Lately, I have been having a problem with Magento (version 1.5.0.1) and how it is handling 404 errors in the admin. Basically, any time I go to a non-existent admin URL, I am getting redirected to the frontend 404 page. What should actually be happening is that I am redirected to an admin 404 page. As it […]
Since I have been working with the Magento E-Commerce software as of late, I will be publishing a series of blog posts to share what I have been learning with everyone. For those of you who don’t know, Magento is a popular PHP/MySQL e-commerce platform that is super-powerful and infinitely customizable.
I have heard about MeeGo before, but haven’t looked into the project much until now. As it turns out, MeeGo is a linux-based distribution which is aimed at handhelds, connected TVs, in-vehicle infotainment systems, and netbooks/tablets. It was only announced by Nokia and Intel in 2010 in an effort to merge the Maemo and Moblin […]
The following bash_completion script will enable your Linux shell to auto-complete Magento modman commands. Make sure you have modman in your $PATH, then simply copy the file to /etc/bash_completion.d/modman or append to ~/.bash_completion.
I just got in from the most recent WordPressDC meetup, where the founder of WordPress and Automattic, Matt Mullenweg, entertained us with a nice QA presentation. The event was held at Fathom Creative in D.C. near 14th and Rhode Island, with about 100 people in attendance (plus another 50 or so via Livestream).
After upgrading my eee PC netbook to Ubuntu Netbook Remix 10.04 I found to my dismay that the top gnome-panel is completely locked-down. Unable to find a work-around through gconf-editor or any other easily accessible means, I decided to try my hand at manually editing the gconf configuration files. The following is a tuturial explaining how to remove the Window Picker Applet and add the DockBar and NameBar applets in its place.
Looking for a quick and dirty way to open all external links in a new window? The below snippet of code will make all links to external websites open in a new window: $(“a[href*='http://']“).attr(‘target’,'_blank’); Using the ‘*=’ selector on the href attribute, you can match any link containing http:// and set the target attribute to […]
Recently I have been hooked on the GoDaddy app for my new Android phone. It makes it incredibly simple to register domain names on the go. Just a few minutes ago I purchased strubeonrails.com (pronounced stroo-bee-on-rails). I think it is a catchy name, and hope to start posting some useful Ruby programming tips there shortly. […]
This was a rather challenging task that I recently took on in order to setup code versioning for some WordPress Themes and plugins that I have been working on. There were plenty of articles explaining how to compile a Subversion to the $HOME directory on a BlueHost account, but due to a recent OpenSSH update […]
After finally purchasing a netbook (Asus Eee PC 900) and finding the Windows OS that it came with to be riddled with viruses, I decided to install Android and Ubuntu Netbook Remix. This article diagrams that process, and how I setup my bootloader to dual-boot both operating systems.