One of the interesting side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic is the unprecedented acceleration and adoption of e-commerce by many companies.

However, is my experience that headless commerce is a very abused term and as someone brilliantly put it:

Headless Commerce is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, sp everyone claims they are doing it.

The purpose of this article is to explore a bit of the general concepts of Headless commerce as well as review some of the available technologies and platforms available for…

Whenever I have a new side project idea, the need to build a quick prototype, or even an opportunity to build something from scratch at work, I keep coming back to Elixir time and time again.

Elixir has a strong pull on me, and not without reason. The language creators have done an exceptional job of building not only a fantastic language but also a thriving ecosystem.

The following five are some of the reasons why I keep coming back to Elixir.

Mix

Mix is a build tool that ships with Elixir and provides tasks for creating, compiling, testing, debugging, managing…

‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the office
Devs were aiming to deliver on promise
Code had been written, designs had been done
In hopes that their Christmas would be peaceful and fun.

Managers were ready with sign-off’s in tow,
While visions of dollar signs danced in the snow.
As everyone gets ready to call it a night,
A dev spies something that gave him a fright.

It’s all gone so well, with no problems around,
They were all getting ready for a night on the town. …

Over the past 2 years I’ve tried dozens of methods, systems and different morning routines, all eventually going away or eventually failing.

About 2 months ago I decided to rethink my approach and use tools that I’m deeply familiar and comfortable with, Scrum and Agile.

Scrum?

Scrum is an Agile framework for completing complex projects. Scrum originally was formalized for software development projects, but it works well for any complex, innovative scope of work. — “What is Scrum?”

For my goals, I’m borrowing two core ideas:

• Scrums
• Retrospectives

In software development, a sprint is a set period of time on which…

So Adobe announced the acquisition of Magento, now what? What does this mean for the community and for the ecosystem?

First, let’s address the elephant in the room this is nothing like the eBay acquisition in 2011 the community and the Magento leadership are both more mature to handle something like this. Adobe is also nothing like eBay; this is both a good and a bad thing.

Personally, I have mixed feelings about the acquisition from one end I feel extremely happy for the leadership at Magento, getting a deal like this one done and closed is a massive thing…

After almost 8 years, today is my last day at Demac Media.

Demac Media’s has an amazing team of dedicated and talented people. I’ve learned so much during, as well realized that I have much to learn. I feel extremely fortunate and thankful to have been part of it and I take with me invaluable experiences, and more importantly many great friendships.

Over my tenure at Demac I had the opportunity to experience many changes and in different roles, going from a freelancer on a retainer to part of the executive team as Director of Engineering.

I experienced the company…

2017 has arguably been the year of Cryptocurrency, with Bitcoin being getting most of the spotlight; at the core of Bitcoin, we have the Blockchain.

Blockchain technology applications go way beyond digital currency, and one of the best examples is Ethereum which is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts.

This allows developers to build enormously powerful decentralized applications, at this point there is still a lot of active development and innovation happening both around blockchain and ethereum.

The downside of all this constant innovation and development is that tutorials, documentation, and resources go out of date quickly, this has…

This is the second part of our Ethereum Zero to Hero guide. If you have not read part, I highly recommend it before jumping ahead.

In this post, we are going to set up a basic private test-net environment for ethereum development and experimentation.

Step 0: Requirements

• You are using MacOS
• You have a basic understanding of software development
• You know what Ethereum is and understand it is basic usage.
• You have a basic understanding of MacOS Terminal usage.
• You have homebrew installed

Step 1: Setting Test-Net

While we are learning the in’s and out’s of Ethereum development, we probably don’t want to test against the real…