gitlab preinstall: Upgrade failed. Retry the upgrade after upgrading your PostgreSQL version We couldn’t upgrade our hosted GitLab to version 10.x as PostgreSQL was out of date. From version 8.15.x you could run gitlab-ctl pg-upgrade so the only way around this was to upgrade to 9.5.x and then upgrade to the final version. After taking […]

I thought I’d share a quick and simple method to improving loading times when extracting JSON data from an API within a Magento build. For one particular client, this improved loading times considerably and in some cases by over two seconds. $cache_key = ‘json_feed_name’; $cache_tag = ‘homepage’; if ( false !== ($list = Mage::app()->getCache()->load($cache_key)) ) […]

Here is a small snippet of code, which can be dropped into a helper.php file. function message_alert($timeout = 0) { $return = ”; //If has errors if( !empty(Session::get(‘errors’)) ){ $return .= ‘<div class=”fixed-bottom alert alert-danger mb-0″><div class=”container”> <ul class=”mb-0″>’; foreach ( Session::get(‘errors’)->all() as $error ): $return .= ‘<li>’. $error .'</li>’; endforeach; $return .= ‘</ul> </div></div>’; […]