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. I can say I am mostly satisfied with my work (90% of time ). “Mostly” in terms of there is a little devil in me that keeps...

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...

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 running a web shop, then usability must be one of your prime concerns. How bad would you feel if you knew you...

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 if you are good in giving cost estimate? Is it when you get the client say “Yes” at any cost, or is...

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 one went rather smoothly with one strange result, half of my product images were not visible on frontend/admin. After few...