Jun 30, 2009 ·
1 minute read
php
This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate.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 My favourite IDE Netbeans has recently been released as version 6.7. Now installed and looking forward to taking advantage of some new features and fixes
Jun 30, 2009 ·
1 minute read
web design
This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate.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 recently came across rgba colours which are a very simple and logical way to produce a colour (rgb) with alpha transparency as well. This is ideal if for example you want to create a translucent white box to put some text in.
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Jun 26, 2009 ·
2 minute read
ubuntu
This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate.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 have recently had the misfortune of stepping out of my usual developers bubble and having to do a bit of graphic web design. Of course that means that not only did I have to try to make something look good with my meagre design skills, but then I had to worry about making sure it worked in IE… Web Designers… I FEEL YOUR PAIN As I only use Ubuntu or Mac’s, testing in IE is not exactly easy.
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Jun 24, 2009 ·
2 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This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate.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 This is a nice little script I just knocked together that helps to synchronise databases when the table structures might not be exactly the same (for example different versions of the same system).
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Jun 24, 2009 ·
1 minute read
ubuntu
This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate.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 This is as much a note to self plus anyone else googling for the words Ubuntu Jaunty and Filezilla The version that’s in the repositories is a bit old and missing some cool features like synchronised browsing.
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Jun 23, 2009 ·
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magento
Had another tearing hair out moment when trying to figure out why my helper override was working fine, but my block override wasn’t working. Here is the result: helper working, block not working: <?xml version="1.0"?> <config> <modules> <EC_CatalogSearch> <version>0.1.0</version> </EC_CatalogSearch> </modules> <global> <helpers> <catalogSearch> <rewrite> <data>EC_CatalogSearch_Helper_Data</data> </rewrite> </catalogSearch> </helpers> <blocks> <catalogSearch> <rewrite> <result>EC_CatalogSearch_Block_Result</result> </rewrite> </catalogSearch> </blocks> </global> </config> then after a load of messing about, this one does work: helper
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