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Ok to save time (and the fact I type enough to drive me nuts) I’ll cut the bull and just give you a set of great tools for browser testing.

IE Tester – this neat FREE bit of software lets you test in all the IE browsers since 5.5 within one browser. Great stuff; the [...]

Regardless of whether or not your a fan of IE, bits of functionality in windows will make you use it, whether it be update or irritating banking sites that insist on making you use a specific browser; so do yourself a favour and download it anyway… if your on a mac you can just go [...]

Solution 2 – Running the Layered Navigation Cache in bits from PHP-CLI
So not everyone has half a gig of ram to play with, that’s a git. Funnily though, I don’t have PS on the server I’m developing Magento on (why, oh god why?) so I cant build a shareable version of a web page script [...]

When running a cache refresh on Layered Navigation the script times out producing either an Error 500 or server based error. The problem is then made worse by magento’s failure to recognise that the process didn’t complete.

Submit Your Site Feeds
[REPUBLISHED FROM OLD SITE]

There’s little to love about search indexes, they can easily make or break a company, spread vicious rumours that are a nightmare to remove and last but not least drive web-masters to the point where they crack.
Just to save time; there’s not many search engines left any more, nearly [...]

Converting a Date to mySql Formatted Date
[REPUBLISHED FROM OLD SITE]

This is a php coded function provided to allow people to convert dates from standard input format to mysql storage format.

/** 
* function dateconvert 
* 
* dateconvert is a handy function to take one of the aches and pains out of mysql
* by converting data from a variable (posted [...]

[Republished from old blog]
With many large hard-drives on Windows XP, attached via SATA, people have started to encounter issues where the disk drive starts to display problems displayed in the windows information bubble listing that drive X:(your drive name) has encountered a “Delayed Write Error”, usually followed by some file name your probably not even accessing.
Now [...]

Prerequisites for installing APF on MT
[Taken from old blog]
6 pack of beer or other alcoholic beverage (as this is really boring)
About an hour of your time (allowing time for drifting off and watching tv)
Large blunt object (hands will do) for mashing keyboard
(mt) Developer tools installed
(mt) SSH Access
(mt) slow bleeding brain hemorrhage.
Access to the internet [...]

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