Slow Composer Followup
Last week's Bypassing a slow Composer Repository post shook a few interesting things from the internet underbrush.
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Bypassing a Slow Composer Repository
This week I had a long standing to do item I was looking forward to tackling
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In 2014 a newcomer to Magento is, all things considered, in much better shape than a newcomer was in 2009. While far from complete, the developer's series (originally written by me, since updated by Magento staff) gives a developer the grounding they need in
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The PHP community draws developers from all sorts of different backgrounds — there's the technical and academic on one end of the spectrum, and the bang on the keyboard until it works on the other. Because PHP is such an accessible language, all these
astormUse Reflection to find the class that a method belongs to
Use Reflection to find the class that a method belongs to Some reflection and PHP token parsing to get to the actual class with a method definition (or, by way of inference, if a method is magic or not)
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Slow Indexing in Magento EE Main Takeaway: If you mix strings/integers in your WHERE clauses for numbers, MySQL can’t use its indexes.
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I'm willing to concede this might be my inner frozen caveman developer talking, but right now "frontend web development" seems like it's in a crises of chaos. Frontend developers, (the folks writing CSS, Javascript, and building our application UIs), have never had such a
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