Two classics of the „shop got big, code got slow“ genre: Both have quiet solutions in the DAL. One is a Criteria mode with a misleading docblock, the other is an optimization you get for free — but only if you use the right method. Part 1: Three ways to count (and one to avoid) […]
New week, new task. Our goal was to build a new category page – you’ll be able to purchase it soon as module! For this we wanted to load all products and their children. To do this we need to filter products simply by parent_id IS NULL. Carl and me tried hard. All kinds of […]
We have a feature to implement: We need multiple groups for customers. And because we already have good experience with tags, we implement it with tags. Customer is part of a band? Cool, give them the tag „Die Prinzen„. They are part of multiple bands? No problem, tag them with „Versengold“ also. Do I just […]
