Learning from the Magento core…

Learning any framework is complex. Learning one as labyrinthine as used by Magento e-Commerce is positively painful. So why not learn from the people who programmed the system? When you are in the Administration interface, note down the url path you are interested at. Find the controller action that corresponds to this path, by looking in the /app/core/Mage/Adminhtml module, and then dissect the action code to get some handy hints…

Not sure what the url for an event is, because some AJAX trickery is happening? Then break out Firebug and grab the network activity…