Page 10 - Monthly Archives: October 2025

Magento 2 ships with EAV, a very flexible model for product and customer data. At the same time, classic flat tables are the better decision for many custom modules. The art lies in not confusing the two.

A network error after a successful payment leads, without protection, to the client repeating the same request and triggering a second payment. This article shows how idempotency keys are implemented in PHP APIs to reliably prevent exactly this problem, including request fingerprinting, response caching, and protection against race conditions.

SwiftUI state management, Jetpack Compose recomposition and the differences between iOS and Android lifecycles demand platform specific knowledge that generic code often ignores. Claude supports native development for both platforms, explains store review requirements, and helps make architecture decisions for shared business logic on solid grounds.

Shell scripts rarely survive code reviews without objections, because standardized checklists are simply missing. This Bash checklist covers all critical dimensions: security, error handling, logging, testability with BATS, and static analysis with ShellCheck, systematically and with a practical focus.

A Hyvä theme follows its own directory structure and build approach: registration.php and theme.xml declare the package, web/tailwind/ carries the single real build step, and Alpine.js runs directly in the template with no compile step. Once you understand Hyvä theme architecture, you can find your way around any Hyvä project immediately.

touch-action decides which built-in gestures like pinch-zoom or scroll the browser handles for an element, and which instead get passed on to your own JavaScript. pointer-events answers a completely different question: whether an element reacts to pointer input at all. Keeping the two apart lets you build swipe carousels and touch widgets that do not fight the browser over every gesture.

Composer can do far more than just install dependencies: through Composer scripts and lifecycle hooks, every step of the installation process, from the very first composer install to the last autoload dump, can be extended with custom automation. Whether a shell command or a PHP callback via Composer\Script\Event, anyone who knows the complete event list replaces manual setup steps, forgotten cache clears, and improvised onboarding instructions with reproducible, versioned automation right inside composer.json.

A single getCurrentPosition call sounds like the easiest thing in the world, but location services sit at the intersection of accuracy, battery consumption and user privacy. Integrating geolocation into a React Native app without a clear concept risks drained batteries, confused users and rejected App Store reviews. This article shows how to request location services correctly on iOS and Android, track efficiently and test reliably.

Content formats increasingly determine whether a language model can reliably extract a piece of content and render it correctly in a generated answer. Body text without clear structure forces a model into interpretation, while lists, tables, FAQ blocks and definition boxes deliver information in a form that can be adopted directly into an answer with no room for interpretation.

When the Linux kernel comes under memory pressure, the OOM killer decides within a split second which process must die, often the database or PHP-FPM pool instead of the actual memory hog. This article explains the oom_score calculation, shows how to trace OOM kills in dmesg and journalctl, and how to protect critical services through oom_score_adj and cgroup limits.