Finding my way onto the Magento book wall

Roy Rubin, the CEO of Varien (creators of Magento) posted the following picture onto his Twitter quietly around a month ago. Making my smile go ear to ear the entire day. Take a look a look at the Magento HQ book wall: That’s right! Magento 1.3: PHP Developer’s Guide is in the top left, hanging…

Magento: Beginner’s Guide, a solid introduction to managing Magento stores

Often enough when you’re a Magento developer you can find yourself in a position where by a client is overwhelmed with options. They don’t know where to click, what all the fields are or mean and simply don’t know where to start. Typically with Magento training I have to provide around a week of my…

Introduction to directories for Magento developers

New developers to Magento can find it a puzzling system in terms of system architecture. In this article I hope to shed some light on some of the key directories in Magento and what they do so any Magento developers out there aren’t quite as confused when unzipping their first set of Magento install files.…