison (Opera, IE9, Firefox 4 and Chrome)

Opera now has hardware acceleration! We pit it against other Web browsers, including Firefox 4, IE9 and Chrome 10, all of which also have hardware acceleration. Opera does surprisingly well… More at: downloadsquad.switched.com If you want to try the FishIE test yourself: ie.microsoft.com (There’s some odd flickering in the second half of the video. Fraps is throwing in a few frames from my second display, for some reason. We hope it doesn’t cause any seizures.)