Sep 13, 2012 ·
1 minute read
chrome
If you ever used Webmaster Tools in Firefox but have now switched to using Chrom(e|ium) instead then you probably miss the form filler - especially if you ever need to test checkouts or other form intensive web site user stories. A nice little extension that I just discovered takes care of this, Chrome Form Fuzzer. You can configure it for simple form filling or with a little creative configuration it could easily be used for security testing and more in depth testing to ensure that input is being sanitised and filtered properly.
Sep 13, 2012 ·
1 minute read
magento
I recently had to generate a report listing the details of all orders from a magento store that matched certain parameters. There was a requirement that the billing address should be included in this, and I wanted to do this all in SQL if possible. The biggest problem was formatting the address as there is a value in the address table called suffix, which contains the County information, but is not a required value.
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Sep 13, 2012 ·
1 minute read
phpstorm
At Edmonds Commerce we were staunch Netbeans users for years but we always struggled with large scale projects (Magento I’m looking at you) meaning that Netbeans would sometimes really crawl as it tried to reindex thousands of PHP files. After a recent upgrade of our Linux desktop environment to the Mate edition of Linux Mint 13, Netbeans seemed to perform even worse and had a few bugs as well. At the same time we had been evaluating other IDE options including Eclipse and Zend Studio (which we all have free licences for thanks to being Zend Certified Developers).
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Sep 10, 2012 ·
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phpstorm
Netbeans has a handy feature when you right-click a file in the editor window to take you to the file in the project (file manager tab) view. To get phpstorm to do this is not as simple but is handily mappable to a shortcut key. To enable this, go to Settings->Keymap->Main menu->Navigate->Select in… and choose a key. I set it to Alt+P, so now I press Alt+P then press enter to go to the current file in the project view.
Sep 7, 2012 ·
2 minute read
php
Having a stack trace is very handy at times but wouldn’t it be nice if you could click on the filename in the stack trace in your browser and your IDE take you to the file and line that it’s talking about? Well, with PhpStorm and kint, you can! Using a plugin called Remote Call, the PhpStorm IDE can listen on a port and go to files and line numbers via an ajax call.
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Sep 7, 2012 ·
1 minute read
php
If you are looking to increase your knowledge in a variety of fields and are open to online training then you could be interested in this site: www.coursera.org There are loads of courses on there but of particular interest to us are the computer science ones. Not had a close look at them but they do look interesting and the fact they are free is of course a bonus! https://www.coursera.org/category/cs-programming
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