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March 29, 2024

For years, when people would ask me how to add a CMS page to the category menu of Magento, I would have told them to opt for a third party extension. Now I've got something else to tell them.

March 19, 2024

When you are told to extend Shopware entities, the usual way to do this is by adding a custom entity extension. But this proofs to be a lot of work if you just want to add a single column. Here's the result of my hacking.

March 18, 2024

If you haven't heard about Magewire, you should: It allows building complex scenarios in Magento in much less time, provided that Magento (server-side) is the source of truth. On April 17th, we are organizing a Magewire hackathon and you are invited.

March 10, 2024

In April, Sander de Graaf is joining forces with Yireo to help merchants get the best out of their business: a Magento E-Commerce Manager training. Why? Because merchants can be overwhelmed (or underwhelmed) with those skills that are needed for dealing with e-commerce. Here's why and what.

March 6, 2024

As a Magento backend developer, you will come across them many times: Integration tests. However, it can be hard to get started with writing your own tests for your own code, even harder when it is somebody else's code. On May 27th & 28th, we are organizing a Magento 2 Testing course in The Netherlands to help you cross over.

February 13, 2024

Aka: Why does a teacher not need to have the experience of a lead developer? I write this, while being biased and running the risk of being too offensive. But I have been blamed for not having practical knowledge so often that I find myself defending this: A teacher is not a lead developer and a lead developer is not a teacher.

January 29, 2024

It took a bit of time, but we finished off (a draft of) our agenda for 2024: Shopware & Magento courses, bootcamps, hackathons, events and more. Take your pick.

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.