Colin Mollenhour's Technical Blog

2013-08-14

The fine folks at the Magento ECG have published a nice article on using Redis as a cache backend in Magento. It provides some nice benchmarks and setup...

2012-03-03

One of the most bewildering missing features I have come across in Magento is the inability to look up orders by ordered products. There are occasions...

2012-03-03

One of the most bewildering missing features I have come across in Magento is the inability to look up orders by ordered products. There are occasions...

2011-10-14

You might someday (or perhaps you already have) come across a case where you want one module to be loaded after another module, but don’t necessarily...

2011-10-14

You might someday (or perhaps you already have) come across a case where you want one module to be loaded after another module, but don’t necessarily...

2011-10-04

The Zend_Cache module from the Zend Framework is a nice piece of work. It has a slew of programmer-friendly frontends and a respectable set of backends...

2011-10-04

The Zend_Cache module from the Zend Framework is a nice piece of work. It has a slew of programmer-friendly frontends and a respectable set of backends...

2011-03-03

I recently had a need to include some code from two subversion repositories in a git-based project. A bit of Googling brought me to the disappointing...

2011-03-03

I recently had a need to include some code from two subversion repositories in a git-based project. A bit of Googling brought me to the disappointing...

2010-07-01

While researching Magento performance optimizations you have probably already read about how to optimize Apache’s configuration by moving your configuration...