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So in a previous blogpost i already told that i was working on my own product. Well this is a Shopify app and last Friday it finally got approved to their app store. In the blogpost from januari i thought it would released within a few weeks, but it took a bit longer. This was on one hand due to having to wait for the Shopify approval process, on the other side due to lack of time from my side. But it's finally here.

This always bites me when setting up a Wordpress site on Laravel Forge: You get a redirect loop. This article is therefor mostly written for myself.

Today i had to create a file download from a Magento 2 controller. I turnes out that this is quite simple. Now, it's good to know that there are 2 options here.

So a few months ago i was doubting about my freelance career. In the mean time things become more clear for me and i have found some new clients who gave me some freedom in my work, for which i'm very thankful. The last ~6 months i was working mostly from home. This is great and has some big benefits, but can be lonely at times. There are also a lot of distractions at times. So i decided it was time to look for an official office.

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.

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.

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:

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.

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.

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.