Speaking of COPIOUS
Speaking of COPIOUS This looks like an interesting Magento instance backup script from Dann.
astormCOPIOUSLabs TechTalk: Scaling Magento
COPIOUSLabs TechTalk: Scaling Magento I’ll try my best to make this tech talk — it should be interesting to see what a (super smart) non-partner agency has cooked up in the way of a scaling strategy.
astormBeware of Failed Object Loading
Number [god I don’t know] in the “Reasons Magento/PHP drives you Crazy” series. Trying loading a product object that doesn’t exist. $product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->loadByAttribute('sku','NO SUCH SKU'); var_dump($product); You’ll find $product contains NULL. Now try loading an attribute [...]
astormQuick Thoughts on Magento 2
At a partner only event in Chicago, members of eBay’s Magento team renewed their support for Magento 2. A few of the usual suspects were there, and a more general announcement has been promised. As for a release date? The usual. It’s interesting to look back to the Magento Developer’s Paradise conference in 2010, which [...]
astormAre you available for freelance projects?
speedupmate: if the time and price fits and mostly tasks that can be measured with days “Tasks that cab be measured with days” is the freelance programmer’s mantra.
astormMagento 2 and Commerce Bug
Apologies for the quiet around here, but I've been hard at work finishing up the latest release of Commerce Bug. The big feature this time around? Magento 2 support! Don't worry, Commerce Bug is still, and will remain, fully functional with Magento 1.
astormWarby Parker Open Sources two Magento Extensions
Warby Parker Open Sources two Magento Extensions Besides being the useful/right “open-sourcey” thing to, it’s interesting to see the sort of problems a big scale site like Warby Parker decided to solve themselves, and the extra infrastructure tools (RabbitMQ) they used.
astormMagento 2: Magic Getters and Setters
Magento’s objects (that inherit from Varien_Object) have special “magic” getter and setter methods implemented with PHP’s magic __call method. If you’ve got a Magento object, you can just set and get data like this $this->setFooBar('a value'); echo $this->getFooBar(); without any setFooBar or getFooBar [...]
astormMagento 2 Varient_Object — no more _construct
In Magento 2, the base Varien_Object class no longer has a custom, internal _construct method. Blocks, Controllers, Models, Resource Models, and Collections still have an internal _construct, but that’s because the core team defined _construct methods on the various abstract base classes for those objects. $ ack '->_construct' [...]
astormMagento 2 Layout Changes
I’ve been digging into Magento 2’s layout system, and there’s significant changes from Magento 1. Conceptually, it’s still a “nested tree” of elements, but instead of just blocks there’s now a second type of thing you can add to a layout called a container. Containers look like they’re [...]
astormMagento 2 has “web hooks”
Magento 2 has “web hooks” Looks like there’s a proposal in Magento 2 for webhooks, which appear to be a a way to have Magento automatically send an HTTP POST whenever an important business logic action (customer created, order created, etc.) occurs.
astorm3 Pillars of DI by Anton Kril
3 Pillars of DI by Anton Kril Some high level overview notes on Magento 2’s dependency injection system, via simonsprankel.
astormmagento2 – Magento 1 Class Rewrite in Magento 2 with Dependency Injection System – Magento Stack Exchange
magento2 – Magento 1 Class Rewrite in Magento 2 with Dependency Injection System – Magento Stack Exchange I didn’t realize this until today, but Magento 2 has completely ripped out the class rewrite system, and replaced it with a new dependency injection system. You can still rewrite a class, but instead of setting up a [...]
astormNo Frills Command Line Magento
No Frills Command Line Magento A quick note to Magento Quickies readers (in case you missed it elsewhere). I’ve published the n98-magerun series as a Leanpub book titled “No Frills Command Line Magento”. Future chapters are in the works, so get your copy today.
astormA Survey of PHP Error Handling
It's a daily event across the PHP development world. Somewhere, someone is thinking, and possibly typing
astormNo Frills Command Line Magento
The short version: I've found a new home for my n98-magerun Magento Quickies series by publishing a new Leanpub book. No Frills Command Line Magento is the latest book in the No Frills development series, and covers efficient Magento administration with the n98-magerun command
astormMagento Community 1.8 Update :: Meanbee Magento eCommerce
Magento Community 1.8 Update :: Meanbee Magento eCommerce An interesting, if odd, call from eBay to a few companies and individuals about the future of Community Edition.
astormAdvanced Magento Logging
Advanced Magento Logging Came across this hackathon project via this Stack Exchange question. I haven’t used the linked logger, but back when I worked for a living emailing exceptions to a central list was a key development best practice. (And ignoring those exceptions was a key development anti-pattern that drove me into my own [...]
astormVarien_Object’s `_underscoreCache`
Varien_Object’s _underscoreCache Mainly posted because it amuses me to think of the fit an underscore js aware developer will have once they realize PrototypeJS is an unavoidable Magento reality.
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