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The original proposal was closed due to age. Please spread the word! – benmarks Dec 27 '12 at 1:30
<comments removed> If you have questions or comments for this proposal, please use 'create new discussion' below. Thanks. – Robert Cartaino Dec 28 '12 at 16:49
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Magento chat room created where we can <s>bully</s> encourage folks to promote the new site: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/6943/magento – Alan Storm Jan 2 '13 at 21:57

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As a new Magento Developer, what key resources should I have at my disposal? KBs, Tools, References etc.
added by vaskoism Dec 27 '12 at 12:15
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What extensions do you use whilst developing?
added by CCBlackburn Dec 27 '12 at 1:36
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Where can I find a complete list of Magento events?
added by blakcaps Dec 27 '12 at 1:42
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This is a great question, because simply grepping for dispatchEvent calls only gives you the sane list of statically-named events. The events whose names are put together in php at dispatch time are harder to discover. – kojiro Dec 29 '12 at 21:20
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Testing Frameworks - How do we test Magento?
added by vaskoism Dec 27 '12 at 11:57
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…and how do we test Magento extensions we write? – kojiro Dec 27 '12 at 18:15
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How do I make a payment type available to admin users only?
added by CCBlackburn Dec 27 '12 at 1:31
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How do I determine what is slowing my Magento site down?
added by CCBlackburn Dec 27 '12 at 1:28
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Where can I find a list of all of the methods available in layout XML?
added by benmarks Dec 27 '12 at 1:32
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What's the best way to migrate changes from development to staging to production?
added by CCBlackburn Dec 27 '12 at 1:33
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How does Magento translate the argument from Mage::getModel('catalog/product_type') to an actual class name?
added by benmarks Dec 27 '12 at 1:34
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How to use version control with Magento?
added by blakcaps Dec 27 '12 at 1:38
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I really like this question because it indirectly best practice for upgrading Magento – kevando Dec 29 '12 at 22:34
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I've heard of "Don't f*#$ with the core", are there any other rules that I should abide by whilst developing with Magento?
added by CCBlackburn Dec 27 '12 at 1:42
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How do I properly join a custom table to an existing entity collection, like Products or Orders?
added by beep logic Dec 27 '12 at 1:43
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What issues can I expect when migrating from Community Edition to Enterprise?
added by beep logic Dec 27 '12 at 1:44
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How do I add a custom tab on the Edit Product view page in the administration backend?
added by beep logic Dec 27 '12 at 1:44
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How do I configure a BOGO promotion rule?
added by beep logic Dec 27 '12 at 1:45
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What's the difference between up-sells, cross-sells and related products?
added by beep logic Dec 27 '12 at 1:50
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Hi beep logic, You can find the answer here pixlpitch.com/product-relations-in-magento check this link – Thiru Dec 28 '12 at 6:12
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What is the difference between Community edition and Enterprise edition?
added by blakcaps Dec 27 '12 at 1:51
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This is a great question. We can all look at the Magento compare page magentocommerce.com/product/compare, but what does each point mean in practical terms? For instance, what does "Enhanced Catalog and Content Management System (CMS+)" mean for a Magento admin? – CCBlackburn Dec 27 '12 at 2:08
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How can I properly add additional columns to the sales order grid?
added by Thomas S Dec 27 '12 at 2:17
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How can I profile my site with the Varien profiler?
added by Thomas S Dec 27 '12 at 2:18
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Whats the best way to keep my indexes updated when I am importing inventory every hour ?
added by Thomas S Dec 27 '12 at 2:20
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How to investigate performance bottlenecks on development/qa/semilive environment?
added by Ivan Chepurnyi Dec 27 '12 at 4:04
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Local Dev/ Dev / Staging / Production - Ideal set up for a team of devs, and/or What automation and deployment options do we have with Magento?
added by vaskoism Dec 27 '12 at 12:42
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Should my store capture or authorize on sale if we are utilizing dropshippers based on GAAP?
added by Thomas S Dec 27 '12 at 13:42
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What should the Magento folder permissions be set to on the server?
added by Thomas S Dec 27 '12 at 13:42
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How to implement full page caching into Magento?
added by Jernej Golja Dec 27 '12 at 13:56
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This question could be improved. As it stands, "full page caching is on by default in enterprise" is a fair answer. There are lots of caching and performance adjustments that are useful to know, like exactly how the local.xml and enterprise.xml files work; how and why to enable memcached for session, normal caching or FPC. But just "how to enable FPC" is an incomplete question, IMO. – kojiro Dec 29 '12 at 21:27
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Magento:Describe the basic concepts of models, resource models, and collections, and the relationship they have to one another
added by Pavel Novitsky Dec 27 '12 at 14:28
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Magento: Track number of downloads of downloadable product links
added by Pavel Novitsky Dec 27 '12 at 14:34
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I have a site on version 1.3. Should I upgrade directly to 1.7 or go through each version.
added by Piotr Kaminski Dec 27 '12 at 14:53
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How to upgrade from Magento 1.3 to the latest version of Magento?
added by Sergei Guk Dec 27 '12 at 16:50
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What is the meaning of "invalidated" in the backend under Caches -> Block cache
added by Alex Dec 27 '12 at 19:31
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What are some important things I need to know in order to run Magento in a clustered server environment successfully?
added by Josh Davenport Dec 27 '12 at 20:15
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What are the benefits and limitations to supporting multiple Magento stores from one installation / server?
added by pcproffitt Dec 27 '12 at 21:12
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What are the best recommended steps to becoming a Magento certified developer?
added by pcproffitt Dec 27 '12 at 21:23
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How can I debug & troubleshoot Magento URL rewrite index being constantly stuck in "pending" state?
added by benmarks Dec 27 '12 at 22:43
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What steps should I take to ensure my Magento Store is PCI/DSS Compliant
added by Alan Storm Dec 28 '12 at 0:06
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What is the difference between "Flush Magento Cache" and "Flush Cache Storage"?
added by blakcaps Dec 28 '12 at 1:12
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What is the difference between $object->getData('attribute_name') and $object->getAttributeName()? Which is the preferred method?
added by Vicky Dec 28 '12 at 16:08
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What is the difference between a Bundle, Configurable, and Grouped product?
added by broderboy Dec 30 '12 at 2:38
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How can I add a column to the Manage Products table in the administration panel?
added by Dan LaManna Dec 31 '12 at 22:18
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How do I set up tax rules for my store?
added by Vicky Jan 1 '13 at 18:49
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