In the last months we had problems with the past infrastructure, our mediawiki was heavily attacked and become useless and SourceForge’s bugtracker was completely destroyed by spam. So I took the suggestion of one of our followers to rethink about everything and give it a spin: First of all I moved the code repository to [...]
News are coming out about our new loved/hated Magento major (and it’s gonna be really major) release: Magento2. First of all a technical overview video, not too recent actually: One amazing thing is that the development moved to github: https://github.com/magento/magento2 with all the benefits we know. Another nice improvement is that we have public tests [...]
Since a few months, after more than 10 years on Linux, I switched my main OS to win7 (I’ll write something about this switch in a different post) and I’m quite happy with it, if there’s a thing I wasn’t happy about (’till today) was my development servers environment, I had Zend Server + MySQL, [...]
If you’re deploying a Magento website using git you surely do not want the .git directory to be visible from the browser, so just put this line in your .htaccess: right after: let’s have a nice day now :)
On a big website, while Magento (this was a Professional 1.10.something) is reindexing (work done by a cron job) every page (viewed from the browser) seems to try to reindex the products it shows, that ends in a duplicate key error on an index temporary table (catalog_product_index_price_tmp), I needed a rough and quickfix I opened app\code\core\Mage\Index\Model\Resource\Helper\Abstract.php [...]
A lot of things are moving in the PHP ecosystem, but it seems to me that those things are going a little bit out of control and I’ve a few philosophical questions… PHP 5.4 Hey great, we’ve traits and a built-in web server. Hemmm what about the damn UTF8 support? It’s 2012 and still a [...]
You’re developing a Magento importer and you want to clean your DB after some tests? Here you have: Note that only products’ attribute sets are deleted, those are often generated automatically during imports.
You’re developing a Magento importer and you want to clean your DB after some tests? Here you have:
I’ve run into a few posts about this thing but none of them was working out of the box so I took all the info and glued them together so… if you’ve to create a custom attribute for a Magento category but you don’t have a module (and its installer script) simply create a php [...]
So you want to import customer accounts but you’ve to generate the password hash? here you’ve the algorithm used by Magento Professional (which is different from Magento Community, but you can easily find that one in the net): By the way, for the community it’s