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I’m a programmer by trade. Thoughts, tips and general mayhem from the programming world go here.

This was rather simple, actually. The task at hand was bring down information from an iSeries database into a format I could use use on another system. For this kind of quick and dirty work, I like to use a spreadsheet. We’re only talking about 1800 rows of data or so, and of those, I [...]

Magento’s default theme doesn’t display the SKU on the product page (at least as of v1.1.6). As per this discussion thread, it’s fairly easy to add by editing the template:
In whichever theme you’re using, in the file template/catalog/product/view.phtml, add the line:
<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_product->getSku()) ?>
Here’s a few lines of my view.phtml to give you some context:

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Thank you LornaJane for your post about “grep: unknown directories method.” This was making me crazy today.
This happens when you’re wildcarding and there’s a file in your directory that starts with a hyphen (”-”).  In my case it was -orders.php: someone had “saved off” copy of a file called orders.php. (People, this is why we [...]

Thank you to Mathias Kettner for his article at http://linuxproblem.org/art_9.html
My need was to pull a text stream from Server B into Server A. It was actually an osCommerce problem: I need a plain text input to UnForm, our form-making software. At the time our backend system gets ready to print a pick ticket for warehouse [...]