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Preemptive Recalls

I've been having headphone/hands-free problems with my first generation (5th day they were available) iPhone. Specifically, people couldn't hear me through the microphone and I couldn't use the clicker to skip through songs. I bought a new pair of headphones and everything appeared to

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Magento Setup Resources

On any fast paced software development project, the task of keeping the development and production databases in sync become a sticky wicket. Magento offers a system to create a versioned resource migration scripts that can help your team deal with this often contentious part

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Layouts, Blocks and Templates

Update: In researching No Frills Magento Layout it became apparent that this article contains incorrect and misleading information. Specifically, the sections on block and reference tags is incorrect. The article still contains useful context (handles, layout XML, etc.), so I'm letting it stand

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The Magento Config

The config is the beating heart of the Magento System. It describe, in whole, almost any module/model/class/template/etc than you'll need to access. It's a level of abstraction that most PHP developers aren't used to working with, and while it adds development time in the

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Feeds Working Again

The Atom Feed should be updating again. Pair's version of xsltproc had been spewing namespace related error messages for a few months, messages I missed because I'm using Google Apps for my email and it looks like local messages are still being routed to

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Aligning .dot Labels

Over the past few years I've been making heavy use of DOT, the Directed Graph programming language, using GraphViz for output. It's basically a text format for building flowchart like diagrams (i.e. directed graphs). It's a classic computer science thing; "Very Smart, Very

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