Magento 1.9 Multiple Theme Inheritance
The release of the Magento 1.9 version has prompted a change in frontend design patterns for Magento developers.
Magento 1.9 Enable Both PayPal Standard and PayPal Express Checkout
What happened to PayPal payment standards in 1.9? …One day everything is working fine, then you upgrade to Magento 1.9 and PayPal Standard has disappeared! You’ll notice, it’s been replaced by PayPal Express. Magento seems to be pushing everyone to...How to Get Object or Function from String
When using Javascript sometimes we need to map a literal string: “My.Nested.Class” to the corresponding object or class. Below I’ve provided an easy function to determine this, utilizing the underscorejs library. Essentially, this function takes a...
Backbone Relational vs Backbone Associations
I wanted to write a quick post regarding these 2 libraries. Any large & complex web-app utilizing Backbone.js (or Knockback in my own case) has need for some type of relationship mapping across models. I’ll be comparing the 2 biggest players, looking at...
How to use your Magento theme with WordPress
It’s a situation we run into pretty frequently here at Cadence Labs: you’re running Magento and Wordpress on the same web server; all is well, Magento is selling products and Wordpress is hosting content. However, anytime you make a change to…
Creating an Interactive Splash Page with Adobe Edge Animate
I’d seen a couple sites with excellent examples of animation, and what captivated me most was their responsive capability. These sites scaled, loaded and lost no quality as they transitioned to…
