My first Magento 2 contribution
George Ok, so I guess I’m stepping up the ladder now, become one of the “grown-ups”, in the Magento Universe?! The issue Of course not! Not with this one. However, I’ve…
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Magento 2 API usage
Recently, in my day to day activities I had to figure something out with the Magento API. Magento 2 that is. Which is a beast, to say the least (hey!…
Magento 2 Fundamentals
Yey! Finally managed to complete the “Fundamentals of M2 Development” training course, and since it’s not yet a certification, it’s a nice to have on your cv. It consists of…
Magento Certified. Plus!
Recently (Thursday, 5/Nov/2015 to be more precise), had my Magento Developer Plus certification exam. After having my “normal” Magento developer certification in 2012, this one was long overdue, really. According…
Magento template path hints in adminhtml
I know this is all over the net, but I’ll post it here for my own reference. So this is how you enable the template hints in the admin: connect…
Nginx / php-fpm timeout
So, I’m working on a Magento upgrade on a LEMP stack server, and in spite of changing proxy_read_timeout to 1 hour (3600s), was still giving me the ugly “502 Bad…
Mage Titans
If you are a Magento developer, you pretty much know what this post is about. If you were last Saturday (1.Nov.2014) in the Manchester area, you definitely know what this…
Mage registry key “_singleton/core/resource” already exists
Ever had the “Mage registry key “_singleton/core/resource” already exists” error in Magento and can’t get rid of it? First of all, if you search this on Google, don’t believe anything…
Refresh the checkout success page in Magento
Something useful when working on the “checkout success” page in Magento, whether it’s just styling, implementing some tracking JS codes or whatever open up app/code/core/Mage/Checkout/controllers/OnepageController.php in your favourite editor (mine…
New Magento module – “Items bought together”
Since I got nothing better to do with my time on a lazy Saturday at home (observe the irony!) I thought it would be nice if I practice a bit…