Category / E-Commerce

FireLogger – a sexy server logger console in Firebug

FireLogger – a sexy server logger console in Firebug

FireLogger is a Firefox+Firebug addon which provides logging functionality similar to Firebug’s console.log. It sends logging events to a client-side encoded in HTTP headers.

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Report from Magento Developers Paradise @ Ibiza

Report from Magento Developers Paradise @ Ibiza

As is mentioned earlier at one of the posts, Tomas, Ivica and me were “the chosen ones” to go to Magento developers paradise conference at Ibiza. So how was it? In one word – incredible. It was paradise in its true meaning.

Some of the members traveled by plane for the very first time so it was interesting to watch their facial expressions during the takeoff. We met lots of great people, including Tsvetan Stoyhev, Thomas Slade from Blue Acorn, Myuselim Myuselimov, Josh from WebShopApps, guys from Magento core team and many others. Read more

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Breaking News! eBay Acquires Magento!

Breaking News! eBay Acquires Magento!

I guess that the word is already spread. eBay Acquires Magento and Launches Open-Commerce Brand, X.Commerce. Since eBay and Magento have partnership for quite some time, I believe that this acquisition is not a huge surprise. Roy is happy. Yoav is happy. This seems to be a great thing for Magento Inc. I’ll ask a selfish question: “What does it mean to the companies like ours and what the hell is X.Commerce?”
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How to disable Magento event

How to disable Magento event

There are some cases where you will wish to disable Magento event. For example, in one our projects we decided to disable all “Mage_Log” events in order to decrease number of sql queries to the database. We will describe the process of doing it in this post, but I’m sure similar approach can be used in many other scenarios.
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What is schema.org and what about my rich snippets?

What is schema.org and what about my rich snippets?

Schema.org has recently been announced by Google. It’s an innitiative by Google, Bing and Yahoo to create one microdata standard for structuring web content. Basically it’s the good old Google Rich Snippets, but followed by all three major search engines and it also brought a lot of new markup. Read more

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Ibiza anyone? 2 days to go!

Ibiza anyone? 2 days to go!

Three Inchooers are impatiently awaiting June 4th when they will start the journey to this years Magento Developers Paradise that will take place in Ibiza, Spain. This will be a great opportunity to meet fellow developers as we did last year and get first insight for Magento 2. Check out the interviews with the speakers.
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Automatically cancel pending orders older than 90 minutes

Automatically cancel pending orders older than 90 minutes

There are situations where you might with to automatically cancel orders older than 90 minutes. They stay in “pending_payment” state. This usually happen when the customer didn’t complete the checkout due any reason.
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Flat tables in Magento and product collection

Flat tables in Magento and product collection

You probaly know that Magento uses EAV database structure for categories, products. In some cases this solution is not the best or fastest.

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How to create custom attribute source type?

How to create custom attribute source type?

Have you ever need to create custom attribute source type? This is small example which will help you to create custom source type. I hope that it will be helpful.
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Guide through Magento’s timezones

Guide through Magento’s timezones

I’ll guide you through Magento’s timezone behavior, as I’ve noticed that people tend to get confused in cases when they have 2 or more websites with different timezones. If this is what you are searching for, read on!
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