December 2011
2 posts
livin' the dream: A Step-by-Step Guide to Transfer... →
jeffepstein:
Follow these step-by-step directions to transfer all of your domains from GoDaddy to NameCheap.
I’m Boycotting GoDaddy because they are pro-SOPA.
Step 1: Login to GoDaddy and get to the domain manager.
Step 2: Select all domains
Step 3: Click on the “Locking Icon”
Step 4:…
Andrew's Hot Chocolate: Lovely Users [not] →
preppeller:
[Updated with latest reply at bottom]
Almost all of the email we receive is from absolutely lovely users who are very happy for our help, some is even just email praising Alfred or praising what we have done. Every so often, you have to support slightly difficult users. As you all know, I take…
August 2011
1 post
9 tags
giant robots smashing into other giant robots:... →
thoughtbot-giantrobots:
It’s been two and a half years since my last laptop. It’s neat to look back and see how much has improved since then for setting up a Ruby development environment.
Of particular note, Homebrew, RVM, and Bundler did not exist back then.
Here’s how I set up an OS X 10.7 (Lion) thoughtbot laptop…
March 2011
1 post
Fixing Magento - Checklist
I have recently spent quite a lot of time fixing minor errors with Magento when it decides not to play ball.
I have found quite a few pages with handy commands to run to get Magento back up and running and decided to make a list of the ones that worked and I find myself using regularly here.
Fixing Permissions
find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
...
February 2011
7 posts
Magento Search Accuracy
Improving your stores search accuracy Recently we have been working with Magento a lot. The accuracy [or lack of] of the search has come up in conversation with our clients quite a lot.
When you use the built in search feature in Magento the search results aren’t ordered by relevance. There is a simple way of fixing this.
Within your template, find the following...
Disable all thumbnails in Magento
Disable all thumbnail images in your Magento store
Today we came across a Magento store that had around 20,000 products, each with only one image. Somehow almost all of the images had included a thumbnail of the same image. Obviously it would take a lifetime to manually remove all of the thumbnail images so we looked for an alternative.
Once of our previous posts shows you how to enable...
Handy database tricks for Magento
Simple bulk image settings with Magento
From time to time we need to bulk import products and images into Magento. As you can imaging when you import more than around 2,000 products, each with at least one image, things get a little bit awkward to change. Not just because importing and exporting takes more and more time but because if you wan’t to make changes to the images for each product it...
Post Commits in Rails
Introduction A post-commit hook is basically a piece of information that can be sent to a third party software service to notify and/or trigger an event at their end. A simple case use I am going to explain would be sending a message to a Campfire chat room every time a new record is created. Remember, a record can be anything you want i.e. a blog post or a new medical record. It just depends on...
Freeagent Import CSV
In case this helps anyone else, this is the format FreeagentCentral requires to import CSV files:
01/01/2010, 50.00, "Explanation here" 02/02/2010, 28.21, "Explanation here"
or
01/01/2010, -50.00, "Explanation here" 02/02/2010, -28.21, "Explanation here"
Obviously, the top is for deposits and the bottom for expenditure.
I have found that working with CSV’s exported from MS Excel is as...
Version Control for Losers
Up until the end of 2009 I created folder upon folder of website iterations and versions. Numbering them by version number and crying if I messed the numbering system up (which was a regular occurrence). If a client wanted to go back to a previous version of the content but couldn’t remember how the content was worded I would spend ages sifting through the folders hoping to hell I had kept the...
Beanstalk: Introducing Beanstalk Customer Rewards →
beanstalkapp:
At Beanstalk, we consider ourselves fortunate to have such amazing customers - the sorts of customers who truly love using our product and telling others about it.
We’ve taken notice to how often new customers come to Beanstalk by word of mouth spread to friends and colleagues, and wanted to do…
November 2010
2 posts
LOVEFiLM UK Is Available On PlayStation 3 Today →
ps3hub:
Apparently to quit you have to hold down the PS button
October 2010
57 posts
[Survey Manager] recad9b18: Changed header colour... →
Changed header colour of html email Danny McClelland at 11:55 AM, 10/30/2010
[Enquiries App] r12c9d806: Corrected reply-to... →
Corrected reply-to address and created CSS/HTML email notification for new enquiries. Danny McClelland at 11:45 AM, 10/30/2010
[Survey Manager] r058a1917: Updated case creation... →
Updated case creation notification and added html email Danny McClelland at 11:55 AM, 10/30/2010
[Enquiries App] r81a0fc05: Changed from address to... →
Changed from address to customer’s not danny@hillcrest Danny McClelland at 10:58 AM, 10/30/2010
[Enquiries App] rcde2e450: Overidden reply_to... →
Overidden reply_to address in email header Danny McClelland at 11:09 AM, 10/30/2010
[Enquiries App] rd998e8e2: Reset the from address... →
Reset the from address to danny@hillcrest Danny McClelland at 11:01 AM, 10/30/2010
[Survey Manager] r20901eef: Tidied up HTML email →
Tidied up HTML email Danny McClelland at 12:14 PM, 10/30/2010
[DannyWeb Changelog] r8f31d189: Added page title →
Added page title Danny McClelland at 03:08 PM, 10/27/2010
[DannyWeb Changelog] r455a8d9a: Added jQuery... →
Added jQuery section back in Danny McClelland at 03:05 PM, 10/27/2010
[DannyWeb Changelog] reb7590e5: Removed uneeded... →
Removed uneeded css selectors Danny McClelland at 02:59 PM, 10/27/2010
[DannyWeb Changelog] r0837188e: Started new style... →
Started new style design Danny McClelland at 02:53 PM, 10/27/2010
[DannyWeb Changelog] r6a3552bc: Added css reset →
Added css reset Danny McClelland at 02:54 PM, 10/27/2010
[DannyWeb Changelog] r47b0ff51: Added main wrapper →
Added main wrapper Danny McClelland at 03:10 PM, 10/27/2010
[DannyWeb Changelog] r56f29bc7: Removed clock... →
Removed clock image and read more link Danny McClelland at 03:01 PM, 10/27/2010
[DannyWeb Changelog] r726b14e7: Initial commit →
Initial commit Danny McClelland at 02:41 PM, 10/27/2010
[LGSA] r2e437853: Getting started with Perch, news... →
Getting started with Perch, news page is done Danny McClelland at 09:13 AM, 10/27/2010
[DannyWeb Changelog] r3f70eedf: Removed footer... →
Removed footer content Danny McClelland at 02:43 PM, 10/27/2010
[LGSA] ra092b486: About Us - Clients page is done,... →
About Us - Clients page is done, added new template for list items Danny McClelland at 09:22 AM, 10/27/2010
[LGSA] rb92ff6c2: Completed Cases, Recruitment and... →
Completed Cases, Recruitment and Salvage Sales. Danny McClelland at 09:40 AM, 10/27/2010
[DannyWeb Changelog] rc8225e05: Fixed issue with... →
Fixed issue with main site’s wrapper Danny McClelland at 03:13 PM, 10/27/2010
[LGSA] r1b7d6938: Renamed old .html files to .php →
Renamed old .html files to .php Danny McClelland at 12:54 PM, 10/27/2010
[DannyWeb Changelog] ree9c77ba: Created min height... →
Created min height for revision comment Danny McClelland at 03:11 PM, 10/27/2010
[Gift App] r6d1f8a4e: Added drop shadow to logo →
Added drop shadow to logo Danny McClelland at 11:52 AM, 10/24/2010
[Gift App] ref127b72: Added simple logo and styled... →
Added simple logo and styled header Danny McClelland at 11:46 AM, 10/24/2010
[LGSA] r7a2570b6: Initial commit of new site →
Initial commit of new site Danny McClelland at 04:24 PM, 10/25/2010
[Gift App] r224f50d0: Tidied up error messages →
Tidied up error messages Danny McClelland at 12:01 PM, 10/24/2010
[Gift App] rdc13d7d9: Fixed issue with wrong... →
Fixed issue with wrong message showing when no people present Danny McClelland at 02:37 PM, 10/23/2010
[Gift App] r7b3dc895: Tidied up titles of pages... →
Tidied up titles of pages and links from gift edit page Danny McClelland at 02:49 PM, 10/23/2010
[Gift App] r7c397cca: Hid gift price if field is... →
Hid gift price if field is empty Danny McClelland at 02:58 PM, 10/23/2010
[Gift App] rce278d6b: Removed table for gifts and... →
Removed table for gifts and replaced with buttons. Added view all gifts to the edit gift view Danny McClelland at 02:22 PM, 10/23/2010
[Gift App] rb4cc2439: Added route from edit gift... →
Added route from edit gift view to full list of gifts Danny McClelland at 02:53 PM, 10/23/2010
[Gift App] rb1f8aeaf: Person's name is red if no... →
Person’s name is red if no gifts assigned to them Danny McClelland at 01:39 PM, 10/23/2010
[Gift App] r65d694cf: Moved person delete button... →
Moved person delete button to within the edit view and fixed error with the edit view for people Danny McClelland at 01:29 PM, 10/23/2010
[Gift App] r9ece41f4: Personalised remove person... →
Personalised remove person warning Danny McClelland at 01:31 PM, 10/23/2010
[Gift App] r5f9ed2b9: Added gift counter to person... →
Added gift counter to person name if there is more than 0 gifts in their list Danny McClelland at 01:38 PM, 10/23/2010
[Gift App] ra18e6f0c: Made buttons for people with... →
Made buttons for people with no gifts assigned to them normal with red outline Danny McClelland at 02:03 PM, 10/23/2010
[Gift App] r1cddfea9: Added green outline for... →
Added green outline for people with gifts assigned to them Danny McClelland at 02:08 PM, 10/23/2010