During a recent conversation with some entrepreneurial retailers, we got to talking about choosing which vertical markets could be worth investing in, and what the initial and ongoing effort would be to manage the end to end relationship from distributor to end user. Having worked at the sharp end of multi-channel IT resale, we know … Read more
You probably already know this if you’re someone who spends any time in the Magento Admin section, but there’s a new patch with a serious enough warning to install straight away. If you’re a eCommerce store owner who doesn’t spend any time in Magento Admin, then ask someone who does whether they’ve seen or dealt … Read more
If you’re a reader of our blogs, or social updates, you’ll know that we, at Layer 5, are huge fans of Magento, in fact it’s our ‘go-to’ platform of choice when we propose an eCommerce solution and as such, have developed our skill set around it. Not only do we provide a range of integration … Read more
The latest in the recent spate of “security scares” (Heartbleed, Shellshock, et. al.) is upon us, The SSL3 Poodle! The non-tech summary is “SSL3 is an older, weaker method of encryption, and is vulnerable. Most modern secure connections should use a newer method called TLS”. So in this post, Poodle SSL 3.0 Vulnerability, by Joe Nash for … Read more
Magento versions prior to 1.9 aren’t formally certified to run under PHP 5.5 (have a look here for formal supported versions) but in the main runs fine, and we like it because of all of the performance perks you can get in this version compared to 5.4 and prior. However, we have seen one issue … Read more
We currently have openings for the following two posts: Magento Developer – PHP5, Zend, OOP, MVC, MySQL, HTML Prestige offices in Warrington, Cheshire, close to M56. Manchester, or Birmingham working locations available. £30,000-£40,000 per annum Dependent on Experience If you’re a highly skilled Magento developer with great PHP, Zend and MySQL skills, this is a … Read more
If you are running an eCommerce site, and have started growing into other channels (eBay, Amazon et al) there are glaring tell-tale signs that it’s the right time to take a step back and look at putting in some sturdier system foundations.