Sometimes Magento is a pain to work with, especially when it’s installed in a local development environment. Even using a virtualisation with vagrant, most machines can’t match the performance of a web server. If you keep getting errors in the Magento Connect Manager, and your not quite ready for composer to install dependencies then you may want to install an extension manually. Continue reading
Stock plugins or Just Make Your Own?
As a developer under the time pressures of the client, it is often less hassle to use and off-the-shelf solution to meet a feature request, this means the developer actually becomes ‘the configurer’. But there are serious long term issues that can arise from taking this approach to development. Continue reading
Guruincsite Magento Vulnerability
It looks like one of the biggest magento vulnerabilities has been capitalised on, but no one yet knows what it is and how it happened. All that we know so far is magento administration areas have been compromised and malicious code is present on front-end pages. Continue reading
Build WordPress Plugins With a Boilerplate
Trying to apply 12 factor app and agile principles to wordpress development is tricky. When a developer needs to deliver on a feature request, for those passionate about software engineering best practices, the standard options available seem a bit down and dirty. I’ll tell you how using a plugin boilerplate can help. Continue reading