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Magento 1 or Magento 2? A Guidebook
Since November 2015, when Magento 2.0 was released, we have to ask ourselves: Which system should we use for our Magento projects - Magento 1 or Magento 2? Or a totally different system? There is no clear and simple answer to that - the decision depends on many...
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Conference Speaking Checklist
As a somewhat frequent public speaker, I have an internal checklist, besides actual preparation of the presentation. Over time, the list grew longer and longer, as I noticed things at conferences that I would have liked to know in advance. So I’m writing it down to...
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Meet Magento Poland 2018 – A Short Review
Fabian and Andreas attended Meet Magento Poland 2018. Organized by two Polish agencies in an extraordinary location, the organizers paid special attention to get all details right. And it paid off.
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Reaction v2 – the second Magento PWA conference in Eindhoven
Only 6 months after Reacticon, its successor Reacticon v2 is about to happen. We look forward to an interesting specialised conference in the Netherlands.
read moreLet’s make this legendary – Magento Live Europe 2018
There is a new Magento event around the corner that has people all excited. It's called Magento Live Europe and takes place on 9-10th October 2018. Heard that before? Not quite. After Magento Live UK, Magento Live Germany and Magento Live France, this event aims for...
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Meet Magento Poland 2018 – What to expect from Krakow
In a few weeks, all eyes of the Magento community should be on Meet Magento Poland. In the growing family of Meet Magento events, Meet Magento Poland is one of those events that have basically always been there. It is one of those events that bring together a great...
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Magento 2: Automatic Code Quality Check with GrumPHP
An important part of good code quality is the compliance with coding standards. The following rules can be part of the coding standards: Naming of variables and functions Tabs or spaces Positions of braces Allowed blank lines Allowed line length Maximum code...
read moreMagento Master but not a developer
In the tech world, contributing to open source is often understood as providing pull requests to the software code. However, these code contributions are not everything that is done. Nor are they everything that is needed. While code contributions are a vital part of...
read moreMagento Association – Write-Up After Brainstorming Meeting
The day after Meet Magento DE, a brainstorming meeting about the Magento Association took place. Here is what Magento Association is all about and what happened at the meeting.
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Removing unused core modules from Magento 2 – the right way
Inspired by a tweet by Erik Hansen, I take up the opportunity to write down a technique which is used in our projects frequently. I have first seen it introduced by my colleague Fabian Schmengler. As described in our article Cut load times by up to 40% – Why and How...
read moreExtDN Extension Quality Working Group & Community Hangout
This week, the "extension quality" working group of ExtDN hosted their first community hangout, open for anyone interested to join. This blog post is going to be a short recap and also an introduction to the initiative. About ExtDN The Magento...
read moreNext stop: Utrecht – Meet Magento NL coming up
On June 1st, it’s time for the tenth edition of Meet Magento Netherlands. We look forward to great content in Utrecht, where we also contribute in different ways to the agenda.
read moreMagento 2.2 and above: Simplify working with testing and development environments
When you import a database to a test or staging system, configuration settings need to be changed. To avoid this error-prone task, you can store the relevant config data in the code instead.
read moreTest Smell: Copy and Paste
When writing tests, the use of copy & paste is even more tempting than when you code. Here is a solution to avoid the duplication.
read moreMeet Magento DE – Meeting Point for First-Timers
A little backstory It was in 2013 when I first attended a Meet Magento event. It was the Meet Magento DE in Leipzig. There were many people, many of them engaged in conversations. I knew some of these people: their names, their Twitter avatars, and the companies they...
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MageRun Leipzig 2018
Prepare yourself for a long conference day with a run outside. The exercise and fresh air help to enjoy the day full of input. Like last year, we organise the MageRun in Leipzig for all attendees of Meet Magento DE.
read moreDecorators for Magento Templates
A decorator is a class that wraps another class, implements the original interface, delegates method calls to the original class, but may modify the return values or add additional methods. The Decorator design pattern is one of the original design patterns for object...
read moreView Models in Magento 1 and 2
Magento 2.2.0 and 2.2.1 made some interesting changes to the layout system, with the goal to make the inheritance based block system redundant: all blocks are automatically considered of the “Template” type if not specified otherwise classes can be injected via layout...
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Reacticon: New Hope for Magento and PWA?
My review of the first Magento and Progessive Web App (PWA) related Reacticon conference
read moreMagento Shop Audits – independent analysis of your store
For some time now, our company has run individual audits of Magento 1 and Magento 2 based online stores. Some of these shop audits happen in the process of taking over a running project: before we get to work, we do the shop audit in order to find out about the...
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