I recently made a list of problems experienced after upgrading from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS, an additional problem that finally came to light about a week later was…Continue reading
Upgrading Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS to 14.04.01 LTS
Back in July I was ranting about the new Facebook API that requires PHP 5.4 or later. My main production server was running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with PHP 5.3, and although the…Continue reading
Installing / Compiling FFMPEG for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
There are currently no official repositories for an APT install of FFMPEG on Ubuntu, but If you are upgrading to or installing Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and want to recompile or…Continue reading
Magento Product Attribute Search and Filter
The Magento product database is pretty flexible when it comes to extracting product information. Sometimes however, extracting all the information you want for a product is not so easy. For…Continue reading
Magento Product Data and Attribute Exporter
Over the last few years I have developed a few different PHP scripts to export Magento product data in order to manipulate product pricing, generate Magento EAN barcodes or create…Continue reading
Facebook API v2.0 Ubuntu PHP 5.4 #fail
So I finally caught on to the fact that Facebook released version 2.0 of their API at the end of April (to coincide with the F8 developer conference.) and will discontinue…Continue reading
How to move the Dropbox cache folder
How to move the Dropbox cache folder Dropbox is extremely useful, it can be used in many different ways to allow distributed sharing of files between various systems, Windows, Mac,…Continue reading
Upgrade Magento 1.8 to 1.9
Magento CE 1.9 has been released. It appears to be a relatively small update introducing a new responsive GUI. See the release notes here. Here are my notes after upgrading…Continue reading
Google Universal Analytics Update for Magento Version v.1.3.X Old Versions
Google Universal Analytics went out of BETA recently (May 2014) and is now available for all users. Universal Analytics has “more features, better insights”. All versions of Magento include the…Continue reading
Use GEOIP2 for PHP Geo IP data in WordPress, Magento, HTML
The above iFrame makes an ajax request to a PHP class querying GeoLite2 data created by MaxMind, available from http://www.maxmind.com. This example displays the location of a single visitor…Continue reading