A Developer’s Guide to using the Magento Cache
Magento employs caching at many levels within the system, most of which are transparent to the unwitting developer. As the complexity of your Magento tasks increase, it’s inevitable that you’ll...
View ArticleMagento Events Cheat Sheet (1.8)
Magento uses a fantastic event hooking system, following the Observer Design Pattern, allowing additional functionality to be plugged in and out without modifying the core code. This list of events is...
View ArticleMagento Events Cheat Sheet (1.9)
Magento uses a fantastic event hooking system, following the Observer Design Pattern, allowing additional functionality to be plugged in and out without modifying the core code. This list of events is...
View ArticleSchedule Index Refresh in Magento Enterprise
In CE editions of Magento there is a way to refresh a particular index by navigating to the Index Management section of the administration interface and rebuilding it there and then, through the web...
View ArticleAdding log visibility to Amazon ECS with Papertrail
Amazon ECS provides access to Docker’s logging driver settings at the container level through the standard task definition interface.Under “Storage and Logging” is the ability to define a log driver...
View ArticleTesting Laravel with Bitbucket Pipelines
Bitbucket Pipelines is Atlassian’s answer to travis, providing tight integration with Bitbucket for running tasks, such as automated tests, after pushing to a repository.Pipelines is built on Docker...
View ArticleAdding http2 support to curl on macOS
By default, Sierra ships with curl 7.49.1:sterling:~ nrj$ /usr/bin/curl --version curl 7.49.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin16.0) libcurl/7.49.1 SecureTransport zlib/1.2.8 Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher...
View ArticleGoing Serverless With Lambda
I hate hosting things and will avoid having to run a server at all costs. I don’t like having to keep the OS up to date. I don’t like having to worry about weak applications exposing the entire server...
View ArticleLaravel workers not reading .env changes
When using Redis caching in Laravel (5.3), make sure that you manually delete bootstrap/cache/config.php if you want Redis to start being used and your artisan cache:clear commands to have any effect.I...
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iTerm2: Showing the PHP, Ruby or Node version in your status bar
Version 3.3.0 of iTerm2 introduces a cool new feature that allows you to customise the status bar. The status bar allows you to modify the top of your prompt to show information about your terminal...
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