Eat, sleep, code, repeat
So for some time now, I’ve been wondering why Google have made it so impossible to just link to files hosted in your Google Drive folders. Simply embedding images on pages of your website...
We’ve come across this a few times, and usually we manage to rectify the issue relatively quickly but this time, we spent the last two days debugging this issue. Even reverting/switching themes and rebuilding...
We recently had to upgrade PHP from 5.3 to 5.4 on a CentOs 6.6 build (which by default is packaged with PHP 5.3) and found quite a number of differing tutorials and recommendations on the...
Searching To search an entire project:- Where: S:\sites\domain.co.uk To search an entire project and exclude a directory:- Where: S:\sites\live\finishingtouch.co.uk, -*/assets/*
Server / Spec Checks Checking the server memory (RAM) consumption:-
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free -m |
Checking the server HDD consumption:-
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df -h |
Checking the size of each top-level directories from a directory:-
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du -h --max-depth=1 /path/to/directory/ |
Checking the server date/time:-
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date |
Checking...
Quite often, you’ll notice the time stamp (and maybe even the dates tamp) incorrect on entries in the log which can sometimes prove a frustrating experience trying to identify when exactly various errors occurred....
Although rare, some eCommerce websites wish to completely remove the ability for a customer to ship to a different address than Magento (i.e force shipping to the billing address). In Magento, the billing address...
Prior to launching a new eCommerce website, at development phase, you’ll always have to carry out testing and this will require creating test orders and customers to ensure that all processes function correctly and as...
Sometimes you’ll find in Magento that your indexes won’t run and will either be sat in the state of ‘Processing Now’ in Magento or when you try to reindex them, you get the error...
I spent some time over probably a period of a year+ trying to figure out why random shortcuts to programs or files kept disappearing on their own in Windows 7. Most annoying when you...
