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Inchoo Demostore extension

8th MAY 2012 | Posted by Darko Goles in Magento

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In my last project, during development of API extension for Mageboard application, when started to develope Apple Push Notifications Services integration, one problem came out that took me too much time each day to solve: Push notifications are supposed to be active only if some new order and/or customer is made on site.

So if there are no constant new orders and/or new customers, I can not test my APNS integration. Read more

Magento mobile theme – imobile

7th MAY 2012 | Posted by Stanislav Mihic in Frontend, Magento, Mobile web, Tools

Magento meets jQuery mobile (ver 1.1.0), before we start please note this is only experiment, use this theme on your own, this is not (yet) production ready. In a nutshell we have “package” under which we place all edited files. For start we use magento iphone theme and then add some “extra stuff”. Read more

How I survived all of the Google’s updates since 2005

7th MAY 2012 | Posted by Toni Anicic in Online Marketing

On April 24th, Google released a major web-spam update to its index called Penguin. Although it reportedly affected “just” 3.1% of English search queries, it hit the most “optimized” SERPs and high value keywords, so it made a big noise in the SEO community. From the data we have so far, Google made this update to hit “over-optimized” websites. Those engaged in heavy SEO link-building / keyword stuffing / unnatural text / link anchor patterns. Read more

Android ksoap2 and Magento v2 API

30th APR 2012 | Posted by Darko Goles in Android development

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When trying to access Magento SOAP web services v2 from Android, after some searching on web, I found that ksoap2-android project could be useful to implement SOAP client in android project. (Ksoap2-android is lightweight and efficient SOAP client library for android platform).
Next step was to figure-out how to use it.
After some additional investigation, I found that it is pretty simple to use, when you get used to it once. Read more

Add Gravatar to your iOS App

30th APR 2012 | Posted by Ana Gabric in iPhone development, Mobile development

Our latest iOS application Mageboard is showing customers gravatar. Gravatar is a service for providing globally unique avatars. On Gravatar, users can register an account based on their email address, and upload an avatar to be associated with the account. Read more

Using Core Plot in iPhone/iPad app

27th APR 2012 | Posted by Ana Gabric in iPhone development, Mobile development

Core Plot is a plotting framework for iOS and OS X. You can download the latest zip file from here. I’m using CorePlot_1.0. After unzipping it go to CorePlot_1.0/Binaries/iOS, there you can find CorePlotHeaders folder and libCorePlot-CocoaTouch.a, add them to your project. Add QuartzCore.framework, go to Build Settings and add -ObjC -all_load to Other Linker Flags.

Magento API v2 SOAP demystified

26th APR 2012 | Posted by Darko Goles in Magento, Mobile web

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Last few weeks, i often see confused people asking questions about difference between Magento’s API v1 and v2, and also bunch of questions about how to use WSDL and WS-I files when developing own or extending existing Magento soap API v2.
It is obvious that short articles about specific Magento API parts will not help them to get the bigger picture about Magento core API v2. Because of that, I decided to demystify practical usage of Magento API v2 and also to explain difference when using v1 and/or v2 API.

Let’s start from beginning, to everything clear later:

How to add a property via class category?

26th APR 2012 | Posted by Ivan Kalaica in iPhone development, Mobile development

Have you ever been in a situation where you needed to extend class with additional property but for some organizational reason you didn’t want to change default source class file? For example, when you add Xcode sub-project which you want to keep untouched and up-to date with it’s version control, but still you want to make certain default implementation changes in sub-project.

Inchoo presents: Mageboard – Your Magento Dashboard!

25th APR 2012 | Posted by Ana Gabric in iPhone development, Mobile development

Our latest iOS App gives access to Magento Dashboard. Orders, customers, reports – elements which Magento store owners already know, only extra spicy and on the go. You can buy the app from the App Store, install our FREE Magento extension and you are ready for mobile Magento experience. Now lets take a tour with our Demo Store…