Yeah, I’m going with ‘Pad’ project as the shorthand for my ‘post a day’ project. Although now I’ve actually written it I realise it looks like I’m doing a project on feminine hygiene products. Which is really not what I’m going for. Anyway, for today’s little snippet of brain fodder I decided to revisit my […]
So, new year new start and all that. For 2013 I’ve decided I’m going to try and kick start some writing by using the ‘write something, doesn’t matter what it is but write something every single day’ method. So from now on I’ll be making sure to post something every day. It probably won’t be very […]
Hello! Long time no post…. I’ve recently(ish) started working from home as head of IT for a small web design firm… which means I get to use a linux desktop again. I’ve settled on Debian testing (which is currently ‘wheezy’) but have found a few niggles (always the way) so my next few posts will […]
If there’s one issue I’ve found with ServiceMix, it’s that it tends to enthusiastically embrace a certain way of doing things while letting other methods fall to the wayside. A prominent example of this is when constructing code to access web services. By default, Servicemix uses Apache CXF as its web service layer. CXF is […]
Just a quick run through of what I’ve been doing for the last few days, namely setting up our build / development server. It’s running Fedora, and the end goal was to have redmine, artifactory and hudson all on the same server, all running on port 80. Once it’s installed and running we should be […]
Just a quick not to mention that I’ve restarted work on jNag. First order of business is to rewrite the server side code which, to be frank, is a quick and dirty job I hacked together just to get soemthing working at the time. The rewrite will incorporate everything I’ve learned about development in the […]
So, jNag was recently listed by ‘Computerworlduk’ as one of the top 16 mobile applications for IT professionals: http://mobile.computerworlduk.com/slideshow/applications/3352077/best-mobile-apps-for-it-pros/6/ And this has given me some motivation to restart development…. I need some sort of project to work on since giving up facebook (I deactivated my account last week in the hope of spurring some productivity) […]
Just a quick fix for today. Magento appears to have a bug whereby if a user places an order using paypal express when they’re not logged into your site (ie: using the ‘guest checkout’ functionality of magento their email address will not be passed through correctly. One annoying symptom of this is that the user […]
Just had a moment of epiphany that I thought I’d share…I’m sure this is well known to most Magento developers, but I’ve not seen it clearly spelled out anywhere and it’s taken me a while to get my head round this. Have a look at this snippet of a config file for one of my […]
I’ve noticed a bug with Magento that affects the code I wrote for the ‘Extending the API’ tutorial so I thought I’d post a fix for it here. Well, I assume it’s a bug since I don’t see how it could be anything else… Here’s the article in question Here’s the api.xml file from that […]