Jerome's Blog: 2013

Thursday, December 19, 2013

How to Make 5 Easy Rum Cocktails

Saturday, December 14, 2013

current URL in Magento

<?php

$currentUrl = $this->helper('core/url')->getCurrentUrl();

<?php
$current_page = '';
/*
* CMS page
* get the page identifier
*/
if(Mage::app()->getFrontController()->getRequest()->getRouteName() == 'cms'):
$current_page = Mage::getSingleton('cms/page')->getIdentifier();
endif;

/*
* If not CMS page,

* get the route name
*/
if(empty($current_page)):
$current_page = Mage::app()->getFrontController()->getRequest()->getRouteName();
endif;

/*
* catalog page
* get the category path :)
*/
if($current_page == 'catalog'):
$current_page = 'categorypath-' . preg_replace('#[^a-z0-9]+#', '-', strtolower(Mage::registry('current_category')->getUrlPath()));
endif;
?>

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Jupiter Ascending -- Trailer -- Official Warner Bros.

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Thursday, November 28, 2013

disable breadcrumbs in magento

Go to
System > Configuration > Web > Default Options > Show Breadcrumbs for CMS Pages
Change to > No

OR

Go the layout folder in the theme,
open page.xml
comment the block

Friday, November 22, 2013

------------------
html
-------------------
<div>
<span>GOLDEN TEXT</span>
</div>

--------------------
css
-----------------------
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

div {
background: black;
padding: 20px;
}

span {
color: white;
text-shadow: 3px 3px 8px #BF7F00, -3px -3px 8px #BF7F00;
font-size: 80px;
font-family: Arial;
}

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Common Unicode Icons

a[href^="mailto:"]:before { content: "\2709"; }
.phone:before             { content: "\2706"; }
.important:before         { content: "\27BD"; }
blockquote:before         { content: "\275D"; }
blockquote:after          { content: "\275E"; }
.alert:before             { content: "\26A0"; }

<p>
  <a href="mailto:chriscoyier@gmail.com">
    chriscoyier@gmail.com
  </a>
</p>

<p class="phone">
    555-555-5555
</p>

<p class="important">
  REMEMBER: drink slushies too fast.
</p>

<blockquote>
   Designers tend to whisper, ad agencies tend to shout.
</blockquote>

<p class="alert">
   Stranger Danger!
<p>

Source: css-tricks.com

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Intel Next Unit of Computing - NUC

http://www.youtube.com/v/TKsYyXa_03o?version=3&autohide=1&showinfo=1&autohide=1&feature=share&autoplay=1&attribution_tag=g_o6IUyl4JWwt6ivLy9y3w

Magento: Change checkout successful page to from 2-col-right to 1 column layout

copy the checkout.xml inside your your theme folder

in the app -> design -> base -> default -> layout -> checkout.xml

Change the template line#420 to 1column.php

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

alertify.js nice alerts and messages

http://fabien-d.github.io/alertify.js/

its simple to use in yii and magento or any other website

include alertify.min.js and the css files, you are done

Yii set the default sort order

class MyModel extends CActiveRecord {
...

public function search(

return new CActiveDataProvider($this, array(
'criteria' => $criteria,
'pagination' => array(
'pageSize' => 100,
),
'sort' => array(
'defaultOrder' => 'firstname, lastname DESC',
)
));

Saturday, August 10, 2013

Tanki Online

http://www.tankionline.com

Earth is not revolving around Sun

The earth doesn't revolve around the sun!

Thursday, July 18, 2013

SageOne

there's a cool accounting package from Sage-One

signed up for a 15 day trial

looks good, very user friendly, nice gui :)

just started using it

i sharing gdoc with screenshots (click the link below)

SageOne Screenshots

Sunday, June 9, 2013

import large csv files intp mysql

you can edit the php.ini

or

i am using XAMPP 1.8.1 on Windows 7 Ultimate Edition

my xampp directory >>> D:\xampp
and database >>> sampledb

copy the data file inside D:\xampp\mysql\data\sampledb

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `table2` (
`FirstName` text,
`LastName` text,
`Company` text,
`Address` text,
`City` text,
`County` text,
`State` text,
`ZIP` text,
`Phone` text,
`Fax` text,
`Email` text,
`Web` text
)

* this is not may not be the ideal way create table
really wanted to create the table in with the loading of data and add the auto-incremental field

my data file is around 22MB and 349996 rows

LOAD DATA INFILE 'data.txt' INTO TABLE table2
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY '"'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n'
IGNORE 1 LINES;

Friday, May 24, 2013

weavesilk.com

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

my tank

Tanki Online

http://tankionline.com/battle-en26.html#

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Custom Function in Excel to get the url of the cell

i am working on small excel project to get the url

i copy the links from the webpage straight into excel
well the url or hyperlink its there but the problem is...
i need to insert them into mysql database and...
there are 10,000 records.

i am still using office 2007 don't whether the function is available in the newer versions..

so here are the steps for ppl using excel 2007..........

open a macro enabled workbook or save it later as .xlsm

Alt + F11 open the visual basic editor

insert a new module

paste the following code (highlighted in yellow)

Function GETURL(HyperlinkCell As Range)

GETURL = HyperlinkCell.Hyperlinks(1).Address

End Function

save and close the editor

now go back to the sheet view

Saturday, May 18, 2013

yii wallpaper

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Open Cart Installation

Monday, May 6, 2013

online free 3D games

Friday, May 3, 2013

mySQL mulitple table update

UPDATE config, tmp_config
SET
config.new1 = tmp_config.new1,
config.new2 = tmp_config.new2
WHERE tmp_config.tmp_id = config.id

UPDATE account, vtiger_accountshipads
SET account.acc_shipping_address=vtiger_accountshipads.ship_street, account.acc_shipping_po_box=vtiger_accountshipads.ship_pobox, account.acc_shipping_city=vtiger_accountshipads.ship_city , account.acc_shipping_state=vtiger_accountshipads.ship_state, account.acc_shipping_postal_code=vtiger_accountshipads.ship_code , account.acc_shipping_country=vtiger_accountshipads.ship_country
WHERE vtiger_accountshipads.id=account.acc_id

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Richard Stallman Talks About Ubuntu

Richard Stallman Talks About Ubuntu & its privacy invasing (according to EFF and FSF) Features. In order to access the video (watch or download) usining free software. Please read the article on Muktware.click here

Thursday, April 25, 2013

AMI finds success with Magento Enterprise

Sunday, April 7, 2013

SL Divas

url: http://www.sldivas.com

Monday, April 1, 2013

hide login username from the login screen in Fedora 18

I using Fedora 18 - Gnome 3.6.2

I have ten user accounts (created for testing purposes) i dont want the username listed or shown to anyone trying to login to my laptop.

i came across a solution updating gconf database

go to

touch or create a file called 01.mysettings

vi 01.mysettings

update the dconf database

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Pear Linux

Pear Linux is another flavour of linux based on ubuntu. its a desktop distribution and current version is 6
File Size 822MB.

review
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/11/01/pear-linux-6-review/ [Review 2012 November]

official websites
http://pearlinux.fr/
http://pear.prophecy.li/

Fetchmail

Fetchmail is an open source software utility for POSIX-compliant operating systems which is used to retrieve e-mail from a remote POP3, IMAP, ETRN or ODMR mail server to the user's local system.

It was developed from the popclient program, written by Carl Harris

Official Site www.fetchmail.info

to install fetchmail you need root privileges

[root@localhost ~]# yum info fetchmail

[root@localhost ~]# yum install fetchmail

Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package fetchmail.i686 0:6.3.22-1.fc16 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

Package Arch Version   Repository Size
Installing:
fetchmail i686 6.3.22-1.fc16 updates 531 k

Transaction Summary
=================================================================================
Install 1 Package

Total download size: 531 k
Installed size: 2.1 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
fetchmail-6.3.22-1.fc16.i686.rpm | 531 kB 00:08
Running Transaction Check
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Installing : fetchmail-6.3.22-1.fc16.i686 1/1

Installed:
fetchmail.i686 0:6.3.22-1.fc16

Complete!

now in you home (cd ~) directory eg:- /home/jerome

touch .fetchmailrc

add the following lines....

poll imap.gmail.com protocol IMAP 
   user "xxxxxxx@gmail.com" is adriaan here
   password 'mysecretpassword'
   folder 'BUP'
   fetchlimit 1
   keep
   ssl

fetchmail -v