For the tech savvy single store owner, managing product attributes isn't that big a deal. They go to the admin console, use the UI to create an attribute, and add it to an attribute set. Over the course of the morning, day, or week
astormAre you customizing the main product view page? Don’t forget to check that your updates render correctly on the product edit page as well. Add an item to your cart and then click the “edit” link. That’s a different page (front name: checkout_cart_configure) that might be loading different blocks, javascript, etc.
astormAdding Arbitrary HTML to Magento’s I know you’re all HTML5 frontend whizzes who plan their CSS and Javascript meticulously and drive out anyone who would even think of slipping a quick CSS rule or Javascript snippet into their document head, so I include this only out of completeness.
astormPosting this to archive a twitter conversation between Vinai Kopp and myself. I’ve long wondered what the naming conventions were for variables in Magento’s phtml template files. Many templates use the $_underscore convention for all their variables. Other templates don’t. People have speculated that Magento is warning [...]
astormInstalling APC on OS X Good roundup of the hoops you need to jump through to get PHP APC up and running on OS X (from Doug Sparling). See also Optimizing APC Cache Settings for Magento, and Magento / Zend Framework’s TwoLevels Cache Backend Mess.
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