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 […]
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 […]
M2IF stands for (Magento 2 Import Framework). The idea behind M2IF is to provide a framework that allows developers to implement their own, custom Magento 2 import application. Basically M2IF provides a set of components, that provides the necessary functionality therefore. To make things more comfortable, it comes with a fully functional CLI sample application, […]
So it’s almost Christmas, nearly a week to go. So in the spirit op Christmas I want to share something with you. People how know me know I love speed. Not the drugs you silly ;-). No, I love the speed of acceleration, the faster the better. That’s why I am a “Speed Junky”. In […]
Static code analysis has been around for a while and in the PHP world this is most often synonymous with using PHP_CodeSniffer. It is mostly used to enforce (subtly suggest) using a certain coding style. However coding styles are just that, a style – even if your code is unfashionable, it can still create a correct […]
Magento 2 Blocks Since the very beginning of Magento 1, all server side view layer logic was encapsulated in Block classes. This approach has not changed in Magento 2 (so far). Last week I had the chance to talk to Anton Kril of Magento and he told me I should consider switching to a new […]
Einen schönen Nikolaustag, euch allen! Ich hoffe der Nikolaus, oder auch Nikolo – wie er in Österreich auch genannt wird – bringt euch heute eine Kleinigkeit. All jenen, die gestern nicht der Krampus geholt hat, darf ich heute meinen Beitrag zum Adventskalender näher bringen: Magento 2 Deployment mit Capistrano. Wer kennt das nicht: Nach Tage/Wochen/Monaten harter […]
Christmas is the time of giving and mince pies, but since I am in Germany and cannot get mincemeat let’s focus on the giving. In this case I will be looking at giving from the point of view of open source contributions. More specifically, pull requests to the Magento 2 project. Let’s say you are working […]
When I started to organize my first hackathon for firegento, I was looking for a checklist, a how-to or a tipps & tricks, like you find them for weddings or festivals, in order to have it a little bit easier and to become confident. And now a couple of hackathons later, I would like to […]