Two Fridays ago I attended a mid-day tech talk at Copious, a fast growing agency here in Portland, OR. The talk was called Scaling Magento, but Copious isn't a Magento agency. Copious is a full service digital strategy agency, and one of the rare
astormI'm happy to announce a new chapter in my Leanpub published book, No Frills Command Line Magento. The new chapter Built in Shell Commands covers the three shell commands that ship with Magento. You'll learn how to clean log files, reindex the site, and
astormIf you’re not paying attention, eBay has been a little more proactive on the Magento 2 front. The code dumps are coming regularly to git. Of course, this means the shifts in architecture direction are also coming regularly to git. In Magento 1 we had module declaration files. These lived in app/etc/modules/*.xml and [...]
astormSpeaking of COPIOUS This looks like an interesting Magento instance backup script from Dann.
astormCOPIOUSLabs TechTalk: Scaling Magento I’ll try my best to make this tech talk — it should be interesting to see what a (super smart) non-partner agency has cooked up in the way of a scaling strategy.
astormNumber [god I don’t know] in the “Reasons Magento/PHP drives you Crazy” series. Trying loading a product object that doesn’t exist. $product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->loadByAttribute('sku','NO SUCH SKU'); var_dump($product); You’ll find $product contains NULL. Now try loading an attribute [...]
astormAt a partner only event in Chicago, members of eBay’s Magento team renewed their support for Magento 2. A few of the usual suspects were there, and a more general announcement has been promised. As for a release date? The usual. It’s interesting to look back to the Magento Developer’s Paradise conference in 2010, which [...]
astormspeedupmate: if the time and price fits and mostly tasks that can be measured with days “Tasks that cab be measured with days” is the freelance programmer’s mantra.
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