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Magento Snippets

Download extension manually using pear/mage

Pear for 1.4, mage for 1.5. File downloaded into /downloader/.cache/community/

./pear download magento-community/Shipping_Agent
./mage download community Shipping_Agent

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Peter Thiel's CS183: Startup - Class 1 Notes Essay

Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 1 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely.

CS183: Startup—Notes Essay—The Challenge of the Future

Purpose and Preamble

Frontend Development

Attention: if you attempt to fork this gist, github will think that you are a spammer and you will have to confirm that you are human with them. Apparantly there are too many links in this list. Also I update it rather frequently (see revisions on the left), so it's probably wise to not fork it anyway.

Magento Snippets

Download extension manually using pear/mage

Pear for 1.4, mage for 1.5. File downloaded into /downloader/.cache/community/

./pear download magento-community/Shipping_Agent
./mage download community Shipping_Agent

	<?php

	require_once 'app/Mage.php';

	Mage::app();

	$quote = Mage::getModel('sales/quote')
	->setStoreId(Mage::app()->getStore('default')->getId());

	$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load(6); /* 6 => Some product ID */

	#!/bin/bash

	# Authorize TCP, SSH & ICMP for default Security Group
	#ec2-authorize default -P icmp -t -1:-1 -s 0.0.0.0/0
	#ec2-authorize default -P tcp -p 22 -s 0.0.0.0/0

	# The Static IP Address for this instance:
	IP_ADDRESS=$(cat ~/.ec2/ip_address)

	# Create new t1.micro instance using ami-cef405a7 (64 bit Ubuntu Server 10.10 Maverick Meerkat)

	<?php
	//
	// Measure the time to execute two thousand jobs ten times.
	//

	require_once __DIR__.'/../vendor/autoload.php';

	function benchmark($resque, $count) {
	$start = microtime(true);
	for($i=$count;$i > 0;--$i) {