Jul 25, 2009 ·
3 minute read
magento
One of the really cool and powerful features of Magento compared to other more traditional ecommerce platforms is the way that product information is handled. On a traditional system you will likely have one or a small number of tables to store product information. For each element of product information there is a column on these tables. This might be things like price, weight, model code etc etc. But lets imagine that you sell T shirts.
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Jul 22, 2009 ·
1 minute read
apache
This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate. If you find any errors or have any suggestions to update the information please let us know or create a pull request on GitHub Want to setup wildcard subdomains on a Plesk box? http://rackerhacker.com/2007/08/10/using-wildcard-subdomains-in-plesk/
Jul 21, 2009 ·
1 minute read
mysql
This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate. If you find any errors or have any suggestions to update the information please let us know or create a pull request on GitHub If you are using XAMPP on Ubuntu (or probably other) Linux and are also trying to use the MySQL Administrator and MySQL Query Browser GUI tools available in the repo’s, you have probably hit an error message like this: Could not connect to host 'localhost'.
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Jul 13, 2009 ·
2 minute read
zend framework
This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate. If you find any errors or have any suggestions to update the information please let us know or create a pull request on GitHub If you develop using Zend Framework you will know that it is sometimes tricky to see exactly whats going on in terms of SQL queries. After trying a few different ideas including subclassing the database classes or other complex systems, the easiest I have found is this: Edit your app.ini config file and add a line: ``` db_profiling_enabled = false Then in your development section in your ini file, set the same value to true 2.
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Jul 10, 2009 ·
1 minute read
drupal
This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate. If you find any errors or have any suggestions to update the information please let us know or create a pull request on GitHub It’s always tempting when you are new to a framework or system to just roll your own functionality if the built in functionality is not obvious. I was nearly at that stage with Drupal 6 file uploads.
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Jul 10, 2009 ·
1 minute read
javascript
This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate. If you find any errors or have any suggestions to update the information please let us know or create a pull request on GitHub I read on Ajaxian today that the BBC have released their own javascript library, Glow, as open source. This is a nice move on the part of the BBC and great news for anyone looking to develop a site with some nice AJAX features but with a priority on accessibility and broad browser support.
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