Big Magento News & Efficiency Hacks - Joseph & Jesse

On this episode of Smash the Bug, Joseph and Jesse (the dream team at SwiftOtter Solutions) talk about some big Magento/Adobe news that is going to have a potentially large impact on the community, developer efficiency hacks and how to become a better problem solver in your daily operations.

Key Takeaways

“Magento” to “Adobe Commerce”? How will this effect the community?

“It’s [Magento] been a daily part of my vocabulary for ten years” – Joseph

How will open-source look? Will a name change effect anything operationally?

Glitch in new feature – pull request links and code examination

“It just reminded me of the importance of putting that issue number in”

Experienced developers need to think like young developers when they create

“The time you invest now, or the little bit of thought that you invest now, will save you probably double that, if you ever need to touch that in the future”

Reviewing the tenses of commit messages

“Describing the code as it is right now”

When products weren’t saving, specifically through the API

“This is where thoughtful debugging makes a huge difference”

Integer or string, product ID or SKU

“We were not expecting SKUs”

Taking the time to create a full local replication and evaluate the big picture

Intro to the “TAD” debugging framework