Reviving my slowed down Macbook Pro 22 Aug 2013 | 0 Comments Misc After one and a half years of heavy abuse my Macbook Pro had slowed down considerably. Not gradually, but over the course of a month or so. I hammer away on my trustworthy companion for most of my waking hours. So not being able to rely on its pre... Read more
Installing Magento with sample data and table prefix 12 Jul 2013 | 0 Comments Tutorials As we all know, the documentation for Magento is pretty poor. Now, how do you install a fresh Magento 1.7.0.2 webshop, with a prefix on the sample data? You need to prefix the sample data as well, or they will no be available. Why prefix? Simple. ... Read more
New Tutsplus course: Codeigniter best practices 18 Jun 2013 | 0 Comments Tutorials Another Codeigniter course by yours truly just went live on tutplus.com: Codeigniter best practices. This is an intermediate course. You will need a basic understanding of Codeigniter, but not too deep. The course contains 18 video tutorials with ... Read more
Previewing a site on a new server by changing your hosts file 24 Apr 2013 | 0 Comments Tutorials So, you're moving a succesful website to a new server. Or, you've created a shiny new site that your client loves. It's running on a test server somewhere, but you want to make sure it will run smoothly on the client's domain. ... Read more