Author Archives: Mike G.

Getting Around Entering a SSL Passphrase when Restarting Apache

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Mike G.

Reloading the Apache httpd gracefully by reloading configs only. This is hella useful if your server has SSL VHosts with passwords that you don’t know. Continue reading →

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Batch Update All Your Vendor Repositories

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Mike G.

Use this simple script to automate updating all your vendor repositories. Continue reading →

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DOM Monster

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Mike G.

Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs have teamed up together again to bring another excellent tool for JavaScript developers: The DOM Monster Bookmarklet. This is an interesting approach to JavaScript performance that analyzes the DOM to report potential optimization points. It’s … Continue reading →

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Amen.

Posted on February 5, 2011 by Mike G.

I couldn’t agree more.  

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Beanstalk Does Version Control for Designers

Posted on December 26, 2010 by Mike G.

The Beanstalk guys are starting to expand into the design arena with their latest feature announcement for Design Preview. The idea reminds me a lot of the 2-up or 4-up view in the Save for Web dialog in Photoshop, except … Continue reading →

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Commerce Bug has changed my life.

Posted on December 26, 2010 by Mike G.

I’m not one to endorse products here, but I do think this is a pretty good link to share for my fellow Magento developers. Commerce Bug is the must have Magento debugging extensions for developers, designers, and store managers. It’s … Continue reading →

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Mozilla’s School of Webcraft

Posted on December 18, 2010 by Mike G.

There are so many awesome things about Mozilla’s School of Webcraft – being 100% free certainly puts it in a top ten list. Classes will be between six and 10 weeks long; they’ll revolve around topics relevant to web designers … Continue reading →

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Gawker: How not to handle a security breach

Posted on December 18, 2010 by Mike G.

Gawker. Poor bastards. Hopefully this is a good lesson to all the other arrogant pricks on the web. Opinions aside, I think this is a textbook example of how not to handle a serious breach. The Real Lessons Of Gawker’s … Continue reading →

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How to enable admin_ prefixed actions in Lithium

Posted on October 16, 2010 by Mike G.

For all the former Cake folks in the audience considering a Lithium migration, you’ll appreciate this gist to enable “admin_” prefixed controller actions. The first step is to create a rule in your action bootstrap. Don’t worry, it sounds more complicated … Continue reading →

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How to Save a File in GridFS with Lithium

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Mike G.

Check it: gist: 628541 – How to save a file using MongoDB’s GridFS in Lithium- GitHub. I just saved my first GridFS file using Lithium. I’m sure there’s a much better way of doing this outside of my controller using filters, … Continue reading →

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