Below you'll find all the Magento articles on the site, followed by a chronological listing of the same. You may also browse the 12 series directly via the following links. Miscellaneous Magento Articles, Pulse Storm Posts, Learning Magento with Commerce Bug, Magento for PHP MVC Developers, The Magento API, Magento Projects, The Magento 2 Object System, Magento Pulse Storm Launcher, The Magento Config, Revisited, In Depth Magento Dispatch, Magento Javascript Code, and, Posts Inspired by Magento Imagine.
I'm both happy and embarrassed to announce the release of version 1.0.1 of the Layout Unremove extension. Turns out there was a small bug that would prevent the extension from working the first time Magento built up its layout files for cache
astormEvery so often a theme developer will ask if it's possible to use the local.xml layout file to reverse the effects of a <remove /> tag.
astormI'm happy to announce the immediate availability of Commerce Bug 1.3. The 1.3 version is a free update and recommended for all existing users. It may be downloaded via your original purchase URL.
astormThe Magento Admin Console's System Configuration section is almost an application framework in and of itself. The ability to quickly add form fields in a "zero code" way is a powerful feature, but it only touches the tip of the iceberg of what's possible
astormThis is more of an addendum to my previous articles on the System Configuration system than an entirely new article. Go back and read up if anything's over your head.
astormMany people, myself included, recommend that you "Turn on Developer Mode" while working on your Magento store. These days, this can be done in an .htaccess file, or directly in Magento's index.php bootstrap file.
astormAs platform, PHP has a long history of relying on the base computer's underlying file system as a storage mechanism for various application and system functions. This ties in closely with PHP's practical history of closely modeling the nacent web's file serving architecture for
astormThis is less a full fledged article this time, and more "something I always forget and can never find anywhere else, so I'm posting it here to help future me".
astormThe first time you develop any kind of private web application, it eventually occurs to you someone else might find it and start mucking with your data. So you slap a password on it and call it good. Then you show it to your
astormI'm happy to announce the immediate availability of Commerce Bug 1.2. In addition to the usual compatibility fixes, Commerce Bug now features a Collections Tab Tab, as well as a behind the scenes overhaul of the tab rendering architecture. While you won't notice
astormUpdate 2: The routing information is this article is incorrect. While technically accurate, it deviates from modern (mid-2013) Magento community standards, and may lead to incompatibilities. If you want to learn the proper way of setting up a Magento admin controller, checkout Magento Admin
astormI've been keeping quiet on this one until the details were hashed out, but I'm proud to announce that Magento Inc. will be featuring edited versions of the Magento for Professional Developers articles on their knowledge base site, starting with a brand new introduction
astormI'm proud to announce my first Magento Connect Extension, System Configuration Search, distributed free through the Magento Connect marketplace.
astormAn oft-touted and often overused feature of The Magento Ecommerce System is the ability to override core system behavior. Another oft-discussed topic for Magento developers is upgradability, and how overrides get in the way of that. Today we're going to look at the various
astormI'm proud to announce the immediate availability of Commerce Bug 1.1. The biggest upgrade is actually a downgrade.
astormOriginally, as a PHP programmer, if you wanted to collect together a group of related variables you had one choice, the venerable Array. While it shares a name with C's array of memory addresses, a PHP array is a general purpose dictionary like object
astormSmall maintenance release for Commerce Bug. If you're running Windows (who knew there were so many of you) you'll be happy to know I've I've reacquainted myself with escaping javascript and you can get rid of those manual patches.
astormThis is a quick one for advanced users, and was inspired by a recent question I answered over at StackOverflow.
astormLast time we talked about Magento's System Configuration system. If you missed it, you'll want to go back and catch up. So, we glossed over a lot of the tags you could use within an individual field.
astormDespite the volcanic eruptions making a mess of things there's a small group of us (the Mallorca 13) who are making the best of it at the Magento Developers Paradise conference.
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