Category: Thoughts

Avoiding duplicate content in Magento's EAV model

Magento’s (1+2) EAV (Entity-Attribute-Value) database model allows too much redundant data. This leads to an unusual large database and strains errors when working with that data in the backend. Taking care of the shop content is for most merchants a pretty huge task. In this post I would like to propose an overall fix to this problem with backwards incompatible changes to the database structure.

Magento2 Stores and Scopes v1.0.0

Exploring the Store package and its init process with scopes in Magento2 (1.0.0-beta).

See the previous post where we’ve explored the differences between Magento 1.9 and Magento 2 0.74.0 regarding Scopes and Websites, Groups and Stores.

Magento2 Stores and Scopes

Update Oct 2015: This version is outdated as the store package has been refactored between 0.74.0-beta4 and 1.0.0-beta.

See updated post here.

Exploring the Store package and its init process with scopes in Magento2 (0.74.0-beta4) and Magento1 (1.9 CE).

Magento2 - REST API Permissions

After exploring the Magento2 REST API because I want to implement it into my Wanderlust project I’ve figured out many many missing features and bugs …

Data-driven content with GoHugo.io

Update: 8. Feb. 2015 See the Notes section at the end.

Update: 27. Dec 2014

What if you want to create simple pseudo dynamic content within a page or a layout with Hugo, the static site generator?

Magento Grid Column Renderer with DB queries

Today I’ve found weird piece of code in NameSpace_Module_Block_Product_Widget_Grid_Column_Renderer_PreparationWarehouse which affects extremely performance when loading a grid in the backend.