Magento: Debugging with Varien Object
When you start digging through Magento's internals to debug some problem, you often reach a point where you say to yourself
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Drupal Module Hooks
Drupal is a Content Management System. Drupal is also deeply, deeply weird. While systems like Magento often confuse people, the MVC structure that most people are used to is still there, it's just more abstract. Web MVC systems are systems designed to, first and
astormMagento: Standard OOP Still Applies
One trap a lot of people (myself included) fall into with Magento is forgetting that sometimes the best solution is just basic, standard PHP OOP. There was a Stack Overflow question where this came up in the comments, and I figured I'd wrangle a
astormMagento 1.5.0.1 Security Fix
During last week's Imagine conference, Magento released (among other things) the 1.5.0.0 version of their Community Edition offering. About a day after its release a bug that compromised a security layer was found. Twelve hours later Magento released 1.5.0
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If you missed the Unconference at Magento Imagine, I've posted my slides, as well as recorded a full screencast of the demo portion of my presentation on the Widgets feature. It's a two parter, available on YouTube, or embedded below.
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Just a quick note on some updates I've made to the Layouts, Blocks and Templates article.
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This article refers to a beta-ish feature of Magento Community Edition 1.4.2, and therefore the specifics may quickly fall out of date. Proceed will all due caution
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