After attending my 10th Meet Magento in Germany (yes I missed one) and coming back to work, I think it is time for a short recap. This years Meet Magento probably was the biggest one in terms of number of attendants (800, according to the organizers). The location was at it’s limits for that amount of people. Luckily the weather was sunny so people could get outside and get some space. The next years Meet Magento will probably / hopefully…
The Imagine: The Magento event as such! To me as an USA newbie on the one hand interesting because the conference takes place in Las Vegas, to me as a frontend developer on the other hand interesting because you can learn much about how Magento itself, but the community as well – like other developers, agencies and webshop operators – are working with the e-commerce platform and continuously developing it further. Let’s start at the beginning: Las Vegas is truly…
It was the second time that I attended the Magento Imagine. Last year the conference was characterized by the motto „We are Magento“. This year the word „E-Commerce Platform“ stays in my mind. Before I start my summary of the conference, I would like to tell a little bit about our trip … We startet our #RoadToImagine from Frankfurt/Main. After a 9h flight we (Maria, Ralf, Alex and me) arrived in Houston (Texas). There we had time to grab some pizzas after a…
I recently had the issue that I needed to use the \Magento\Eav\Setup\EavSetup outside the setup-context. To be a bit more concrete, I wanted to import attribute-sets, attributes and attribute-options without using an install-script. My first idea was in magento2 you can easily inject the ‘EavSetup’ via constructor injection and then use it in your own class First try So I injected into my class which worked out well in the development-mode. /** * SomeAttribute constructor. * * @param \Some\Own\AttributeContext $context *…
Magento 2 comes with a nice swagger schema which describes the Webapi. The Magento guys were very clever to choose swagger. It not only comes with a schema, but moreover it is a complete interactive API client as well. A swagger schema is a JSON document to formalize the REST API. Formalized documents have the big advantage that you can process the data with a machine. One idea I had was to create a PHP API for the Magento 2 API. Fortunately the swagger…
There is a so far merely undocumented installation procedure for Magerun that is extremely handy in project configurations. You just require Magerun within the Magento project and you can then execute it from the vendor’s bin folder: $ composer require n98/magerun2 […] $ ./vendor/bin/n98-magerun2 –version n98-magerun2 version 1.3.2 by netz98 GmbH Afterwards if you commit the composer.json and composer.lock files it is a take-away for the whole team. So it is regardless whether you’re running it locally, inside a docker…
In our recent post series about Deploying Magento2 using Jenkins and deployer I was showing you how our Deployments are set up. In case you haven’t read them and are interested in the details here are the links: History and Overview of Magento2 Deployment Jenkins Build-Pipeline Setup (building assets, controlling the deployment) Releasing to Production (delivering code and assets, managing releases) Future Prospect (cloud deployment, artifacts) During the time of writing those articles I realized quite some improvements and generalizations that could be…
This post is part of series: History and Overview of Magento2 Deployment Jenkins Build-Pipeline Setup (building assets, controlling the deployment) Releasing to Production (delivering code and assets, managing releases) Future Prospect (cloud deployment, artifacts) Recap In the previous posts we dived into our Deployment Pipeline and the Release to the staging or production environments. You should check those posts first before reading this one. In this post we will share our thoughts on where we want to go with our…
Introduction This article is about problems that can occur with Magento cronjobs. The standard way to configure crontab for Magento 1 has it’s limits. The more custom cronjobs a Magento system has, the more probable the system will face problems considering cronjobs. The most common issues are: Indexer Cronjob (Magento Enterprise malways mode) takes longer than usual so that other cronjobs (mdefault mode) are skipped (not executed) for the time the indexer runs Some of the cronjobs in mdefault scope take a…
This post is part of series: History and Overview of Magento2 Deployment Jenkins Build-Pipeline Setup (building assets, controlling the deployment) Releasing to Production (delivering code and assets, managing releases) Future Prospect (cloud deployment, artifacts) Recap In the last post Jenkins Build-Pipeline Setup we had a look at our Jenkins Build-Pipeline and how to the setup and configuration is done. If you haven’t read it yet you should probably do so before reading this post. The last step in our Build-Pipeline was the actual Deployment…