Author Archives: sgraf

Magento: Ultimate cache clear script

Posted on June 16, 2009 by sgraf

If you have been using Magento with a BIG database of products you will soon realize that the built-in “cache management” is quite limited due to the server’s usual time limit on requests. You just can’t refresh your catalog rewrites … Continue reading →

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Magento: How to change the admin theme

Posted on March 17, 2009 by sgraf

So you want to use Magento for your company and now you have to change the look of the backend. Of course you don’t want to change the default Magento adminhtml theme and kill any chances of upgrading your templates … Continue reading →

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Magento: How to disable update notifications

Posted on March 12, 2009 by sgraf

A short tutorial on how to block the “New Magento Version” notifications in the Magento admin without modifying the core packages. Create a new package under app/code/local , for this example lets make a “MyCompany” package. If you already have … Continue reading →

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How to Enable Ant For Zend Studio

Posted on December 16, 2008 by sgraf

This week I found out that Zend Studio has Ant disabled by default (no idea why). Then I tried find a way to reactivate it by installing plugins or opening the workspace in a standard eclipse. Finally I found a … Continue reading →

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Running MySQL Proxy as a daemon

Posted on August 6, 2008 by sgraf

I had to figure out how to setup mySQL Proxy to run as a daemon (system service). The original information came from this page and has been slightly modified. It is assumed that mySQL Proxy has been installed and the … Continue reading →

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