New Magento Developers Meetup in Austin, TX
I moved to the Austin, TX area nearly 3 months ago, and upon arrival, I started checking out meetup.com to see what was around for Magento-related groups. I found one and have attended twice, but the...
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Magento Extension: Prattski_SimpleDevToolbar
Yes, this is yet another developer toolbar. There’s plenty of them out there, but I wanted to make my own. Being able to see all the tons of information available for each page is nice, but I often...
View ArticlePrattski_SimpleDevToolbar – Improvements
When I first initially released the Prattski_SimpleDevToolbar, one thing I overlooked was the ability to enable/disable it. I have now added the ability to do that, as well as added the ability to make...
View ArticleIdea: Github Integration with Magento Connect
There has been some discussion about Magento Connect lately, so I wanted to help keep the momentum going with a suggestion of my own. The current system that Magento uses isn’t horrible, but it isn’t...
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Magento: Rewrite & Observer List Module
I am excited to announce my latest free Magento module called Prattski_ConfigXmlView. I wrote this module to solve a common problem that happens with modules and extensions: When multiple modules...
View ArticleMagento Dev Best Practices: Event Observers
This is the fourth post in the Magento Dev Best Practices series. If you don’t know about and use Event Observers already, make it a priority to learn them. Throughout Magento, there are a lot of...
View ArticleMagento Dev Best Practices: Module Naming Conventions
In Magento 1.x modules, there’s the potential to have files and folders dispersed all over the Magento file structure. Much of this will be resolved in Magento 2, but we don’t know when that will...
View ArticleMagento Dev Best Practices: Modifying 3rd Party Extensions
Often times there are occasions where you need to modify the functionality in a 3rd party module. If you find yourself in that situation, the best practice here is to not modify it directly. Write a...
View ArticleSet Default Values For Attributes When Creating Products – By Product Type Too
I was asked today to change the default value of an attribute to something other than the set default just for simple products only when creating a new product through the admin. I found a very easy...
View ArticleMagento: Adding Items to Existing Orders
Modifying existing orders is always going to be a risky task, especially since orders have multiple states and statuses. Be careful when doing anything like this. I recently had a need to add an item...
View ArticleNew Online Help Service – Wizpert
Wizpert (http://wizpert.com), which is currently in private beta, is a service that provides people with direct and instant access to experts in specific fields (PHP Programming being one out of a very...
View ArticleLong Awaited Update – Starting Up Again
It has been nearly a year since I have posted anything. I’d like to get posting again. The last year and a half, I have only been working on one project, which is on an older Magento code base, so I...
View ArticleUsing The Magento Registry (Mage::register)
I was recently working on a module, and I noticed that another 3rd party module had some very poorly-written code in it that was messing up an after_save event that I was needing to work with. I...
View ArticleI’m Going To Magento Imagine / Update
I have been working full-time with Magento ever since 1.0 was released in March of 2008. That’s 8 years, and I have never once been to Magento Imagine. The company I work for now, Astound Commerce, is...
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