Magento Sellers Guide to Sales Tax A relatively straight forward article about how to collect sales tax for an ecommerce business. It’s remarkable how much hand waving there is about this from agencies representing themselves as ecommerce experts.
astormIf Magento 2 is your first introduction to PHP namespaces, here’s one small thought technology that might help. Consider the following namespace FooBaz; class Bar { } The above does not define a class named Bar. It defines a class named “FooBazBar”. That’s how PHP sees the class internally, and once you start [...]
astormIf you’re trying to use the browser setup workflow in the Magento 2 beta released in December of 2014, make sure your web server is using the index.php in the root of the project and not the pub/index.php file. It’s unclear which index.php is “the right” file to point to – the pub folder seems to be an [...]
astormIf you’re using Vagrant to manage your Magento 2 installations, you’ll want to be careful with file permissions. By default, it appears that Vagrant’s synced folder setup won’t allow the apache/web user to create folders with permissions elevated higher than the default sync share. Dropping in some custom mount [...]
astormMagento 2 Profiler There’s still a lot of work to be done before Magento 2 is ready for general release, and a lot of that work will involve performance tuning. The old UI for enabling/disabling the built in profiler is gone, but this Stack Exchange answer from Marko Martinović tells you how to enable it. (a MAGE_PROFILER server [...]
astormTwo Vagrant boxes for the newly released Magento 2 beta. The first is maintained by Rolando Granadino (beeplogic to Twitter folks), and is a fully featured opinionated box, with puppet provisioning, web grind for xDebug profiling, and git submodules for project dependencies. The second is a lightweight affair from Alan Kent, Magento [...]
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