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Mar 31, 2026
A long table breaking mid-row when printed is one of the most visible CSS bugs on invoices and order confirmations. With break-inside: avoid for rows and a correctly used thead as a repeating header, page breaks can be controlled deliberately so every page stays readable on its own, with no JavaScript or server-side PDF rendering required.
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Mar 30, 2026
Anyone running Microsoft Dynamics as an ERP alongside a Magento storefront quickly runs into the question of how orders, product master data and stock levels stay in sync between both systems. The answer depends heavily on which Dynamics generation is actually in use: Dynamics NAV, Dynamics Business Central and Dynamics 365 differ technically enough that a one size fits all integration strategy rarely works. This article places the three variants and shows what a solid connection to Magento 2 looks like for each.
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Mar 30, 2026
Magento already ships a complete notification system through Magento_AdminNotification, visible via the bell icon in the top right corner of the backend: inbox notifications with severity levels and an unread counter, plus system messages shown as a red or yellow banner. Custom modules can tap into this system deliberately to report certificate expirations, failed API synchronizations or low stock levels directly inside the admin panel instead of forcing developers to dig through log files. This article shows how to build a custom Admin Notifications setup based on InboxInterface, MessageInterface, cron jobs and ACL rules, including complete code examples for Magento 2.4.8.
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Mar 29, 2026
Anyone lifting a grown PHP project onto PHPUnit 10 or 11 runs into a flood of deprecation notices, changed assertion signatures, and removed interfaces. This article shows a structured path through the migration, without endangering the running test suite and without having to touch every test class at once.
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Mar 28, 2026
DI, Repository, ViewModel, Plugin, Observer, Factory, Proxy, MVC, Strategy, Iterator, Active Record, Singleton, Registry and more: all 13+ architectural patterns in Magento 2 explained, with code examples and the knowledge of when which pattern is the right choice.
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Mar 28, 2026
A clean Magento 2 module is not just registration.php and module.xml. Production ready code also needs configuration, ACL, an admin menu item, layout XML, a ViewModel and clear dependency injection.
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Mar 27, 2026
Magento's Full Page Cache decides entire page load times in milliseconds, yet most developers only know the symptoms of cache misses, not the mechanics behind them. This article explains cache_id generation, private content, cache tag invalidation, and systematic debugging with X-Magento-Cache-Debug, regardless of whether Varnish or the built-in cache is in use.
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Mar 22, 2026
In Magento 2 projects with tens of thousands of files in vendor/ and hundreds of modules in your own code, unfocused searching is inefficient. PhpStorm scopes limit search results to relevant areas, Custom Search Scopes filter down to your own modules, and Structural Search finds code patterns that cannot be meaningfully described with regex.
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Mar 21, 2026
Synchronous REST calls block PHP-FPM workers and run into HTTP timeouts on bulk data. The asynchronous bulk API in Magento 2 moves processing into the message queue, making mass imports, price updates and ERP integrations scalable without blocking the checkout thread.