Tip: Have Git Branch Displayed in Bash Prompt
This is a very small tip, but one that can really save accidents in the long term. To display the current branch in git simply add the following to your .bashrc in your home directory : This is based...
View ArticleTip: PhpStorm “Select in Projects”– Easier version
Followers of this blog will remember the Replicate Netbeans “Select in project” in phpstorm post which gave a handy key combo to select the current file in the project window. It has been brought to...
View ArticleSerious Skype Vulnerability Nov 2012
There is a current vulnerability with skype accounts where anyone who knows your email address can get access to your account, and even your private chat logs. According to Kaspersky Labs (a leading...
View ArticleTip: How to get the right-click reload button in Chrome
Recently the good folks at chrome have added a feature where you can reload without the cache, which is in a right-click on the reload button, but I was really confused as some machines seem to have it...
View ArticleTip: Remove spaces from filenames one-liner
There is often the case when you need to remove spaces from filenames – for instance when importing broken data feeds into Magento or osCommerce systems. The following strips spaces and replaces them...
View ArticleSolution – Can’t Log in to Magento Admin – No Error
If you pull down a Magento site to a local machine, and change the database core_config table to point to the local machine, and it appears to work fine until you try to login to the site admin, there...
View ArticleSolution: Magento Catalog URL Rewrites Never Finishes (processing)
In Magento 1.4.2 and possibly other versions, you can often find that the Catalog URL Rewrite process will sit at Processing forever. One of the problems that can cause this is if you have products in...
View ArticleGoogle Drops Google Apps Free Tier
In a move that will hurt a lot of small businesses and especially startups, Google have withdrawn their free Google Apps for Domains which has been slowly reducing in number of users from 50, to 10 to...
View ArticlePHPStorm: Get More Info on Auto-Complete (like netbeans)
All developers love code completion, but sometimes the minimalist info that can come up in PHPStorm can be not quite enough. Netbeans gave an excerpt that gave plenty of information from the docblock,...
View ArticleUploading Multiple Files – Nothing in _POST, _FILES or _REQUEST +Solution
When you’re uploading multiple files (HTML5 feature – remember IE as yet STILL does not support this), it may not be the fact you’re uploading multiple files that’s actually causing the problem. The...
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