Chris Mckee Designs, by Chris McKee, who'd of guessed

Simple way to export your customers from Magento with their address. In the ADMIN on the menu select System -> Import/Export -> Dataflow Profiles. Select customer on the dropdown then go to the run profile tab and click go. It’ll save it on your server in the /var/exports/ folder. By default this will come out … Read on Squire

Bored of forgetting this one; This will open up port 80 on most peoples machines; other things to remember are the default setting on Skype will also use 80. sc stop IISADMIN sc stop W3SVC iisreset /stop sc stop MsDepSvc

Bit of a code dump but what the hey it will have to do.
In wordpress we have a wonderful set of functions that takes your title and converts it to a URL friendly version in the slug or permalink area. This also handles foreign characters converting them to their standard ascii equivalent.

Note* This will only really be different for Windows/Linux users where font-aliasing isn’t a standard feature (like the mac); but seeing Windows is 95% of the market it’s worth it.   This is the standard font aliasing This is the faux-font aliasing using text shadow (using RGBA) text-shadow: 0px 0px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0); This is the … Read on Squire

I came across an issue a few years back that I was supposed to post about there and then; what the hey no buggers bothered to fix it. Basically PHP – MCrypt is great, it handles lots of nice encryption algorithms very simply and provides just the right amount of abstraction to the user to … Read on Squire

These resets were a mix of my own stuff, YUI and various others I mashed in during development Resets, the necessary evil Some people will say that you don’t really need a reset, and that it creates extra work; unfortunately this is only true in the case of tech-sites and small sites that don’t need … Read on Squire

Sometimes when working with Booking processes and long forms you come across the need to slap that old cross-browser tart, the before-onunload event to warn the user that they appear to be trying to exit the page in a dramatic way (close tab, browse elsewhere) which contradicts the purpose or intentions of the page they’re … Read on Squire

New Redmine versions come out every month or so which is great, top software, free and it saves us all from having to suffer silly corporate ideas like using Sharepoint for project management or bug tracking. Wouldn’t it be nice if you had some simple instructions… SSDD. *Note Next Week(ish) I’ll add a PDF which … Read on Squire

This will also work in ASP.net MVC, as in the first one.

It's a somewhat well known fact, (by somewhat I mean for amongst web devs, my mum wouldn't understand any of that), that IIS6 is the IE6 of Servers, its slow, dim-witted, annoying, crap and here to stay.

So to make life a little more bearable and to save the rest of the web-society from a life of .net 2 webform's, bloated view states and ugly urls here's a quick "how to".

Recently as a quick fix to a headache I resorted to adding ‘behaviour’ css modifiers to my IE scripts to add CSS3 style behaviours for IE6/7/8; its a quick and easy thing to do simply refer to http://fetchak.com/ie-css3/ , but before you wonder off test one thing for me. Grab the file from that site … Read on Squire