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Naming Magento observer methods

March 6, 2016

Within Magento 1 you can use observers to listen to events triggered elsewhere, and thus extend Magento in a clean way. On twitter, @tim_bezhashvyly mentioned that observer methods should be named a certain way. So let's see where this brings us.

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Prevent search engines from indexing Magento test sites

March 2, 2016

While we recommend you develop Magento sites in such a way that the development site is not publicly accessible, it is sometimes needed to connect a Magento testing site to the web right away. Here are some tricks to make sure search engines like Google Search do not start indexing this test site.

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Do more with PHP!

March 2, 2016

With Yireo, we build a lot of extensions on top of Magento and Joomla, and naturally all are written with PHP. But the PHP code we write now is not the same as the code of last year: Our coding improves and the code itself evolves. You can make that happen for yourself as well. Here are some ins and outs.

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Some Magento 2 whitepapers

February 29, 2016

For the Magento 2 Seminar we organized last January (and will still be organized again in October this year), we setup a few whitepapers to give a solid introduction to Magento 2 topics like development and code migration. The whitepapers were will received - they provide more tips and tricks than an average sales flyer - so therefore we love to share this with you too.

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March 24th - Magento Tuning Guruclass

February 25, 2016

Magento requires tuning - we all know that. Saying that Magento is slow is something Magento-haters will say, but Magento-lovers will all agree that tuning is vital to have a faster Magento shop. So how to get to the most optimal configuration?

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Running and troubleshooting Aoe_Profiler

February 22, 2016

The Aoe Profiler is a great Magento extension that helps you debug and troubleshoot Magento performance issues easily. This tutorial guides you through some of the steps of using Aoe_Profiler (using CLI tools) and troubleshoot the extension when it is not running properly.

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Evaluation of Magento 2 Developer training

February 22, 2016

Last Friday - February 19th 2016 - I gave a Magento 2 developer training at the headquarters of Byte with 7 students and because it was my first, it's nice to give some ins and outs on how it went - mainly because it tells us something on Magento 2 development in general.

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We're sorry, an error has occurred while generating this email.

February 18, 2016

When having installed Magento 2 somewhere, you might encounter the following error in the frontend: We're sorry, an error has occurred while generating this email.. This guide helps you troubleshoot this issue.

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Upgrade from Magento 2.0.0 to 2.0.1 or later

February 18, 2016

When Magento 2.0.0.0 was released, it could be either installed using composer or using a ZIP-based install. When Magento 2.0.0.1 was released, the overall advice was to upgrade as soon as possible. However, the composer method failed because of missing dependencies. This short guide tells you how to step from Magento 2.0.0 to 2.0.1 or later using composer.

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