The Inchooers

And here is something totally different, for all you Magento developers, The Inchooers. Made by Hrvoje Jurisic, one of our latest employee. Way the go Hrvoje.

Creating a new product type in Magento

Given the complexity of Magento, here is a little module I wrote about on Inchoo.net site that might help you learn how to create your own product.

How to properly build Magento theme: Skinning, not theming

It been a while since my last article. I have been playing with Python and Django for the last few weeks. Figured I might write an article about Magento in a meanwhile (its been a while since my last post). Recently we had a discussion in company about how to improve certain areas of our [...]

Days passing by

Its been a busy year. Lot of stuff learned, and more importantly lot of stuff done. As some of you know, I work full time at Inchoo. Its a third company I have been working for full time since I finished faculty back in 2006. Seems like things are rolling just fine at the moment. [...]

Getting started with Magento widgets

Just a follow up on my previous post over at Inchoo.net site. I have placed a copy of my blank Magento widget extension to be available for download here on ActiveCodeline as well.
Download [ ActiveCodeline_WidgetOne.tar ].
Hope you’ll find it useful.

One Step Checkout in Magento

In contrary to all the efforts Magento team put into One Page Checkout functionality there are lot of people that find it annoying and non-user friendly. I would dare to say I am one of them. Besides myself, lot of our clients have expressed their desire for simpler checkout page.
Lets face it, if you are [...]

Giving cost estimates on custom Magento development

Its been over a year now of extensive Magento development for me. My job description changed from being Developer to Senior Developer and now to Project Manager / Senior Developer. In short, amount of work I do increased.
One of the most annoying part of work for me is the estimates part. How do you know [...]

Moving Magento site, missing images in catalog

Recently I have came across one funny issue. Interesting how issue can be funny. One of our clients had a request for Magento upgrade, from version 1.2 to 1.3.2.4. Most of you in in Magento development will likely to agree when I say that Magento upgrades can be a night mare. Luckily for me, this [...]

Any news on Magento 1.4, the final version?

Surely I am not the only one waiting for this one to get launched. Seems like Magento took some resting time and left us waiting on Magento 1.4 version. I remember their release timeliness from version 1.2-1.3.2.4. Seemed like they are publishing new release every few weeks.
Looking at features of Magento 1.4 makes me wanna [...]

Magento plus some CMS, simple and quick integration tip

Sometimes due loosely, undefined, agreement around some feature and deadline that’s thrown upon us, developers need to look for the fastest solution around some requirement. Fastest but stable is the key word here.

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