Blog – Magento 1
Remote Exams for the new Magento Certifications
In August 2020, all Magento 2 certifications have been transferred to the Adobe certification program, as my colleague Sonja has written here. You can still take certification exams online and in test centers, but the process is different now. I have already described...
Update to Magento Certifications
In August 2020, Adobe announced an update to the existing Magento certifications. Aiming to create more consistency over all Adobe certifications, the main visible changes are the updated names and badges of the Magento certifications. For those that take a...
Miles & More Integration in Magento
Customer loyalty programmes are a useful tool to tie customers tighter to the own brand and to generate more sales with lower customer acquisition costs than it would be necessary to gain a new customer. That is a reason why programmes, that reward customers for their...
For the third time in a row: two Magento Masters at integer_net
A few weeks ago, the Magento Masters 2019 were announced. For the third time in a row our colleague Sonja has been awarded, for Andreas from our team it's the first time. In 2017 and 2018 Fabian was also one of the Magento Masters. ...
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...
Magento 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.
Test 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.
Decorators 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...
View 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...
Magento 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...
Test Smell: Hard Coded Values
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Test Smell: Irrelevant information
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How Search Algorithms work: The Levenshtein Distance
A good product search in online stores is tolerant when it comes to typos, it finds matching products, categories and other contents even if there is no 100% match. To make this happen, there is an algorithm that compares the search term to searchable content or...
Test Smell: Mystery Guest
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Updates for IntegerNet_Solr for Magento 1 and Magento 2
What's new at IntegerNet_Solr? It's been a while since we last blogged about a new version of IntegerNet_Solr. For both the Magento 1 and Magento 2 version, we have worked on new features. The current version of IntegerNet_Solr for Magento 2 is 1.4.0, the...
End of Life of Magento 1 postponed by Magento Inc.
Yesterday, Magento officially announced that the support for the outdated product version 1.x won't end in 2018. Support of Magento 1 is secured for an indefinite time. Magento assures that they will announce a possible end of support at least 18 months in advance....
Solr Search for All – IntegerNet_Solr Free Version
An idea long nurished in our minds is finally ready for publication: we release IntegerNet_Solr Free, a completely free Solr integration for Magento. This extension makes it easy for everyone to set up Solr as a product search in a Magento online store. Why do we...
Isolating Domain Logic in Magento Customizations
Lately I’ve been advocating decoupling business logic from the framework (i.e. Magento) a lot. This has multiple advantages: Benefit from test driven development (TDD) without having to mock a bunch of core classes. Possible reuse in different applications (for...
AND or OR? Magento’s Search Types and Search Operators
Magento offers different options to configure the catalog search. Which search type and which search operator you choose has a great influence on search results, especially when your search phrase consists of multiple words. When all options describend below are...
integer_net becomes a member of ExtDN
In January 2016, we have joined ExtDN, the Magento Extension Developers Network. ExtDN was very young back then, but it's now already counting 17 members. All of them leading extension providers, the members of ExtDN are committed to offer innovative, high quality...
Magento 1 was published in 2008. In the beginning, the software built its fanbase with its innovative features, which enabled international merchants and the use of complex product types. The lively community of Magento around the globe has added features, created helpful tutorials and more.
In the last couple of years, we have written quite a few articles about Magento 1 for our blogpost. And the number keeps growing, even though the age of Magento 2 has come. There are still news around Magento 1 that are worth writing about. And even the approaching End of Life, the day when Magento officially stops supporting Magento 1 with security updates, will probably not be the end of Magento 1. Already these days, initiatives are growing that plan to keep Magento 1 alive.