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• Programmatically creating a coupon (including the rule) with conditions in Magento

  Posted on Tue May 22, 2012 by Jeroen Derks There have been 4 comment(s)

  For one of my projects I needed to programmatically create a random coupon for a specific product in Magento. Since I did not find an exact sample that I could use I decided to post my solution here.

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• How to add customer authentication to your Magento API

  Posted on Tue May 22, 2012 by Jeroen Derks There have been 5 comment(s)

  In this post I will provide a simple solution to adding customer authentication to the Magento API. How to add functionality to the Magento API has already been properly documented in the Magento wiki page Creating a custom API or extending the Core API, so we will not dive into that.

  The idea is to simply call the same function for login() which would be used in the frontend and then check for customer authentication in every API call that requires customer authentication.

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• Questions to ask when interviewing a candidate Magento developer

  Posted on Sun May 6, 2012 by Jeroen Derks There have been 2 comment(s)

  Since there is a lot of work to do for Magento, I have been looking to find some help. In my experience it is very difficult to determine the knowledge and expertise of a candidate until he/she is actually working on a project with you. During my search I have compiled a list of questions to help make the decision on who to actually talk to. When actually talking to a candidate, the questions are used to discuss the various topics more in depth.
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