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  1. Integrate Magento and Silverstripe autoloaders

    Make Magento and Silverstripe’s __autoload() functions play nice.

    Read more about Magento SilverStripe integration

    Published on 10 March 2011 in Magento, SilverStripe

  2. Integrate SilverStripe menu to display on Magento pages

    I want to be able to display a SilverStripe menu on Magento pages.

    Read more about integrating your SilverStripe menu into Magento

    Published on 01 December 2010 in Magento, SilverStripe

  3. Integrate Magento categories menu with Silverstripe

    I want to be able to use Magento’s categories as my main menu everywhere on the site and that means I need to access Magento data outside of it’s install directory.

    Read more about Magento SilverStripe integration

    Published on 22 November 2010 in Magento, SilverStripe

  4. Magento code cheatsheet

    The best way to access and manipulate data in Magento is by using the Mage object’s functions. For example: getModel() and getHelper().

    Read more about Magento php coding

    Published on 22 November 2010 in Magento

  5. Adding additional gems to nesta

    It’s worth noting for the newbies that nesta uses bundler, so you need to explicitly add gems to your Gemfile or you won’t be able to require them.

    Read more on passenger not finding gems

    Published on 17 October 2010 in Nesta

  6. Debugging to stdout with Ruby 1.9.2p0

    Turns out with Ruby 1.9.2 I needed to do $stdout.flush after every puts, or do $stdout.sync = true which should be the default behaviour. This is not an issue in other versions of Ruby.

    Read more on my horrendous experience trying to get ruby to write to stdout

    Published on 10 October 2010 in Ruby, System Administration

  7. Ebola and outsourcing your comment system

    Cognition have collocated our comments on Twitter. Share a tweet-length response here, and, with your permission, it will go there. If you are moved to respond with more than 140 characters, post the response on your website, and it will show up here.

    Read more on using twitter for comments

    Published on 09 October 2010

  8. Email attachments garbled in osx mail using gmail imap

    Using mailbox -> rebuild fixes the problem temporarily…

    Read more on garbled email attachments in osx mail using gmail imap

    Published on 09 October 2010 in Mac OS X

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