Jan 11, 2012 ·
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magento
Magento have released the latest version of Magento CE (community edition), 1.6.2.0 Major interest to most of our clients will be the refactoring of the indexing process to prevent duplicate indexing processes. Along with that is a nice list of fixes. If you are looking to upgrade your Magento store to the latest version simply get in touch
Jan 11, 2012 ·
1 minute read
linux
If you need to monitor a log file in real time, then using a combination of tail and grep will allow you to watch the important parts of the file. However if the log file spans more than one line then it can quickly become difficult to read. By using sed you are able to format the text so it is easier to read like this tail -f /path/to/file |
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Jan 11, 2012 ·
1 minute read
magento
Thanks to the acquisition of Magento by eBay, one of the major extension developers, Ess, now has an agreement with eBay/Magento to provide their integration extension free. Here’s their site and here’s the extension on Magento Connect It’s also worth knowing that the extension is avaiable on Magento Go, so if you’re looking for hosted-only, management-free eCommerce with integration with eBay, that might be an option. Remember that Magento Go is not extendable by third parties though as it is a locked-down solution.
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Jan 10, 2012 ·
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magento
Magento will some times not treat catalogue prices as tax inclusive even if configured to do so. There can be a number of reasons for it but usually it’s because the origin address is not configured correctly.
Jan 10, 2012 ·
2 minute read
ubuntu
Not many people are aware of the Path Tools extension for netbeans, and even fewer know how to make it really useful. Effectively it provides 4 buttons - Copy Path, Open Folder, Open Terminal and Edit Path, the latter three being configurable. Its default for Open Folder is great (for gnome users) but that’s the only one that has a default. I use Guake (a pull-down transparent terminal) and for the two options (For Folder and For File) I set to the following for a nice “New tab in guake” :- guake --new-tab "{path}" -t and guake --new-tab "{parent-path}" -t And for the “Edit Path” button, I find it extremely useful to create a “run external program” script - sat in my personal bin directory ($HOME/bin/) containing the following code :- #!/bin/bash ESCAPEDPARAMS=`echo $* | sed -e 's/\([[\/.*]\|\]\)/\\\&/g'` MIME=`file --mime-type $* | cut -f2 -d: | cut -f2 -d' '` DESKTOPFILE=/usr/share/applications/`xdg-mime query default $MIME` EXEC=`grep '^Exec=' $DESKTOPFILE | cut -f2 -d=` COMMAND=`zenity --width 600 --entry --title="Path Tools" --text="Run Command : " --entry-text="$(echo $EXEC | sed s/'%U'/"$ESCAPEDPARAMS"/)"` if [ "$?"=="0" ]; then sh -c "$COMMAND" else echo "" fi and set that up as the command “For Folder” and “For File” with {path} for both (not {parent-path} notice).
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Jan 10, 2012 ·
1 minute read
linux
If you create a bash script for a long running process then you may decide its much better, or even essential, that this script is run using screen. Screen is a utility that allows you to run things in a detachable terminal on the server, so you are not reliant on your own machine maintaining a ssh connection to the server. A nice trick here is to check if a
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