This year was a wild ride in my personal life. Still, I'm planning for a lot of cool things in the Yireo course portfolio. Here are the most concrete points for the last months of 2024.
Online courses
Since late 2022, Yireo has its own office, which is also used as a training room (it is actually designed specifically for that). With that, a lot of the trainings I held since 2022 are live trainings on-site with the agency or in that training room.
However, I repeatedly got the feedback from some that online courses (so, not video courses, but live trainings with Zoom) would be preferable: It cuts traveling time, especially with remote teams.
Because of this, some of the training that I organized earlier as a live training at Yireo, are now also going to be held online (via Zoom):
- Magento 2 Testing (Sept 30th/Oct 1st)
- Shopware 6 Administration (Nov 25th/26th)
And - per request - we might be scheduling a lot more of these online live sessions. Let me know if you need anything.
New trainings for managers & merchants
Another big change in my portfolio is that I am (again) organizing non-developer trainings. I did so in the past (before 2018) but found no mojo in that. But I know have new teachers to spread the mojo instead:
- Magento 2 E-commerce Manager (Sept 6th/20th, with Sander de Graaf)
- Google Tag Manager for Magento (Oct 21st/22nd, with Ron van Dijk)
... with new teachers
With that, I find it therefore also very cool to say that the Yireo team is no longer just one teacher (hello me), but a set of four teachers with the addition of Len Lorijn, Sander de Graaf and Ron van Dijk.
And I'm expecting even more to join the team. Why? Because Yireo stands for non-bullshit training, cheaper than the competition, more in-depth than the competition, and in it for the community.
New trainings for Magento developers
Throughout the years, I expanded my Magento course materials rapidly. Agencies that invited me as a teacher / consultant were profiting from this already. However, I never turned all of this into actual new courses. That's going to change with the coming of the following training.
- Magento 2 Rapid Development (together with Len Lorijn)
- Magento 2 Testing (with heavy focus on integration tests)
- Magento 2 Message Queues (including RabbitMQ)
- Magento 2 Caching Internals (including FPC, Varnish and a lot more)
- Magento 2 ElasticSearch (well, and OpenSearch)
Besides this, I'm updating my Shopware portfolio: With custom in-house trainings at agencies, I already discovered that Shopware teams often lack knowledge of newer Symfony features like Flex, PHP attributes and autowiring. All of this, plus kernel internals like compiler passes, now also flows into separate courses:
Roadmap for 2025
On top of all of this, I'm already looking forward to 2025. For instance, I've found a Typo3 guru with whom I'm eager to kickstart Typo3 courses. And Laravel is on the agenda too!
The summer of 2025 will mark another edition of the MageUnconference Netherlands. And who knows, there will be another MageTestFest?
This is just the new stuff. See our training page for a complete overview.
About the author
Jisse Reitsma is the founder of Yireo, extension developer, developer trainer and 3x Magento Master. His passion is for technology and open source. And he loves talking as well.
