Archives December 2018

Dec
24
2018

Advent Calendar – Summary

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 […]

Dec
22
2018

Türchen 22: How to: Complex product configurator in Magento 2

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 […]

Dec
20
2018

Türchen 20: Community of developers: Go beyond

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 […]

Dec
17
2018

Türchen 17: OpenMage and the Time after M1 EOL

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 […]

Dec
7
2018

Türchen 8: Split off requests to micro services

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 […]

Dec
7
2018

Türchen 7: Would an Angular PWA be the better Venia theme for Magento2?

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 […]

Dec
4
2018

Türchen 5: Why is Magento 2 so difficult

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 […]

Dec
3
2018

Türchen 3: Dying well: How to conduct an effective post mortem (failure analysis)

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. […]

Dec
2
2018

Türchen 2: Firegento Advent 2018 – Giving back to the Community

Welcome to another year of the advent calendar. A lot happened this year, and one prominent topic was definitively the acquisition of Magento by Adobe. But, Magento is more then a Company, it’s a Community. A Community which promotes Magento, contributes to it, and drives the ecosystem. Maybe the Company needs the Community even more, […]