Like many others, I’ve had some hard times, and made some very bad decisions both professionally and personally over the past couple of years.
Being a freelancer in quite a solitary space, it is easy to get stuck in your own little bubble, which is why I like to regularly have a good talk with other people from varied backgrounds about almost anything. Continue reading
I’m in the middle of a Magento project that involves tens of thousands of products, and hundreds of filterable attributes to be used in Layered Navigation. Those filterable attributes will be continually added to over time.
Due to the large number of products and the additional features that will eventually be added. I decided that replacing the Layered Navigation system with Solr Facetted search was a must. Continue reading
One of the most difficult things for the newcomer to Magento theming to come to grips with is often the xml- and block-based layout engine. After a few years, this same person might wonder how they could live without the flexibility that comes from being able to to create blocks and move them around the layout with relative ease.
At least, that’s what I thought, which prompted me to start implementing something similar to Magento’s layout engine in my standard library for Zend Framework projects. Continue reading
This is a great solution for adding your own custom styles and realistic CSS to the WYSIWYG editor in Magento 1.5. For earlier versions, you may want to have a look at this thread. Continue reading