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I’ve been loving my Kindle 3 since I upgraded from my sony reader. There are so many options for getting various reading materials onto it. Here are a few of the ones I like the best:

• Want to get some RSS feeds onto the Kindle? (12 feeds for free) KindleFeeder is the way to go. It also has a bookmarklet for capturing and sending whole pages from your browser.

  I use this to send articles in Google Reader that I want to read later to my Kindle. I use my starred items to do this. Starred items have their own RSS feed which you can put into kindlefeeder. For information on how to get the link to the RSS of your starred items, click here.

• “Send to Kindle” for chrome is a button that will send the content of the page your are currently viewing.
• The third method is the built in free Kindle email address that isn’t broadly advertised: your.name@free.kindle.com will beam most docs that you mail it to your Kindle over wifi (does not work with 3G)
• Calibre is great for managing what is on your Kindle and converting just about any file format to .mobi (a format the Kindle can read)

This has helped me immensely in situations like “Where is this getting called from??!?”

Create a helper like so:

class Timbroder_Stack_Helper_Callstack extends Mage_Core_Helper_Abstract
{
	private function get_callstack($delim="\n") {
	  $dt = debug_backtrace();
	  $cs = '';
	  foreach ($dt as $t) {
	    $cs .= $t['file'] . ' line ' . $t['line'] . ' calls ' . $t['function'] . "()" . $delim;
	  }

	  return $cs;
	}

	public function toLog() {
		Mage::log($this->get_callstack());
	}

	public function toFirePhp() {
		$stack = $this->get_callstack();
		foreach (explode("\n", $stack) as $line) {
			Mage::helper('firephp')->send($line);
		}
	}
}

That can be called from anywhere:

Mage::helper('stack/callstack')->toFirePhp();
Mage::helper('stack/callstack')->toLog();

I’ve also wrapped this into a module that you can drop right into your project. Details here

Example output:

.../app/code/community/Timbroder/Stack/Helper/Callstack.php line 16 calls get_callstack()
.../app/design/frontend/mongoose/default/template/catalog/cms/bikes_bmx.phtml line 12 calls toLog()
.../app/design/frontend/mongoose/default/template/catalog/cms/bikes.phtml line 21 calls require_once()
.../app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Template.php line 212 calls include()
.../app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Template.php line 239 calls fetchView()
.../app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Template.php line 253 calls renderView()
.../app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Abstract.php line 668 calls _toHtml()
.../app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Email/Template/Filter.php line 190 calls toHtml()
.../lib/Varien/Filter/Template.php line 134 calls call_user_func()
.../app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Email/Template/Filter.php line 501 calls filter()
.../app/code/core/Mage/Cms/Block/Page.php line 100 calls filter()
.../app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Abstract.php line 668 calls _toHtml()
.../app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Abstract.php line 513 calls toHtml()
.../app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Abstract.php line 460 calls _getChildHtml()
.../app/code/local/Mage/Page/Block/Html/Wrapper.php line 52 calls getChildHtml()
.../app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Abstract.php line 668 calls _toHtml()
.../app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Text/List.php line 43 calls toHtml()
.../app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Abstract.php line 668 calls _toHtml()
.../app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Abstract.php line 513 calls toHtml()
.../app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Abstract.php line 464 calls _getChildHtml()
.../app/design/frontend/mongoose/default/template/page/1column.phtml line 55 calls getChildHtml()
.../app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Template.php line 212 calls include()
.../app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Template.php line 239 calls fetchView()
.../app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Template.php line 253 calls renderView()
.../app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Abstract.php line 668 calls _toHtml()
.../app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Layout.php line 529 calls toHtml()
.../app/code/local/Mage/Core/Controller/Varien/Action.php line 389 calls getOutput()
.../app/code/core/Mage/Cms/Helper/Page.php line 130 calls renderLayout()
.../app/code/core/Mage/Cms/Helper/Page.php line 52 calls _renderPage()
.../app/code/core/Mage/Cms/controllers/PageController.php line 45 calls renderPage()
.../app/code/local/Mage/Core/Controller/Varien/Action.php line 418 calls viewAction()
.../app/code/core/Mage/Core/Controller/Varien/Router/Standard.php line 254 calls dispatch()
.../app/code/core/Mage/Core/Controller/Varien/Front.php line 177 calls match()
.../app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/App.php line 304 calls dispatch()
.../app/Mage.php line 598 calls run()
.../index.php line 155 calls run()

Thanks to nextide for some of the code