Ich bin sehr stolz, 2018 zum drittem Mal in Folge als Magento Master in der Kategorie Mentor ausgezeichnet worden zu sein.
Das Interview von meiner Kollegin Cornelia Eder mit mir gibt’s hier zu lesen:
https://www.e-conomix.at/blog/2018/02/07/interview-mit-3x-magento-master-anna-voelkl/
Please note: This article is work in progress!
I had the pleasure to attend MageUnconference again this year (thanks to Modulwerft – Simon Sprankel for the ticket btw!). As usual for an Unconference, we collected the topics for our daily programme in the morning. Out of some discussions I had with Matthias at the office regarding the easiest/best/most painless way to set up an environment for M2 module development, we decided to put this as a topic on the wall for voting and discussion with other attendees.
A few minutes and a lot of votes later, we’ve found ourselves in a packed room full of developers who wanted to hear and discuss with us about this topic as well.
Spoiler: You’re maybe not gonna find the perfect Magento 2 setup for module development in this article. This is a collection of things that can be useful for your setup and what we discussed during our session at MageUnconference.
Out of scope: This article is not about setting up a new project with Magento 2. I do only focus on the development of a single module here.
Packed room at #mageuc16 for a discussion about #Magento2 project setup. @rescueAnn and @mzeis moderating. pic.twitter.com/RaC084DLKw
— Andreas von Studnitz (@avstudnitz) March 12, 2016
The first method I’d like to share here is the method of setting up a single repository for your new module: This can either be a local repository or a remote one on GitHub/Bitbucket.
Add this module to your composer.json just as any 3rd party module and you’re good to go.
{
"require": { "avoelkl/mymodule": "*" },
"repositories": [
{
"type": "git",
"url": "https://github.com/avoelkl/mymodule.git"
}
]
}Positive:
+ Easy way to start and set up
+ There’s only the need to add your module to composer.json, no additional registration/modification needed.
Negative:
– You have to do a lot of git commits/push/pulls/composer updates for your changes to take effect
– You’ll generate a lot of unneccessary commits during development (especially if you’re new to M2 development and trying out some stuff)
This approach it pretty straight forward: Set up a new Git repository, add it to the composer.json and run composer update. You’ll find your module files in the vendor directory afterwards, where you can edit them.
While I personally do not prefer this method as it feels rather dirty to me, applying changes and developing directly in the vendor folder seems not to be so unusual among Magento developers present in the MageUnconference session.
Positive:
+ no need to commit every change to test it
Negative:
– It’s not very obvious where the extension development happens.
– When someone else/you decide to remove the vendor folder completely (which should not be a problem usually, as you can always get the recent packages via composer install/upadte), you will lose all your uncommitted changes.
At least composer warns you if you have got modified content in the vendor dir when running a “composer update” so you don’t lose your changes without confirming before.
Another easy way, which requires no Git repo at all to get started (but seriously, who wants that?) is to create a symlink in app/code to your module files outside the Magento folder structure.
You could also be interested in including a local repo via composer path https://getcomposer.org/doc/05-repositories.md#path
{
"repositories": [
{
"type": "path",
"url": "../../avoelkl/mymodule",
"options": {
"symlink": false
}
}
]
}From Magento 1 we’re used to work with our own folder structures and symlink them later via modman file.
Most of the current M1 modules I know either have the `app/` folder directly in their extension repo or a `src/` folder above them:
Version 1:
Version 2:
It seems to me (from what I can see in the official Magento 2 sample modules) that such a folder structure is not the default somewhat suggested, I think this is not very flexible.
Fabian explained his current structure during the session.
The folder structure looks like this:
/var/www/m2.local/MyExt <= this folder also contains the .git dir
/var/www/m2.local/MyExt/registration.php
/var/www/m2.local/MyExt/src
/var/www/m2.local/MyExt/test
I am at school again with #mageuc16 discussing magento2 setup pic.twitter.com/IWY7pUKVgT
— Aleksey Razbakov (@razbakov) March 12, 2016
Daniel Falke (@flyingmana)
https://github.com/Cotya/DashboardProject
David Verholen (@david_verholen)
https://github.com/davidverholen/magento2-dynamic-component-registry
Max Pronko
Max wrote a Blogpost about how to develop a Magento 2 module with modman
Update: Here’s the new version of a Magento CE 2.1.3 database diagram.
Every now and then someone on the Internet asks for a Magento database diagram, like this question here on MagentoSE.
While there are a lot of cool resources out there (which are unfortunately a bit outdated), I created a new one.
This is the database diagram of a fresh CE 1.9.2.2 installation.
Some statistics (because I love statistics):
How to read it & find stuff:
If you like it, go and upvote my answer on MagentoSE 😉
Have fun with it!
Link: Magento CE 1.9.2.2 database diagram
Feedback on the diagram is welcome. Especially on some lonely tables that I moved to the best of my knowledge and belief into one of the groups.
Update: Windows Update 1511 solved the problem with the non-accessible DNS settings. You might need to set the Standardgateway though:
VPN Connection > Properties > Network > IPv4 > Properties > Advanced > IP-Settings
[X] Use default gateway for remote network
The network settings window of my VPN adapter was not accessible. Means: It was there, not greyed out but clicking on it did not open the settings tab.
http://superuser.com/questions/949306/windows-10-windows-vpn-ipv4-properties-not-accessible
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_wintp-insider_web/network-connection-vpn-ipv4-properties-not-working/a60edf99-4b06-4219-bb75-b7c08de4ff9e
The first place to get rid of my problem after the first recommendation: Adjust stettings in this file:
“C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Network\Connections\Pbk\rasphone.pbk”
Change the following settings:
IpPrioritizeRemote=1 => IpPrioritizeRemote=0 IpInterfaceMetric=0 => IpInterfaceMetric=1
I was looking for some fast fix but: Nothing changed. Enabled/disabled the connection: not better.
Run the PowerShell as Admin:
Check VPN connection:
Get-VpnConnection
Set SplitTunneling:
Set-VpnConnection -Name "YOURVPNNAME" -SplitTunneling $True
Again: nothing happened.
Enabled/disabled the connection again, nothing happened.
I tried to set the DnsAddresses in there:
IpDnsAddress=10.0.0.11
IpDns2Address=10.0.0.11
(note: these are not the real DNS settings)
as well as setting it via command prompt:
netsh int ip set address "YOURVPNNAME" gateway=10.0.0.11
Disconnecting + Connecting again: no luck.
After some more research I found out it could also be a DNS issue. I ran “nslookup” form the command prompt and checked the gateway.
This showed my local gateway.
Getting closer?
Some hints on that from the Microsoft forum:
No. 1:
This seems to be IPv6 related.
It keeps using my ISP’s IPv6 DNS server instead of my company’s (IPv4 only) DNS server.
If I disable IPv6 on my LAN network adapter, it starts working.
No. 2.:
Ok, it works, when SplitTunneling is disabled (Remote Gateway on) and IPv6 disabled.
I disabled SplitTunneling (again) and IPv6 on my WiFi and VPN. No luck.
Maybe these settings about help someone else resolving the issue. Some lucky users were able to resolve the problem after the very first step by editing the config file.
To be continued.
Bei der Installation der letzten Ubuntu Updates kam folgende Meldung:
Nicht genug freier Festplattenspeicher verfügbar
Die Systemaktualisierung benötigt 72,5 M an freiem Speicherplatz auf der Festplatte “/boot”. Bitte stellen Sie mindestens x M an zusätzlichem Speicherplatz auf der Festplatte “/boot” zur Verfügung. [..]
Die Lösung war folgender Befehl aus dem Ubuntu-Forum der die alten Header aus /boot entfernt:
dpkg -l 'linux-*' | sed '/^ii/!d;/'"$(uname -r | sed "s/\(.*\)-\([^0-9]\+\)/\1/")"'/d;s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* \([^ ]*\).*/\1/;/[0-9]/!d' | xargs sudo apt-get -y purge
The first MageUnconference took place on March 7th & 8th in Berlin. You’d like to know how it was? Read the FAQs!
Like an conference, but without any planned talks and with muuuch more and longer breaks. Someone Sander said to me in one of the breaks (sorry for not remembering, who it was I do SO remember it was Sander): “MageUnconference is a great combination of user group meeting and sessions”.
It was such a relaxed athmosphere according to conferences where people just rush from talk to talk and hardly have time to chat during breaks. It was my first unconference and – omg – unconferences are awesome! It was also the very first MageUnconference btw!
We had a few beers, we had food, I met a lot of people I already knew and a lot of new ones and some even not known from twitter before!
According to Fabian we didn’t manage to spend all the money that was sponsored for the preparty. Reminder for next time to all: Drink more beer or start earlier 😉
I also tried Ginger-Beer, I cannot recommend it.
The preparty took place in the Lindenbräu in the Sony-Center btw. After the last round of drinks we went for the After Pre-Party in the bar on the other side of the street of the Motel One.
And so it begins 🙂 #mageuc15 pic.twitter.com/9vrJ1VebQB
— vinai.phtml ? (@VinaiKopp) March 6, 2015
https://twitter.com/daim2k5/status/573991421729968128
After rumours on twitter, a lot of us booked their room in the Motel One at Ku’Damm (thanks Tobi for your tweet, i think everyone followed that). That was pretty cool as there was always someone around to go together to the Unconference and back.
I’m not sure which way was longer: The one from the elevator to my hotel room or the one to the toilets in the Abenteuerzentrum.
Driving with the bus from the Motel One! Despite my concerns beforehand it worked out better than I thought. My new favourite bus line in Berlin is now X10. Going with the bus, especially when going with a group of people, requires some attention from at least one of the group. Otherwise you will miss the station to get out. We had some near-misses.
The Eichhörnchensteig is just right after the Waldmeisterstraße. The way to the Abenteuerzentrum was very idyllic.
Yes, this really is the path to #mageuc15. Lovelysunday pic.twitter.com/Et25fzJQzC
— SaschaWohlgemuth (@Nomad73) March 8, 2015
The Abenteuerzentrum lies inbetween a lot of trees and green. It’s quite big and has a long way to the toilets (don’t forget to pass by when you’re in a session in the room “Bob”). We were lucky and the weather was very nice during MageUnconf which made it possible to sit outside, have breakfast outside and also sessions.
We had WIFI there which was reliable most of the time (depending on your location) and – for people like me without data plan in Germany – really essential to follow up all the tweets 🙂
Everyone had the chance to add topics he/she wanted to hear or talk about. The topics were collected on a wall, then introduced with a few words. A detailed picturized explanation about how that works can be found in Carmen’s Blogpost.
The good thing is: There are 3 (or even 4) dev-tracks.
The bad thing is: There are 3 (or even 4) dev-tracks.
Which means: You have to decide which one of all those cool sessions to attend! What I really liked were the discussions that evolved out of the sessions and also the quality of the topics was very good!
There were sessions about: Module testing, Magento search, Burnout, Magento and Bootstrap, Scaling Magento (day 1), Recommender systems, design patterns: abstract factory, Mistake Driven Development, Vagrant, Magento Meetups, Code Usablity, CRM and a lot more!
I even got to do my “First Aid – Survival Guide for web developers” session together with Benno which was really cool.
Awesome semi-off-topic MageDevTalk: @rescueAnn "First Aid Magento Developers" 🙂 #lovinIt #mageuc15
— Rico Neitzel (@riconeitzel) March 8, 2015
Great talk from @rescueAnn and @bennolippert about #firstaid for #webdev and life saving #mageuc15
— Tobias Hartmann – hamato.tez/.eth ? (@h4m4t0) March 8, 2015
There was lots of food! So much of it, that I cannot even list it all here. There was food all the time: apples, carrots, mandarines, cookies, cake, cereals, various kinds of break with various toppings. Lunch on saturday and sunday was vegan (the pumpkin soup on sunday was great btw!).
And there were a lot of softdrinks and 1337mate and Mischmasch and Coke and sparkling water (good quality sparking water from Vöslauer – Austrian company 😉 ) and much more!
There was a fireshow which was performed by “Feuer und Poesie” – omg, that voice! And omg, that fireshow!
After party with fireshow, good music and delicious grilled meat on #mageuc15 really good choice @MageUnConf pic.twitter.com/QojpyXc3J9
— Tobias Hartmann – hamato.tez/.eth ? (@h4m4t0) March 7, 2015
After that we had delicious food from the barbecue.. For even more entertainment throughout the evening there was table tennis, dart and air hockey!
I have no idea about the official number. Right before the event, 94 participants have been officially announced. Some didn’t show up or arrived later but there were still a lot of Magento people 🙂
Most of them were from Germany and the Netherlands, but there were also participants from Switzerland (2), UK (1.5, yeah, David, you’re the 0.5) and Austria (1). Hope I did not forget a country here.
There were a lot of cool Magento developers, but also project managers, sales & marketing guys/gals,… See #mageuc15 tweets for a list of people 🙂
One special thing I’d like to mention is that 3/4 of the MageStackDay-team met there 🙂
Magestackday Team @mannersd @rescueAnn @sandermangel and virtual @MariusStrajeru at #mageuc15. pic.twitter.com/N7wiQIMst9
— MageStackDay (@magestackday) March 7, 2015
Yes! And I hope there will be a #mageuc16!
Special thanks to the amazing team organizing MageUnconference: Fabian Blechschmidt, Rico Neitzel, Tobias Klose, Carmen Bremen and Vinai Kopp!
www.mageunconference.org
#mageuc15 Tweets
Check out these cool Blogposts:
English:
German:
David Manners hat eine neue Serie mit Interviews gestartet, um mehr über die coolen Menschen der Magento Community und ihre Freizeitaktivitäten zu erfahren. Das Ziel von MageEngage ist, die Magento Community der Magento Community vorzustellen.
David hat auch einen Beitrag auf MageHero mit seinen Gedanken dazu verfasst.
Für die erste Ausgabe von MageHero hat David mich über meine Aktivitäten im Rettungsdienst beim Österreichischen Roten Kreuz interviewed. Danke für das Interview, David!
Zusammenfassung des Interviews:
Weitere Dinge, die ich beim Österreichischen Roten Kreuz in Niederösterreich bzw. in Herzogenburg mache und ich nicht im Interview erwähnt habe:
Mehr Infos über MageEngage:
David Manners started a new series of interviews to find out more about the cool people in the Magento community and what they do in their free time. The aim of MageEngage is to introduce the Magento community to the Magento community. There’s also a post on MageHero with Davids thoughts.
In the first episode he interviewed me about my activities as a volunteer at the Austrian Red Cross ambulance service. Thanks for the interview, David!
Summary of the interview:
Other things I do at the Austrian Red Cross in Lower Austrian and Herzogenburg which i did not mention in the interview (time is short):
Find out more about MageEngage:
After some troubles and having enough of Windows, I switched to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on my Lenovo X1 Carbon (2012 Edition) at the end of January 2015.
This is my collection of software and tools which I am using and which were recommended.
Some of the software I use:
Thanks to my dear twitter followers, I also got the following recommendations:
to be continued.
Muhammad Saad Khan von Cloudways, einem High-Performance Provider, hat mich zu verschiedenen Themen rund um Magento, Security und Performance interviewed.
Das Interview in voller Länge gibt’s hier nachzulesen.
http://www.cloudways.com/blog/anna-volkl-interview/
Danke an Muhammad Saad Khan für die vielen netten Worte!