I encountered this issue in a Rails app where I had my local development DB set as PostgreSQL and my staging set as MySQL. A big no-no, I should have known better. On my staging environment, when I was saving a number such as 99.99 into the decimal field the result was 99. I was losing the fractional part! Essentially,…
General
Wget – Resume download
Ever use wget to download a file only to have it stop midway? Resume the download using the -c or –continue switch:
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Magento: getOrderId() deprecated
After Magento CE 1.4.0.1, Mage_Checkout_Block_Onepage_Success::getOrderId() has been deprecated. Need to get the order id? Don’t bother looking for getLastRealOrderId() as it uses Magento’s magical (or not so magical) getter/setter. More about that here: http://codegento.com/2011/02/where-are-my-getters-and-setters/
Magento, Programming
Magento: One site, multiple domains
A client recently wanted 2 domains resolving to the same Magento instance. This is typically discouraged due to SEO concerns of duplicate data/information but I digress. Depending on your DNS management, you’d probably “park” the 2nd domain over the primary domain… done and dusted. Unfortunately, it’s not that simple with Magento due to its robust multi-site and URL rewriting system.…
Magento, Programming
Magento Cron Debugging with XDebug and PHPStorm
I recently needed to debug some Magento code from both the command line and stuff executed by cron. Inserting Mage::log() here and there wasn’t exactly efficient or satisfying. I’ve always used XDebug with PHPStorm (which I use solely for debugging) but all code was always executed within the browser. Long story short, if you want to debug code in the…
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Than vs Then : The ultimate trick
Can you replace the th(a|e)n with “and then”? If your answer is yes, it’s THEN. If your answer is no, it’s THAN. You’re welcome!
Magento, Programming
Installing a Magento extension on a Mac: Merging files and folders
In order to install a Magento extension, the first step is usually to add the required files and folders to your current Magento installation. This can be a real pain on a Mac since its merge utility is rudimentary at best. This is where rsync (which is available from the command line) comes in handy. Common options -a archive mode…
EmberJS, Programming
Learning Ember.js: A Journey
I’ve got this tendency to work on ambitious projects. I think it’s a good way to get extra value from a project. If I can learn something new while developing a website or application, I see that as an earn! Of course it doesn’t always lead to speedy results and every extra hour I work drives down my hourly earn……
Design, Web
Copy Images and Layers from Illustrator to Photoshop with pixel perfect accuracy
Part of my website development cycle is receiving the website design as an Illustrator file from my graphic designer. From there, I often have to extract design elements (images, layers, outlines) from the Illustrator file, import them (copy/paste) into Photoshop, perhaps do a few manipulations and finally save for web. In 99% of cases, I required pixel perfect accuracy. Up…
General
Getting Tar and Excluding Folders/Files to Work on Mac OSX
Sometimes it’s the seemingly simplest things that become the biggest pain in the ass… All I wanted to do was create a tar.gz archive of a project and exclude some files and folders. I typed $ man tar, followed the instructions and had little success. Turns out tar is really finicky and differs slightly by distro… I’ll spare you the…