The 2012 season for OXID developer meet-ups started in Hamburg on January 13. Sigmar Kress from Rhinos Media organized the location and we set up a page on OXIDforge for gathering information about participants and ideas for talks. Although we announced the event relatively late, more than twenty people came to the meet-up. I was glad to see partners and shop owners sending their developers and [Read more...]
A few days ago, I was attracted by a billboard advertisment at a tram station near my home. The poster is apparently part of a mobile marketing campaign by Christ Jewelers (German), one of the leading jewellery and watchmaker chains with stores in all of Germany's big cities. Taking a closer look at the poster I found a QR code on it without any description and, as a curious person, I checked it [Read more...]
I am back at my desk and looking back on a very successful week, full of memorable impressions. As you may know, OXID has branch offices in Halle, Saale in Germany and Kaunas in Lithuania while our HQ is based in Freiburg, Breisgau (Germany). Last week, all the teams came together when the Kaunas and Halle staff came to Freiburg for an entire week. Can you imagine how great it feels to come [Read more...]
In the recent months, I attended all of the main trade fairs of the e-commerce industry in Germany and France: dmexco (Digital Marketing Exposition & Conference) in Cologne Salon E-Commerce in Paris MOW (Mail Order World) in Wiesbaden I joined the OXID eSales crew at our booths and I would like to share my very personal take aways of the events with you. Don't just ask me what [Read more...]
Sometimes, it is necessary to install a new version of OXID eShop quickly. Downloading it from the official download page, extracting the archive and uploading it again to your hosting provider can be a time-consuming and error-prone process due to CRC errors. If you have SSH access to your server terminal or if you work on a local Linux machine or VM-ware appliance, there is a much smoother [Read more...]
There are many different aspects to consider when distributing a newsletter to clients of your online store: categorization, definition, content, legal conditions and technical facts. In this post, I’ll concentrate only on the technical aspects. Newsletters are emails containing information or promotions that you, as a shop owner, wish to send to your registered customers. In some countries, [Read more...]
Due to my last post, you might have noticed that I was on holiday and didn't check my email and neglected my telephone during this time. Furthermore, I didn't configure an automatic email reply given that I am subscribed to various mailing lists that might have been playing ping-pong with my automated answers ;) Now I'm back and thanks everybody for your patience! Today, I'd like to head back [Read more...]
Yeehaa! It's summertime! Just in case you miss me in the OXID forums and other virtual places: I'll be on holiday from July 11th until the end of the month, back to business then. I will not read my e-mails, I will not be available via mobile phone and I will have no Internet connection for three long weeks. Cheerio!
First of all, you for sure will need the translated front end file for your language that you may find in the language section of OXIDforge. In this example, I am using Spanish. Mark and copy everything that you find under the headline Language file /out/basic/es/lang.php. Make a new file on your computer and name it lang.php. Paste the text copied in #1 and save your file. Copy the [Read more...]
As earlier announced in my blog post on oxid-esales.com, Friday, March 11th, was our first local developer meet-up in Leipzig, Germany. I personally was really surprised to see 16 people attending, including developers from our partners D³ Data Development (Thalheim, Saxony), GN2 netwerk (Coburg, Bavaria), marmalade.de (Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt), dotSource GmbH (Jena, Thuringia) and Ontraq [Read more...]