January 22, 2024

Kickstarted 3 years ago, the number of On-Demand video courses at Yireo is steadily growing - currently, 11 courses with in total over 103 hours of videos. And per request, we are now making it easier for agencies to give all in-house developers access.

January 14, 2024

Ok, ok, it's not huge news. But I found it funny to share anyway: The Yireo site has been refactored, not necessarily refactored, but it is mainly the underlying technology that got a facelift: Plates, Tailwind.

January 8, 2024

For the last months, I have been working hard to create a new course. And now the main portion of the work is done, ready to share with you: A video course on Hyvä Checkout to help Magento developers to concur this cool new checkout fast. And it is currently in Early Bird stage.

December 18, 2023

The end of 2023 is nearing. And what a year it has been! At the level of Yireo but also on a personal level, I have seen ups and downs - a laugh and a tear. It is time to do a (personal) review of the year.

November 24, 2023

The Mage-OS distribution is here. It was released early October 2023 and it has seen a steady growth of installs. I got started with it myself, encountered some issues and found it fun to blog about. Here it is.

November 14, 2023

It actually already came out a month ago (October 9th): Mage-OS 1.0.0 (quickly followed by 1.0.1 because of Magento 2.4.6-p3). Woohoo, the distribution is here. But what does it mean? Will it break things? Should you upgrade? Is the world coming to an end?

November 8, 2023

Shopware offers a Store API to allow for headless frontends to be built, amongst other things. The Store API is based upon Routes that receive request parameters and output JSON. If you follow the docs, you can make them work. But how are they actually working internally?

October 28, 2023

Magento backend development is all about using the Object Manager properly, via its XML configuration layer, via constructor argument injection and sometimes, only sometimes, directly. But there are various instances of the Object Manager around. Which one is the real one?

October 22, 2023

I have mentioned this myself in the past: To become a good Magento or Shopware developer, you need to have sufficient knowledge of OOP in PHP. Having background knowledge of Laravel or Symfony helps. But does it?