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Consuming SOAP web services in iOS

24th APR 2012 | Posted by Ivan Kalaica in iPhone development, Mobile development

In past few years I’ve been working on variety of different applications but never on one that includes consuming web services such as SOAP. That’s mostly because SOAP is considered outdated comparing to REST today – totally wrong assumption (comparing apples and oranges).

Injecting Variables into a Magento CMS static block

23rd APR 2012 | Posted by Thomas Spigel in Magento, Programming

In this tutorial i’ll show you how to inject any custom variable you need into a cms static block in place of a {{var variable_name}} tag. You’ve seen this in the email templates if you were working on them (in the matter of fact the model (filter) we’re calling is extending the same filter the email templates are using for injecting the variables). Read more

Packing bags for Imagine

20th APR 2012 | Posted by Tomislav Bilic in Fun & Events

There are only few hours left to pack the bags, drive to Budapest, than over Amsterdam and Portland arrive to the biggest Magento event of the year – Imagine conference in Las Vegas, USA. The conference was sold out months ago, but fortunately the arrival was planned before.
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How to implement rel=prev and rel=next to Magento’s pagination?

13th APR 2012 | Posted by Vanja Devcic in Configuration, Integration, Magento, Search

As most of you know that “When dealing with online stores with a lot of products, pagination on category pages can get really problematic for search engines” like Toni Anicic wrote in his article. I don’t want to repeat his words, but to show you how you can add rel=”prev” and rel=”next” link tag attributes in the head tag for pages, which will boost your SEO. This peace of code is already provided by Magento community, but this is improved version. Read more

The Difference

10th APR 2012 | Posted by Zdravko Karanovic in Magento, News

Hello Magento community! My name is Zdravko Karanovic and I work as a branch manager and a team leader here at Inchoo office in Serbia. As I am one of the few Inchooers who doesn’t code, I don’t get to write those exciting articles about extending controllers or making cool Magento modules for that latest social network.
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Magento certification cheat sheet revealed!

1st APR 2012 | Posted by Aron Stanic in Fun & Events, Magento

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After a joint effort of 42 developers worldwide who took the Magento Certified Developer exam over the last 12 weeks, we bring you the ultimate cheat sheet for getting certified – with a 100% pass rate guaranteed! Read more

Marketing by sharing

28th MAR 2012 | Posted by Sanja Martinovic in E-Commerce, Magento, Marketing, Online Marketing

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Inchoo blog is very popular within Magento community. We get feedback from a lot of people who are interested in Magento or are Magento developers saying our blog is a very useful learning tool for them. Although it is very natural for us to share our knowledge, we noticed there are not a lot of companies that feel free enough to do so. For us, it is important to share with Magento community what we’ve learned as it can help others with their work and also be very helpful for us to get feedback so we deliver better solutions to our clients. Read more

We took the road less traveled – the aftermath of Inchoo Learning Day 4

26th MAR 2012 | Posted by Aron Stanic in Fun & Events

Inchooers came back safe and sound from yet another action-packed adventure that is Inchoo Learning Day.

This time, it was a truly international experience as we had Inchooers from both our branch in Serbia and Lyssandro Reis, our Operations Manager for Australia/New Zealand, joining the Osijek crew. Read more

Validate your input, Magento style

25th MAR 2012 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Programming

I’m sure most fo you will agree that Magento’s frontend validation for form input fields is a nice feature. All it takes is for you to add some CSS classes to the input fields and then upon form submission validation is triggered that outputs, by default, red colored messages that point the possible validation failures etc. This validation is done on the client side via Java Script. Read more

Installing & setting up PHPUnit manually without PEAR

24th MAR 2012 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Tools & Frameworks

If there is one thing I hate in PHP world then that’s PEAR. With full respect to it, but it simply does not work for me. I usually jump around from Linux, Windows, OSX on a monthly basis and honestly I have never had it work out of the box. There where always some installation issues with PEAR itself then with the packages. Experience I’m describing here is completely subjective so please do not look at it as me trashing the PEAR. If it works for you, then great. If not, then here is s little HowTo on installing the PHPUnit manually without PEAR. Read more