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We did a hackathon! In Cologne! And because we got some pictures, we need a place to put them, so here they are. Thanks to Rico Neitzel for taking them. And thanks to our sponsors to make it possible!

Today I watched Magento Masters Spotlight interview of the wonderful Magento master Sander Mangel. He was talking about hackathons. The funny and somehow crazy projects and modules we created. I saw the video with a community friend of mine and his first reaction was: “Oh, he is talking about the hackathons like they are a […]

We have the old tradition, to have a blog series in December. Every day a post. Tobias Vogt started it years ago on webguys.de (2014, 2016). Starting last year we moved the calendar over to Firegento and filled it with a lot of content from international authors. We have no clue why, but this year it was […]

On behalf of a merchant we built a complex product configurator for pallet racks. It is able to create individually assembled products from a large range of grouped products and displays them as a single entity – a bundled product – in cart. In this instructive post we demonstrate how this can be done in […]

OpenGento is a french speaking community of Magento developers that was founded in 2015 with the purpose of promoting the Magento e-commerce platform, and to be a point of contact for developers that want to share and discuss all things Magento. Together we have organized many events: One conference, four get-together weekends (three in Toulouse […]

As you probably have already heard, the eol (End of life) for “Magento 1” is set to June 2020. (as announced here: https://magento.com/blog/magento-news/supporting-magento-1-through-june-2020 ) Already some time ago the OpenMage Project was started, to improve the bugfix situation for Magento 1, as even when a fix was already provided, they were often not integrated into […]

Magento and additional Microservices: What a dream team! We started as probably many of you also did: with Magento and some additional extensions to add missing features and bring value to the customer. Over time it became more and more and luckily the business flourishing. By this we encountered areas in which Magento is well […]

There shouldn´t be the question if it would be better. The question should be for who? Really nobody likes this Angular vs React stuff, every solution has it’s pros and cons. The essential question is would you choose Angular because you know React is not the right tool in this case for your customer? Sometimes […]

This article is also available at medium.com TL;DR Magento 2 has a lot of awesome new approaches to day-to-day issues, but also suites the classical Magento mantra “Let’s make standards the Magento Way™” If you give it a chance and find your way around the quirks of it, it’s not so difficult at all. They […]

Being a software developer drives one fundamental lesson into you: Software is not reliable. Now, by and large the services that we use every day are extremely reliable. To my memory Google Search has essentially never been “down”, and when Facebook went down it was national news. Each of these services still experience regular failures. […]