After more than 14 (fourteen!) years at OXID eSales, it's time for something new. This past period of my life took a lot of time. And even if it is coming to an end now: it has never been boring until the end. I started in support in May 2007, and after a short phase in sales I went straight into community management when OXID decided to release a core version of the OXID eShop software [Read more...]
I am upset. I am actually pretty "pissed off" (pardon my French). And this is definitely a rant against unprofessional politicians, lobbying and propriety software that apparently has been sold very well. On March 19th, a press release originally written by Saxony's Minister of Education PR Manager Dirk Reelfs was published. Headline: "Home schooling: Learning platform will become more [Read more...]
There's this one story I want to tell you that I experienced personally, I initiated myself and that definitely changed my mindset until this day. Right after the wall came down in Germany I left service at the armed forces and moved from Berlin to Halle, heading from my parents to the girl-friend I had back in that days. After a few days living together with her I realized that I would have to [Read more...]
With OXID eShop 6, composer was introduced for the installation of the shopping cart system, as well as for updating it and installing modules (functional overwriting of existing classes and methods). From a pure technical point of view this was 100% a step in the right direction - some other PHP projects like Contao or Typo3 took this path already, others will definitely follow in the near [Read more...]
On January 15th 2019, the security issue CVE-2018-20715 was entered into the database of NVD and naturally has been wide-spread through the security scene via Twitter and other social media. In this blog post I'll try to explain why this announcement is close to utter bollocks. The security issue is related to software, not to a company. The company's name is OXID eSales while the software this [Read more...]
On 15th of February 2018, E-commerce Berlin EXPO will take place again at STATION. I attended already in the last year and was surprised to see other faces than usually on events in this line of business. No wonder: E-commerce Berlin EXPO is much more multinational than other events usually are. Surprisingly, e-commerce vendors are not the majority, online merchants will cover a high percentage of [Read more...]
A while ago, OXID officially announced the availability of a unified development environment OXID Developer VM, based on Ansible and Vagrant. To be honest, I quarreled with it a long time and put hours and hours to understand the concept behind (by trial and error). Finally, I made it with some help of my dear friends and colleagues to get the basic principles and to have it up and running a [Read more...]
Today, I want to inform you about some personnel changes and re-structuring at the OXID core development department. By 1st of June, Benjamin Jörger will take over the job as Head of Development. Benjamin studied Business Informatics, used to work as a software developer in different branches and switched over from the Java/Oracle world. In 2012, he started working as a Project Manager at our [Read more...]
Going over this January's IT and e-commerce news, it was dominated by evil tidings about security issues in this or that web based system. In quick succession, different web applications were on the "security advisory" news: PHPMailer, Magento and Shopware. In a matter of fact, none of the software vendors (not talking about delivering commercial or open source software) is immune to security [Read more...]
This is a quick note to let you know that OXID eShop versions 4.8.11 Professional and Community Edition (5.1.11 Enterprise Edition) as well as OXID eShop versions 4.10.0 beta PE and CE (5.3.0 beta EE) have been published. Please note that, due to O'Brians law ("Murphy was an optimist"), the release of OXID eShop version 4.9.8 PE and CE (5.2.8) has to be postponed until next week. Here are [Read more...]