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How to contribute to Magento 2 translations
Magento 2 is built for international ecommerce. In order to provide the best user experience, translations need some support from the community. Here is how you can help.
Magento Imagine and its side-events
Disclaimer:Most of my calendar entries actually were on the weekend before the conference. So I'll let you in on what happened before Magento Imagine in chronological order. And then add my most inspirational moment from Imagine. For a review of Imagine and all major...
Magento Imagine 2019 – Review
On May 13th to 15th, the annual Magento Imagine took place in Las Vegas. It is the biggest Magento conference worldwide, organized by Magento themselves. integer_net was represented by Sonja and Andreas. As every year, there were several announcements. Here are the...
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...
MageRun Leipzig 2019
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.
Make Magento 2 small again
With version 2.3.0, Magento includes about 200 internal PHP packages (in the "magento" namespace) plus more than a hundred external PHP packages. These numbers have grown a lot in the last few releases, especially with several packages for the GraphQL integration and...
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. ...
Resolving Session Bottleneck in Magento AJAX Requests
In a Magento 2 project we monitor with Tideways, we noticed a recurring bottleneck at session_start(), especially in the AJAX requests that load customer data. The issue is that simultaneous requests that use the same session will block each other, causing them to...
Welcome Wagon for newcomers at Meet Magento DE 2019
Is this your first time attending the Meet Magento DE? We organise a Welcome Wagon for newcomers to connect so you don’t feel lost in the crowd.
Magento Integration Tests & TDD – What to expect from the workshop at MageTestFest
In March, Fabian offers a workshop at MageTestFest in Florence. Here are more details about the workshop, his intentions and what to expect from the one day workshop.
Why you should not use @escapeNotVerified in Magento templates
Did you ever wonder, what @escapeNotVerified is doing all over the place in Magento templates? I've often seen it blindly copied from core code. Don't do this! Let me explain: First, there is a good overview by Magento architect Alex Paliarush @paliarush on...
About the Magento 2 Certified Professional Developer PLUS exam
In November 2018, Magento presented a new certification: Magento 2 Certified Professional Developer Plus. It's aimed at developers and architects with at least two years of experience with Magento 2, so it's a higher level than the Magento 2 Certified Professional...
MageTitans Manchester 2018 – to PWA or not to PWA
TL,DR; I was in Manchester for MageTitans. It was great. Last Friday, I flew to Manchester to attend MageTitans Manchester. MageTitans is a yearly event organised for developers. The people behind this event belong to the Manchester based company Space 48 and the...
Mage Unconference 2018 aftermath
On the weekend of 27 and 28 October, Mage Unconference 2018 took place in Cologne, Germany (or Köln for the connoisseurs). Integer_net did not only attend with 10 out of our 12 employees, but for the 4th year in a row, we were a proud main sponsor of the event. A...
Reacticon v2 – Today We’ll Create A New Future
Now that the dust has settled after the inaugural Magento Live Europe conference in Barcelona, it’s a good time to recapitulate a smaller but evenly important event that happened just before in Eindhoven, the Netherlands: Reacticon v2 What is Reacticon? A conference...
With Devs in Mind – MageTitans UK
Back in 2014, many events in the Magento ecosystem were somewhat disappointing for developers. The tech track often had the smallest room of the venue and too many people in the room. The topics were chosen months before the event and are no longer up to...
Magento Meetup Aachen – Christmas Edition 2018
It has become a tradition in the recent years: A meetup for people interested in Magento at the Aachen Christmas Market in December. Last year, we even made a small conference out of it, called Christmage. We aim to have the next Christmage in 2019. Still, we will...
Magento Live Europe Recap
In October 2018, we attended the biggest Magento event in Europe to learn about Magento & Adobe and upcoming changes regarding PWA and Magento 2.3
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...
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...