In meinem Blog-Beiträgen beschreibe ich häufig Dinge, die ich in meinem Alltag als Magento Freelancer beobachte oder kleine Hacks, die mir gut gefallen.
In den sieben Jahren, die ich mittlerweile als selbstständiger Software-Ingenieur tätig bin, habe ich natürlich – wie jeder Selbstständige sicherlich weiß – viel Neues über mich selbst, über die deutsche Bürokratie, über zuverlässige und unzuverlässige Kunden, Mitarbeiter und Geschäftspartner und natürlich auch fachlich gelernt.
Though unfortunately I didn’t manage to go to the Magento Developers Paradise this year let’s sum up the various helpful links posted on twitter with valuable Magento know how:
When you’re creating custom Magento models, it’s common to to add and remove fields to and from a database table during development before finalizing a set of columns for the setup resource/migration file. One thing to keep in mind while you’re doing this is that Magento will cache the list of table columns each model knows about, which means a cache clearing will be needed after adding a column.
It has been really quiet about the official Magento Mobile App so I have done a research for one of my customers that is in need of a solid, cost-efficient mobile solution that does not require building up a new site from ground (i.e. the mobile site should exist in addition to the current webpage – not replace it).
With the following code you can retrieve the current page url in your Magento CMS block or page:
Für den bekannten Webguys-Adventskalender habe ich einen Artikel geschrieben, in dem es um die Magento Order Status/State-Logiken geht und in dem ich erkläre, wie man ungewollte und falsche Status/State-Kombinationen (z.B. hervorgerufen durch Extensions) verhindert:
A very funny demonstration of common checkout issues in real life..
If you are currently developing a Magento extension with a custom menu for the Magento backend and you are having the problem that the menu is not showing up, this tiny little hint is for you.
Today I got a really nice present from one of my Magento Extension customers:
In Magento 1.9 there is a JavaScript error on the product page in the backend that prohibits adding links to downloadable products when using the default German localization that ships with this Magento version.
Yesterday I had an interesting problem in a Magento community installation of one of my clients:
