Hi, fellow Magenticians! Here we are with your weekly dose of Magento related articles from around the www. You best believe it’s worth it to read these articles over the weekend. Share them with your friends, and provide your input by leaving comments on these compositions. Starting off with an interview of a Magento Commerce engineer, Abdul Aahad Ahmed. In
Software Engineer Abdul Aahad Ahmed Advocates The Open Source Magento Commerce Ecosystem, he talks about his career history, his workflow, startup challenges, Magento frontend development, features to get excited about, and more. If you aspire to work for Magento, check it out. In
Supercharging Your Ecommerce Store With Magento 2 Cache, Zain Baloch elucidates how to make your Magento 2 store as fast as Speedy Gonzales by using caching. He talks about the database driven nature of Magento and relates it to the loading time due to queries. He lays out the various caches in Magento 2 in table form, with their descriptions. Then, he teaches you cache management. I highly recommend reading this article to consolidate your knowledge of caching. The PriceWaiter team has come up with
7 Must Have Magento Integrations Of 2016. The first integration they recommend is Facebook (obviously). But the other integrations mentioned help you improve customer support (Olark chat and Zendesk ticketing), attracting leads (WordPress for blogging), tax management (TaxJar), and shipping (Shippo). To find out why these are the best Magento integrations for 2016, read the article. By using these extensions, you can really boost your store’s brand, and your profits. Have you just set up your LAMP stack and are now looking to install Magento on top? Cue Wajid Hussain with
How To Install Magento 1.X On Debian Server. If you love playing with php.ini and like customizing every minute detail, this setup is your thing. You can use extensions which ask for direct server access, and more. Brendan Henderson wrote an excellent blog post, teaching us how to write basic integration and unit tests, how to create Magento Test Framework helper classes/methods, PHPUnit mocking support, configuring files for unit testing and integrations. Check it out here,
Automated Testing In Magento 2. Yours truly compiled a list of conferences to be held this year and the next. In
Conferences That Magento Developers Should Attend in 2016-17, I listed down a bunch of the best conferences held around the world. I also included the agenda and speakers, where they’ve been announced. If you’re a developer, read my article to find out which exciting event will be taking place nearest to you, and the benefits of attending. Rebecca Troth frames a strong case for attending Mage Titans. Listen to her advice on why you should attend.
That’s it for this week. Take care, and have a fun weekend!