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Implementing javascript minifier

Implementing javascript minifier

Implementing javascript minimization in Magento can help your page load time by compressing your javascript files and making them smaller for users to download. Along with CSS minimisation it can be a great asset for decreasing page loading time.

In this article I will primary cover where minimization should be implemented, since writing a full code for dependable minifier is not a small task.

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Custom data components in Pimcore

Custom data components in Pimcore

Today I will show you how to create custom data component in Pimcore 4.4.. If you are using Pimcore, sooner or later you will end up with requirement for new form element (complex type). Data components in Pimcore are object types used for complex data modeling on object. Data component consists from data, tag Extjs scripts and one Model which is responsible for saving/loading configuration. Currently Pimcore has 19 complex data components (you can read more on https://www.pimcore.org/docs/latest/Objects/Object_Classes/Data_Types/index.html), and they will cover most requirements you will ever need. However, if (when) you’ll need a custom data component, here’s how you can create it.

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How many Magento certified people do you know?

How many Magento certified people do you know?

How many Magento certified people are out there? 5,288 to date, according to the official data at everyone’s disposal. What about their distribution – where do they come from, what countries have the most certified individuals?

In this post you’ll find an overview of one interesting metric – Magento certified individuals per capita. Who tops the charts and where does your country stand? Read on to find out.

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Add Pagination to Custom Collection in Magento

Add Pagination to Custom Collection in Magento

If you are starting with Magento, just like I am, you might run into the issue of adding pagination to your table, list of products or anything else you want to list on frontend. Magento allows you to create your own pagination with adjustable built-in options. This tutorial will show you how to create pagination for a custom collection in Magento.

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Road to the Code with Less Bugs?

Road to the Code with Less Bugs?

I think that writing any non-trivial software without introducing bugs is close to impossible. World is complex, data used in programs is complex, handling all possible interactions of our code with said data is hard.

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Minify your CSS and JavaScript code!

Minify your CSS and JavaScript code!

If you are reading this article, you are probably somehow involved with web development. It is also most likely that you already know how search engines use page speed as one of the parameters for evaluating your site. We have couple of options on our disposal when it comes to increasing site speed. Today we will cover one of them.

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Meet Magento World brings Magento experts to your home and office

Meet Magento World brings Magento experts to your home and office

Meet Magento World is a new addition to Magento ecosystem – for the first time ever you’ll be able to attend a Magento conference without leaving your home or your office.

On July 11th – 13th 2017 you can take part in this global online event and get direct access to all the top speakers and hottest Magento and eCommerce topics at once.

Read on to learn more about this event and hear from one of the top speakers – our own Ivona Namjesnik – what you can expect.

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Your Magento shop deserves a custom tailored theme!

Your Magento shop deserves a custom tailored theme!

Getting your store up is a process. One which starts with a revelation that, if you want to make things work in the long run, you’ll need a webshop. An online place for reaching new and informing existing customers. For them, it’s a brand new channel where they can buy your products. For you, it’s a strategic decision. Why? Because the idea behind that action is growing your business.

But, apart from choosing the platform or the hosting, you should also think about the visual appeal of your store. In this interview, Marko Briševac, one of Inchoo designers, answers the most frequent questions we get from prospective clients. Read more to find out what’s it all about!

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Enter HTTPS

Enter HTTPS

In their effort to improve security on the web, Google has been, for some time now, steadily pushing their “HTTPS everywhere” initiative. Besides providing better security for end user by encrypting all traffic between server and browser, HTTPS will most likely be used as a ranking signal. Another interesting fact is that starting from January 2017, Chrome will use icon in the address bar to mark HTTP pages that collect passwords or credit cards as non-secure, as a part of the long-term plan to mark all HTTP sites as non-secure. We can assume that other browsers will adapt this behaviour in the future.

In this blog post, we will cover basic configuration required to run your Magento shop over HTTPS and we will look at some common pitfalls and gotchas.

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Mitigating Facebook’s “x-fb-http-engine: Liger” site hammering using Apache or nginx

Mitigating Facebook’s “x-fb-http-engine: Liger” site hammering using Apache or nginx

Facebook is using a sort of web page prerendering mechanism in it’s in-app browser for mobile users [see disclosure here]. It is used by Facebook’s in-app browser to speed up page rendering for web link content shared on Facebook. But it can cause serious headaches, and this post should explain how to mitigate it with Apache or nginx.

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Development and design under the same roof

Development and design under the same roof

Building a web shop on Magento is challenging. When you see a feature that looks “so simple that you could do it”, it was usually not as simple to build it as you think. To create that “simple” thing designer had to spend a great amount of time finding the right solution. After all, creating a feature which draws on that kind of comment means translating something very unorganized and complex to something simple and understandable. On the other hand, developer had to spend a lot of hours translating that solution into code. Designer and developer can find that beautiful solution by communicating, which is crucial in this case. And that kind of communication, the one which yields incredible and neat results, would be much harder if a designer and developer are not placed in the same location.

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