Basics of Magento EAV Database Model

March 5th, 2010 Posted in Open Source, Web 2.0

Magento database heavily utilizes an Entity Attribute Value (EAV) data model. Magento Key data are modeled using the Entity Attribute Value method (EAV).
Utilizing an EAVmodeling pattern allows for unlimited attributes on any product, category, customer, or order.  As is often  the case, the cost of flexibility is complexity EAV depletes a programmer’s ability to write ad-hoc queries against [...]

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Detecting Browser close event using Jquery

December 13th, 2009 Posted in Web 2.0

The JavaScript window.onbeforeload() event is fired just before the web page is unloaded. This gives us the ability to make sure that the user is certain about leaving the page that they are viewing. We can also use this to catch the browser closing event.
I have mixed the script with Jquery. We can use [...]

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Add lightbox to Wordpress blogs without using a plugin

October 27th, 2009 Posted in Web 2.0

There are a lot of plugins available for adding lightbox support to wordpress blogs. But I am trying to add the lightbox script directly to my blog here. I have followed the below steps to add the plugin to my wordpress blog
Step 1 : Download jquery lightbox plugin
Step 2 : Copy jquery.lightbox-0.x.js, jquery.js, jquery.lightbox-0.x.css from [...]

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Add functions.php to Wordpress Themes

October 21st, 2009 Posted in Open Source, Web 2.0

We can use a functions.php file inside the wordpress theme like a plugin and gets automatically loaded during WordPress initialization. We can just create a file named functions.php inside the theme folder and can copy all the common functions inside the file.
It will act as a plugin and will load automatically that is we [...]

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RSS Cloud and Real-Time RSS Feeds

September 9th, 2009 Posted in Web 2.0

RSSCloud is an element which is always been present in the RSS 2.0 spec but has drawn new attention with the rise of interest in the Real Time Web.
This is like the difference between checking your email every once in awhile and using a Blackberry to get new emails pushed to you as soon as [...]

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