Had a great day yesterday at the DIBI (Design It, Build it) conference in The Sage Gateshead. It’s a new conference, with – as the name may suggest –two tracks; design and development. I was in the design camp, while Phill went for the development (standing in for Jason after he had a nasty bike accident a week or so ago – get better soon Jason!). Great selection of speakers including (in reverse chronological order, for no good reason!) Andy …
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Magento – making sense of theme inheritance with a simple script
Trying to make sense of theme inheritance in Magento, I have started to put a simple script together to help navigate the themes installed on a shop. When I say simple, I mean very simple. Jump straight in and have a browse: http://magento.consil.co.uk/themes.php This script is installed in the root directory of our 1.4 test installation. What it gives you is a layered approach. First you select the interface, then the theme within that interface (try default->modern for example). The …
Faxing from your desktop
Occasionally there is a need to send a fax, but it can be such a rare occurrence that it is hardly worth keeping a fax permanently set up, or even keeping track of where you last put the fax modem cable for your laptop. I took a look at free or cheap online fax sending services in the UK, and many offer lots of promise in the Google search results, but few deliver once you go through their long registration …
Moving a Plesk Database Between Domains
Note: I have only tried this on Plesk 8.6. If you have used this technique on any other versions of Plesk, please let us know – whether it worked the same way or not. The Plesk web management interface is pretty cool. There are lots of sophisticated things you may want to do on a web server, but 99% of those tasks are encapsulated into the admin screens provided by Plesk; it simply gets the job done of managing web …