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One of the more powerful parts of the Magento eCommerce System is the Admin's System Config section. As a developer, it will allow you to quickly and easily setup forms elements that allow your end-users to configure their Magento System...

Alan Storm One of the more powerful parts of the Magento eCommerce System is the Admin's System Config section. As a developer, it will allow you to quickly and easily setup forms elements that allow your end-users to configure their Magento System... tag:alanstorm.com,2010:/ //1.597 2010-02-04T17:37:52Z 2010-02-04T17:37:54Z

If you following my grumblings on twitter you know I've been putting off learning a distributed version control system for a while now because CHANGE BAD, SAME GOOD. Well, the future has managed to pull me outside kicking and screaming,...

Alan Storm If you following my grumblings on twitter you know I've been putting off learning a distributed version control system for a while now because CHANGE BAD, SAME GOOD. Well, the future has managed to pull me outside kicking and screaming,... tag:alanstorm.com,2010:/ //1.596 2010-02-01T19:38:40Z 2010-02-01T19:40:21Z

As much as possible I try to stay away from opinions here, if only because this is my public face and people don't hire me for my opinions, they hire me to solve problems with computers. That sentiment leads well...

Alan Storm As much as possible I try to stay away from opinions here, if only because this is my public face and people don't hire me for my opinions, they hire me to solve problems with computers. That sentiment leads well... tag:alanstorm.com,2009:/ //1.595 2009-12-06T20:34:21Z 2009-12-12T06:09:04Z

In our last article we told you there were two kinds of Models in Magento. Regular, or "simple" Models, and Entity Attribute Value (or EAV) Models. We also told you this was a bit of a fib. Here's where we...

Alan Storm In our last article we told you there were two kinds of Models in Magento. Regular, or "simple" Models, and Entity Attribute Value (or EAV) Models. We also told you this was a bit of a fib. Here's where we... tag:alanstorm.com,2009:/ //1.594 2009-11-27T20:41:25Z 2009-11-27T20:57:36Z

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Alan Storm ]+(?:\([\w\d]+\)|([^[:punct:]\s]|/))) Pretty dense. Let's be that guy and break it...]]> tag:alanstorm.com,2009:/ //1.593 2009-11-21T23:56:44Z 2009-11-21T23:56:47Z

There's a long held bit of conventional wisdom that says you don't want to parse HTML with regular expressions. While it's a great way to learn regular expressions, it's trivially easy to write something that's only going to work correctly...

Alan Storm There's a long held bit of conventional wisdom that says you don't want to parse HTML with regular expressions. While it's a great way to learn regular expressions, it's trivially easy to write something that's only going to work correctly... tag:alanstorm.com,2009:/ //1.592 2009-11-07T05:47:46Z 2009-11-07T07:01:45Z

I've been fiddling with this design in my off-hours, and while I've never been 100% happy with it I was sick of dealing with a few of the limitation the old design presented. For example, implementing your own CSS Drop...

Alan Storm I've been fiddling with this design in my off-hours, and while I've never been 100% happy with it I was sick of dealing with a few of the limitation the old design presented. For example, implementing your own CSS Drop... tag:alanstorm.com,2009:/ //1.591 2009-10-24T06:03:43Z 2009-10-24T06:03:46Z

The title pretty much says it all. This Applescript will use BBEdit's (or TextWrangler's) internal diff functionality to compare the last two bits of text that have been copied to the clipboard. Tested in 10.5, not 10.6 (because I have...

Alan Storm The title pretty much says it all. This Applescript will use BBEdit's (or TextWrangler's) internal diff functionality to compare the last two bits of text that have been copied to the clipboard. Tested in 10.5, not 10.6 (because I have... tag:alanstorm.com,2009:/ //1.590 2009-10-17T06:18:23Z 2009-10-17T06:18:25Z

This was surprisingly tricky to figure out, although that points more to the smoothness of setting up an application when it's living in the site root. Sorry for the brevity here, this one is here mainly for my own reference...

Alan Storm This was surprisingly tricky to figure out, although that points more to the smoothness of setting up an application when it's living in the site root. Sorry for the brevity here, this one is here mainly for my own reference... tag:alanstorm.com,2009:/ //1.589 2009-09-29T04:57:55Z 2009-09-29T05:07:16Z

I snarkily posted something to Twitter about a bit of UI weirdness I saw over at the php.net site. The various call-out boxes had/have gained the ability to fold up or down when you double click them, which interfered with...

Alan Storm I snarkily posted something to Twitter about a bit of UI weirdness I saw over at the php.net site. The various call-out boxes had/have gained the ability to fold up or down when you double click them, which interfered with... tag:alanstorm.com,2009:/ //1.588 2009-09-27T01:11:46Z 2009-09-27T01:11:48Z

I've been having headphone/hands-free problems with my first generation (5th day they were available) iPhone. Specifically, people couldn't hear me through the microphone and I couldn't use the clicker to skip through songs. I bought a new pair of headphones...

Alan Storm I've been having headphone/hands-free problems with my first generation (5th day they were available) iPhone. Specifically, people couldn't hear me through the microphone and I couldn't use the clicker to skip through songs. I bought a new pair of headphones... tag:alanstorm.com,2009:/ //1.587 2009-09-23T13:03:11Z 2009-09-23T13:03:13Z

I remember watching the technology preview of Google wave and being hugely impressed by the implied implementation, particularly when it included support for Internet Explorer. Anytime a company can press the edges of the web browser as an application delivery...

Alan Storm I remember watching the technology preview of Google wave and being hugely impressed by the implied implementation, particularly when it included support for Internet Explorer. Anytime a company can press the edges of the web browser as an application delivery... tag:alanstorm.com,2009:/ //1.586 2009-09-20T17:21:28Z 2009-09-21T14:39:21Z

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On any fast paced software development project, the task of keeping the development and production databases in sync become a sticky wicket. Magento offers a system to create a versioned resource migration scripts that can help your team deal with...

Alan Storm On any fast paced software development project, the task of keeping the development and production databases in sync become a sticky wicket. Magento offers a system to create a versioned resource migration scripts that can help your team deal with... tag:alanstorm.com,2009:/ //1.584 2009-08-22T22:06:13Z 2009-10-17T20:34:10Z

The implementation of a "Models Tier" is a huge part of any MVC framework. It represents the data of your application, and most applications are useless without data. Magento Models play an even bigger role, as they typically contain the...

Alan Storm The implementation of a "Models Tier" is a huge part of any MVC framework. It represents the data of your application, and most applications are useless without data. Magento Models play an even bigger role, as they typically contain the...