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Developing extensions that react unobtrusively with Magento

26th NOV 2010 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Extensions, Magento
Developing extensions that react unobtrusively with Magento

The way I see it, there are two type of extensions for Magento (or even any other eCommerce solution): Community Free/Commercial extensions Custom extensions Community Free/Commercial extensions would be all …

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Magento L.E.S.S.

19th NOV 2010 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Email, Magento
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Sometimes its all about title, right?! So, what is LESS? Well, its my fancy acronym for something utterly simply but very practical. It stands for (L)ocalhost (E)mail (S)erver (S)imulator. Basically …

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Misuse of helper classes in Magento?

15th NOV 2010 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Magento, MVC, Programming
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In its MVC structure, Magento allows you to throw in additional classes that might not fit in strictly under the MVC “letters”. One example of these classes are helper classes. …

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Automated testing of Magento with Watir

6th NOV 2010 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Debugging, Magento
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Few months ago I was attending this web conference where among various topic one covered the “Automated testing”. To be honest I never looked into any “automated testing” tools until …

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Keeping your Magento fit with built in profiler

3rd NOV 2010 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Debugging, Magento
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Default Magento installation has this great feature called “Profiler” that can play important role with your custom Magento development. This feature is meant to be be used for developer only. …

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Handling intensive Magento tasks in the background, simulating AJAX via CRON

2nd NOV 2010 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Debugging, Magento
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For those of a weak hart, please skip this article. Before I start presenting the idea, please note that this is just an idea. So what’s it about? In our …

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Simple Magento Extension generator

28th OCT 2010 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Extensions, Magento
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Writing Magento modules on a everyday basis can become extremely boring job when it comes to the part where you define your module directories, config file, model, block, helper, etc. …

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Programmatically create order in Magento

24th OCT 2010 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Magento, Orders, Programming
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Surprisingly one of the trickiest parts of “under the hood” Magento is how to create order programmatically. At least for me, this was/is the most complex area of Magento development. Reason …

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Magento custom model with custom validation rules

22nd OCT 2010 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Magento, MVC, Programming
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Creating your own Magento module usually goes along with creating your own models within the module. Either you write one or multiple models per module, its a good idea to …

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Goodbye Mallorca, time to get back to work

12th OCT 2010 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Magento, News
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Well, all good things come to an end. We had some great time here on Mallorca, attending Magento Developers Paradise conference. It was really nice meeting all those people and …

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