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8220;Mastering Magento Theme Design by Andrea Sacca – Contest Results. 11 Aug, 2014. We are completely sure that the Magento community is full of truly inquisitive and passionate people, who never stop their self-education. That’s why we always strive to tell you about the latest noteworthy Magento books and guides, which provide valuable knowledge and educate us. Last Monday we started a contest. And announced the prize for participants free e-copies of the Mastering Magento Theme Design. We congratulat...

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Magento Connect for Merchants

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Check out Grokking Magento. Magento Expert, Developer and Trainer. Magento Connect for Merchants. October 17, 2014. I am a bit surprised and a little embarrassed how much discussion this simple tweet kicked off. Thinking about taking my exts of Magento Connect because I dont believe non-tech folks should be able to install extensions. #github. Mdash; Vinai (@VinaiKopp) October 15, 2014. Why not state your opinions in here for other users to see: http:/ t.co/IccogO43WS. Hi, I have installed your Customer ...

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Check out Grokking Magento. Magento Expert, Developer and Trainer. 8220;More than 15 years of code experience are the base for professional e-commerce development and consulting – with a strong focus on the Magento ecosystem.”. 8220;Navipartner had the pleasure of a 3 week customized training course by Vinai Kopp. It brought the whole team to a new level in Magento programming. Our only regret is we didn’t do it much earlier. Need help or mentoring with a specific problem? My methodology follows the steps.

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Magento Live UK Hackathon

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Check out Grokking Magento. Magento Expert, Developer and Trainer. Magento Live UK Hackathon. July 13, 2014. Currently I’m fortunate to once again be in London to visit the MagentoLive conference. This year is the first time there is a Magento hackathon before the main event (thanks Ben Marks. Unfortunately the hackathon registration was for free. I say unfortunately, because having at least a nominal fee like 10 GBP or so makes a huge difference in regards to commitment. Even with scaffolding tools and ...

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PHP namespace wildcard loading

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Check out Grokking Magento. Magento Expert, Developer and Trainer. PHP namespace wildcard loading. October 9, 2014. Yesterday Alan Kent responded to a tweet from me. With a blog post of his own. I appreciate him taking the time, as his job must keep him crazy busy. Thanks, Alan, I’m honored! Tweeting the link to an old blog post about why PHP namespaces are flawed. Might not have been a smart thing, especially since not more then a minor nuisance and it turns out to be a controversial subject. This is on...

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Vinai Kopp Magento Training

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Check out Grokking Magento. Magento Expert, Developer and Trainer. 8220;Getting to know developers in different teams is great! 8220;Our Magento development team at AOE had the chance to do a training with Vinai twice in the last couple of years. Both trainings were eye-opening and made the penny drop for the everybody in our team.”. Lead Developer, AOE Media. Looking for building your Magento development expertise? Topics range from introduction into Magento development. Please have a look at the about.

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Check out Grokking Magento. Magento Expert, Developer and Trainer. 13 The Event Observer Kata. July 8, 2016. Since one of the goals of the Mage2Katas series is to spread the knowledge how cover most common Magento 2 development tasks with tests, event observers should be getting an episode, too. Many Magento 1 Developers are very familiar with observers, so naturally they will want to use them to solve problems in Magento 2 as well. 12 The API Integration Kata. July 2, 2016. June 17, 2016. We are going t...

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ORM Design Patterns and Magento

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Check out Grokking Magento. Magento Expert, Developer and Trainer. ORM Design Patterns and Magento. August 25, 2014. Based on a question during a recent training, here a short comparison of the ORM design patterns as presented in Martin Fowlers excellent classic book Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture. Each instance corresponds to a record in a table. An active record class contains business logic methods as well as CRUD methods that directly interact with the storage layer. Loading multiple...

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Magento Setup Scripts

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Check out Grokking Magento. Magento Expert, Developer and Trainer. November 3, 2014. This post follows a similar structure as the chapters from the Grokking Magento book. It is intended as a resource for preparing for the Magento Developer Certification. It explores a part of the core code along a specific exercise task. This post is not s simple copy and paste solution on how to create setup scripts. It goes over a lot of the gnarly internals that go on behind the scenes. Setup script processing flow.