Slow Indexing in Magento EE
Slow Indexing in Magento EE Main Takeaway: If you mix strings/integers in your WHERE clauses for numbers, MySQL can’t use its indexes.
astormOroCRM Frontend Asset Pipeline
I'm willing to concede this might be my inner frozen caveman developer talking, but right now "frontend web development" seems like it's in a crises of chaos. Frontend developers, (the folks writing CSS, Javascript, and building our application UIs), have never had such a
astormWebSockets 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.
astormCreate 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
astormCommerce Bug 2.3 Release
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 [...]
astormSolr and PCI Compliance
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.
astormSave Simple Data in Magento with Flags – Cool Ryan
Save Simple Data in Magento with Flags – Cool Ryan Magento has a base Mage_Core_Model_Flag (core/flag) model you can extend to save simple flag data in and out of Magento without needing to create a new table/data-store. I’d never seen these before today, despite the feature going back as far as Magento 1.3. Something [...]
astormMagento Deployments with Capistrano
Magento Deployments with Capistrano Mentioned in a tweet by Aaron Bonner, I wasn’t aware of Alistair Stead’s Capistrano/Magento project.
astormSellvana: Developer’s Alpha Review
Two weeks ago, a new online retail company announced itself to the world. Sellvana promises that
astormHandlebars JS in Magento
In response to a retweet of adam_webdev by kalenjordan Magento’s flexible layout system makes adding a javascript library like handlebars a cinch. First, download the latest version of handlebars and drop it in your root javascript folder js/handlebars-v1.3.0.js Next, add the following to your local.xml file. <layout> <!-- [...]
astormPHP: The Right Way; A Review
When I first saw PHP: The Right Way floating around my twitter feed, I was a little skeptical. I can't remember where I first saw the link, but my general memory is its promotion came from the camp of PHP developers who seem to
astormAnatomy of the Magento PHP 5.4 Patch
Anatomy of the Magento PHP 5.4 Patch Blog post by yours truly, going into the technical details of Magento’s recent PHP 5.4 patch.
astormAnatomy of the Magento PHP 5.4 Patch
Last week eBay's Magento division (team? section? corporate unit?) released a patch to bring PHP 5.4 compatibility to versions of Magento CE 1.6 and greater, and Magento EE 1.11 and greater. While seemingly out of nowhere, it's a welcome sign
astormPSR and Code Style Guidelines
Quick definitions: PHP-FIG is the PHP Interoperability Group, a coalition of individuals representing many of the most popular PHP projects in the world.
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