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...]
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!
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...]
At the beginning of this year, I wrote about the incompatibility of Zend Guard Loader (formerly known as Zend Optimizer) with PHP 5.3.x. Although PHP 5.3.0 was published over a year ago (November 1, 2009), there is no solution for Zend Optimizer or Zend Guard yet, and Zend Server doesn't properly decrypt files encoded by Zend Guard. This has been a problem for OXID eShop PE and EE customers, [Read more...]
A few days ago, on October 26th, we celebrated the annual OXID Partner Day. More than 150 people working at our partner agencies attended the interesting presentations and workshops held on that day. One of the most interesting and popular ones was called "The Power of the Community" (link leads to a German PDF with the handout), and was held by my friend Sandro Groganz. Over the last few [Read more...]
Daily, there are more and more new online stores using OXID eShop. Some of these shops are supposed to be available in just one language (e.g. German), nevertheless they tend to forget to disable English, which is enabled as an additional language in OXID eShop by default. This issue rears its ugly head if for example a browser's standard language has been configured in English and the shop is [Read more...]
Whenever you can reach your community over a social network service, you as the responsible person for community building in your company may consider to enter it. The outcome might become really promising but you have to do certain researches before. In this blog post, I would like to share my experience and the bumps connected to entering Facebook for the OXID community. Analyzing the status [Read more...]
More or less spontaneously, I decided to go to "Chemnitzer Linux-Tage" for the first time, the probably second biggest Linux event in Germany, and was really surprised: Not only Linux geeks but a very mixed up audience of Germans and Non-Germans, developers, administrators and interested people in any kind of open source software found together in a very familiar and comfortable atmosphere. In [Read more...]