Ecommerce developers with Magento

When I had first contact with Magento platform, I had to create a custom module for it. I thought to myself – how hard can it be? How wrong I was… I didn’t even know where to start…

Looks like we are becoming specialist for creation of off-road online stores. OK Auto had s strong online presence for years presenting themselves as a source for all of your automotive and off-road needs. It is always a challenge to decide to abandon existing website backend and move to a new platform, especially when you have a lot of content. OK Auto had this courage and moved to Magento & WordPress integration using advantages of both platforms to the maximum.

If you are in the business of developing a mobile application or external web/desktop or some other application/service that needs to communicate with Magento trough its API, then my friend you are out of luck. I am not going to say Magento API is a trash, I’ll simply say it massively lacks certain methods within the existing exposed classes that will make your external application usable.

Every now or then we need new column on some grid listing in Magento. It is quite simple task, but you will probably want to format values way you want or whatever.
This is where writing your own renderer would be usefull and simple.

Here is a little snippet of code that can come in handy if you are like me handling a task of programatically creating an order in Magento.

Whether your web-shop is already generating revenue or it’s at it’s very beginning, it’s always good to enhance it where it’s needed especially if it’s for free.

Inchoo has officially become a Magento Professional Partner. With this step, Inchoo joins an international roster of Magento Solution Partners as the first partner in Southeastern Europe.

Here is small example which will explain how to create a simple Magento payment module.

Branko Ajzele, our project manager and senior developer is scheduled to speak at Magento Developers Paradise conference in Mallorca (October 10-12). Clone Yourself: How to Effectively Share Magento Knowledge with New Developers will be the title of the session where he will share the tips and tricks on the best ways of training new developers and preparing them for the adventure that is Magento.

While I was checking today some Linkedin profiles, I noticed the fact that some people abandoned Varien. For those of you who don’t know, this is a company that created Magento. I’ll be honest and say that I had a moment of fear since our business is closely tied to Magento success. My worries went away the same second when I clicked on varien.com link. The step is logical.