A couple of days ago we were surprised by an unusual pull request on GitHub. The contributor, @Haehnchen, simply requested to remove the file .phpstorm.meta.php because of a native PhpStorm plugin. Indeed, Daniel Espendiller, the real name behind @Haehnchen, wrote and distributed a well working native OXID plugin for JetBrains PhpStorm under MIT open source license. As he describes, this plugin [Read more...]
The German portal onlinemarketing.de recently published a guest blog post by Herbert Buchhorn of clicks.de. The author used a checklist of SEO specific built-in features, but omitted significant advantages OXID is offering. I will adapt the same check list to show what OXID eShop can deliver from a SEO perspective. As I'm frequently asked about SEO topics anyway, I hope you will enjoy the post, [Read more...]
A couple of days ago, on 7th July, OXID was awarded with the PayPal Partner Award 2015. For this reason, our CEO Roland Fesenmayr went to Berlin for PayPal partner day, received the accolade and suddenly disappeared from one second to another. He popped up back home in Freiburg explaining that he simply used the time machine app, whew! However, I personally don't believe in that stuff. [Read more...]
If you want to send a pull request to a certain project on GitHub, you first have to fork it to your own repository and then - in the most cases - clone it to your local machine. If you're contributing to a very active project with many commits, the size of this download will grow over the time. This is because the entire commit history of the project will be cloned to your machine as [Read more...]
On March 22nd, last Sunday, our new baby, my fourth son, gave us the honor of his presence on earth. Mom and baby are well :-) I should have informed you immediately but all my other boys before were in time or some days late - just this little man decided to be born a bit early... So I started my planned parental leave unexpectedly early, and I tell you: I was really busy in the last week [Read more...]
Yes, the rumours are true: @Hebsacker, AKA Raimund (Ray) Lang-Pantic, got a new job a while ago and it turned out that he'll have no more time for us at the OXID forums. Bummer, isn't it. I'd like to take this chance to thank him for his great job he was doing for years: perfect moderation, understanding the community quite well, dealing with fighting cocks, determining spam (quite challenging [Read more...]
In the last week, the first OXID user group meeting Leipzig took place at the office rooms of our dear partners pixi* Software. As announced, we came together in order to organize things first like topics to talk about within the next half year, how often and where to meet etc. Here are the results: 13 attendees (some of the registered excused as being ill, guests like Dennis from NRW [Read more...]
Let me trigger one of the most noteworthy pull requests to the OXID eShop repository at GitHub in the recent past. @adriankirchner, developer at dotfly (OXID solution partner) committed a fully functional Travis CI configuration. With this contribution it is not only possible to check at a glance if the unit and integration tests are presently passing. Also, contributors get notified whether [Read more...]
This is just a short note to let you know that there's a new page available at OXIDforge with a software development kit for OXID eShop. Presently you may find links to helping tools like coding standards, easy shop installation (thanks to @tabsl), module writing, testing and module certification on this page. Other tools, as announced at the last OXID Commons Unconference, will follow step by [Read more...]
Looking for the right developer can become a hard task nowadays, and very often a simple job description is not enough to attract good developers. On the other hand, you want to proof if a developer is good enough to fulfill daily tasks. Also very interesting to see that certifications, CVs and other documents are relegated to secondary significance. What really counts is what one can do for [Read more...]