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Re: Using Redis as a Cache Backend in Magento 15 Aug 2013 | 12:55 am
The fine folks at the Magento ECG have published a nice article on using Redis as a cache backend in Magento. It provides some nice benchmarks and setup tips but there is one pretty major point where ...
View and Filter Orders Grid with Product SKU 3 Mar 2012 | 10:29 pm
One of the most bewildering missing features I have come across in Magento is the inability to look up orders by ordered products. There are occasions where this feature is sorely needed. For example,...
Resolving Magento module dependencies without using the “depends” element 14 Oct 2011 | 09:08 am
You might someday (or perhaps you already have) come across a case where you want one module to be loaded after another module, but don’t necessarily want it to depend on the other module. Reasons mig...
Benchmarking Zend_Cache backends for Magento 4 Oct 2011 | 08:37 am
The Zend_Cache module from the Zend Framework is a nice piece of work. It has a slew of programmer-friendly frontends and a respectable set of backends with a well-designed interface. I love the a-la-...
Cross-SCM (git and subversion) projects with modman 3 Mar 2011 | 06:10 pm
I recently had a need to include some code from two subversion repositories in a git-based project. A bit of Googling brought me to the disappointing conclusion that there is no easy maintenance-free ...
The Right Way to Optimize Apache’s .htaccess Files 1 Jul 2010 | 11:47 am
While researching Magento performance optimizations you have probably already read about how to optimize Apache’s configuration by moving your configuration directives into the configuration files and...
Module Manager Update, now on Google Code! 31 Jan 2010 | 05:15 pm
I recently updated Module Manager (first post) to support nested modules and renamed the .modman definitions file to simply modman for easier editing in IDEs. To top it off I am officially releasing i...
Module Manager – for when svn:externals just doesn’t cut it. 17 Oct 2009 | 05:38 pm
Update 1/30/2010: Added nested modules, renamed .modman file to modman, released under Apache License 2.0, and hosted on Google Code. This project was inspired by my recent Magento development work ...
Yet Another “Hiding Out-Of-Stock Products” Update 29 Sep 2009 | 09:14 am
Update: Bug fix It turns out that when layered navigation indexes are refreshed the website_id is 0 which causes the filtered results to be empty which makes layered navigation disappear. The fix is ...
Hiding “Out of Stock” items in Layered Navigation 15 Jul 2009 | 05:33 am
Updated 9/28/09 See the latest post in this series: Yet Another “Hiding Out-Of-Stock Products” Update, for an update that fixes advanced search, tags, up-sells, cross-sells, etc.. Updated 7/23/09 U...
