Alan Storm

Portland, OR

Age: 93

Portland based Web Developer/Programmer/Engineer. Projects include No Frills Magento Layout, the only Magento layout book you'll ever need and Commerce Bug, the debugging extension for the Magento Ecommerce system.

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jQuery: $().click(fn) vs. $().bind('click',fn);

javascript jquery event-handling asked Feb 6 '09 at 1:24

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53 votes

Oracle: If Table Exists

sql oracle drop asked Nov 25 '09 at 18:46

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53 votes

Objective C Introspection/Reflection

objective-c cocoa xcode reflection introspection asked Feb 19 '10 at 21:50

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46 votes

MySQL OPTIMIZE all tables?

mysql sql asked Mar 29 '11 at 15:01

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34 votes

PHP: Get all variables defined in current scope/symbol table

php debugging scope asked Apr 4 '09 at 21:30

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31 votes

Shell/Bash Command to get nth line of STDOUT

bash shell unix sed stdout asked Sep 15 '09 at 20:53

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28 votes

Using do block vs brackets {}

ruby coding-style block asked Jan 23 '10 at 6:31

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22 votes

Keyboard Shortcut to Right Click in Mac OS X

osx mac keyboard-shortcuts asked Jan 10 '10 at 19:35

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19 votes

What makes a framework a “true” MVC framework?

java php .net mvc smalltalk asked Jun 18 '09 at 18:23

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19 votes

Can you Create your Own Hook in Drupal?

php drupal drupal-modules system asked Feb 14 '11 at 16:22

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Beginning Magento development

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My Magento Extension Install Script Will Not Run

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Is it worth investing time in learning to use Emacs?

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Magento problem with calling isInStock() method on a product

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Magento My Account Layout XML Problem

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