April 29, 2011 No Comments
Trying to upgrade to Natty and it seems to have tried to set up a RAID array which is causing me issues.
After a bit of messing around, the easy solution is to run:
sudo dmraid -rE
April 27, 2011 No Comments
A nice little feature I stumbled across the other day.
If you hold down [Ctrl] whilst left clicking a variable, you get taken straight to its definition.
Handy!
April 23, 2011 No Comments
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April 21, 2011 2 Comments
A while ago we posted a technique for displaying template path hints in admin which involved running a couple of DB queries. That worked, but a nicer method is to create a custom module with some special XML config to get it configurable as standard.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
<sections>
<dev translate="label" module="core">
<groups>
<debug translate="label">
<fields>
<template_hints translate="label">
<frontend_type>select</frontend_type>
<source_model>adminhtml/system_config_source_yesno</source_model>
<sort_order>20</sort_order>
<show_in_default>1</show_in_default>
<show_in_website>1</show_in_website>
<show_in_store>1</show_in_store>
</template_hints>
<template_hints_blocks translate="label">
<label>Add Block Names to Hints</label>
<frontend_type>select</frontend_type>
<source_model>adminhtml/system_config_source_yesno</source_model>
<sort_order>21</sort_order>
<show_in_default>1</show_in_default>
<show_in_website>1</show_in_website>
<show_in_store>1</show_in_store>
</template_hints_blocks>
</fields>
</debug>
</groups>
</dev>
</sections>
</config>
Original credits and full instructions here:
http://www.deanoj.co.uk/web-development/magento/magento-template-path-hints-in-adminhtml/
Cheers Deano 
April 16, 2011 No Comments
April 15, 2011 2 Comments
Android is a great mobile operating system, we love it. On a more professional note we believe that Android will (if not already) become the winner in the smart phone OS wars, in terms of number of users anyway (lets leave the “which is the best” debate for later).
For simple requirements the best option might actually be to create a mobile optimised version of your web page using one of the many libraries such as jQuery Mobile which gives you the advantage of a single platform to maintain whilst giving the user a high quality mobile optimised experience that feels very much like using a native app.
However for more advanced requirements you might choose to develop a custom app. If you are looking for iPhone app development then we can certainly help, though our core focus is going to be on the Android side of things. We believe in being excellent at a few choice technologies rather than attempting to be a “Jack of all trades, master of none”.
If you didn’t already know, this means we focus intently on ecommerce, PHP and Magento development. On the mobile side we focus on Android.
If you would like to discuss your Android development requirements and your idea for an Android app then get in touch today!
April 14, 2011 No Comments
