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Magento 2

How to check if a user is logged in in Magento 2

Recently i had to do something very simple: Show a button in the product listing page of a Magento 2 depend if the use was logged in or not. Just do a $session->isLoggedIn() one would say, right? It turns out that this is way more from the truth than i initially though.

March 23rd, 2019

Magento, Quick Tip

Flush Magento Cache vs Flush Cache Storage

This is question is asked and answered on Stack Overflow before, but it always surprises me how many people still don't know the difference. The difference is quite simply though.

March 18th, 2019

Code Sniffer, Composer, Magento, Open source, PHPStorm

Using the Magento Marketplace MEQP with PHPStorm

To get your extension in the Magento Marketplace you have to comply with there rules. One of these rules is that your code must pass their Magento Marketplace Extension Quality Program Coding Standard, or Marketplace EQP in short. This is a set of custom Code Sniffer tools which inspects your code on quite a few common mistakes. For example:

March 11th, 2019

Magento, ngrok, Quick Tip, Tooling

Share your local Magento environment with the world

Sometimes you need to share your local Magento environment with the world. This may be to share it with someone, to test it on a real phone, or to test some kinds of api response for example.

March 4th, 2019

Composer, Laravel, Magento, Valet Plus+, Quick Tip, Tooling

Install Magento 2 with one command (Valet+ only)

For my daily work as a freelancer i tend to use a lot of disposable environments: I use them to check a bug in that specific version for example, and them throw them away. Setting up Magento can be a lengthy process, but with this one liner i can bring it down to ~10 minutes, depending on you internet & cpu speed. It installs the required Magento version including sample data.

February 22nd, 2019

Database, Tooling

TablePlus review

I've been using Sequel Pro for a few years for all my database needs. But lately my relation with Sequel Pro got troubled. This is due to a nasty bug in the latest version: If you close a tab, the program crashes. You can download a nightly build, but i still had weird problems.

January 31st, 2019

Composer, Laravel, Magento, Magento 2, Open source, Symfony

Introducing Shorty

In my day to day life i tend to switch between Magento, Laravel and Symfony on a regular basis. Each system has it's pros and cons, but Magento has one pro over the other two: If you are using Magerun you can run console commands from any directory inside your project. It always bugged me that there isn't such a thing for Laravel, Symfony or other frameworks. That's why i created Shorty

January 22nd, 2019

Magento 2, Quick Tip, Tooling

My Magento 2 workflow

When people share their workflow/tools i love to read them as it gives me the option to improve mine. I think i currently have a pretty decent workflow which allows me to develop faster than ever. I wanted to share this flow with you so everyone can use it.

January 16th, 2019

Direct Admin, NGINX, Quick Tip

Redirect a domain to https with nginx in Direct Admin

I always forget how to redirect a domain from http -> https when i'm in Direct Admin.

January 14th, 2019

Freelancing, Laravel, Magento

What move to make next on my freelance career?

In 2015 i started my company, Control Alt Delete. As a developer, i was always building websites for friends and family. As this started to get out of hand, i decided to make it official and start a company. I did this next to my fulltime job, but eventually started doing this for 2 days a week, and in 2018, i decided to go fulltime.

January 9th, 2019