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13 Sep 2011

Shared Links 9.13.11...

Technology Looking to extend the “Cloud-as-Desktop-Storage” model to its limit, bitcasa offers Infinite storage and file sharing through its services. Pretty neat idea for those looking to sync files across computers or share large files without an internal server. Currently,Keep Reading

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08 Sep 2011

Shared Links...

There are often a few things on the web that I think are really cool to share and do so on the usual social networks; however, given the recent research by bit.ly that the half-life of a shared link viaKeep Reading

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04 Sep 2011

Setting up Git to Track Wor...

What is Version Control? In working to make my blog an example of best practice, I wanted to implement version control, not only to track changes but make upgrading and initiating those changes as painless as possible. If you’re unfamiliarKeep Reading

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01 Aug 2011

File Versioning for static ...

Though there are many benefits to using cache-control headers on outgoing files, browsers will not revalidate a user’s file until either the cache-control’s expiry is reached or the application dictates a new file for use that replaces the old. TheKeep Reading

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25 Jul 2011

WordPress Get Featured Imag...

WordPress has a nifty feature that allows a user to add a Featured Image for a given post or page. In this use case, I needed to pull the featured image source to populate a facebook meta tag; however WordPressKeep Reading

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08 Jul 2011

Adding Color to Git...

As a default, Git is a difficult to scan quickly and understand what changes are and were made. Adding color can alleviate this. To add color run these commands: > git config –global color.branch “auto” > git config –global color.statusKeep Reading

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04 Jul 2011

Removing Catalog Sort Optio...

Magento 1.3.2.2 — On the catalog view pages, the sort-by select input offers a range of options. These can be added or removed by visiting “Catalog” > “Attributes” > “Manage Attributes” then the specific attribute in question. In our case,Keep Reading

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28 Jun 2011

Creating a Video Sitemap in...

One of the neat things about Magento is the ability to extend functionality through a pre-defined architecture. This architecture does not really limit the use of any other similar technology and as a result, can house some elegant solutions toKeep Reading

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24 Jun 2011

Cufon not working in Intern...

Received an email from a client stating that their website was no longer working in Internet Explorer 9. Upon looking closer, I realized that the site was working/loading fine but that all the headings tags were missing. Given that eachKeep Reading

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07 Jun 2011

Redirect vs. RedirectMatch ...

A Magento store is running a CMS page at the /product-selector URL. The request, from marketing, is to redirect a Top-Level Category to this new, product-selector URL using a 301 redirect. This in itself is not difficult, just utilize theKeep Reading

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