WebSockets in OroCRM
Since the earliest betas, all my OroCRM installations have eventually developed a small quirk where I'd see the following spit out into Chrome's error console.
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Create Dummy Orders
Create Dummy Orders An n98-magerun add on that adds a order:create:dummy command. Useful for the freelancer “I need sample data to do your ERP project/We don’t trust you with our order information until you’ve done some work for us” catch-22.
astormMagento Cross Area Sessions
Happy spring everyone, today it's just a quick post about a new Magento module I've put up on GitHub enabling cross area sessions. This module allows you to access information about the logged in admin user from Magento's frontend cart application, or access information
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Just a quick note that Pulse Storm has released version 2.3 of Commerce Bug. The two key points of this release are
astormCross Area Session Access
Cross Area Session Access Speaking of sessions, I whipped up a quick proof of concept for accessing admin sessions from the frontend of Magento — useful if you want to restrict frontend access using backend session ACL rules. Right now it works with file and db session storage — memcache, redis, etc. would need their own Loader model [...]
astormNon-Deterministic PHP Session Saving in Magento
I gave this little bit of Magento code an ugh on Twitter. #File: app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Resource/Session.php public function __destruct() { session_write_close(); } Why? Because PHP automatically calls __destruct when it cleans up memory for an object, which means this code could potentially close and save the session before the [...]
astormMagento Design Patterns – Cool Ryan
Magento Design Patterns – Cool Ryan Twelve part series on the “design patterns” used by Magento 1.
astormEarly Magento Session Instantiation is Harmful
This week we're going to look at a system bug deep in Magento's core code. I only recently discovered this myself, and will be reviewing and fixing my extensions soon.
astormHow to convert Magento quote into backend order
How to convert Magento quote into backend order An article explaining how to turn an existing customer’s cart (i.e. “quote”) into a Magento order via the backend. The number of workflows Magento has built in for this sort of thing are surprising — I often wonder how often someone’s taken on a custom development [...]
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Solr and PCI Compliance Blog post form Inchoo on compiling the latest Solr to work around PCI compliance issues. The lesson? Vendor support for Enterprise Edition comes mainly from Magento partners, and not Magento/eBay itself.
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