The Magento Blog By Fooman

In this Q&A series, we speak to Magento developers to share what they’ve learned about Magento 2 with the community. This month, we spoke to Muliadi Jeo from Magento Professional Solution Partne…

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…

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…

At the recent Magento Live Australia Event I hosted a DevExchange table on the topic of: Security and Magento and Extensions With security every participant of the ecosystem has their role to play. W…

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…

It's been more than two weeks since Imagine 2016. Most of the posts on it have been written but I still haven't fully digested everything that happened, all the discussions held, all the people met an…

You may have seen the recent flurry of posts around the future of Magento Open Source, and talk of a posible fork. It started with the post "The Future of Magento" by a group of well respected and lon…

UPDATE - The event got cancelled - see you all another time. As a Magento Extension Developer, I enjoy quite a bit of time working in my home office. But sometimes you have to leave your environment, …

In this Q&A, we chat to Pere Hospital, Co-Founder and CTO of Managed Magento Hosting Platform Cloudways. This interview is a little different - as extension developers we normally don't have a lo…

Magento has always been used around the world with the community providing translations for different locales. With Magento 2 this is no different and the translation efforts can be found on Crowdin.…

This year's Imagine conference looks to be the busiest yet for me. Below some of the things I hope to achieve while there. Writing it down here will help me not to forget anything. Meet old and new f…

If you feel like the last few years have been a whirlwind of mergers and acquisitions, especially on the Magento agency side, you're right. Below is a quick round-up of some of the larger mergers and…

Most know that Sherrie who, as Magento's Commuity Manager, runs the Magento Masters program, keeps a giant spreadsheet on which all community contributions are recognised throughout the year. By some …

"A Magento Master ... regularly participates in the community, is a good steward of the brand, helps to create a positive environment, and consistently adds value to the community" Sherrie Rohde,…

It's less than 48 hours to go before my #RoadToImagine kicks off! This year will be slightly different for me as I won't be on stage speaking. It definitely removed some anxiety in the lead up to the …

Sometimes, you need a break from coding and writing Magento developer tips. Inspired by a 2016 Magenticians meme round-up and the folks behind the Memegento and MageTalk Twitter accounts, the Fooman…

Thanks every one for your time and feedback at Meet Magento DE in Leipzig this year and thank you to Meet Magento for putting on another excellent event. It was great to finally being able to put a fe…

Magento Imagine is always a good time to assess how far we've come in the last year and where the road is leading for the future. Others have already done a great job of covering the conference and ke…

Inspired by Karen from ShipperHQ I have been working on a series to provide a framework for getting a Magento 2 site up and running fast, starting from scratch. Preface If you are in a hurry needing t…