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Comment on Magento – only show categories containing products in main navigation by Clive Sweeting

Clive Sweeting — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:44:30 +0000

Hi Craig.

Nice! I’d forgotten that the second condition on the if statement wouldn’t run if the first failed, hence was trying to save a database call. You code’s clearer and more readable.

Comment on Magento – only show categories containing products in main navigation by Craig

Craig — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:17:55 +0000

Thanks for this solution, a couple of hours of research and I found this!! Very useful for what I was after. I made a slight amendment though and just changed this line in both the functions. Which checks the product count at the same time as getIsActive().

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foreach ($children as $child) {
if ($child->getIsActive()) {
$activeChildren[] = $child;
}
}

foreach ($children as $child) {
if ($child->getIsActive() && $this->_hasProducts($child->entity_id)) {
$activeChildren[] = $child;
}
}

Comment on Wait before upgrading to Lion OS X 10.7! by Hugh Browton

Hugh Browton — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:33:53 +0000

Good advice, Sweet-Apple, and the advice I give my clients. Luckily, more than one of them will not heed my advice, will go ahead and install OS X 10.7.x, and that will give the rest of us news about what works and doesn’t.

As for myself, I shall load OS X 10.7 on a separate disk and start to work with it as a non-critical installation for a few months.

regards
hugh browton
the Mac Doctor

Comment on Getting the “right” CMS from your web designer by Clive Sweeting

Clive Sweeting — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 19:19:01 +0000

I stand corrected. Just having a spin through the docs now. Pondering if I can use Perch for a site I’m investigating at the moment.

Just out of curiosity, if the source is hosted on the client’s site, how can you manage licensing. Trust?

Comment on Getting the “right” CMS from your web designer by Rachel Andrew

Rachel Andrew — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 18:36:29 +0000

I’m one of the developers of Perch which you have listed as a micro-CMS. We are, but we aren’t hosted as in your other examples. So in the case of a developer wanting to extend the product, they can. It is hosted on your own server and we also have a nice developer API to make creating your own apps and plugins pretty simple. All of the official add-ons use that API so they can be downloaded and looked at as a good starting point.

We’re trying to get a good mix of ultra-simple for those that want it and hidden power for developers to do interesting stuff. However we’ve always been self-hosted – you download the code and install it on your own server.

Comment on Mac OS X Server – for the ultra low price of free… by Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:44:23 +0000

Having attempted to set up a Mac server and configure it for a small local network as well as remote access I can attest to how tricky it can be, and I count myself as a fairly competent Mac user with a good idea of small network protocols.

Really interesting to hear that it’s going to be shipped with Lion. I wonder if Apple employees will finally come up to speed with it now?!

Comment on Why OS X sucks as a web development platform by Clive Sweeting

Clive Sweeting — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 08:51:47 +0000

All fair points – but if the point of a development environment is to match as closely as possible the typical live environment sites are hosted on, it’s in your best interests to use a local development platform which reflects that live environment.

I’m not sure what your experience is, but I’ve often found compiling php extensions for OS X a royal pain in the posterior. If you find it easy, you’re obviously a lot more familiar with *nix administration that your average developer.

Windows, just like OS X, has most of the stack that’s needed for local development ( MAMP, Eclipse, Netbeans, etc.). Plus it also has the advantage that Java apps like Eclipse (in my experience) run significantly faster.

Seeing that Apple are rolling OS X Server into OS X 10.7, it looks like there may be some half decent GUI tools for DNS, MYSL and Apache baked into the OS. I just hope they don’t hose your carefully created LAMP environment every time you run a dot OS update…

Comment on Why OS X sucks as a web development platform by Laurie

Laurie — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:08:05 +0000

Hmm… I can’t agree less… Given you are a developer it should be very easy for you to recomplie PHP to include mycrypt, gd bundled etc… Also installing MySQL is not a massive issue, thanks to the installer…

No real need to run APC or memcache on a development platform, nice to have it run quickly without and go live with it and have it run amazingly…

Most of your points would be the same as a Graphic Design, saying MAC OSX sucks because I have to install InDesign, Photoshop & Illustrator… Except most of a developers resources are open source, lucky us…

So case insenstivity is an issue… really… I have long since stuck with lowercase, hyphen combinations… sort your own naming policy and no really issue… Open Source installations of Magento, and Drupal have no problem with case insensitive / sensitive issues out of the tar… so why should you…

If the alternative is to run Linux as a developer, okay… BUT to run windows, your dreaming… Mac OSX does not suck for developers… The day Mac OSX came into being LAMP devlopment was made as easy as opening a MacBook, with a little but of time spent “Building the Lamp stack”…

Comment on Deleting apps you’ve installed via the App Store in OS X by Nicholas Morss

Nicholas Morss — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:26:21 +0000

tell me about it, this sucks! i doubt on iOS this kind of house keeping is required?

Comment on Disable Java in OS X browsers to avoid Koobface infection by Phil

Phil — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:42:35 +0000

Useful info Clive,

Thanks for the heads up.