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Magento dev notes: conflicting extensions

Scenario: you’ve developed a magento extension, tested it on your development server for all these potential fringe cases, even brought in live customer data+code to test against… finally you deploy it to the live site, only to find that another (3rd party) extension uses the same dirty <rewrite>s as your code does.  Damn. What a great [...]
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Garden sensors: crow’s nest chicken coop thermometer

The chicken sensor is in full operation.
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Staging magento sites: multiple sites running APC == broken

Well, it’s been a wild webhosting ride recently.  I’ve been automating dev/staging/live production procedures with my Drupal and Magento clients.  In a few days I’ll publish a comprehensive blogpost about this whole project, replete with nginx, php, php-fpm, etc configuration goodies. For now, here’s one tidbit that I just can’t hold back: I ran into an interesting [...]
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Typesetting the web

I’ve been reading the backlog of the Scribd team’s programming blog and am thoroughly amazed.  For some reason, I’d blindly assumed that flash was being used for a lot of this stuff, but they’ve been html5-ifying and css3-izing their game. Check http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator and http://paulirish.com/2009/bulletproof-font-face-implementation-syntax/
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AMC 2010 liveblogging: gleaning tweets with node.js and mysql

As the web dev for the Allied Media Conference, I've been tasked with creating a system for participants to liveblog about all the sessions at this year's conference. I decided on setting up a three-part system: a tweet searcher+archiver, a JSON server, and the existing 2010 AMC and USSF discussion message board software.
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