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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…

As Magento ventures further down the path into a more integrated solution as part of the Adobe family we are seeing more and more graphics like the below: Indicating we can easily mix and match Comme…

For a range of workflow actions during Magento's order processing you might be interested in, hooking into a paid invoice, is one of the more interesting ones. Luckily for us Magento emits the sales_o…

Whether you write custom modules for individual clients or sell extensions on the Magento Marketplace - Magento 2 extension development is a big change from M1. I started writing Fooman’s Magento 2 e…

One of the cornerstones of Magento has always been the extensibility of the platform. Magento 2 is no different, but some of the approaches to customising Magento have changed substantially with the…

One of the questions we get asked a lot: Is Fooman extension X compatible with Vendor Y's Z extension? The answer to this question is unfortunately a typical software engineering answer - it depends. …

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…