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.
I will attend E-commerce Berlin EXPO
On 15th of February 2018, E-commerce Berlin EXPO will take place again at STATION. If you feel fancy to talk to me, please feel free to pop in or drop me a line.
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Assemble a local dev environment – not only for OXID eShop 6 – in a vagrant box
Tutorial: How to assemble a local dev environment for OXID eShop 6 with a vagrant box using oxVM.
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People column at OXID: Benjamin Jörger becomes new Head of Development
Today, I want to inform you about some personnel changes and re-structuring at the OXID core development department. Benjamin, Joachim, Alejandro and Tomas to come, Ina and Florian to leave.
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Security issues: calculate a maintenance budget when starting your online business
The past month was affected by security announcements. Why there still can be found so many unpatched installations of any web applications?
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OXID eShop v4.8.11 and v4.10 beta published, v4.9.8 postponed
Yesterday, new OXID eShop versions were published: 4.8.11, 5.1.11, 4.10.0 beta and 5.3.0 beta. Other releases, 4.9.8 and 5.2.8 had to be postponed until next week. Read in this blog post more about the details and how to interpret these releases.
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CLA assistant as new service for OXID contributor license agreements
As CLAhub is not reliable any longer, we moved to cla-assistant.io in the hope this service is more stable. Previously signed CLAs could fortunately be imported. Please let us know immediately if you find something suspicious.
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PhpStorm OXID plugin available
Thanks to @Haehnchen, a native PhpStorm plugin for OXID eShop is available, very helpful for anybody developing with this e-commerce framework.
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OXID eShop onpage SEO capabilities
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, even if you have not read the published comparison.
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Back to the future IV
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. Rather I think he was temporarily kidnapped by aliens to the Photoshop universe 🙂
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