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Digital Business of the Year :: Space 48

Oct

14

2014

I’ll start this one with saying what I always say when asked about my work: very proud to be part of the amazing team at Space 48, we’re making digital history there! 🙂 Joke aside now, recently we won a pretty important award in the North-West, an award that doesn’t recognises only one project of ...

Mage registry key “_singleton/core/resource” already exists

Jun

3

2014

Ever had the “Mage registry key “_singleton/core/resource” already exists” error in Magento and can’t get rid of it? First of all, if you search this on Google, don’t believe anything you read in the first 2-3 pages of results (pages > 3 don’t matter anyway, that’s a black hole…). Even found a champ claiming to ...

Holiday, part I

May

23

2014

Finally, me and the family are going away for our first holiday this year, around here, somewhere. From what I hear, its’s supposed to be really nice, hopefully I’ll recharge my batteries. So no laptops, no sites, no PHP, no nothing. Just enjoying my free time with my family, taking loads of photos and visiting the ...

Refresh the checkout success page in Magento

May

10

2014

Something useful when working on the “checkout success” page in Magento, whether it’s just styling, implementing some tracking JS codes or whatever open up app/code/core/Mage/Checkout/controllers/OnepageController.php in your favourite editor (mine is PhpStorm, btw) and on line (approx, at least for Magento EE) 275 you’ll find the successAction() method. In there, comment out lines 278-281 286-291, so ...

Long weekend off

Apr

17

2014

Cool, so my looooong weekend is here. Due to the Easter Bank holiday (Friday and Monday), took Thursday off as well. And today we’re waiting for some friends to visit us (they live in London) and right after getting them from the train station, we’re off to (re)visit The City of Chester. Really beautiful city, ...

gonna do something that I haven’t done since…

Apr

14

2014

…gonna do something that I haven’t done since I was a kid: going to go to sleep! its only 6pm, but I’m shattered for today! Comments

Server change

Apr

13

2014

So, I changed my hosting provider. Again. The previous one was plain bullshit. No idea how they’re doing with bigger clients, but for smaller ones (like myself) they’re really shitty. The processes on the server were dropping for no reason, their customer relations dept. is even worse, no explanations given, etc. Therefore, for whomever may ...

Raspberry Pi Home Media Center

Oct

26

2013

Well, I did it! Finally got my Raspberry Pi to a (very!) good use. Since I got the week off from work, I played (quite a lot) with the new gizmo in town and managed to make it a “home media center”. Which, is AMAZING if I may say so. The first thing was to ...

Ubuntu 13.04 WiFi driver issue

Oct

20

2013

Recently I faced a weird problem at home with my WiFi. Whenever I turned my laptop on, running Ubuntu 13.04, everything else (wireless-wise) stopped working. I tried everything, but with no success. Pretty much only my wife’s laptop was still able to browse the net, but everything else was “dead in the water”: the iPad, ...

Lymm Dam – A panoramic view

Apr

20

2013

With such a beautiful day today, all sunny & stuff, I went to see the Lymm Dam, close by (about 8 miles away). Nice view, and since “panoramic views” are my “new s**t”, got the camera with me, the tripod and here’s the result. I’m not going to bother you (or me, again) with the ...