Ecommerce developers with Magento

In order to speed things up with building admin sections under System > Configuration area in Magento I wrote a little blank extension. Hopefully its a step or two beyond “Hello world” level. I named the extension “CoolDash”, short from CoolDashboard. Name holds no special meaning, just something I popped out of my head.

If you are a web developer or have had an honor to work with one of these creatures, you probably noticed their strange addiction to coffee. Developers surrounding me start their day by drinking the morning coffee before the working hours start, then, at the beginning of their working day they make one in the office. They drink numerous cups of coffee during the working day, and when they go out for a break they order… guess what… coffee.

Hello everybody. We are very happy to announce that Snippi hit the net. This is a personal project of Branko Ajzele, one of our developers, that went live few days ago. He was developing it for some time now and I hope it will be usable for all of you Magento developers who are trying to find a solution for your specific needs. Snippi is a Magento related website for sharing Magento code snippets. You can see it live on http://snippi.net

While coding CSS on a PC based text editor can be a normal thing, doing it on a Mac using CSSEdit is an extraordinary experience, really! This article is based on how this little/big app made in Belgium by Macrabbit made me not give up coding and started getting things done.

If you are developer working on a open source technologies then most likely you are using open source or some freeware tools. Since I’m a PHP developer this post will show examples in context of PHP. Developing for PHP can be quite a fun, or sometimes quite painful.