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Magento vs X-Cart

B00MER — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:53:30 +0000

Saw this article today, and haven’t posted up here in awhile, thought I would share the article and my comments (currently pending) here for others as well. http://expertmagentodevelopers.wordpress.com/magento-vs-xcart/ While I agree with most of the article, having used both systems extensively I wanted to share a few of my own personal opinions on X-Cart and

Magento version 2.0 (X.Commerce) and eBay

B00MER — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:12:05 +0000

eBay Acquisition the bad(maybe?) news. As everyone may know for the most part, eBay now owns Magento. (at least the details are still being worked out, currently.) Overall I’ve seen some mixed feelings in regards to this, I myself am pretty up in the air; if it’s a good or bad thing, and I think

Magento Supercharged Development Tools and Links

B00MER — Thu, 05 May 2011 22:45:57 +0000

So I’ve been doing some reading up and researching on Magento lately, and found some links to articles and tools I think may be useful, so I’m sharing them with everyone. Enjoy! Module Manager: Creates symlinks between a mapped out file similar to a Makefile in Linux compiling that will create links where they need

Book Review: Magento 1.4 Themes Design by PacktLib

B00MER — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:00:02 +0000

After reading and reviewing PacktLib’s Magento 1.4 Cookbook, I decided to give this book about Magento themes a day in court. It does a very good job of walking someone through the entire process of building out a theme from almost scratch. Doing a very good job of describing Magento’s terminology for its hierarchy of

Magento modules post deployment uninstall & downgrading

B00MER — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 04:53:08 +0000

An interesting question on StackOverflow about Magento modules and the un-installation or downgrade of code… I have seen some postings in regards to such and have investigated the same scenarios for SQL deployment myself. I would have to agree that being Enterprise grade Magento should have this type of functionality built-in. The good news it

Debugging tips & tricks with Magento Commerce

B00MER — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:03:00 +0000

If you are new to Magento then the vast amount of code to digest can be quite overwhelming. However, here are some tips I’ve learned about over the past on some means to tear down Magento and figure out whats making it work. Zend_Debug::dump First off use Zend_Debug::dump($foo); instead of using var_dump($foo); or print_r($foo); it

Rules of Magento club

B00MER — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 22:41:12 +0000

My favorite Movie + Favorite E-Commerce platform: Just having some fun with these, what would be your eight rules of Magento? First rule of Magento is you do not touch core or base/default. Second rule you DO NOT touch core base/default. Third rule when in doubt, flush all caches and rebuild indexes. Fourth rule XDebug,

Book Review: Magento 1.4 Development Cook Book by PacktLib

B00MER — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:07:34 +0000

After receiving a copy of this book from PacktLib, I have finally had a chance to go over the book in more detail. With Magento already having released a newer version of 1.5, there are still lots of items within this book that still apply. This book definitely should be considered a “Cook book” with

Magento Go: To the Cloud!

B00MER — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:27:44 +0000

What is Magento Stratus? According to the FAQ: It appears both Magento and Rackspace have teamed up to create Magento Stratus. From what I have gathered and speculation it is Magento running on Rackspace cloud services with some integration with the Rackspace cloud API. This site is currently running on Rackspace’s cloud and I have

Magento memory leak fix 1.4.x

B00MER — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 07:27:45 +0000

A memory leak was found and identified in Mageto CE versions 1.4.x and has since been fixed in Magento CE versions 1.5.x. This should help speed up imports and inventory management, if you are currently using Community Edition 1.4.x. Possibly Related Posts: Magento vs X-Cart Magento version 2.0 (X.Commerce) and eBay Magento Supercharged Development Tools