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Symfony2 REST

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Recently I started to write web services in my Symfony2 project that will provide JSON data for using with mobile and other devices that will consume that.

On the mobile side, RESTKIT will be used to connect to my services, and on my (web) side I used Symfony2 (of course).

So, let’s write a simple web service: Read more

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Tofufu

Tofufu

We had the most fun time while working on a crazy toy store that is Tofufu. Selling Japanese Kaiju, designer toys and other toys for kids and grownups, it really is something special. Maibelle and Wayne from Tofufu were nice to work with and their design trully shows the playfulness and the unusualness that is Tofufu.

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Symfony2 Assetic

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I will try in short words write about using assetic in Symfony2 project.

Why do I need assetic anyway? What is that?
That was the first question I asked myself before asked my good friend ‘Google’. Read more

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What to do if someone builds bad backlinks towards your website

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So I’m doing my normal weekly backlink check to see if there are some new and interesting websites linking to us and I discover someone has built 190 “dofollow” backlinks from 43 different domains towards this article on inchoo.net. Most of these backlinks have porn related anchors. Naturally, my first thought was, some spammer made a comment on the blog post and decided to build backlinks towards this post, but there was no such comment on it. Was this built by a competitor – or someone just made a mistake during their spamy link building efforts – remains a mystery. Read more

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Facebook Avatar – I have returned

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Over the last few months there was a lot of buzz when Google Plus arrived. Initial reaction was very positive and it became hugely popular over the night. Many people saw it as Facebook demise and you could see a lot fo funny videos of Google+ vs. Facebook fight. One of the avatars became quite popular at that time. The one that says “I have moved” and has Google Plus logo. Even three Inchooers placed it on their own profiles.

However, we are recognizing a trend where those same users are now putting their profile pictures back and continuing to use Facebook like nothing happened. For those traitors, we made this avatar. It would be fair if they would now wear it at least the same time as they wore “I have moved” one. Enjoy!
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Creating your own web shop – Part 1: Where to start

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Creating your own web shop can be a tedious task, both technically and time consuming. Not to mention there are tens of quality PHP based web shop systems out there available for free. One of the best if you ask me is Magento, which exceeds the term web shop system by even bigger term “platform”. However, regardless of how some much a given system/platform is feature rich there are always those special clients with special requests which exceed the possibilities of even the mightiest eCommerce systems/platforms out there. Read more

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Customer reviews and their influence on conversion rate and search engine CTR

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Customer’s reviews are a powerful tool that strongly affect your online store’s conversion rates and – if implemented properly – click through rates in your SERPs. This article will cover just how much do they affect it in numbers and point out some of the best practices in acquiring these reviews and implementing them properly into your store. Read more

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Doctrine DBAL with Symfony2

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I regularly use Doctrine ORM for database operations in my Symfony2 project, but there was one situation that I had to write database importer from SQLITE database into projects Mysql database. Importer should run only once and I didn’t want to make new entity classes for importer, but just make code to work while import is not finished. Read more

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Symfony2 writing data-fixtures

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In last article about fixtures I wrote about manual setup for using data-fixtures with your Symfony2 project.
Now it’s time to write first data fixture. Read more

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Symfony2 CLI

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As someone of you know there is pretty good feature made in Symfony2 that is worth to mention: Console interface with commands that make our life easier to generate different sort of things in our Symfony2 application and execute many useful commands with Doctrine etc. Read more

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