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    • Magento Developers Lend Me Your Data

    • I’m looking at testing the new developments that Magento plan to release in version 4, but I need a few sizable databases to test the new speeds etc with.
      My own test bases generally range up to 1000 products, 30 attributes. So if anyone has higher and wishes to help-out by lending me their database [...]

    • Validating UK Credit & Debit Cards With LUHN to Type

    • Credit Card validation is a Pain in the Arse
      My Co-Worker pointed out this wont validate all Maestro Cards; Now hunting a list of registered prefixes.
      But its not going anywhere fast. So I’ve combined two of the scripts I’ve found to meet my needs, added UK credit card data (Maestro/VisaDebit etal) and here it is.
      Base Sources: [...]

    • Curl HTTP 417 – Expectation Failed

    • I was nocking up a client script to drag down a news-feed and post it to a Wordpress blog; the script ran fine, no posts appeared and no errors occurred… irritating.

      So I figured I’d share this pain in the arse issue fix to the “HTTP/1.1 417 Expectation Failed Error”

    • A Survival Guide for Decent Folk

    • Taken from http://nightjack.wordpress.com/ before Sir David Eady QC merrily allowed the removal of anonymity privileged to the the author, losing him his blog and very nearly his job. That’s Sir David Eady of Tenterden, Kent who values anonymity up to the point where it exposes legal incompetence.
      Source: NightJack

      In these days of us increasingly having to [...]

    • Browser Testing

    • 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 [...]