Tag Archives: Magento
Magento vs X-Cart

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

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

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

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

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









