If you are a Magento merchant, developer, or marketer, you should be interested in attending or at least monitoring core Magento events. We’ve already written about the impact of the Real Magento Community on the platform, and covered such an important topic as Hackathon Magento extensions, so now it is time to discuss key Magento community events. Below, you will find a list of them as well as some useful links. Continue Reading
JavaScript game engines is a hot topic today, since everyone’s building browser based games using JavaScript, WebGL and HTML5. The first reason why, is because of their platform independence, that means they can run on Android, iOS, Windows or any other. There is a wide range of resources available for building browser based 3D games. In spite of that it is challenging to find the proper game engine. In this article we describe top best JavaScript 3D game engines that are available on the market today. Continue Reading
Besides Magento members of the Firebear team are fond of underground music and independent video games, and since our friends are hardly working on their debut roguelike RPG, we can not miss such an interesting project, therefore meet ! Continue Reading
The appearance of this post on our blog was only a matter of time. We’ve already briefly compared the new version of our favourite ecommerce platform with its major competitors, and now it is time to discuss the Magento 2 vs Magento 1 topic. Continue Reading
The appearance of Node.js made a great resonance in the coding community. The solution has simplified a lot of complicated processes, introduced new features, and made development much more user-friendly. The influence of the platform is constantly growing and as a result we can see big companies using Node.js in production. So let’s figure out how much enterprise ready is Node. Continue Reading
Today, we will shed light on such an important aspect of the platform as Magento 2 system requirements. The topic is hard to overestimate, since compliance with the below conditions will help you utilize all new features and opportunities introduced in the Magento version 2. Overwise, the new ecommerce platform will be hulking and you will never get all its benefits. Now, when the importance of the following article is obvious, we can discuss Magento’s updated technology stack and its requirements. Continue Reading
Being a software architecture style, microservices introduce a revolutionary approach to apps: they are no longer a monolithic structure, but a complex system composed of small particles and independent processes which communicate with each other via language-agnostic APIs. This particles and processes are represented by various services, which are highly decoupled and designed to run the smallest tasks that results in a modular approach to system-building. All micro services are easy to replace, since they run in a symmetrical architecture instead of common hierarchical, and you can implement them via various hardware and software solutions depending on what fits best. The potential of microservices is huge, so we will describe them from the perspective of ecommerce and Magento. Below, you will find a brief description of microservices, some useful links, and the best platforms designed for this software architecture style. Continue Reading
In Magento 2, there is an app/code/Magento/Customer/view/base/ui_component/customer_form.xml file with array of buttons. Create Order Button is also there: Continue Reading
In Magento 2, do not modify CSS files within pub/* or vendor/* directories, because pub is for deployment and vendor is for default structure. Instead: Continue Reading
system.xml saved config validation in Magento 2 is possible via attaching a backend model to the field and validating the value server side. Continue Reading
