Commerce Bug in Magento CE 1.6
Quick note for all you Commerce Bug users. The core team made some changes in 1.6 that require you to tweak a configuration setting for Commerce Bug to work. You'll need to go to
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Welcome to Magento: Pre-Innovate
Innovate 2011 is just around the corner, and I won't be able to make it this year. For not, as I'll be there in spirit if not spirits. While X.commerce has been shrouded in Apple levels of secrecy and mystery, it's clear that
astormMagento’s Global Variable Design Patterns
One of the earliest things you'll learn in any programming class is that
astormMagento 2: Factory Pattern and Class Rewrites
If you've been paying attention, you know that Magento 2 is slated for a Q4, 2012 release. While that's an entire year away, and there's also the whole Mayan End of Time thing to worry about, it's never too early to start looking at
astormMagento Block Lifecycle Methods
There's two design patterns used in PHP systems that are often conflated. First, there's the event/observer pattern. This pattern allows a system-developer to issue global events which client-developers may then setup listener object/methods/functions for. These listeners observe the event, and then perform some action
astormGoodnight and Goodluck
If you follow Magento closely there have been hints, but it seems like the cat's out of the bag. Yoav Kutner, Magento's co-founder and CTO, is moving on.
astormMagento Attribute Migration Generator
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
astormFixing Magento Flat Collections with Chaos
There's a number of Magento tasks that, despite four plus years with the platform, I'm still bad at. One task is remembering to test my code for compatibility with the flat category and flat product collection mode.
astormPulse Storm Launcher in Magento Connect
Just a quick note to let you know the Magento Pulse Storm Launcher application is now available via Magento Connect. Big thanks to the Connect team for a fast turnaround and approval.
astormStackExchange and the Year of the Site Builder
Happy New Year! With Magento firmly ensconced in the warm embrace of eBay, and the rest of the retail world gearing up for a fight to redefine its relationship with Amazon, 2013 is going to be an interesting year for Magento. For those of
astormScaling Magento at Copious
Two Fridays ago I attended a mid-day tech talk at Copious, a fast growing agency here in Portland, OR. The talk was called Scaling Magento, but Copious isn't a Magento agency. Copious is a full service digital strategy agency, and one of the rare
astormIncremental Migration Scripts in Magento
The short version: To assuage whatever guilt I have about selling commercial software and ebooks in an open source ecosystem, I've created and released a new n98-magerun command that allows Magento users to manually and incrementally run Magento's setup resource migration scripts. Our long
astormA Better Magento 404 Page
One of the most common Magento questions on Stack Overflow or the Magento Stack Exchange is a variation on "why does my MVC controller 404?" While powerful, Magento's configuration based MVC system leaves lots of room for subtle configuration errors. Not only do
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
astormValidating a Magento Connect Extension
If you've followed my work here, on Stack Overflow, or on Twitter, you know I have a perpetual bee in my bonnet over Magento Connect's file permissions issues. There's a few common cases where Magento Connect will tell you an extension is installed, but
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
astormReview of Grokking Magento
In 2014 a newcomer to Magento is, all things considered, in much better shape than a newcomer was in 2009. While far from complete, the developer's series (originally written by me, since updated by Magento staff) gives a developer the grounding they need in
astormImagine 2014: Magento 1.9 Infinite Theme Fallback
The new Magento parent/child infinite theme fallback system is the first time in years Magento's added a new significant system to the framework code. As with any new system we need to reconcile our expectations vs. the actual behavior of the system. Put another
astormMagento Ultimate Module Creator Review
The PHP community draws developers from all sorts of different backgrounds — there's the technical and academic on one end of the spectrum, and the bang on the keyboard until it works on the other. Because PHP is such an accessible language, all these
astormMagento Imagine 2014: Parent/Child Themes
One of the nice surprises at Magento Imagine 2014 was the simultaneous release of Magento EE 1.14 and Magento CE 1.9. The most obvious feature of both is a new responsive web design theme, but behind the scenes there was some invisible
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