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Choose now - Mage-OS or Magento Association?

Choose now - Mage-OS or Magento Association?

January 14, 2023

Quickly, choose - right now at this very moment - between Mage-OS or the Magento Association! Do it! Have you choosen already? No? Then this blog is for you to explain the difficulty of this tough choice.

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New Google Tag Manager for Magento 2 with GA4

New Google Tag Manager for Magento 2 with GA4

January 9, 2023

I've been busy with this for quite some time. But the work is done - as part of a bartering deal with MaxServ. The Yireo GoogleTagManager extension for Magento 2 has now been refactored big time, with support for GA4. Here are the details.

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How I manage my todos?

How I manage my todos?

January 2, 2023

I'm reading a lot - to stay up-to-date but also to get inspired - and because of this, I don't have a shortage of ideas. But there are so many of them that I find it difficult to manage them. Because it is kind of funny how I maintain all of this, here is my way of dealing efficiently with my todos.

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The year 2022 in review

The year 2022 in review

December 30, 2022

The year 2023 is here. And with that, it is always nice to look back at the past year: To learn from your mistakes and to celebrate successes. Here is the year 2022 of Yireo.

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What ExtDN did

What ExtDN did

December 8, 2022

For some time now, I've been part of the Magento Extension Developer Network - ExtDN - and even though (or perhaps, because) things went quiet, I thought it would be nice to point out what ExtDN has done in the past.

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Announcing Mage-OS Nederland

Announcing Mage-OS Nederland

December 1, 2022

We are proud to announce a new Magento community collaboration in The Netherlands: Mage-OS Nederland: A non-profit association, founded in November by six initiators and now ready for the public. First stop, a public meeting and New Year's drink on January 19th.

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Yireo ExtensionChecker refactored

Yireo ExtensionChecker refactored

November 29, 2022

End of 2018, I wrote a little Magento module to check upon the dependencies of other modules: The Yireo ExtensionChecker. In September this year, I refactored the module in major version 2, cleaning up the entire logic. And here's a little promotion.

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Why not run Magento 2 in developer mode?

Why not run Magento 2 in developer mode?

November 23, 2022

It sounds so simple: Magento 2 has a Developer Mode and a Production Mode. And the Developer Mode is there for development, so do not enable it in production. But why?

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Faster Magento 2 Integration Tests - a summary

Faster Magento 2 Integration Tests - a summary

November 11, 2022

I'm a fan of Magento 2 integration tests for various reasons. But if those tests are not run fast enough, you will be discouraged to run them constantly. Because of this, making sure integration tests run as fast as possibly is part of their success. In this blog, I'll summarize everything I found myself to optimize things.

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