Jan 20, 2019Plan for the time after Magento 1 eol — Magento-LTSAs you probably have already heard, the eol (End of life) for “Magento 1” is set to June 2020. (as announced here: https://magento.com/blog/magento-news/supporting-magento-1-through-june-2020 ) Already some time ago the OpenMage Project was started, to improve the bugfix situation for Magento 1, as even when a fix was already provided, they…Magento4 min readMagento4 min read
Jul 21, 2018recap 2018–06 — What happened in the OpenMage ProjectA lot of things happened this Quarter, especially the acquisition of Magento by Adobe. For now this seems to not affect the OpenMage Project. Let me first mention again the Discord server of the project https://discord.gg/EV8aNbU you can usually reach me there and if you have questions, suggestions, or you want…Magento1 min readMagento1 min read
Apr 28, 2018recap 2018–03 — What happened in the OpenMage ProjectNaming things is hard, like this Blogpost. Its actually 04, but I did not write one since 01. I wanted to name it Q1, but that would mix up with 01. And as I saw, most commits were merged in 03, I now took this. Also as I did not…Magento2 min readMagento2 min read
Mar 21, 2018What is #TakeTheExitI heard yesterday about #TakeTheExit the first time, or better said did read their Guerrilla marketing in form of spraying their advertising pitch on the ground in front of a comic book shop. Most notable the “CTRL-Q” part. My first guess was, this is just some advertising for one of the…Startup4 min readStartup4 min read
Feb 7, 2018recap 2018–01 — What happened in the OpenMage ProjectAnd the first Month of the year is already over, lets see what happened First: the OpenMage project did start a public Discord Server as communication channel You can join via https://discord.gg/EV8aNbU In case you prefer a different one, suggest one at https://github.com/OpenMage/organizational/issues/2 Second: Some but not all of you…Github2 min readGithub2 min read
Jan 21, 2018recap 2017–11 (and 12) — What happened in the OpenMage ProjectThis time a bit late, as I was quite busy with my job. Some of the patches which were merged Fix slow url_rewrite query on MySQL 5.7 * OpenMage-PR #303 * OpenMage-Issue #295 Make Mage registry related methods consistent * OpenMage-PR #369 Added missing functionality for Mage_Catalog_Helper_Product->getThumbnailUrl * OpenMage-PR #160 fix used ssl version in downloader * OpenMage-PR…Magento2 min readMagento2 min read
Dec 9, 2017The Magento Community AdventcalendarIts this time of the year again, and you wonder how the year could be near the end so suddenly. …Magento1 min readMagento1 min read
Nov 18, 2017How to decide which software/library to useWhen I started with my programming career, PHP was already quite established and mature. Version 5.2 was just released. It was stable, had no major memory leaks, had all the basic OOP features, supported process forking and with php-gtk you could even write desktop applications. I learned, when you know…Programming2 min readProgramming2 min read
Oct 31, 2017What happened in October in the OpenMage Project | Flyingmana on PatreonMy work here this Month was more in the background. Naming There is still the open Issue with the Naming ( https://github.com/OpenMage/organizational/issues/1 ) which partially continued in the background. If you know a Lawyer which can offer a qualified opinion (for free?) please get in touch with me. You can see in…Magento2 min readMagento2 min read
Aug 21, 2017Why even a Community centered Company like ResearchGate needs a Community ManagerThe Position of a Community Manager(later called CM) is already a wide spread concept among tech companies. MOZ (current job posting: https://boards.greenhouse.io/moz/jobs/793798?gh_jid=793798 ) Magento Inc. BAIDU USA ( current job posting: http://usa.baidu.com/careers/?gh_jid=772118 ) Udemy Ubisoft The Linux Foundation ( current job posting: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/401260760 ) Microsoft ( current job posting: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/390566295…Social Media2 min readSocial Media2 min read