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Creating a Magento Script that Disables Coupons

joshpennington — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 18:25:29 +0000

As I mentioned in my previous post, I had to quickly find a way to disable a large number of coupons in Magento. Generally I would say that it would be faster to do this by hand in the admin panel,...

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One Way To Fix Add to Cart Being Slow In Magento

joshpennington — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:39:17 +0000

Please Note: This post is more of an anecdotal post as opposed to a tutorial. There are no code samples and the actual code that I discuss may not be 100% accurate as I am typing this at the end of a...

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Setting Up Your Magento Scripting Environment

joshpennington — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:30:04 +0000

Note: This is of a series of posts where I share some of my work I do at The Working Person’s Store. One of the things that I do quite often in Magento is write scripts to accomplish certain...

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New Happenings Coming Soon

joshpennington — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:22:57 +0000

I have been relatively quiet about my day job in the past. I was unsure if they would have an appreciation for sharing my knowledge and experiences. However, I have discussed my blog with the company...

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Hosts File Editor Now Open Source on GitHub

joshpennington — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 16:15:32 +0000

I have decided to no longer hold on to the source code of Hosts File Editor. I never really intended to make a profit from it so it seemed like the right thing to do. I have put the source up on...

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Hello Python

joshpennington — Fri, 20 May 2011 20:43:52 +0000

As I talked about earlier, I am beginning to learn Python. I thought that this could be a good opportunity to document what I am learning and share my thoughts, experience and code. To be totally...

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Getting and Setting Session Variables in Magento

joshpennington — Mon, 09 May 2011 23:03:17 +0000

Working in the Magento ecosystem can seem daunting at first. Even experienced PHP programmers have a steep learning curve to work through before they really get the sense that they know what they are...

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New Topic Incoming

joshpennington — Mon, 09 May 2011 01:42:49 +0000

As someone who works in IT (specifically programming), it is always necessary that I always remain flexible when it comes to what technologies I know about. For the most part that has always meant...

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Magento Debugging Basics

joshpennington — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:37:56 +0000

Magento is a big system. If you are developing for Magento it is inevitable that you are going to either need to trace down a big or just figure out how a particular process works. The best thing to...

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Have Your Magento Caches Update Themselves

joshpennington — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 14:04:26 +0000

Magento has a lot of caches. They are (in my opinion) the biggest reason Magento is usable as a platform (If you think Magento runs slowly now – turn them off for a little bit). One thing that...

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