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For many businesses, surcharges are a good way to keep base prices down and recover specific, customer-driven costs to your business. Surcharges are a common part of the online buying experience in m…

Prefer to watch rather than read? Check out the video from my Composer presentation at Magento Imagine 2017. Composer is a powerful tool for developers to harness the full potential of Magento 2. It…

Small merchants using Magento. Everyone has an opinion, and they’re not all favourable. Of the 200,000+ online stores that use Magento, a lot of these are smaller merchants. I’ve witnessed small mer…

Magento 2 comes with a range of compilation commands which are meant to be run as part of your build step. However as there are a few different commands it's easy to forget one. The easiest way I foun…

What an insane year 2017 has been for Magento. Here’s my take on the 17 things that stood out this year - based on a highly scientific opinion poll of one Magento developer (that’s me!). 1. Magento t…

So here’s what went down at Magento Imagine 2017... I’m only just getting back from Imagine and catching up with emails. Overall the whole event was a total blast. A huge highlight for me was being r…

I’ve had some interesting conversations with merchants and other developers lately about the issue of trust when it comes to Magento extensions. The right extension can be a real time and budget saver…

Magento 2.2 has been announced back in April at Imagine. Since then a steady stream of pull requests and changes have made it into the Magento code base. With a targetted release date in September, Ma…

In my recent Imagine presentation I talked about keeping your Magento 2 extensions in the vendor folder. The good news is that it is fairly straight forward to convert your extension from one location…

Sometimes you need to quickly check something on the latest development version of Magento 2. Especially if you haven't previously pulled the repository from Github the following small change will red…

It’s hard to believe that Magento 2 is already approaching its second birthday. Builtwith estimates there are around 16,000 folks currently using Magento 2. But there’s also a massive number of people…

TL;DR: Our package versioning scheme will change to a similar approach Magento uses. The installed extension package will become a metapackage which is no longer going to be semantically versioned. T…

Magento 2 uses Swagger to automatically generate documentation for its REST API. You can view a published version on Magento devdocs. What's even better - Swagger is shipped with each installed instan…

The most common mistake when working with Magento? Making changes directly to your live Magento site… without first using a test site. It’s so simple, but my best advice is to always use a test site …

While working with Magento 2 you will be using the command line a lot more often. I have started a collection of commands that have come in handy while working on various client installations: Tip #1 …

Magento extension development can be hard work but also highly rewarding. Want to know what life is really like as a Magento extension developer? I wanted to share my experience of more than 10 years…