Old school
George Wow, my last post on this blog was more than 1 year ago! Anyway, this post is about this year’s Christmas present that I got. Everyone who knows me know…
George
Magento Certified. Plus!
Recently (Thursday, 5/Nov/2015 to be more precise), had my Magento Developer Plus certification exam. After having my “normal” Magento developer certification in 2012, this one was long overdue, really. According…
Magento template path hints in adminhtml
I know this is all over the net, but I’ll post it here for my own reference. So this is how you enable the template hints in the admin: connect…
Nginx / php-fpm timeout
So, I’m working on a Magento upgrade on a LEMP stack server, and in spite of changing proxy_read_timeout to 1 hour (3600s), was still giving me the ugly “502 Bad…
Mage Titans
If you are a Magento developer, you pretty much know what this post is about. If you were last Saturday (1.Nov.2014) in the Manchester area, you definitely know what this…
Digital Business of the Year :: Space 48
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…
Mage registry key “_singleton/core/resource” already exists
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…
Holiday, part I
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…
Refresh the checkout success page in Magento
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…
Long weekend off
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…