Visiting CeBIT 2010 on March 4th
I will personally visit this year's CeBIT in Hannover on March 04th and hope to make some interesting contacts for the OXID Community. Drop me a line if you want to see me there. Thanks Erik for the lift! :-)
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The story behind the Russian language files donated to the OXID community
Some days ago, I accidentally found the Russian search engine Yandex and encountered some online stores based on OXID eShop Community Edition in Russian language while exploring it. I contacted three store owners in Russian (yep, I did learn Russian, but didn't use it for a long time) and asked if they would like to contribute their language files for community use. I got immediate answers from [Read more...]
PHP 5.3.0 and Zend Guard / Zend Optimizer
If you are using Zend Guard to encrypt your PHP applications you probably don't want to update your server environment to PHP 5.3.0: Zend Guard (for encoding your PHP files) and Zend Optimizer (for decoding your PHP files) are not available yet for this PHP version and so upgrading should break your application. A discussion about this subject is going on in this forum [Read more...]
OXID developer network (ODN) and OXIDlab
The past few days, dev.oxidforge.org thingy was launched. We are still looking for a proper name for it (vote at http://www.oxid-esales.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3401, need to be logged in as a community member!). Now "OXID developer network - ODN" is about to win that race and I personally like it very much. I already requested an additional subdomain like odn.oxidforge.org for it. Like [Read more...]
A name for the baby on dev.oxidforge.org is needed
Tomorrow morning I will officially and proudly announce our collaboration and development platform available at http://dev.oxidforge.org. The software basis is FusionForge, a GForge fork. This platform seems to be ideal for team-work on committing code, language extensions, localizations, themes and much more. There is just one thing we are still suffering from: How the heck shall we call that [Read more...]
OXID Shops Group at Mister Wong
musicgate, another forum mate, had an awesome idea collecting all OXID shops running opening up an appropriate group at the social bookmark platform http://www.mister-wong.de. This idea went on like giving discounts and / or coupons to all of you brothers in arms. For a first, just let's collect. Feel free to register yourself and to present your OXID shop in this group! Unfortunately, Mister [Read more...]
OXID gets a Portuguese translation
Very good news if you want to run a modern, free and open source e-commerce plattform from Portugal: Thanks our Portuguese community member, monteiro, Portuguese translation is now available for OXID eShop. In a first step, I put the complete file to the language section of OXIDforge. This file for displaying the front end in the correct translation, is available under GNU GPL. Of course, you [Read more...]
First Open Source Meeting in Leipzig Recap
Awesome, awesome, awesome :-) I never expected 35 (!) people bringing together after this very short-term announcement, I was really surprised! Obviously, most attendees did not even see the direct announcement but heard it somehow as a rumor from their friends: "Did you hear about that Open Source Meeting? I cannot go but you ought to... ". And this is how it actually shall work. Hey, Leipzig [Read more...]
Rewritebase OXID eShop
Again and again I see my website being found with the key word "rewritebase oxid eshop". Obviously this seems not to be a clear case. Let me explain it: The OXID eShop strictly uses so called re-written URLs, known as "permalinks" in WordPress. In opposite to e.g. Wordpress, you cannot choose between "regular" URLs and re-written URLs, it's use is assumed and this, absolutely makes sense: Who [Read more...]
User Feedback and unexpected feature in OXID eShop 4.2.0
Today, I was mainly working on two topics: Firstly, there came up some requests about the roadmap for the upcoming 4.2.0 release of OXID eShop. Obviously, I did not explain it well enough in my blog post. I probably have to explain it a more clear way the next time... On the other hand, I found out some interesting news: OXID eShop will provide overridable templates from now on. That means - if [Read more...]