I’ve always thought that professional certification takes a back seat to experience.  When it comes to Magento, certification is much more valuable than with other technical disciplines.

You can look at the websites a developer has made to get an idea of their experience but there’s tons going on behind the scenes that you cannot see.  Working with a Magento Certified Developer helps you insure that 3rd party integrations will work right, that your orders can be fulfilled smoothly and perhaps most important, that when things go wrong, your developer has the skills to fix them before customer service becomes a serious problem.

/* replace all occurrences of www. in DB table core_config_data with dev. */
UPDATE core_config_data SET value = REPLACE(value, 'www.', 'dev.') WHERE path = 'web/unsecure/base_url';
UPDATE core_config_data SET value = REPLACE(value, 'www.', 'dev.') WHERE path = 'web/secure/base_url';

/* Disable Google Analytics */
UPDATE core_config_data SET value = '0' WHERE path = 'google/analytics/active';
UPDATE core_config_data SET value = '' WHERE path = 'google/analytics/account';


It looks that Magento has been loading 58000 order addresses to just edit the one. It’s core bug and still not fixed even in 1.6.2.0. They have used:

$address = Mage::getModel('sales/order_address')
->getCollection()
->getItemById($addressId);

It’s really weird because in method which actually saves an order address they are loading that properly:

$address = Mage::getModel('sales/order_address')->load($addressId);

We ended up overriding OrderController.php for the fix:

<?php

/**
* Adminhtml sales orders controller
*
* @author      Wojciech Naruniec <wojtek@rocketweb.com>
*/

require_once  'Enterprise/SalesArchive/controllers/Adminhtml/Sales/OrderController.php';

class Mysupp_AdminhtmlMysupp_Sales_OrderController extends Enterprise_SalesArchive_Adminhtml_Sales_OrderController
{
    /**
     * Edit order address form
     *
     * Method is extended to fix magento core memory bug. Original
     * method loads the whole collection to get just one element!
     *
     * If there is 50 000 order addresses, it loads them ALL.
     */
    public function addressAction()
    {
        $addressId = $this->getRequest()->getParam('address_id');

        $address = Mage::getModel('sales/order_address')->load($addressId);

        if ($address) {
            Mage::register('order_address', $address);
            $this->loadLayout();
            $this->renderLayout();
        } else {
            $this->_redirect('*/*/');
        }
    }
}

We are working on 6 more projects from scratch at the moment and look forward to launching these new magento development sites soon.

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Recently a new client needed both hosting and control over the hosting account.  This is not something we provide.  Our at cost hosting does not allow any client access, it’s 100% managed by us alone.  Our client did some research and came across MageMojo.  The price is equal to my at cost hosting.  There have been a couple minor issues, but for the price they are hard to beat.  When my client’s site was setup, their DNS setup was broken.  We made some changes in the cPanel gui to later find out that changes need to manually be implemented via a support ticket.  This labor day holiday there was a mistake made at UPS or perhaps an attack to their dns systems that had any website doing real time lookups against UPS failing because it could not resolve the server.  This issue could be fixed at the hosting company.  Of the 4 different systems I monitor, MageMojo was the last to pickup on the issue.  Or perhaps they didn’t catch it and just picked up on the fix from UPS.  This issue was fixed at Rackspace about 8 hours before MageMojo for example.

Maybe once per year there will be an issue that one of the top tier hosting companies will solve quicker than MageMojo.  You also may get slightly quicker support with a top tier company.  Overall I’m recommending MageMojo for new Magento sites, particularly if you do not have special hosting requirements.