Today, let’s talk about some good old random crap. Here’s what’s on my mind at the moment (excluding stuff that…well, isn’t suitable for a public venue). 1) Facebook. I disabled my facebook account a couple of days ago as part of my attempt to actually do something productive with my time. Before that I would […]
So…I doubt I’ll make it to 1000 words today, not feeling particularly inspired to write anything. But I guess that’s the point of this little project so let’s persevere. Today I’m going to talk about my life goals for 2013, and specifically about the giving up of dependencies. At the end of 2012 I decided to […]
One of the most glaring omissions of magento is a way of blocking users. Currently your only option when faced with a user you wish to ban from the site is to do some kind of IP blocking in your web server configuration, or delete the user account. Neither of those options is really useful, […]
This is more of a memo for me than a post for the rest of you, but might be useful if you want to create a bootable USB disk from a windows box (for an example, I used it to create a windows 8 installation drive) Information taken verbatim from this post on the […]
Just a quick and dirty (no, not that kind of dirty) tutorial today. One of the websites I work on had the requirement to make its prices look ‘nicer’ when converted to another currency. Currently (little currency pun for you there) the prices look fine in the default currency, which is good old pound sterling […]
After writing this post on how to override Magento’s HTTP helper to pull in the ‘real’ remote ip address when behind a reverse proxy system like Cloudflare. After reading this, Jack at firstvapor.com helpfully wrote in to point out the right way of doing this. If you look in /app/etc/local.xml.additional there’s some extra nodes in […]
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