During last week's Imagine conference, Magento released (among other things) the 1.5.0.0 version of their Community Edition offering. About a day after its release a bug that compromised a security layer was found. Twelve hours later Magento released 1.5.0
astormIf you missed the Unconference at Magento Imagine, I've posted my slides, as well as recorded a full screencast of the demo portion of my presentation on the Widgets feature. It's a two parter, available on YouTube, or embedded below.
astormJust a quick note on some updates I've made to the Layouts, Blocks and Templates article.
astormThis article refers to a beta-ish feature of Magento Community Edition 1.4.2, and therefore the specifics may quickly fall out of date. Proceed will all due caution
astormOne of the most common feature requests I get for Commerce Bug is the ability to define some sort of access control. The latest version of the popular debugging extension implements a programmable access control feature that allows users to implement their own rules
astormI get a lot of email from Magento developers who are looking for a reference to all the different action methods they might use from a Layout XML file
astormI'm both happy and embarrassed to announce the release of version 1.0.1 of the Layout Unremove extension. Turns out there was a small bug that would prevent the extension from working the first time Magento built up its layout files for cache
astormEvery so often a theme developer will ask if it's possible to use the local.xml layout file to reverse the effects of a <remove /> tag.
astormI'm happy to announce the immediate availability of Commerce Bug 1.3. The 1.3 version is a free update and recommended for all existing users. It may be downloaded via your original purchase URL.
astormThe Magento Admin Console's System Configuration section is almost an application framework in and of itself. The ability to quickly add form fields in a "zero code" way is a powerful feature, but it only touches the tip of the iceberg of what's possible
astormThis is more of an addendum to my previous articles on the System Configuration system than an entirely new article. Go back and read up if anything's over your head.
astormMany people, myself included, recommend that you "Turn on Developer Mode" while working on your Magento store. These days, this can be done in an .htaccess file, or directly in Magento's index.php bootstrap file.
astormAs platform, PHP has a long history of relying on the base computer's underlying file system as a storage mechanism for various application and system functions. This ties in closely with PHP's practical history of closely modeling the nacent web's file serving architecture for
astormThis article was inspired by a recent StackOverflow thread.
astormJust a quick note that Commerce Bug, my must have Magento debugging extension, may now be purchased via PayPal. Commerce Bug won't help you chat up attractive folks in bars, but it will save you hours of useless glopping through the Magento source code
astormThis is less a full fledged article this time, and more "something I always forget and can never find anywhere else, so I'm posting it here to help future me".
astormThe first time you develop any kind of private web application, it eventually occurs to you someone else might find it and start mucking with your data. So you slap a password on it and call it good. Then you show it to your
astormI'm happy to announce the immediate availability of Commerce Bug 1.2. In addition to the usual compatibility fixes, Commerce Bug now features a Collections Tab Tab, as well as a behind the scenes overhaul of the tab rendering architecture. While you won't notice
astormUpdate 2: The routing information is this article is incorrect. While technically accurate, it deviates from modern (mid-2013) Magento community standards, and may lead to incompatibilities. If you want to learn the proper way of setting up a Magento admin controller, checkout Magento Admin
astormI've been keeping quiet on this one until the details were hashed out, but I'm proud to announce that Magento Inc. will be featuring edited versions of the Magento for Professional Developers articles on their knowledge base site, starting with a brand new introduction
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