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Regexp examples library
Friday, 19 de February de 2010

I found this site, an on-line regexp (regular expressions) library.
Very useful, you just have to search by keywords or category, and also you can check rates for each post.
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IE6 CSS :hover problem
Thursday, 18 de February de 2010

:hover not working on IE6??

IE6 only support CSS :hover for anchors (<a>). If you need implement .class:hover or element:hover or #id:hover, you can use this great, easy to use and non-invasive solution.

You just have to add this to your css:

/* .htc file must be relative to the .html file, not to the css file like background images */
body{ behavior: url("css/csshover.htc");  }

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Web Developers Essential Tools
Monday, 15 de February de 2010

Firebug
Here’s a list that every web developer must have. Very useful tools that will make your life easier.
I use some of them as Firebug, a tool that I couldn’t live without it, it allows me:
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Magento CE 1.4 Stable – Now Available!
Monday, 15 de February de 2010

Magento
Magento CE 1.4 is now avalaible! This release includes many new features such as Widgets, WYSIWYG editor, support for 3D Secure, and many further improvements from Magento CE 1.3.x.
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Simple IE6 png fix
Monday, 15 de February de 2010

I found this script to fix IE6 png images incompatibility. I KNOW there a lot of these patches, but I really liked this one because is really simple and easy to use.
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Magento translate.csv fix
Thursday, 11 de February de 2010

When I first decided to use the translate.csv file, I expected be able to override translation easilys, but this issue appeared and I had to debug long time to find out what was the problem.
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Magento Development Best Practices Webinar Video
Thursday, 11 de February de 2010

Magento Webinar

I attended today the Magento Development Best Pratices Webinar and it was really useful.
I hope it could help you.
You can download it right away in this post.
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Magento – Inline Translation Tool
Monday, 27 de July de 2009

If you need to translate a word or just change it (“Cart” to “Bag” or “Out of stock” to “Sold out”) you can use this useful feature that let you navigate the site and change words wherever you need. These customizations doesn’t affect you CSV files because they’re saved in the database.
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Magento – Filter by multiple categories
Thursday, 11 de June de 2009

We know that we can call a block to show products in your home page or in any CMS page. We MUST specify category ID:

{{block type=”catalog/product_list” category_id=”5″
template=”catalog/product/list.phtml”}}

Now, what if I want to show products from multiple categories or simply show all my products?
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Eclipse PDT+Aptana vs Aptana Studio vs EasyEclipse
Monday, 25 de May de 2009

(English version is under construction)easyeclipse-aptana-pde

I’ve been using these IDE’s for a while, trying to figure out which one is the best, and I’ve found out (maybe happily, maybe not) that each one of them have good things that the other ones lack, and all of them have downsides as well. read more..

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