I was participating in a webinar with Zeev explaining the new implementation of PHP 7 and the improvements in memory management giving better performance. He pointed us to some blog posts, by Nikita Popov (@nikita_ppv), explaining improvements to the underlying structure of values, arrays, objects a.s.o. In this blog post I want to summaries some…
I just switched to use Linux at work. I’ve had Gentoo at home for years but Windows seems to be a part of the consulting branch of work I’ve done so far. The new machine I got was of course a 64 bit one and I installed the right distribution. After a week of use…
I needed a solution to save data and I wanted to create an API so I could handle different storage solutions. One of the solutions I wanted to support was OpenSwift, a part of OpenStack. Trying create a small local installation for testing wasn’t easy and required research. Configuration options seems endless so I’m trying…
Was debugging some code the other day and had some annoyance. I had to set a breakpoint in my code and then try to figure out where a problem happened by going into methods, and jump multiple steps before actually reaching the code I wanted to test. In this case the code to debug was…
I thought it could be interesting to do a small review of the PaaS solutions I’ve come into contact with and my experience. To preface this post I want to say that I mainly use PaaS solutions for prototyping and small scale development. None of the solutions I’ve built so far is running in production…
Customer segments aren’t the most straight forward concept. It should be and works fine but the back-end handling seems to be a set of different solutions put together to make the whole. First of we have the customer segments created as member groups. These groups have names and some small settings but only a few…
Quick note just to save this small information. IBM support is telling us that it’s impossible to use Commerce Developer with an external Solr server. After some research I found which config file to change in order to change which server it will call. [WCDEV_INSTALL]\wasprofile\config\cells\localhost\nodes\localhost\servers\server1\namebindings.xml This file has multiple entries for configuring the search. Changing…
Today I tried to look into the new functionality for B2B users. The first thing I realized after some testing was that I used the wrong store. I published the AuroraStoreFrontAssetStore from ExtendedSites section that we usually use. And none of the functionality was present. Seemed strange and I couldn’t see any other sars in…
Yesterday the new feature pack 8 and fix pack 9 of Websphere Commerce where released to the world. And I started to download it as soon as I saw it being available. Our process is to try out the new versions as fast as possible to nail down the technical challenges we will face moving…
I was looking into creating a reference editor to show an reference between my object to an SKU and I think it wasn’t obvious how to get this relationship to work. First of I wanted to use the reference editor to show my relationship. I defined it using the code below. I didn’t want the…