Magento Articles for Professional Developers
A growing list of articles plumbing the depths of the enigmatic, and increasingly dominant, Magento eCommerce System.
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Learning Magento with Commerce Bug
An extended manual for Commerce Bug, covering specific debugging techniques while explaining core parts of the Magento system.
N98-Magerun
A “flash” Magento Quickies series on the powerful N98-Magerun command line tool.
Magento for PHP MVC Developers
This was the original series of articles I wrote on the functionality I thought a PHP developer coming to Magento would want to know about. While some of the details have changed (these were the CE 1.3/CE 1.4 days), working through these articles is still the best way to come up to speed on the system.
Magento Pulse Storm Launcher
This series covers posts related to the Magento Pulse Storm Launcher, the new free and open source extension from Pulse Storm LLC.
Magento Javascript Code
The Magento API
Articles diving deeply into an often used, but little understood Magento system.
The Magento Config, Revisited
Posts Inspired by Magento Imagine
A short series spawed by my participation in Magento’s 2011 Imagine conference.
Developing The Magento Admin Console
I began this series wanting to get in-depth into the Magento Admin Console, but I severely underestimated how what in-depth would mean here. I’m still struggling with the best way to present Admin Console development that’s useful to both newbies and experienced developers. Still, these articles contain useful information that might help you through a specific problem, or give you a jumping off point for your own research.
In Depth Magento Dispatch
An incredibly deep dive on how Magento handles URL routing. This series started because I wanted to write a quick article on Magento URL rewrites, and it turned out you couldn’t teach people about rewrites without explaining their place in Magento’s routing system.
Magento Projects
Project posts! Most of these cover modules I’ve uploaded to Magento Connect.
Pulse Storm Posts
Post about the software company I own and operate, and without which none of this would be possible.
Miscellaneous Magento Articles
The everything else bucket. Typically when I post a stand alone article it’ll end up here.
Modules used in the Magento for PHP MVC Developers Series
When I started writing Magento articles, I tried to post finished code for a particular module. I quickly found the thought of creating, and then testing these finished modules was sapping my motivation to write, so I stopped.
