en-USAlan Storm (converted from Atom 1.0) http://alanstorm.com/ 2009-07-02T22:43:22Z Learning Magento can range from frustrating to infuriating for the first time user. Here's a few tips to ease the burden of assimilating an entirely new system. Turn on Logging -------------------------------------------------- While the Magento Community Edition doesn't have much default... (...) http://alanstorm.com/magento_log_and_developer_mode tag:alanstorm.com,2009:/ //1.577 2009-07-02T22:43:20Z (Alan Storm) Alan Storm Over the past few years I've been making heavy use of DOT, the Directed Graph programming language, using GraphViz for output. It's basically a text format for building flowchart like diagrams (i.e. directed graphs). It's a classic computer science thing;... (...) http://alanstorm.com/aligning_dot_labels tag:alanstorm.com,2009:/ //1.576 2009-06-30T02:29:23Z (Alan Storm) Alan Storm If you're at all conversant with object oriented programming, the following line should look familiar to you. $customer_group = new Mage_Customer_Model_Group(); We're instantiating an instance of the Mage\_Customer\_Model\_Group class. However, if you were to search the Magento codebase for Mage\_Customer\_Model\_Group,... (...) http://alanstorm.com/magento_class_abstration_autoload tag:alanstorm.com,2009:/ //1.575 2009-05-09T19:27:14Z (Alan Storm) Alan Storm Just another quick Magento tip as I continue my journey back into the swamps of e-commerce. Magneto's admin console has a section for managing your cache (System->Cache Management) which works well, unless you happen to get a bad configuration cached... (...) http://alanstorm.com/magento_cache_clear tag:alanstorm.com,2009:/ //1.574 2009-05-05T18:10:47Z (Alan Storm) Alan Storm Just a quick note, but it seems that despite having the whole <version> thing going on in config files, Magento doesn't actively do a version diff and reload a new module. If you want the system to reload the module... (...) http://alanstorm.com/reinstalling_magento_modules tag:alanstorm.com,2009:/ //1.573 2009-04-16T17:18:34Z (Alan Storm) Alan Storm Cocoa class has been put on hold for a while as I sling the code to pay the bills. I've been working a lot with the Magento commerce system lately, and thought I'd share. The following is from an answer... (...) http://alanstorm.com/magento_controller tag:alanstorm.com,2009:/ //1.572 2009-03-31T05:40:14Z (Alan Storm) Alan Storm *This is the final part of on ongoing series. Reading Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 will certainly help you understand what I'm going on about*. As promised, this is the wrap-up and the last you'll ever hear about... (...) http://alanstorm.com/objective_c_selector_part_4 tag:alanstorm.com,2009:/ //1.571 2009-01-23T00:21:42Z (Alan Storm) Alan Storm *This is Part 3 of on ongoing series. Part 1 and part 2 are still available.* We now have an unobtrusive jQuery based Javascript widget. We don't, however, have a true jQuery plugin. Specifically 1. Our Javascript source file is... (...) http://alanstorm.com/objective_c_selector_part_3 tag:alanstorm.com,2009:/ //1.570 2009-01-18T20:25:45Z (Alan Storm) Alan Storm *This is Part 2 of on ongoing series. Part 1 may be read here*. So, last time we used jQuery to build a widget that reminded us how Objective C selector syntax worked. While the code ran, it's not without... (...) http://alanstorm.com/objective_c_selector_part_2 tag:alanstorm.com,2009:/ //1.569 2009-01-13T01:06:35Z (Alan Storm) Alan Storm *This is Part 1 of on ongoing series.* Two things were irritating me. The first, I was having a difficult time getting back into reading Obcetive C method syntax after spending all day slinging PHP and Javascript. The second was... (...) http://alanstorm.com/objective_c_selector tag:alanstorm.com,2009:/ //1.568 2009-01-10T05:25:16Z (Alan Storm) Alan Storm AJAX, Web 2.0, etc. etc. Five or six years ago programming Javascript user interfaces on the web meant a lot of tedious DOM debugging in IE, Netscape, early Mozilla builds, and (if you were awesome and/or a masochist), Opera. Javascript... (...) http://alanstorm.com/the_two_futures_for_javascript_libraries tag:alanstorm.com,2009:/ //1.567 2009-01-04T19:55:43Z (Alan Storm) Alan Storm Interfaces and abstract classes are one of those next tier topics that will initially flummox someone whose background has been primarily linear programming. At least, that's how I felt three to four years ago while trying to understand the changes... (...) http://alanstorm.com/interfaces-and-abstract-classes tag:alanstorm.com,2009:/ //1.566 2009-01-01T21:22:46Z (Alan Storm) Alan Storm I just released a pile of code called Content Courier. It's the front-end framework I use to serve up content on this site; a generalized programatic framework for serving up content from multiple databases, using database in the loosest of... (...) http://alanstorm.com/content_courier tag:alanstorm.com,2008:/ //1.565 2008-12-16T01:58:22Z (Alan Storm) Alan Storm Most of the talk about "netbooks" center on 1. Price point (Cheap!) 2. The browser as the primary OS (the "net") If you think that's the draw you're missing the point. It's the size. Years ago American comics makers looked... (...) http://alanstorm.com/net_book tag:alanstorm.com,2008:/ //1.564 2008-12-14T20:18:10Z (Alan Storm) Alan Storm Just a quick note that I've changed some things around behind the scenes but you, dear reader, should notice nothing (other than an increase in posts if all goes according to plan). Of course, if something has fallen from the... (...) http://alanstorm.com/nothing_to_see_here tag:alanstorm.com,2008:/ //1.563 2008-11-21T21:33:14Z (Alan Storm) Alan Storm Atom 1.0 XSLT Transform v1 (http://atom.geekhood.net)