by Kevin Schroeder | 10:08 am

Monitoring Magento Jobs and Crons

About a month ago a client of mine was lamenting the fact that they didn’t have insight into what was going on with their cron jobs. So I did what any idiot would do

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by Kevin Schroeder | 9:07 am

Really slow git on Windows (aka Windows Antimalware service executable is making it slow)

I was trying to do a git pull from GitHub this morning from the windows CLI (actually, Cygwin xterm) and it was horribly slow.  Most of the time I just CTRL-C out of it and

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by Kevin Schroeder | 7:13 am

How to change browser settings in a Selenium test

Magium tests are designed to be as cross browser compatible as possible. For that reason the Remote WebDriver component is used in all circumstances. However, there might be some times when you need to

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by Kevin Schroeder | 3:19 pm

Logging in to the Magento Admin UI

Logging in to the admin UI is fairly simple, but there are a few things you need to do ahead of time. The actual functionality looks like this: class LoginTest extends MagiumMagentoAbstractMagentoTestCase { public

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by Kevin Schroeder | 7:52 am

The Basics Of The Instruction Navigator

Instruction Navigator The instruction navigator is similar to the BaseMenu navigator in its intent, and some of the underlying functionality. However, there is a crucial difference in that the base menu navigator uses iteration

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