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 […]
The original design goal when we introduced Composer was for a Magento site not to depend on Composer. The goal was to allow a site to be constructed with or without Composer. It was also so we could move Magento to any new packaging system that came along later without the code base being overly tied to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The current plan of record is to keep Magento 2 on Zend Framework 1. Magento provides much of its own framework that developers are expected to use. It does however leverage functionality currently from Zend Framework 1. The original plan of sticking with Zend Framework 1 was based on the benefits of moving to Zend […]
Magento 2 is a fairly significant step forwards from Magento 1. After 2.0 is released, it has been publicly shared there will be a more frequent release cadence. This has pros and cons, some of which are explored below. But also interestingly should there be a more detailed strategy before GA to help extension developers […]
There is a lot of talk about the benefits of responsive sites. This might be old news, but I just came across another little use case I had not noticed before. I was browsing around and came across a reference to a company. I was curious where it was so I brought it up in […]
Coming from Australia a few years back, I know Thanks Giving is an American thing. I also know Magento is a truly international product. But it seemed a good time to say a quick “thank you” to the community for all the feedback and support so far. I am relatively new to Magento compared to many (around a […]
Wondering what is coming for Magento 2 through to GA? Here is a high level (unofficial) summary. Disclaimer: This blog does not constitute official communication and does not necessarily reflect that of my employer. And even if this was official, the plan would be subject to change without notice. We are using Agile after all! […]
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