ESchrade – Kevin Schroeder https://www.eschrade.com Developer, author, musician, global domination theoretician Mon, 27 Apr 2020 20:25:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.2 Looking for some PHP/Magento contract work https://www.eschrade.com/page/looking-for-some-php-magento-contract-work/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed https://www.eschrade.com/page/looking-for-some-php-magento-contract-work/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2020 12:36:06 +0000 https://www.eschrade.com/?p=2981 I am looking for some contract work for PHP and/or Magento. Magento 1 is where my primary focus lies, though I have done work on Magento 2 as well. In terms of the type

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]]> https://www.eschrade.com/page/looking-for-some-php-magento-contract-work/feed/ 1 no_file_data uploading file to Slack https://www.eschrade.com/page/no_file_data-uploading-file-to-slack/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed https://www.eschrade.com/page/no_file_data-uploading-file-to-slack/#respond Tue, 02 Jul 2019 12:48:30 +0000 https://www.eschrade.com/?p=2973 I had a simple problem where I was trying to use the json array when uploading a file to Slack via the API. The code I was using was $payload = [ 'json' =>

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]]> https://www.eschrade.com/page/no_file_data-uploading-file-to-slack/feed/ 0 How to save your Magento customers $10,000 a year with this simple trick https://www.eschrade.com/page/how-to-save-your-magento-customers-10000-a-year-with-this-simple-trick/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed https://www.eschrade.com/page/how-to-save-your-magento-customers-10000-a-year-with-this-simple-trick/#comments Tue, 24 Jul 2018 14:14:41 +0000 http://www.eschrade.com/?p=2895 Just a quick post up here to help you out. I have a customer who is running their entire Magento operation on on AWS, using RDS as the database. It works quite well, actually.

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]]> https://www.eschrade.com/page/how-to-save-your-magento-customers-10000-a-year-with-this-simple-trick/feed/ 1 Monitoring Magento Jobs and Crons https://www.eschrade.com/page/monitoring-magento-jobs-and-crons/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed https://www.eschrade.com/page/monitoring-magento-jobs-and-crons/#comments Thu, 19 Jul 2018 15:08:26 +0000 https://www.eschrade.com/?p=2938 About a month ago a client of mine was lamenting the fact that they didn’t have insight into what was going on with their cron jobs. So I did what any idiot would do

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]]> https://www.eschrade.com/page/monitoring-magento-jobs-and-crons/feed/ 1 What I make of Adobe’s Magento acquisition https://www.eschrade.com/page/what-to-make-of-adobes-magento-acquisition/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed https://www.eschrade.com/page/what-to-make-of-adobes-magento-acquisition/#comments Wed, 23 May 2018 14:38:29 +0000 https://www.eschrade.com/?p=2915 Looking back, 2010 was a really good year for me. It was a few years prior to my time at Magento ECG; I had just left the Zend Global Services group and had become

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]]> https://www.eschrade.com/page/what-to-make-of-adobes-magento-acquisition/feed/ 1 Unable to load a work-in-progress JMeter plugin https://www.eschrade.com/page/unable-to-load-a-work-in-progress-jmeter-plugin/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed https://www.eschrade.com/page/unable-to-load-a-work-in-progress-jmeter-plugin/#respond Wed, 21 Feb 2018 17:11:10 +0000 https://www.eschrade.com/?p=2908 This is mostly search engine bait, but it might help someone. I’m doing some testing on JMeter, creating a plugin to extend it, and I had this weird problem where it would not load

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]]> https://www.eschrade.com/page/unable-to-load-a-work-in-progress-jmeter-plugin/feed/ 0 Why you do NOT need a college degree or even long-term training to be a software developer https://www.eschrade.com/page/why-you-do-not-need-a-college-degree-or-even-long-term-training-to-be-a-software-developer/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed https://www.eschrade.com/page/why-you-do-not-need-a-college-degree-or-even-long-term-training-to-be-a-software-developer/#respond Mon, 22 Jan 2018 17:28:41 +0000 http://www.eschrade.com/?p=2898 Ooo boy, this one is going to make a lot of people mad. But I know that it’s true. How do I know that it’s true? Because I have written three books on software

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]]> https://www.eschrade.com/page/why-you-do-not-need-a-college-degree-or-even-long-term-training-to-be-a-software-developer/feed/ 0 Content-Encoding: br, or Brotli compression with JMeter https://www.eschrade.com/page/content-encoding-br-or-brotli-compression-with-jmeter/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed https://www.eschrade.com/page/content-encoding-br-or-brotli-compression-with-jmeter/#comments Mon, 28 Aug 2017 15:58:56 +0000 http://www.eschrade.com/?p=2884 Update: JMeter 3.3 now includes Brotli compression out of the box I am working on a load test for a customer and I ran into a very weird problem where I was not able

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]]> https://www.eschrade.com/page/content-encoding-br-or-brotli-compression-with-jmeter/feed/ 2 Magento 2 Performance on Docker (a preliminary test) https://www.eschrade.com/page/magento-2-performance-on-docker/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed https://www.eschrade.com/page/magento-2-performance-on-docker/#comments Fri, 11 Aug 2017 15:57:05 +0000 http://www.eschrade.com/?p=2864 Introduction A few days ago there was a question on Twitter about using Docker in production instead of development. I was a little intrigued by the question because my experience has been in the

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