I found this out from a random banner on Shopify support page while trying to figure out why my store’s email had stopped working so I figured I’d signal boost it. Hooks are HTTP requests Shopify sends out when an order’s made that include order information. They’re sent to your servers, and let you do all sort of [...]
astormThis whitepaper from Nexcess isn’t your usual “Hey look, we’re sucesful enough to pay a consultant for a whitepaper so we must be stable” affair. Instead it’s a methodical look at every layer of Nexcess’s Magento hosting stack and how they optimize each one for a Magento 2 system. I thought it was a [...]
astormProbably not of wide interest, but this GitHub repo with a PHP Parser written in Go rings several of my current bells.
astormOver on my sleepy patreon I posted a public example of of the sort of things I’m working on w/r/t Magento these days. My screencasts are still lagging behind when compared to the sort of things being done at Mage2.tv, but the content’s still useful and it’s good speaking practice for me
astormAnother set of slides from a Benoit Jacquemont talk I would have loved to see. My high level summary Don’t forget that your PHP program isn’t talking with anything directly, all activity goes through the your operating system’s kernel, and there are tools (strace on linux) for looking at the system calls your program is [...]
astormThis Stack Overflow post about some weird differences between direct instantionation of an Array vs. using the new Array constructor function is a great example of why coding standards can be more than just window dressing. It’s not that one of the methods is better than the other, but by chosing one over the other you avoid the [...]
astormGiven the date on the Stack Overflow post that saved me this is probably old hat for most of you, but it looks like the MySQL configuration provided by Ubuntu 18’s default apt-get repositories defaults to using “the auth_socket plugin”, which links your MySQL logins with your actual system login. Gave me a bit of the [...]
astormI imagine it’s a narrow sliver of folks who follow this site and don’t follow the trades, but just in case: Adobe is going to buy Magento Inc. Right now there’s the usual sound and fury you’d expect from the usual places — Magento’s relentlessly on-message machine isn’t slacking off just because [...]
astormThis one came across my desk last week. Dangers of using a kitchen sink language I suppose.
astormFile strtime-js under “Things I’ll need to try the next time I’m working on a javascript project”. Its a javascript library that appears to do a lot of “hey here’s something that might be a date make it look like this”, similar to PHP’s built-in date function.
astormOver the weekend I ended up doing some gardening in my astorm/magento2-travis repositoy. This repo has simple starter travis.yml file that builds and installs a simple Magento enviornment to run your tests in. Travis is an amazing free resource for running your projet’s continuous integration system — if you haven’t [...]
astormThis started out as a snarky post but then I realized how often I need a lookup table like this. What have I become? Product What it Does Laravel Passport A composer package to give your Laravel based API OAuth2 features and capabilities. Laravel Cashier A composer package to simplify Stripe and Braintree’s subscription services in [...]
astormThis is more of a “I would like to check this out later” than “I endorse this” link, but this project looks like an interesting way to get your go code running in a PHP enviornment.
astormMy favorite part of this too-brief foray into the history of = as an assignment operator is how crazy keyboards were in the 60s and 70s were.
astormGripng PSA follows. Homebrew, the really great package manager and services system for MacOS, has recently shuffled around thier support for PHP. It sounds like the main PHP packages are being pulled into the core repository, but that extensions (mcrypt, memcached, etc.) are being dropped and users will need to install these via pecl. On [...]
astormAfter much delay and churn, I’m happy to announce that No Frills Magento 2 Layout is complete. You can grab your copy over on the Pulse Storm store, or read the preview online. After reading this book you’ll finally understand what, exactly, is going on with Magento’s layout handle XML files. You’ll also [...]
astormI came across this talk video from Brian Marick at the Deconstruct software conference. It was a refreshingly candid take on why the classic software design patterns are generally considered burdensome chains instead of the pattern language they set out to be. And the question is why. I think you can have several reasons, but I’m going [...]
astormIt’s always nice when a late answer to a Stack Overflow question shows up with more information than you wanted/needed. The specifics here on dealing with the thread safe resource manager are worth it (if you’re looking for that sort of thing), but more important are the links to the two personal blogs covering random [...]
astormWhen I found the PHP Internals site a few months back, I noticed there was a small credit at the bottom. Built by Thomas Punt & Liam Mann Some Googling showed that Thomas Punt had written this How PHP Executes — from Source Code to Render article for sitepoint. While the article was accurate, like a lot of pro internet content [...]
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