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 More Reading:
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. CSS does have some (dodgy) opacity controls, but they set everything as [...]
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 [...]
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). You would need to edit the top section to put the correct DB credentials etc. This is definitely not to be used [...]
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. The latest version is available from GetDeb - http://www.getdeb.net/app/FileZilla If you have already installed a version from the [...]
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: PLAIN TEXT XML: <?xml version="1.0"?> <config> <modules> <EC_CatalogSearch> <version>0.1.0</version> [...]
Recently spoke to a client about the possiblity of setting up Magento on EC2 and remembered that I had seen a pre optimised AMI including caching etc to hopefully run Magento well. A quick bit of Googling though and I saw that the top results are all people charging for AMI's. That can't be right, [...]
After a few hours of intense googling I have finally figured out why my Magento custom module is refusing to activate. I finally figured it out. It's all because the snippet of XML that I copied and pasted off a tutorial somewhere did not have the right capitalisation. doesn't work - EC_All.xml PLAIN TEXT XML: [...]
If you fancy having a select box allowing people to search within a top level category on your site directly from the quick search box, check out this little modification. This gives your search a bit of an Amazon feel. This idea could easily be extended if required. You can drop this file in as [...]
If you are trying to modify your mod_security configuration on a plesk server and have tried using htaccess files you have probably realised that it won't work. That's a good thing, it makes it harder for people to screw up your server by turning off this protection. Instead the way to do it is to [...]