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...

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...

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 pause all of the “soon to be started” development project with current version....

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. Here is a practical example of one can easily connect Magento with some other system. In my case I had Magento plus WordPress integration in which I needed to pull some user data, such as latest...