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CheckItOut 1.5.0: Now the fastest checkout extension!

Posted by on Feb 15, 2013 in Extensions, News | 2 comments

We happy to announce the release of new CheckItOut! extension version 1.5.0. It is our new Major release with great improvements in performance and number of AJAX calls. Also now JS files are better organized and it will be easier for you, as a developer, to customize the extension. New Features: Reorganized architecture of AJAX communication to get rid of all the redundant calls to server. Now...

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Why Magento Community Needs Own Q&A Website

Posted by on Dec 19, 2012 in News | 1 comment

Today a Magento Q&A website went though commitment phase on http://area51.stackexchange.com/ website. It is very important step for Magento community, since this website gives much more better options to find the right answer than StackOverflow or Magento Answers one. Magento Stack Exchange vs Stackoverflow You may ask why you need just one more Q&A for Magento, if there is a lot of...

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Magento Checkout: Shopping Cart Flow

Posted by on Dec 12, 2012 in How To, Overview | 11 comments

Magento Checkout: Shopping Cart Flow

Shopping Cart is a starting point for every customer in the checkout flow. That is why the article about it, is the next one in “Magento Checkout from A to Z” series. In this article you will learn what happens during viewing shopping cart page, adding product to cart or changing products’ qty. As well you will get familiar with some customizations principles of that...

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Our Magento Checkout Extension Ideas & Architecture Revealed

Posted by on Nov 29, 2012 in Extensions, Overview | 3 comments

In 2010 when I started development of our Magento checkout module, the main idea was to bring an extension that will be developed for a developer. The origins of the extension, were in my first Magento freelance work on custom project module, in few months after I left Magento company. But actually, today’s article isn’t about extension history, it is more about some cool features...

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5 Great Reasons for Visiting Test Driven Development Training in January

Posted by on Nov 27, 2012 in News | 0 comments

During MeetMagento Poland conference I announced the launch of the registration for Test Driven Development course from 9th till 10th of January. Today I want to provide more information about the course and benefits you can get from it! Reason #1. Knowledge This course will help you in learning the main concepts of test drived development with Magento. Also it gives awesome opportunity for...

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Magento Smart Trick of The Day: Dynamic Home Page

Posted by on Nov 1, 2012 in Tricks | 8 comments

Today there we were discussing one of the project specific functionality. Customer wants to show different homepage for logged in and logged out users. And the were a lot of ideas on rewriting controller, helper or model. However, in the end, the smartest idea was to realize all this logic without any rewrite. Idea So as all of you know, the identifier of the home page is stored in configuration...

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