I’ve release a little tool I’ve been using/building myself for managing my passwords from the command line (where I spend a lot of my time).

It’s all built in NodeJS, and open-source on github. You can find it here: https://github.com/bastuijnman/passmen

We’re using Jenkins as our preferred CI tool at 24i. Recently we had a requirement to build specific version numbers and let them deploy through Jenkins.

The way we solved it was the following:

In the advanced options for the GIT settings in a project set the refspec to only fetch master:

+refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master


And in the branch to build use:

tags/YOUR_TAG_HERE


This allows us to build any tag in the repo on jenkins. The next step will to be able to build and deploy specific releases at any time from a service like Slack 🙂

So, you like Laravel, but you want to hook it up to AngularJS. If you’re using the Blade templating system shipped with Laravel, this will create a conflict, because the same tags apply for templating.

blade:

{{ $yourVariable }}


angular:

{{ yourObject.yourKey }}


So, when Laravel tries to compile a Blade template it’ll produce an error. The quick tip here is to do the following:

angular:

@{{ yourObject.yourKey }}


Now Blade will ignore the tags and angular will parse it nicely!

So, we just found an amazing problem on our server regarding running the magento cronjob.

The cron file was run but nothing was scheduled. After much debugging we encountered the following.

For some (magical) reason the cron daemon used the binary in

/usr/bin/php

while the preferred binary should be

/usr/local/bin/php

so a quick fix was backing up and renaming the binary in

/usr/bin/php

and symlinking the one in local.

This was encountered on a server running DirectAdmin, so if you have a similar problem: check the php version run by your cron daemon!

Here’s a quick easy tip to add new buttons in Bootstrap 3 using the less preprocessor

Just create a new btn- class like this and include the mixin: .button-variant

like this:

.btn-new {
    .button-variant(color, background, border);
}

Replace: code,background and border with either your color codes or variables and you have yourself a new button.

So I’ve been to Laracon EU last week, it was great and extremely helpfull. Here are some of the talks given there:

Ben Corlett – Bridging the gap
http://www.slideshare.net/bencorlett/bridging-the-gap-laracon-2013

Jordi Boggiano – In depth with composer
http://slides.seld.be/?file=2013-08-30+In-Depth+with+Composer.html#1

Matthew Machuga – Objects, Testing, and Responsibility
http://www.slideshare.net/machuga/objects-testing-and-re

Phill Sparks – Software Design Patterns in Laravel
http://www.slideshare.net/sparksphill/software-design-patterns-in-laravel-by-phill-sparks

Taylor Otwell – Building Artisan Commands
as the talk itself consisted of talking and showing/writing code, Taylor pushed everything to github:
https://github.com/taylorotwell/laracon-eu-2013

Ross Tuck – HTTP and Your Angry Dog
http://www.slideshare.net/rosstuck/http-and-your-angry-dog

These are all very interesting talks, be sure to check them out!

so you’ve just added all of your products to the magento catalog and you’re feeling pretty good about yourself. Then you realize you want to add a form of tier pricing and realize you have to edit all of your products all over again! Fear not: there is an easier way…

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So, it turns out that I’m addicted to Explore Github…. 

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A great article about detecting some “issues” with your css, use these rules and your css will look a lot cleaner.

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So you have your front-end layout all coded up with the help of the awesome twitter bootstrap, good choise! Except for when you want to use it’s icons, you discover that they use png sprites! That won’t scale at all, so let’s use a web font.

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