Earlier tonight I completed - and passed - the Magento Certification Test, thus becoming a certified Magento developer. I must say the test was not nearly as easy as I thought it would be. The questions are multiple choice but use checkboxes rather than radio buttons. Quite a few of the questions were either obscure, had an ambiguous question or answers or relied entirely on terminology which I wouldn’t consider to be standard in any way. Thankfully, it appears that if you have spent an unreasonable amount of time working on Magento code, as I have, then passing is not impossible. I’d be interested to know what other people thought of it!
I seem to be constantly bemused and irritated by some of the things that I find, or find missing, in my dealings with Magento.
Several times now I have had issues with the Magento admin panel not working as expected. In almost all of these cases the solution has been to simply upload all the core code files again, overwriting what’s there. This is about as brute force an approach as I can imagine - using a hammer instead of a surgeon’s knife if you will - but it seems to do the job in most instances. I recommend doing this as one of your first troubleshooting steps.
I hope everyone reading this blog a very happy and safe new year and I wish you all the best in 2009.
It seems a new extension has been released on Magento Connect that provides integration with SecurePay’s SecureXML payment gateway. I find this rather interesting as this extension is commercial, at a fairly substantial cost of $175, and provides the same integration as an extension I created back in September! Why would anyone create an extension that has already been released for free, then attempt to charge money for it?
I’d like to know if anyone actually forks out money for this.
Quick shout out to alert readers that the Fontis WYSIWYG is now available. Download it here.