Are Flat Tables Still a Thing in Magento 2?
The answer seems to be Yes, if you’re dealing with systems with a large number of stores or categories.
astormJust Enough C for PHP: Running C Programs
This entry is part 2 of 6 in the series Just Enough C for PHP. Earlier posts include Just Enough C for PHP. Later posts include Just Enough C for PHP: Variables and Types, Just Enough C for PHP: C Macros, There's no Such Thing as PHP, and Just Enough C for PHP: Make Basics. In our last article, we promised to show you how to run a simple [...]
astormChrome to force .dev domains to HTTPS via preloaded HSTS
TLDR; There’s a real .dev top level domain that Google owns (and Amazon previously tried to buy), and a recent Chromium nightly (Google Chrome’s browser engine) automatically redirects all .dev domain names to an HTTPs version of the site. Chrome to force .dev domains to HTTPS via preloaded HSTS
astormUnofficial Magento Roadmap
An Unofficial Magento Roadmap, pulled together from various promises, metions, and allusions made by Magento Inc. employees. (Glad I took Dr. Jones’ course at Marshal University (I thought about Kremlinolgy joke instead but too real)).
astormGit Move
When I’m working solo, (which usually means I’m doing the initial scoping and prototyping of some sort of feature and/or system), my “git workflow” is usually a shove it all into master affair. When I switch off to team work I often find myself in a situation where I’ve done a done of work without branching first. That’s where git move comes to the rescue. Okay, one more… Ever commit something only to immediately realize that you're on the wrong branch? Use "git move <branch>". pic.twitter.com/fKpZTRkdRu — coderabbi™[for rent] (@coderabbi) September 4, 2017
astormRegular Expression Cheat Sheet
Real Talk: I mostly just split/explode strings down to the parts I need these days, but I’ll always have a palce in my heart for regular expressions. Regular expression cheat sheet. pic.twitter.com/C0PdZ5aNXx — Mike Kearney📊 (@kearneymw) September 3, 2017
astormJust Enough C for PHP
This entry is part 1 of 6 in the series Just Enough C for PHP. Later posts include Just Enough C for PHP: Running C Programs, Just Enough C for PHP: Variables and Types, Just Enough C for PHP: C Macros, There's no Such Thing as PHP, and Just Enough C for PHP: Make Basics. The funny thing about the C programming language is, if you look [...]
astormCalling them Home
With all the Yahoo and Verizon shenanigans going on I decided to pull my Magento Quickies posts off Tumblr and hold them close again at my personal home page. You can find all the old posts in the Programming Quickies category. DNS is doing its DNS thing, but magento-quickies.alanstorm.com should eventually redirect to that same category [...]
astormPestle 1.4.2 Now Available
This entry is part 10 of 12 in the series Pestle. Earlier posts include Pestle 1.1.1 Released, Pestle 1.1.2 Released, Magento 2 Setup Migration Scripts, Pestle 1.2.1 Released, Sending Text Messages with PHP, pestle, and Nexmo, Pestle 1.3 and AbstractModel UI Generation, Pestle 1.4.1 and the Merits of Inheritance, Pestle 1.4.4 Released, [...]
astormRequireJS Modules that Return Two Widgets
One thing I breezed by in my recent Modifying a jQuery Widget in Magento 2 article was the whole returns two widgets RequireJS module thing. We mentioned that modules like the mage/menu module will do this. //File: vendor/magento/magento2-base/lib/web/mage/menu.js define([ "jquery", "matchMedia", "jquery/ui", [...]
astormModifying a jQuery Widget in Magento 2
This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series Magento 2: Advanced Javascript. Earlier posts include Magento 2: Javascript Init Scripts, KnockoutJS Primer for Magento Developers, Magento 2: KnockoutJS Integration, The Curious Case of Magento 2 Mixins, and Knockout Observables for Javascript Programmers. This is the most recent post in the [...]
astormRe: A Declarative Approach for Database Schema Upgrades
Re: A Declarative Approach for Database Schema Upgrades It sounds like Magento’s planning a pretty radical overhaul of how it handles schema and data upgrades between versions. The looks to be a fiat from on high (vs. the community driven approach they’ve been using for bug fixes). If you’re making schema/data changes that aren’t in Magento’s core or Marketplace code bases, you’ll want to pay attention to this – your deck chairs may need shifting about.
astormMenu Editor to Replace Category Based Menus in Magento 2.
Menu Editor to Replace Category Based Menus in Magento 2. Feels like I can recommend checking out stuff from SnowdogApps, sight unseen.
astormCreate a PHPUnit Dashboard With New Relic
Create a PHPUnit Dashboard With New Relic Not strictly Magento related, but if you’re using New Relic it looks like they can automatically detect test runs and give you useful metrics about your tests. Neat!
astormWhy did the Elephant join the Guild?
This entry is part 12 of 12 in the series Modern PHP. Earlier posts include Bypassing a Slow Composer Repository, Slow Composer Followup, Getting Started with PHP Composer and Magento, PHP: The Right Way; A Review, PSR and Code Style Guidelines, Sellvana: Developer's Alpha Review, PHP Primer: Type Hints, PHP Primer: Namespaces, PHP [...]
astormPHP-FPM and File Permissions
This entry is part 11 of 12 in the series Modern PHP. Earlier posts include Bypassing a Slow Composer Repository, Slow Composer Followup, Getting Started with PHP Composer and Magento, PHP: The Right Way; A Review, PSR and Code Style Guidelines, Sellvana: Developer's Alpha Review, PHP Primer: Type Hints, PHP Primer: Namespaces, PHP [...]
astormUnderstanding Laravel Spark’s Swap
This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series Laravel Spark. This is the first post in the series. As Pulse Storm (the small boutique software consultancy I started and continue to operate) takes a half step back from ecommerce and shifts back into software systems consulting, I’ve found myself doing a lot of initial application [...]
astormoddyssey/mailtrap
oddyssey/mailtrap A simple mailtrap extension for Magento 2. Mailtrap is a service that lets you point your development instances at an SMTP server that accepts mail, but doesn’t deliver it. Instead mailtrap collects all the mail in a single INBOX. If you’ve ever accidentally emailed an entire customer list with a subject line like Subject: Testing, hope this s——t works. you’ll instantly see the value. The Magento extension is also a simple example of how to hook into the MagentoFrameworkMailTransport class with a custom preference and change the behavior of the email system.
astormPestle 1.4.1 and the Merits of Inheritance
This entry is part 7 of 12 in the series Pestle. Earlier posts include Pestle 1.1.1 Released, Pestle 1.1.2 Released, Magento 2 Setup Migration Scripts, Pestle 1.2.1 Released, Sending Text Messages with PHP, pestle, and Nexmo, and Pestle 1.3 and AbstractModel UI Generation. Later posts include Pestle 1.4.4 Released, Pestle Docs Done (for [...]
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