Fooman’s Magento Imagine 2017 Wrap Up
Fooman’s Magento Imagine 2017 Wrap Up Another developer oriented Magento Imagine 2017 wrap up. Include the slides from Kristof’s talk on Magento and composer.
astorm
7
Why you Can’t Remove the product_list_toolbar Block
Over in my Patreon slack, a patron came to me with the following layout handle XML chunk. This block of XML would successfully remove the block named breadcrumbs, but it would not successfully remove the block named product_list_toolbar. This is one of those places where Magento’s lack of documentation and/or a cogent systems [...]
astormMagento 2 Module for Custom Reporting Grids
Magento 2 Module for Custom Reporting Grids Haven’t tried it yet, but this looks like a Magento 2 module that will let you easily create new Reporting Grids with a simple SQL statement.
astormImagine2017 Summary from Yiero Founder Jisse Reitsma
Imagine2017 Summary from Yiero Founder Jisse Reitsma A nice, succinct wrap up of Magento’s announcements at Imagine 2017. Lots of third party service acquisitions for EE users, not much public-news/investment on the open-source/CE/independent-developer side of things.
astormHeadless Magento 2 Resources
Headless Magento 2 Resources “Headless Magento” – that is, an ecommerce store whose user interface uses some other technology stack for the UI/UX (i.e. javascript) while relying on Magento’s REST API endpoints for store functionality – is a hot topic in the Magento world. While this approach can explode a project’s budget (you’re reimplementing the a front-end store and any extension functionality) it is, none-the-less, popular with agencies looking to put their javascript engineering teams to work. If your sales team has thrown you in the headless deep-end, the sitewards/headless-magento2-resources and ishakhsuvarov/going-headless GitHub repositories are two small projects that are […]
astormMagento 2 VirtualTypes at Runtime
Whether you’re using your IDE, a debugging extension, or calling get_class and new ReflectionClass yourself, PHP (or any language’s) ability to examine itself at runtime is a vital tool for debugging a program. Most bugs come down to “this variable does not have what I thought it had in it”, or “the thing in [...]
astormPestle 1.3.1 and the Magento Imagine Hackathon
We’ve just released pestle 1.3.1, the investable .0.1 release following 1.3.0. The release fixes a few bugs with the generated DDL code for text and decimal based columns. Full details available in the issue that reported the problem. If you’re at today’s Magento Imagine hackathon (or any day’s hackathon really), [...]
astorm