Apologies for the quiet around here, but I've been hard at work finishing up the latest release of Commerce Bug. The big feature this time around? Magento 2 support! Don't worry, Commerce Bug is still, and will remain, fully functional with Magento 1.
astormWarby Parker Open Sources two Magento Extensions Besides being the useful/right “open-sourcey” thing to, it’s interesting to see the sort of problems a big scale site like Warby Parker decided to solve themselves, and the extra infrastructure tools (RabbitMQ) they used.
astormMagento’s objects (that inherit from Varien_Object) have special “magic” getter and setter methods implemented with PHP’s magic __call method. If you’ve got a Magento object, you can just set and get data like this $this->setFooBar('a value'); echo $this->getFooBar(); without any setFooBar or getFooBar [...]
astormIn Magento 2, the base Varien_Object class no longer has a custom, internal _construct method. Blocks, Controllers, Models, Resource Models, and Collections still have an internal _construct, but that’s because the core team defined _construct methods on the various abstract base classes for those objects. $ ack '->_construct' [...]
astormI’ve been digging into Magento 2’s layout system, and there’s significant changes from Magento 1. Conceptually, it’s still a “nested tree” of elements, but instead of just blocks there’s now a second type of thing you can add to a layout called a container. Containers look like they’re [...]
astormMagento 2 has “web hooks” Looks like there’s a proposal in Magento 2 for webhooks, which appear to be a a way to have Magento automatically send an HTTP POST whenever an important business logic action (customer created, order created, etc.) occurs.
astorm3 Pillars of DI by Anton Kril Some high level overview notes on Magento 2’s dependency injection system, via simonsprankel.
astormmagento2 – Magento 1 Class Rewrite in Magento 2 with Dependency Injection System – Magento Stack Exchange I didn’t realize this until today, but Magento 2 has completely ripped out the class rewrite system, and replaced it with a new dependency injection system. You can still rewrite a class, but instead of setting up a [...]
astormNo Frills Command Line Magento A quick note to Magento Quickies readers (in case you missed it elsewhere). I’ve published the n98-magerun series as a Leanpub book titled “No Frills Command Line Magento”. Future chapters are in the works, so get your copy today.
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astormThe short version: I've found a new home for my n98-magerun Magento Quickies series by publishing a new Leanpub book. No Frills Command Line Magento is the latest book in the No Frills development series, and covers efficient Magento administration with the n98-magerun command
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