tim-reynolds/magento-qconfig When I started using Magento the System Configuration section made me feel a little dumb — so many options, but no easy way to search for things. I’d always forget where a particular option was. After a few months of using grep and ack to search though the system.xml files and work backwards to figure [...]
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Magento system.xml hint tag. Some background on an abandoned “hint” tag for Magento’s system configuration form fields.
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Barely Magento related — mainly a tab sweep to capture some Stack Overflow questions where I’m re-familiarizing myself with DBA concepts as part of a Magento upgrade project. Optimizing ALTER TABLE Debugging errno: 150 More errno: 150
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Replay SQL Log An interesting project (also forked and improved by Magento stalwart fbrnc) that lets you replay the contents of Magento’s database log for the purpose of improving performance during a Setup Resource upgrade. I haven’t tried using it, but it looks useful. Also, if there’s any computer science teachers [...]
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If you've followed my work here, on Stack Overflow, or on Twitter, you know I have a perpetual bee in my bonnet over Magento Connect's file permissions issues. There's a few common cases where Magento Connect will tell you an extension is installed, but
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In case you missed it in the waterfall of post Magento Imagine press releases, I've got a new version of Commerce Bug 2 available. Free for registered users — this update brings support for the theme inheritance features of Magento CE 1.9 and Magento
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