Nov 22, 2012 ·
2 minute read
magento
If you use Gmail (also bundled with Google Apps) for your business then you probably write a lot of emails directly into the gmail interface. If you are like me you probably make teh the mistakes all teh time. (See what I did there!) As the MD of Edmonds Commerce I probably write more emails than most people with everything from Magento quotes, client communications, enquiries and maybe even the occasional personal email.
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Nov 21, 2012 ·
1 minute read
magento
I am currently putting together an automated system that converts user input within Magento. As this runs using cron, I will be unable to see if anything goes wrong, unless the errors are logged. Now it is possible to set custom error and exception handlers that will log most things, but I needed to cover all bases and try to log in the event of a fatal error. It is possible to do this by calling register_shutdown_function and checking for an error there - see here for a full explanation on how to do this.
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Nov 19, 2012 ·
3 minute read
magento
The idea Buckley Jewellery approached us with an idea they had for setting up a promotion to go viral. Their idea was to pick one of their products which they were already selling and literally give it away. The problems The initial requirement was fairly straightforward - we’d set up a Shopping Cart Price Rule with a coupon code to give a 100% discount on the product price if the specific SKU was in the basket.
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Nov 19, 2012 ·
2 minute read
linux
What is Wget in general ? Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of file from the web. The user doesn’t need to login system every time Wget can download the entire web page or mirroring the entire web page. If download crashed or stop for various reason Wget will start download again from where it stopped. It is highly recommended for downloading file from web with slow network connections.
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Nov 14, 2012 ·
1 minute read
web development
Recently the good folks at chrome have added a feature where you can reload without the cache, which is in a right-click on the reload button, but I was really confused as some machines seem to have it and others don’t. The key is whether developer tools is open or not! If you’re using a recent version of chrome, press F12 to open the developer tools and then you can right-click the reload button, and you get three options - Reload, Hard Reload (redownloads images) and Empty Cache and Hard Reload.
Nov 14, 2012 ·
1 minute read
security
There is a current vulnerability with skype accounts where anyone who knows your email address can get access to your account, and even your private chat logs. According to Kaspersky Labs (a leading computer security firm), the leader of the Russian Opposition has had his private chat logs leaked via this method. This is a serious vulnerability and Microsoft (the current owners of skype) are looking into the issue. At present there’s no way to avoid the compromise, perhaps think about clearing your logs if you have anything private in there.
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