Blog: A Magento Developer's Life

I just listened to the latest ShopTechBlog Podcast Episode (in German) which was very interesting as it’s all about the technical architecture of the new Galeria Kaufhof shop.

Today I want to raise some pro and contra arguments for upgrading to Magento 2 or starting a new project with the new release of Magento E-Commerce. This is by no means a complete list but just some of my thoughts on this topic.

Mistakes in the conception phase of a project often pay off in a far far later point in time. This also applies for the setting innodb_file_per_table in MySQL.

Zur Zeit lese ich das Buch Die 4 Stunden Woche von Timothy Ferriss. Prinzipiell gefällt mir sein vorgeschlagener Ansatz, Arbeitszeit im Hinblick auf unsere Lebenszeit zu optimieren.

Yesterday I watched the AlphaGo documentation on Netflix and for everyone interested in AI I definitely recommend watching this.

Die Datenschutzgrundverordnung darf natürlich in keinem Blog heutzutage fehlen :-D. Hierzu habe ich folgende gute Infografik von webvision gefunden:

So this blog post will be the starting point for a series of health-related articles targeted for developers. As I know personally life as a developer can be tough: we live in an ever-changing world and the speed in the IT sector is even faster than anything else. And human brain has its difficulties with exponential growth. That’s why I want to get into the details about how to establish developer health.

Approximately in every third Magento project that I am doing I get the request to implement some kind of Dropshipping. That’s why I want to give a short overview of how to handle that with Magento.

Although there are not that many blog posts here, I regularly re-acknowledge all the work that has been spent to create the articles that are currently there. That’s why I decided to give some love to my blog and move all the content from WordPress to Hugo.

Sometimes it is necessary to calculate the offset for the current timezone. Therefore you can use this helpful snippet:

My this year’s Christmas blog post is about some simple privacy tools and actions you can take to easily improve your privacy. This post is not dedicated to shop owners or developers but to any people in general that take their privacy seriously (which should be anyone to be honest).

One of the basic things that you as a developer must know is how to handle a version control system like git, subversion, Mercurial, you name it..

Bitbucket has a great feature called Bitbucket Pipelines with that you are able to do tasks automatically after code has been pushed to the repository. This workflow can also be used for Hugo deployments with Bitbucket Pipelines.

For a long time Apache has been the defacto standard for hosting PHP web applications like Magento 1 or WordPress. Then with the rise of the need for high-scaling applications hosted in the cloud webservers like nginx or full page caches like Varnish became popular in order to handle the enormous amounts of traffic pouring in. The LiteSpeed webserver for Magento 1 is the new cool kind in the block now.

In my recent blog post for our Recolize Recommendation Blog I highlight some of changes that browser vendors are implementing regarding the handling of cookies in 2020.

As a privacy-concerned user it can sometimes be very tricky to find alternatives to the most-used applications. Looking for the best alternative to the widely established note-taking application Evernote was one of those hard evaluations and it took me a while, but here is the result: Joplin. Read why.

In my previous post I introduced Joplin as my new note-taking app. After using it for some time now, there are several things that are a bit difficult to grasp so in this post I present some useful tipps for Joplin.

Recently I discovered a bug in the core Magento 1 PayPal Express extension that leads to the user being redirected to the home page after PayPal checkout with no error message.
As the investigation was a rather lengthy process, I’ll tell you the details and of course the easy fix in this post here.

In my freelance work I have established certain principles that always guide me through - whether to take on a new client or project, developing a new software, learning new things or choosing new software internally.

Back in time I have published an article about the dropshipping possibilities in Magento. As a lot of my customers are interested in this topic, let’s continue this series and explore how to use dropshipping functionality in Shopify with the help of some Shopify apps.