Improved cache and sessions storage with CakePHP and Redis

CakePHP 2.3 + Redis 2.6.7

For the vast majority of applications out there the issue of cache and session store doesn’t really come into play until the application is large enough to where it needs to be…

Easy CakePHP logging to FireBug with DebugKit and FirePHP

CakePHP 2.x

This is espeically useful when you are working with ajax or just in general you don’t want to dump the data to the screen, which is often hard to read.

Intercepting “add to cart” action in Magento

(Nuts and bolts of Magento? Maybe…)

Magento EE 1.11

Once in a while we’d like to intercept Magento’s “add to cart” event and do some fun things with that. Maybe apply a discount or add a specialty…