Tools 🧰

As part of work I have to install Magento with its sample data a lot for proof of concepts, while the installation is simple it can quickly become a chore. Because of this I have started to use n98-magerun↗ . It can be installed using the following commands; Quick Magento Installation 1/2 c c c n u h p 9 r m 8 l o - d / m n a + 9 g x 8 e n - r 9 m u 8 / a n - n g . m 9 e p a 8 r h g - u a e m n r r a . u g p s n e h e . r a l p u r f h n - a . / u r p u p h s d h a r a t r / t t l e p o s c : a / l / / r b a i w n . / g i t h u b . c o m / n e t z 9 8 / n 9 8 - m a g e r u n / m a s t e r / n 9 8 - m a g e r u n . p h a r Once installed you can do clean installation by running the following command where you would like Magento to be installed; ...

Been playing a little with Docker↗ this afternoon, while its something I have been aware for a while its not something I have really looked into. As I prefer working with CentOS rather than Ubuntu its taken me a while to get the motivation to do any more than some reading, however as the latest version now runs on RHE compatible Docker 1/4 y y s c u u e h m m r k v c i - i o n y c n s e f t i i a n d g l s o l t c d a k o h l e c t l r k t e p d s r : t c a o / k r n w e t w r w - . i m o i r r o r s e r v i c e . o r g / s i t e s / d l . f e d o r a p r o j e c t . o r g / p u b / e p e l / 6 / i 3 8 6 / e p e l - r e l e a s e - 6 - 8 . n o a r c h . r p m Once the services are installed pull down some images to test with; ...

Had a go at converting a mostly static but dynamically rendered site to use Jekyll yesterday, it was a lot more straight forward than I thought it was going to be. As part of the conversion I needed to display the first post differently, after consulting the all knowing Google I settled on the following method; Jekyll Snippets 1/3 {% for post in site.posts offset: 0 limit: 1 %} <div class="some-style"> <a href="{{post.url}}"> <h3 class='news-title'>{{ post.title }}</h3> <span class='news-date'>{{ post.date | date_to_string }}</span> </a> <p>{{ page.excerpt }} <a href='{{post.url}}'><span class='read-more'> Read more</span></a></p> </div> {% endfor %} ...

I am trying to streamline my workflow at the moment. Currently on the Mac these are; StormSSH↗ — Key Managment Vagrant↗ — Local Server testing Packer↗ — Build Machine Images SublimeText↗ — Text Editor Z↗ — Jump around the CLI Le-git↗ — Adds some GIT features Git Tower↗ — GUI for GIT Home Brew↗ — Install “missing” stuff and on my servers; ...