Category Archives: General

How Magento2 implements Plugins

I recently wrote a post about Aspect Oriented Programming, and how developers can use it within Magento 2. However, I didn’t cover anything about what Magento 2 is actually doing Read More »

Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) – Plugins with Magento2

A little about AOP Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) is a programming paradigm that tries to increase modularity of code. It does this by allowing the separation of “cross-cutting” concerns. This Read More »

Dealing with large collections in Magento

Large collections are inevitable. If your Magento store has been running for more than a minute, you’ll have orders. You might have hundreds of orders. Thousands of orders. Hundreds of Read More »

#MageTitans 2015 – Magento conference

This Saturday (7th November) I headed to Manchester for MageTitans 2. For anyone not in the know, MageTitans was an extremely successful Maegnto conference organised by Manchester Digital last year. Read More »

How to make last name optional in Magento 1.9

I recently worked on a store where I needed to make the last name field optional at both checkout and account levels. I found a quick guide here: http://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/13878/how-to-make-last-name-optional-in-magento-1-8 – Read More »

Making the most of Christmas Email Marketing

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! or so many retailers are telling us at the moment at least! Even though it’s only November, it makes sense for retailers Read More »

How to get number of cart items in Magento

Many websites show a “total number of items in your basket”. So, how do you get that information out of Magento if you’re not in the checkout process? You can Read More »

Where has apache2-ssl-certificate gone?

I was setting up SSL on our local Debian box at work, and needed to generate a new cert. apache2-ssl-certificate failed to work though, so what have they done with Read More »

jQuery UI Tabs and the Stylish Select Plugin

I was having issues with a site recently whereby the jQuery UI Tabs that were on the site weren’t working in IE. After chopping out all other includes and HTML/CSS Read More »

Law and the internet

There are a few things I enjoy other than web development. I love SEO, and Law also; having never found enough time to tackle either, I like to keep my Read More »

Shell script to create new site template

Having a dedicated Linux box without any form of control panel on it is becoming the norm for me. To help me out, I created a small shell script to Read More »

Delay link event with AJAX jQuery

I’ve been working on a script recently where it would add warnings when a user clicked on certain URLs. I attached an event to a link like so (simplified):

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