I was lucky to be in Berlin last weekend. And I realized I was even more lucky, because the Magento Unconference 2016 happened to be on the very same dates. So without any hesitation I have joined the event once I landed in the German capital. In this blog post I want to share with you my impressions and help you to decide whether to attend and contribute to Magento Unconference next year.

This week has started with a new host country for Meet Magento and the most northern location for this event series in all of its history. Of course, as Atwix is a co-organiser of Meet Magento Ukraine, I couldn’t miss the chance to attend Stockholm and get to see how Meet Magento develops its presence there.

Manage Translation System in Magento

In this post we want to share our expertise on how to manage translations in Magento. We will cover various methods, their priorities and characteristics. We will show you the pros and cons of each solution to match your needs when you change or add a new translation to your online store.

As you may know, Magento has 3 different ways of adding/changing translations (from highest to lowest priority):

Logging system. Optimize Magento database by cleaning logs

Magento is a powerful and, at the same time, complex eCommerce system. One of the important parts of this system is a different events logging. After some time of functioning, Magento collects more and more events data and it might have the performance impact. Of course, the logs information can be cleaned manually in the database to avoid issues with performance, but this approach is not always handy. Therefore, in this article we want to review Magento logging system and built in tools for logs handling.

Magento patch SUPEE-7405 v1.1

In one of our recent articles we have described Magento patch SUPEE-7405 installation and its code changes. But, as it turned out, this patch might cause some issues on the websites. And in order to reduce the number of issues Magento has released an update to the patch – SUPEE-7405 v1.1. It does not fix any security issues, meanwhile we would like to review what changes this update contains to understand its role:

Magento Security Patch SUPEE-7405 Overview

As you may know, Magento released security patch SUPEE-7405 on 20th of January 2016. This patch contains changes to more than 50 core files and in this article we are going to review the changes and potential issues that could be faced after the patch implementation.

Every change should be carefully tested before the release on the live store to make sure that it does not break any functionality. The most important is to check the main places such as customer registration process, customer log in to the account, adding different types of products to the shopping cart, checkout steps etc. We need to check the mentioned parts for every modification made for the website, these repetitive actions take a lot of time. But what do you think – is it possible to speed up and improve this process? As one of the most obvious solutions is to develop functional tests for the website and, in such way, we will automate all the actions.