Today I had to figure out the Java version installed on my machine while digging through some problems with my IntelliJ IDE. This is how you can get the currently installed Java version and vendor on Ubuntu or other Debian derivatives on bash. $> sysinfo That gives you something like that: Java Version: 1.8.0_131 Java […]
Recently I had the job to convert EPS files to SVG graphics. It has been done for a product configurator that had to be implemented. The whole implementation mentioned here was done for a Magento Online Shop. But the base-paradigms described here can be used in other PHP based applications too because I’ve implemented them […]
Recently I had the challenge, that the MySQL database of one of the Magento shops I maintain wasn’t accessible directly through the Net. The access was restricted to the Webserver only. So I had to tunnel MySQL through SSH. And that worked like that: edit the ssh config (~/.ssh/config) on the remote Webserver Host * […]
To remove all files and folders including hidden files such .gitignore, .htaccess, .git etc. on bash you can use the following command: $> rm -rf /PATH/TO/FOLDER/{*,.*} Is the same as: $> rm -rf ${DOCROOT}/* $> rm -rf ${DOCROOT}/.* But ever shorter. 😉
This tiny tutorial shows, how to generate a TOC for Markdown with the help of a tiny npm package called doctoc in just a few seconds. Since a while I write down the most important facts about a project or an module to the README.md file of the corresponding GIT repository. That’s good to keep […]
Before a while I got in touch with the wonderful world of the Docker (see https://www.docker.com) cosmos. I think it is one of the most important virtualisation technology at the moment. On this page I will just collect useful commands that helped me a lot in my daily work with Docker, Docker-Compose (https://docs.docker.com/compose/) and other stack […]
Sometimes it is necessary to change the product type(s) an attribute is applied to in Magento. A common example is, that you designed and implemented an attribute for a configurable product, because you thought its real world value is equal over all child manifestations. But after a while you realize, that there are differences that you […]
Today I had to mount a ssh filesystem under Linux. The reason was, that I had the perception that I would be a very cool idea, to use my old webspace package from all-inkl.com, that I only kept because of the 10 included domains, as a backup storage for my root server.The plan was to […]
Today I had to split webm files into chunks on Linux. The reason was, that I recorded a screencast for a documentary. Therefore I used the Nimbus Chrome Browser Plugin (https://nimbus.everhelper.me/screenshot.php). The problem was, that the resulting video files in webm format were much to big to upload them to our Confluence Wiki. That’s why […]
Sometimes it is necessary to remap a local git branch to a remote one (reconnect remote branch). For me it was the case, because I accidentally removed all origins in a multi-origin setup. Hence I got the following error message when trying to pull without naming remote and branch, although I re-added and fetched all […]
