May 19, 2009 ·
1 minute read
misc
This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate.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’ve been using spotify a lot recently. For coding work you can’t beat a nice classical playlist, however I have found the classical collection of music on Spotify to be really quite hit and miss, with an unfortunate bias towards those tragic classical music meets 90’s electronica abominations… :S So I have started filtering out all the decent classical recordings that I find and storing them in this playlist.
May 15, 2009 ·
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magento
This week has seen the full launch of 247Electrical.co.uk. The site is based on Magento and the specific requirements where that it needs to be able to handle a large scale catalogue with frequent updates whilst still enjoying all the fancy features such as layered navigation and custom attributes. As Magento’s own bulk catalogue handling tools are a little bit underpowered and overbloated, the solution was to create a standalone system for handling csv file uploads and then pushing this data across to the Magento database directly without that much interaction with the Magento codebase.
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May 11, 2009 ·
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magento
If you are doing any kind of bulk updating etc then you also need to make sure that you rebuild all of the caches and indexes after your bulk updates otherwise things can go wrong. I have just managed to get the following script to work including when flat catalog is enabled (thanks to Nick of Meanbee for the Mage::app() tip). This script can be called from the browser (I would highly recommend some form of IP restriction or other security) or called from a cron job.
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May 8, 2009 ·
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oscommerce
This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate.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’ve been spending a hell of a lot of time coding Magento recently, and for any full time serious ecommerce business I would recommend a Magento solution.
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Apr 30, 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 like me you kicked off your Zend Framework experience with the Quick Start and have kept the error controller system of the Quick Start for your other ZF projects, you might find this little snippet useful.
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Apr 29, 2009 ·
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internet news
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 my favourite source for hi resolution desktop images. Some really nice pictures and all available in resolutions to suit whichever display you have. http://interfacelift.com
