After sinking so much time and effort into ‘pimping’ up my venerable 2001 P38 Range Rover the list of faults on it finally tipped me over the edge from ‘it’s a beautiful car with a few issues’ to “it’s a complete POS on 4 wheels” so I decided to upgrade to…. another Range Rover! A […]
After fitting a new Android head unit, powerfold mirrors and rear seat entertainment my next project was decided by my partner’s plaintive question of ‘where’s the clock’ when we were driving at night. The P38 as standard has this in the dash: I think the face is supposed to light up at night, but mine […]
One thing that always made me want a range rover when I was younger, was the screens in the rear headrests. The thought of having the option of watching videos (yes, actual VHS videos!) while stuck in the back of a car on a road trip was just mind blowing to my teenage self. On […]
After having my range rover for a couple of months, a few things have started to annoy me, notably having to push the wing mirrors in when I park up on my (narrow, typically British) front street. Because the car is so wide, if I park with the nearside next to the kerb I have […]
I’ve had limited success doing multi-part posts in the past, but for this little ongoing project I thought I’d give it another go…. At the ripe old age of 38, in April 2018 I passed my driving test (4 minors, all to do with use of mirrors!) and decided to buy my first car. Rather […]
Just a quick note (for my own memory more than anything)… If you need to connect from a docker container to something running on your local host, it can be a bit of a pain on Linux. On windows & Mac, there’s a special DNS entry ‘host.docker.internal’ which always points to the host machine. However […]
I’ve been working in e-commerce for a good few years now, for very similar companies (early stage, fast fashion focussed) and there’s always the same sorts of problems to solve. Here’s a very basic, very generic guide to the things you need to get up and running. Each bit has a ‘too long / didn’t […]
Just a quick snippet of code today, it grabs all the products in a certain category (given in category_id), sorts them by age and stock availability (you can adjust the relative weighting of these using $stock_weight) and then updates the category. The end result is a nice mix of newer products, and products with loads […]
Just a quick note, sometimes you need to access the magento database from a script, but don’t want the overhead of loading the whole magento framework….. Here’s a little snippet of code that grabs the database details from the magento xml config, so you don’t have to store them in your script: <?php class db […]
Quick plug for some magento scripts I wrote for development / deployments of Magento 1.x There’s some info in the readme, but I might write a couple of quick tutorials if anyone’s interested: https://github.com/Tall-Paul/mage-tools