Category Magento
Team Magento @ Kiva.org
Want to make a difference? I have written a few posts on using Magento for Charities (I had planned to do more), but I came across a different approach relevant more for those in the Magento community. Why not support Team Magento set up by @gxjansen on Kiva? What is Kiva? Kiva.org is a site that makes […]
A Minimal Magento 2 Extension (Guest Post)
This post walks through a recent lightweight extension designed to demonstrate some basic concepts and components needed for a Magento 2 extension. Code is available at https://github.com/coldgreentea/m2extension. (Hi all! This is another guest post by Dale Sikkema on a demo that some of the internal developers put together. Enjoy! Alan) This extension is by no means comprehensive […]
Configuration Settings – Deployed code or in Shared Store (Quick Note)
Where is the best place to store configuration settings? We have been discussing this internally recently. Two knee jerk reactions are “files on disk” and “in the database” (with the latter possibly immediately replaced by Redis or some other optimized shared storage or cache). And to be clear, here I am talking about settings that […]
Docker Machine – not quite ready for prime time under Windows? (Quick Note)
Docker machine was recently announced as a quick way to get a new VM provisioned and ready to run Docker containers. That is, it creates a new VM with the Docker engine installed in it for you, setting up the various certificate files for authentication. It knows how to talk to VirtualBox (locally), Azure, Amazon, Digital […]
Exploring Azure Support for Docker
I knew Microsoft’s cloud solution, Azure, supported Docker – but how well? It felt a little strange that Microsoft were embracing Docker so rapidly with Docker being built on Linux. This post is my first foray into trying to run Magento in a Docker image on Microsoft Azure. While I had a couple of speed […]
Reducing Magento 2 Install Pain through Virtualization
Magento 2 has lifted the minimum supported versions of PHP, MySQL and other supporting software to higher levels – the level anticipated to be the norm when Magento 2 is released at GA. However a lot of people have reported current issues with running Magento 2 in environments such as MAMP (and for myself XAMP […]
About Magento 2.0 developer documentation
With Magento 2 dev beta we also launch documentation in GitHub. Here is a bit more info for those interested. Hi everybody, this is Bradburn Young with a guest post. Thanks to Alan for lending me his space to talk to you here. I lead a team of technical writers here at Magento. We publish […]
Has Magento 2 Reduced Integration and Upgrade Effort?
Has Magento 2 Reduced Integration and Upgrade Effort? The developer beta period (officially commencing December 18, 2014) is a great time to explore Magento 2 and provide your perspective and feedback. What is better? Where can Magento go further? Are there rough patches where small changes could have a big positive impact? In a previous […]
Magento 2 Caching Overview
Web accelerators (caching) can make a Magento installation deliver a more responsive user experience with less hardware. A famous quote however is “There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things” – Phil Karlton. Yes, caching was mentioned first! Magento 2 has included a lot of changes from Magento 1 to […]
Magento Feedback Channels
Yesterday I released a post asking community opinions about which underlying framework people thought Magento 2 should be built on. I thought I would give a little insight into how this and other feedback is used within Magento. (This post is related to the core product, not Connect or magento.com.) Decision Making Within Magento there […]
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