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How to list all Events in Magento
I’ve been working on a cool new feature for our Magento Hosting (which we’ll keep the wraps on for a couple more days), that required me to subscribe to a couple of Events through a Model Observer. This is as …
Tell Magento to store PHP sessions in Redis
Redis seems to be the backend of the future for large Magento installations, because of its speed and ability to handle Magento’s cache tags. Now if you have all your cache blocks in a blazingly fast memory store, it would …
Magento, Ioncube and performance
In this post I explain why you shouldn’t use Ioncube encoded Magento modules. Ioncube is an encoding system for PHP files. Ioncube-encoded files aren’t readable (by humans) so software companies use it to protect their intellectual property. Many commercial Magento …
Should I use the Magento Compiler?
A lot of mysterious fog surrounds the Magento Compiler, a feature that was introduced in Magento version 1.4.2. According to the original announcement, it realizes 25-50% performance gain. But later Yoav Kutner (Magento chief) said: In later versions since we …
Magento Live Performance Monitoring
Pinpointing bottlenecks in Magento can be quite hard. Especially if you don’t have a debugger or profiler running. To help our customers in speeding up their shops, we are building a server side profiler that will give you realtime feedback …
Security bug in is_a function in PHP 5.3.7 / 5.3.8
A few weeks ago we migrated a part of our hosting environment from PHP 5.3.6 to PHP 5.3.8. Normally an upgrade like this doesn’t cause any problems, since the PHP minor releases only contain bug- and security fixes. This time …
Magento Imports versnellen
Regelmatig krijgen wij van klanten het bericht dat zij problemen hebben met het importeren van producten in Magento. Nou hebben we gelukkig wel enkele tips en truuks, maar soms moeten we dan even schaapachtig mee lachen, met een “Ja, de …
Speeding up Magento imports (English)
We often receive feedback from customers having problems with importing products into Magento. Now we have some tricks to speed it up, but usually we just laugh sheepishly and agree, “Yeah, Magento isn’t the fastest when it comes to importing …
Segment 2 live!
De afgelopen maanden heeft Byte gebouwd aan een nieuwe omgeving. Omdat Byte hard groeit is het belangrijk om aan de groei behoefte van onze klanten te voldoen. Daarnaast moeten we zorgen voor een steeds verdere risico spreiding. Om deze zaken …
Techies in het zonnetje gezet en nog meer taart!
Om het hardwerkende techteam even in het zonnetje te zetten, werden ze deze week verrast met een root@byte t-shirt. Tech team bedankt! Waar ze dit aan te danken hebben? Aan alle belangrijke, vernieuwende, ingewikkelde, zenuwslopende, baanbrekende en / of intensieve …
