A 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…

Naming 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…

I 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…

And 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…

This 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…

Its this time of the year again, and you wonder how the year could be near the end so suddenly. …

When 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…

My 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…

The 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…