My technical design is flawless It is a well known fact that developers tend to consider their product as their perfect creation. Thus, it is very difficult for them to understand that there might be scenarios that can occur, although not explicitly specified in requirements. The next sections show why introducing failover mechanisms does not … Continue reading Software Failover: The jump-sheet for everyone – Part II
Software Failover: The jump-sheet for everyone
Introduction A step in the project lifecycle is requirements gathering. During this stage in the project lifecycle the operation conditions are defined for the code that will be developed. However, whichever project management model is adapted, requirements are meant to change. Craig Brown in his articles on Better Projects has suggested that on average requirements … Continue reading Software Failover: The jump-sheet for everyone
Magento Website Restrictions
Magento Enterprise comes with a very useful extension to close a Magento site either completely or partially. For example, you can close the entire site until an upgrade is completed or you can lock a store to only registered users. How It Works? When Magento receives a request it starts routing the request through the … Continue reading Magento Website Restrictions
C# Automatically Implemented Properties
Some time ago, we analysed how C# Properties are emitted by IL. In this article we will extend our view by investigating how C# 3 (and later) Automatically Implemented Properties (or Automatic Properties) works. But first, let’s see how these properties are used. In order to use Automatic Properties, one needs only to declare the … Continue reading C# Automatically Implemented Properties
Changing the Magento default admin URL
Magento installations normally use the URL /admin to access the back-office. To change the admin URL to something different: Open the/app/etc/local.xml file In the section <admin> <routers> <adminhtml> <args> <frontName><![CDATA[admin]]></frontName> </args> </adminhtml> </routers></admin> Change the CDATA value for frontName to the new admin address. For example: to change from /admin to /backoffice <admin> <routers> <adminhtml> … Continue reading Changing the Magento default admin URL