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Magento Community

Contrary to what you may think, there are actually more than three people in the Magento community. Web resources like Magento Commerce provide a fair indicator of what one might expect out of the Magento community. Of course, you can also always read up on our meetups if you really wanna see where the Magento nerds really congregate…

Of course, there are plenty of events going around in this world that honor Magento. If you read our posts below, you can see some of our stuff written about the Magento Imagine conference which is held each year. Many of the posts below will also serve to help you with common Magento issues (see ‘Top 7 Reasons You Might Be Experiencing Magento Slow-Down,’ for example).

So where else do Magento folks congregate, if not in person? Well, there are many other places on the Internet, such as the Magento Expert Forum, where our kind Magento users who are constantly banging their heads against the walls will be posting their complaints and questions.

But aside from the people who are simply using Magento, you can also read the answers from many experienced Magento developers such as… ourselves.

Magento’s one of the best e-commerce tools around, but remember that at times it is a tough nut to crack. If you’re ever having issues, don’t hesitate to go see the various Magento forums for support… And of course, if you need true support, you can always contact the experts here at Hara Partners directly. We know our stuff… Otherwise, we wouldn’t have all those certifications.

So now you know that the Magento community is an all-great, all-embracing collective, why not jump into some of our events, and visit the forums for advice whenever you need it?

New York Magento Meetup Group Meeting for December

New York Magento

New York Magento Meetup Group Meeting for December

This month we will be looking at Magento’s architecture at the New York Magento Meetup.

Looking under Magento’s hood – Basic Magento Architecture

Last time we looked at what can be done with Magento in terms of design and I believe we saw some surprisingly amazing implementations culminating in a not very secure implementation of the OnePageCheckout in Flash.

This time we will give a general overview of Magento’s architecture.
Why is Magento so popular? Or how does Magento support so many features?
You hear a lot about extensions or modules. What are they and how do they relate to the Magento system?

We will also answer questions such as what is the difference between Magento Enterprise and Magento Community Edition? What is $12,990 going to get me?

This presentation will be very helpful for anyone interested in understanding the fundamentals of Magento, how it works and how to think about the system from a systems perspective.

We’re looking forward to seeing you.

The team at Hara Partners.

New York Magento Meetup for November 2010

New York Magento Meetup for November 2010

Hara Partners, host of New York’s Magento Meet Up, has been running the New York chapter for the single purpose of Magento betterment.  On the November 10, 2010 meet up, Mai Erne & Jun Zhao focused on some of the obvious, and not so obvious design cues and bewares.

new york magento meetup

new york magento meetup

 

Hara Partner’s lead software architect, Jun Zhao, organized a friendly, open-ended meeting-of-the-minds, centered around feedback as there were experts from different fields in attendance.  Working with our fellow Magento community to help attack real world problems is a great perk at our sessions.  Please stay tuned for future NY Magento Meet Ups  as we are always open for topic and workshop suggestions.

new york magento meetup

Special thanks to Fashion Tower Studios and resident photographer, Vernon Fong for capturing our meet up!

New York Magento Meetup – Design Limitations with Magento

We are hosting another New York Magento Meetup

Design Limitations with Magento

We would like to discuss what design limitations of Magento are (or are there any?)

For this purpose we will be looking at numerous stores that are out there and review different technologies used. This analysis will range from plain html and css over javascript to Flash.

Please feel free to contribute your examples you would like to discuss by posting them here or bring them to the Meetup.

We’re looking forward to hosting you.

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When:

November 10th, 2010 at 7 PM

Location

135 W 36th Street
15th Floor
New York, NY 10018

Unleash the Power of Magento EAV Database Structure, Generic EAV Object

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One of the major features of Magento is the Entity-Attribute-Value (Magento EAV) data model.

This is indeed quite a block to play with. However with the right leverage, it can become rather handy.

To some extent, using EAV is, arguably, an improvement. The major advantage of the Magento EAV is: there won’t be endless ad hoc attributes inserted to the table, which is one of the critical flaw for older platforms, say OS-commerce, where table columns rapidly grow to an unmanageable size.

On the other hand, EAV basically means no raw queries of the database, or at least very challenging if you are really determined to query directly into the database, not to mention that an upgrade will easily break your code. This is, indeed, very clumsy for simple things like selecting a group of products or customers. In addition, there is quite an efficiency trade-off since there would be quite a few table joint to load an EAV object. Also, quite a lot of data a duplicated throughout different tables, a small price we have to pay.

Despite all these, personally, I find the Magento EAV quite okay. I guess the decision making factor for the Magento team to choose EAV tables against flat table is that EAV is generically more flexible. It’s relatively easy to maintain given the fact more than often multiple developers/teams are involved in the same project.

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