If you're new to PHP, you may find the concept of autoloading a little confusing. When PHP first introduced classes, there was no defined way to load class definition files — end-user-programmers were expected to use require and include to pull in the classes definitions
astormIf you're following along over on the Pulse Storm blog, you'll know we've just released Commerce bug 3.1. This is mostly a bug fix/Magento 2.1 compatibility release, but there are a few new features hidden beneath the surface.
astormOne of the big changes for Magento 2 developers is the introduction of a formal, "semantic versioning" system to the platform. If you're a Magento developer and this comes as news to you, don't feel bad. Although there's been plenty of talk about the
astormI'm happy to announce the immediate availability of the Pulse Storm Launcher UI enhancement for WordPress, including integrations with WooCommerce and WP eCommerce. The source is currently available on GitHub, and I'm hoping to carve out some time to get it submitted to the
astormI’m knee deep in a rewrite of No Frills Magento Layout for Magento 2 – I know the systems well enough to use them, but I’m still coming up to speed on the underlying object implementations. This is important, since my approach in No Frills is Here’s how you’d do this in PHP, here’s how to do the same [...]
astormAlthough the technique still works, various members of Magento’s engineering team have discouraged using Magento 1’s <action method="..."/> syntax to call methods on blocks from layout update XML files. <block ...> <action method="addTab"> <argument name="name" [...]
astormMagento 2 module creator and code generator | Mage2Gen Haven’t had a chance to check this out yet, but it looks like another Magento 2 module generation tool. This one seems to be an “everything and the kitchen sink” approach (vs. pestle which lets you build only the parts you need) but that approach does mean you get a [...]
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