Author Archives: Mike Walker
Dan showed me at a snippet to slap into your ~/.bash_profile to display the current git branch in your prompt for the working directory (provided it’s a git repo). Very cool stuff. Here is my version with colours changes to suit my tastes: function parse_git_branch_and_add_brackets { git branch –no-color 2> /dev/null | sed -e ‘/^[^*]/d’ [...]
Did you know you can easily download plugins from Magento Connect without using the (terrifying) Magento Connect Downloader? Well yes, you can! Magento has a bash script named “pear” that will allow you to interact with Magento’s Pear repositories. The script is found in your Magento base dir. For this post I’ll assume your base [...]
I have been running various Magento Community Editions on my Debian servers with Nginx, PHP-FPM & MySQL without any problems for some time, but I today I ran into some trouble installing Magento Enterprise Edition 1.8! I really had no idea what was happening because php was doing that annoying blank page thing and no [...]
