April 2009

Time Machine Network Backup

Time Machine Network Backup

Submitted by shane on Fri, 2009-04-03 18:41

Fate has not blessed you with a tower of money such as Uncle Scrooge, so a Time Capsule is not an option, but you have a network share either at work or home you can. Enter the Time machine hack that will let you backup your Mac to a network share.Pros

  • No need to plug in an external drive to your Macbook Pro
  • You can back up multiple computers to the same file server
  • Utilize the power of Wifi

Cons

Understanding Subversion Vendor Branching

Understanding Subversion Vendor Branching

Submitted by shane on Sat, 2009-04-04 03:01

Since I'm still a newbie at SVN, getting the hang of Vendor Branching has taken me a little longer than I'm willing to admit.

Here are some resources that I found helpful.

Migrating Gift Certificates from Xcart to Magento

Migrating Gift Certificates from Xcart to Magento

Submitted by shane on Thu, 2009-04-09 23:25

Youre migrating to Magento from Xcart and want to offer gift certificates (GC) on Magento and you want to take all the active gift certificates over to Magento as well.We'll be using the wonderful GC extension at http://www.magentocommerce.com/extension/reviews/module/751/gift-certificates--virtual-cards

1. Dump the gift cert data from Xcart to a csv file.