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Magento's isInStock ... yeah right ;(

2011-10-21T18:18:00.001+02:00

OK, now I'm confused (more than usual ;)) ... why on the earth they did this (maybe they just hate me ;)) While I was looking for the name of event fired when product is in stock status is checked I found this "gem" of the code in Mage_Catalog_Model_Product: public function isInStock() { return $this->getStatus() == Mage_Catalog_Model_Product_Status::STATUS_ENABLED; } WTF?!

Development tools

2011-10-09T13:03:00.000+02:00

Setting up (yet another) MacBook before trip to client I got to re-visit all of my tools I use to work on Magento (and almost all other programing stuff I'm working on) so I decided to (finally) make I list of stuff I always install/use. OS: OS X It Just Works. After years of maintaing all of the popular OSes one learns to appreciate that simple and yet powerful quote. I do use Linux on my PC

WinMerge

2010-05-08T22:10:00.002+02:00

Another nice one in toolkit great diff tool nicely integrated in rclick menu.

WinSCP

2010-05-05T20:16:00.000+02:00

Main thing which I was missing on filezilla was need to confirm upload when editing remote files (damn I miss Cyberduck)WinSCP has it and on plus side it can be made to look just like TotalCommander :D

KeePass Password Safe

2010-05-05T19:08:00.000+02:00

One of small tool jewels for anyone who needs to keep tracks of lot's of account/passwords. It keeps them in AES/Twofish encrypted file, can auto-type username/password in most of dialogs/shells and also can "drag" that trough clipboard to add even more protection from keyloggers. Did I mention that it can organize all needed passwords very nicely :)As password file is encrypted is fairly safe to

My magento .gitignore

2010-04-13T15:42:00.001+02:00

Based on Git ignore (.gitignore) file for Magento project I started working on my version of it. I published it as gist on GitHub so it will be easier to maintain. Here it is:

SubSwitch

2010-04-12T13:41:00.004+02:00

SubSwitch is a great Thunderbird addon if you have need to organize your email, it help adding meaningful subject lines to outgoing mails just like I used with various mailing lists (like [Foo]) so latter filtering will be very easy.Only problem I did found is that saving preferences do not work on *NIX version of Thunderbird 3, probably some permission problems.

Windows symlinking

2010-04-12T13:31:00.001+02:00

One of thing I do missing working on Windows is possibility of symlinking as I used to them on various *NIXen and OS X and as I'm lately giving Win7 a try (surprisingly pretty good for a change) I was delighted when I found that from Windows Vista NTFS got real symlinks (wikipedia) too :)

Switch to HTML mode in Thunderbird

2010-04-08T20:31:00.000+02:00

I was looking for this for a long time: Thunderbird compose HTMLIn short: Shift + new mail = write new mail in HTML modeOff-course I do presume that one is using Plain Text mode as default as all should :)

Ditz - issue tracker for me

2010-04-07T23:34:00.001+02:00

Last few days I was (also) hunting for useful, small, unobtrusive and preferably distributed or at least hosted multi component - multi project issue tracker. And sure there are a ton's of them but ... I don't need all that complexity (yet) that first-class trackers like Trac, Mantis and other's offer ... I just need to track my issues/tasks locally and maybe share them with a few others ...An

You cannot define a correlation name ‘foo’ more than once

2010-04-07T06:05:00.003+02:00

This error haunted me last few days ... nothing on net which can indicate source of error, only one supposed solution was commenting out one line somewhere in core files = big no go for me. After poking around and comparing why default themes work and mine don't even they functionally are the same I finally stumbled into real culprit As this is used to remove block "

How to Change the Width of Window Border on Vista or Windows 7

2010-04-06T20:33:00.000+02:00

Finally, after I gave up all hop that I'll manage to change that monstrous borders/title bars to something more usable I stumbled on thisHow to Change the Width of Window Borders

PSPad

2010-04-03T18:04:00.005+02:00

In my never ending hunt for good windows programmer's editor I stumbled on this nice one.PSPad for now (finally) looks as something that I can use for may day-to-day programing.I specially like concept of virtual folders so I can pull out and organize files independent of real location on file system (really useful when working on magento theming as needed files are all over the place).

DNSClient Windows problem (A.K.A nslookup radi sve ostalo ne)

2010-03-08T21:14:00.001+01:00

Hehe, posle dužeg vremena naleteh na novi problem pod win kada sam pokušao da koristim DNS iz VM-a pod win. OK, DNS se vidi, port 53 se javlja ... A/CNAME namešteni ... ubačen IP gde je DNS... cmd.exe .... !@#!@$!@$# ... google is your friend ... hmm Izgleda da je krivac DNS Client servis: The DNS Client service (dnscache) caches Domain Name System (DNS) names and registers the full

VirtualBox

2010-03-08T20:04:00.001+01:00

Put sticker *bang head here* ... use it ... rinse and repeat .... After managing to install 3 OSes on same machine (should I count macbook's OSX as 4th, hmmm) and juggling some time between them I (finally) remembered that I can simply virtualize ... *more banging* Now, while my Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server happily ticking in a background VirtualBox (yes, old one but it's (more or less) exact clone

DISQUS

2010-02-03T20:29:00.000+01:00

Just to mention this great tool for adding comments on sites ... totally external and working great

Besplatni internet -- jes of course ;)

2009-02-23T21:22:00.003+01:00

OK, kasnim neki mesec ;)Ali ovo je previše smešno da bi ga ignorisao -- besplatni wireless ("vajrles") internet 2 godine, wireless kamere ... enter the matrix Neo :D Jel' to idu neki izbori skoro pa nam opet mažu oči ... I još... Telefoniranje preko interneta će građanima umanjiti račune za dva ili tri puta. Baš će Telekom to da nam "pokloni", jedva se otkačismo (kao) monopola na telefoniju a

Embeddable pastebin

2009-02-22T02:44:00.004+01:00

While reading this post in comments I stumbled to great embeddable pastebin resource. I'm using the GitHub for a while now but I newer noticed that I can use as a pastebin and even better as a embeddable code highlighter.

CouchDB install on Mac OSX -- the Fink way

2009-02-12T23:27:00.009+01:00

On CouchDB wiki there are instructions how to install it from source but with MacPorts which I don't use. So I ventured to install it using Fink. 1. Install required fink packages 2. Apple ICU implementation is not complete so we will build own (this applies to ICU 4.0.1, check paths on the ICU site). 3. Compile CouchDB from repository 4. Check /usr/local/etc/couchdb/local.ini (see /usr/

gettext Plural-Forms za srpski jezik

2005-10-13T13:10:00.000+02:00

Ovo je više za mene da se svaki put ne podsećam: Plural-Forms: nplurals=3; plural=n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 0 : n%10>=2 && n%10<=4 && (n%100=20) ? 1 : 2; pokupljeno odavde

Netatalk

2005-09-03T04:46:00.003+02:00

Another one bites the dust :))) Ni ne pokušavajte da koristite netatalk koji dolazi uz ubuntu 5.04, naročito ako koristite OSX. Meni je posle (!?) upgrade-a sa warty-a na hoary prestalo da radi ripovanje sa afp diskova! Takođe, iz neznanih razloga, na mojoj mašini je sve radilo ok kada priđem preko NFS-a (NFS i OSX, eee to će biti kada se naspavam, horor priče ostavljam za uveče) ili sambe (