Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Magento Developer Toolbar extension- Its Amazing

Professional magento developer toolbar with profiling, database queries, handles, event/observer overview, block nesting, requests and caching.

Be Professional, see what happens in the dark

The Mgt Developer Toolbar for magento is very useful for all developers and frontend guys. 
Many professional developers all over the world use this extension to find possible performance bottlenecks. 
You have an overview of the parse time, memory consumption and number of queries executed. 
It also gives you information about the Controller, Module and Action which is responsible for the current request. 
The advantage for frontend guys should also be mentioned, you get a complete overview 
how the blocks are rendered and which templates are used. This makes all block and template changes
 easier than ever before.


More info : http://www.mgt-commerce.com/magento-developer-toolbar.html

Monday, October 8, 2012

Saass.. Fun with CSS :)

Sass makes CSS fun again. Sass is an extension of CSS3, adding nested rules, variables, mixins, selector inheritance, and more. It’s translated to well-formatted, standard CSS using the command line tool or a web-framework plugin. Sass has two syntaxes. The new main syntax (as of Sass 3) is known as “SCSS” (for “Sassy CSS”), and is a superset of CSS3’s syntax. This means that every valid CSS3 stylesheet is valid SCSS as well. SCSS files use the extension .scss. The second, older syntax is known as the indented syntax (or just “Sass”). Inspired by Haml’s terseness, it’s intended for people who prefer conciseness over similarity to CSS. Instead of brackets and semicolons, it uses the indentation of lines to specify blocks. Although no longer the primary syntax, the indented syntax will continue to be supported. Files in the indented syntax use the extension .sass. Reference : - http://sass-lang.com/