I noticed the /shell directory in the Magento root folder, so I took a peek inside. Cool stuff. There’s a small set of PHP scripts intended to be called via the PHP CLI! This means a nice tidy interface to working with Magento via the command line.
You may be thinking, “Command line is cool?!? [...]
If you need to quickly optimize ALL tables in a mysql instance this simple command will optimize everything.
mysqlcheck –optimize -A
So you’ve allocated some memory to cache your queries, but you need to clear the MySql query cache. You could do a MySql restart, but you probably don’t want to do that on a production server.
…so bust that cache with a query!
RESET QUERY CACHE
Want to use JavaScript to restrict the characters that can be input on a textbox? It’s easy!
Here’s a very small function that will remove illegal characters, and replace spaces with hyphens. I used on a textfield that was used as part of a url.
Javascript:
restrictAlias = function(o){
var r = /[^A-Z|a-z|0-9|-]/g;
o.value = o.value.replace(’ [...]
There’s plenty of information available on the interwebs for backing up a local directory to Amazon S3. But there’s not as much information if you need to do the opposite, keep a local directory synced with S3 without the forward sync present. I figured out a simple way to do it, using a Ruby script, S3Sync.
Everybody’s voting and reporting today on which Super Bowl ad was their favorite. I think the showing was pretty strong this year. Most of the ads were good. But there was one standout among the crowd…
Nothing compared with Nannerpuss, 8 seconds of WTF just happened:
I recently needed to recursively lowercase files and directories on a Linux server. The real task at hand was to move a bazillion files from a Windows server onto a Linux box. All the files were going to be placed on a webserver so the casing needed to be standardized. I looked all around to find a recursive script and found some, but through the task I found an easy way to do this.
Some pranksters in Austin, TX pulled off the best. prank. ever. They hijacked two electronic road signs, and tweaked them to display warning messages about Zombies. I love it. I’m surprised it didn’t cause accidents. I would have snorted hot coffee all over myself. Or maybe wrecked while reaching for my bug out bag. …read more
I have to admit that that I fell in love with Bon Iver’s first release, For Emma, Forever Ago. It was overtly simple. It made eloquent use of overdubs and some digital effects. The result was magnificent. I have a big music collection and try to keep music rated in iTunes so that I can find all the good stuff quick. Usually I find a few stand out tracks on an album, but when I looked at my iTunes ratings, I found that I had rated all songs 5.
March of the Zapotec | Holland is essentially a double EP release by Zach Condon, the man behind the moniker, Beirut. I wondered why two EP’s weren’t condensed down into one full-length album, but upon listening it became apparent that these two EP’s were recorded by two completely different bands. For March of the Zapotec, Condon traveled to Teotitlan del Valle near Oaxaca, Mexico to record a full Mexican brass band. The opening passage, sounds like an open street festival. I visualized an entire village playing in the band, or marching beside it.
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