MageTestFest is live! With Vinai!
We are proud to announce you that MageTestFest is officially on. The date is set on November 17th 2017, the site is live and we are proud to announce our first speaker: Vinai Kopp.
Written by Jisse Reitsma on 18 May 2017
Review of MeetMagento 2017 NL
Last week, MeetMagento Netherlands 2017 (#mm17nl) took place. Though I'm biased (I was part of the organizing team), it was a blast. Here's a small recap of what was up.
Written by Jisse Reitsma on 15 May 2017
May 18th - MUG Nijmegen (Netherlands)
Magento 2 is hot. And you can see by the number of events out there. In the Netherlands only already there is MeetMagento, MageUnconference, MageTestFest and possibly a MageTitans in 2018. And we have the local user groups. On May 18th we are gathering for a meetup in Nijmegen to discuss SEO features in Magento 2. And there will be a primer on the launch of a new Yoast extension for Magento 2.
Written by Jisse Reitsma on 9 May 2017
Injecting dependencies properly in Magento 2
Magento 2 offers a great way of loosely coupling modules together, by using the concept of Dependency Injection with a bit of configuration flavor. When you for instance want to inject yourself with a certain class, you can inject yourself with an instance of the interface by adding this to your constructor. Simple as that. However, make sure that one dependency is not injected twice.
Written by Jisse Reitsma on 25 Apr 2017
Reviewing the announcements of Imagine2017
Time flies. It's already 11 days ago since I came back from Imagine 2017. However, I still wanted to write up this blog to share some of my thoughts on the announcements made during Imagine 2017. It was a blast. I do have some comments though.
Written by Jisse Reitsma on 20 Apr 2017
Working with the new Magento 2.1 Entity Manager
With Magento 2.1, a new class structure has been introduced - dubbed the Entity Manager - which allows for a better structure to work with entities through composition, instead of relying upon parent classes to do the work. Let's see what's inside this new class.
Written by Jisse Reitsma on 4 Apr 2017
Magento 2 interceptors under PHP 7
So first of all the great news: It has been announced that Magento 2.2 (the upcoming release) will support only PHP 7. In other words, PHP 5 support is dropped and we can move our code forward to PHP 7. So what this mean for Magento 2 interceptors.
Written by Jisse Reitsma on 25 Mar 2017
A great time at MeetMagento Croatia 2017
Last weekend I traveled down to Croatia for a MeetMagento conference organized by Inchoo. And I had a blast. Here's a little write-up of what this cool conference had to offer.
Written by Jisse Reitsma on 21 Mar 2017