SCP Files Over A Non-Standard Alternate Port
scp I seem to rant often about changing the SSH port. Hmmm. Today, I want to secure copy (scp) a file to the remote server where SSH accepts incoming connections...
Clean Theme For Sublime Text 2 And 3
Sublime Text 3 Alpha There is so much to like about Sublime Text. Version 3 introduces a host of new features and performance tweaks that look promising. While I’m on...
AJAX Request Canceled Status With No HTTP Header
Chrome 27.0.1 This could keep you busy for hours. When trying to debug an error in the XHR (AJAX) requests, the status of the request is returned as simply canceled...
Add Store View Selector To Your Magento Module
Magento CE 1.7.0.2 The store view selector is a very useful feature in Magento. It’s very easy to hook into this functionality for addition in your own modules. Let’s do...
Create An EAV Based Model In Magento – A Tutorial
Magento 1.7.0.2 CE. Tea, lots of tea! First off, this talk is not for beginners. You will need to have a clear grasp of Magento module creation in order to...
How To Manage Archives With Tar and Untar
CentOS 6 This is not the most comprehensive guide, but rather a quick tip to tar and untar directories. Tar is a powerful file archive and compression utility that is...
Sample Git Ignore File For Magento
Magento 1.7, Git 1.7 This subject is open to vicious debate. In my own opinion, every Magento site’s .gitignore file will (and probably should) be different. I’m working on a...
Reboot Your Git Repo To Fresh State
Git 1.7 Scenario I want to remove all commits and history from the repository and start again, as it were, with a fresh repo. Let’s say this is for efficiency’s...
Change The Default SSH Port Mac OS X
Mac OS X Snow Leopard, CentOS 6 A while back I wrote a few articles on improving security on your production server. A lot of chatter revolved around using non-standard...