I haven’t written any articles in a while, and thought I should write a quick one about a Magento ‘fix’ I needed to do today. Magento isn’t the cleanest and most straight-forward software to extend, so I usually find myself doing a quick search to see if anyone has already tackled whatever customization a customer […]
We do a lot of web site tuning, and have been since before it became the routine. A while back, we were asked to tune a Magento and WordPress installation running on a virtual machine at a budget host (see our warnings about that on our cloud providers page.). We thought it might be useful […]
After reciting the same facts and figures for numerous customers countless times (and no doubt forgetting something each time!), I’ve finally taken the time to put up a page dedicated to why we choose Rackspace Cloud hosting. I’m sure we’ll be improving upon it as time goes on, but I’m glad we finally have this […]
We’ve been using Opensolaris (and Solaris) more and more; the advantages in technical prowess outweigh the few advantages Linux has left in ease of use. One thing we’ve been frustrated with a couple of times is the apparent inability to to create custom slice layouts on root disks during installation. We’re building a 16 drive, […]
I’ve been tasked with merging one subversion repository into another. The source repository is 35GB and the destination about 2GB. The source repository is bloated by the ritual inclusion of large directories of binary files that were wiped and re-added continually as well as branched and tagged hundreds of times. The goal is to eliminate […]