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Magento create a custom payment method 11 Nov 2009 | 10:42 pm
I’ve been doing some work with the Magento e-commerce platform lately and my task was to create a new payment method to use during the standard checkout process. I’ve come to the conclusion that Mage...
jQuery retrieving the data from an AJAX call into the global scope 27 Jul 2009 | 09:06 pm
Another quick one. Reading around it seems to be an issue. You make an AJAX call within a function and you want the call to be synchronous so that you can use the data from the call in the function sc...
Custom SQL in symfony 1.2.3 29 Jun 2009 | 09:59 pm
Quick one. A small snippet for performing custom SQL queries using symfony 1.2.3. The method to do this has varied slightly with the different symfony releases. The method found on the symfony site al...
jQuery wildcard selectors – update 24 Apr 2009 | 09:16 pm
Hello all, On my first post on this blog I posted a small snippet to use a small regex pattern in jQuery selectors. You can find the post here: http://colourgray.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/jquery-wild...
Symfony “Database “” does not exist.” error 3 Mar 2009 | 12:20 am
Hello, It’s definitely been too long since I posted here! I will try and post more regularly over the coming months… Firstly, we came across this issue after writing a number of plugins for a symfon...
symfony Unable to parse default value as date/time value: ’0000-00-00 00:00:00′ 27 Sep 2008 | 01:53 am
I’ve just made a change to a symfony project’s schema.yml file and tried to rebuild the model and came across this error message: Unable to parse default value as date/time value: ’0000-00-00 00:00:0...
jQuery loading remote/external javascript files using getScript() 22 Sep 2008 | 08:57 pm
I’ve been working over the weekend on a site and I got to the part of writing the client side MVC using jQuery (because I love the idea now!). I found out that jQuery has a nice little method for loa...
SproutCore: a proper javascript framework 18 Sep 2008 | 05:03 am
I wrote a while ago about creating a client side MVC system in javascript. Yesterday at one of the talks SproutCore was mentioned. I had a look today and it looks very promising. It’s a full framewor...
Google Developer Day 2008 18 Sep 2008 | 04:54 am
I had the fortune yesterday to attend the Google Developer Day 2008 in Wembley Stadium with a colleague from work. We were told there were around 800 people there but with everyone sat down at the mo...
Flex save changes from an AdvancedDataGrid using itemEditEnd 15 Sep 2008 | 10:38 pm
I just remembered that I had trouble finding out what I could access with this event handler function. Sure it was easy to find out when the event is dispatched, but how can I access the new field val...