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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...
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.
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.
Let’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...
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...
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...
Magento 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...