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Magento with xDebug, web services API and testUnit

20th MAR 2012 | Posted by Darko Goles in Debugging, Magento, Programming

Merreper@sxc.hu

Using xDebug from NetBeans is pretty straightforward and after installing xDebug from their website does not require some special configuration in order to make it work.
If you visit the link above, you will notice that it’s enough to paste the source code of your phpinfo() and you will get directions what xDebug binary to download and how to set it. Read more

Installation and configuration of local Mail server for Windows (hMail Server)

17th MAR 2012 | Posted by Nikola Stojiljkovic in Email, Magento

This is not exactly Magento related post, but it might be useful when you are setting up a dev environment on your local machine. There are many good and free mail servers out there which are relatively easy to install on your Windows machine, but the problems may occur when you try to configure all the bits and pieces of your system so you can actually use your local mail server for something other than producing system errors .

When I started working with PHP a long time ago, I was (naturally) looking for a mail server that could be used on my local machine. For some reason that is now long forgotten, I have decided to use hMail Server (freeware). Since it never failed me, it stayed in my standard set of must-have tools. In this post I’ll try to present a step-by-step manual on how to install and configure your system to use hMail Server. Read more

Magento Enterprise – Discount for specific Customer segments group

16th MAR 2012 | Posted by Stanislav Mihic in Administration, Marketing

sxc.hu

In previous post we create Customer group based on company emails. Now when we have few customers registered with company emails we will create campaign and give them 50% discount for purchasing Laptops. Read more

Magento API V2 Soap unit testing

15th MAR 2012 | Posted by Darko Goles in Debugging, Magento, Programming

flaivoloka@sxc.hu

In previous article, I wrote about setting up environment for Magento unit testing. Let’s expand our tests to test some Magento’s API calls with soap. Read more

Admit it, your product descriptions could be better

14th MAR 2012 | Posted by Toni Anicic in Online Marketing

Not so long ago when e-commerce was younger, so much younger than today – when people were afraid to put their credit card number onto an input field on a website – people would just search for information online and buy stuff offline. Not to mention there was no Magento, online stores ran on wooden PCs and stuff, and there were dinosaurs and stuff running around. Kidding about the dinosaurs, although they did tend to appear on many websites in form of an annoying animated GIF. I remember in these hard times for online merchants there was one awesome online store here in Croatia that every geek knew about and bought from. This store was known for their amazing product descriptions. They were so fun, people would come there just to read them and have a laugh, even if shopping wasn’t on their to do list for the day. Read more

Does your company care about culture?

13th MAR 2012 | Posted by Sanja Martinovic in Fun & Events, Marketing

Successful organizations care about maintaining and improving their organizational culture. Strong organizational culture means company has some customs, values, unwritten rules and basically a specific way of doing things, that all employees respect and believe in. All that helps them work better, increases their motivation, productivity, loyalty and pulls them to work better for achieving organization goals which they identify as their own. Read more

Clickable Automotive

11th MAR 2012 | Posted by Vanja Devcic in Portfolio

Clickable Automotive is an Australian company dedicated to meeting the unique needs of European automotive enthusiasts. This is our most recent Australian launch and an example of team-work between our Sydney and Headquarter’s teams.

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Bilvask.nu

11th MAR 2012 | Posted by Vanja Devcic in Portfolio

Bilvask.nu, is a Danish based Car detailing company with a webshop selling high-end car care equipment. Their daily work with luxury cars always requires a strong founded feeling of quality towards our work every single time. Our scope of work included all phases – from wireframing, through design to development.

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Magento unit testing basic setup

7th MAR 2012 | Posted by Darko Goles in Magento, Programming

123dan321@sxc.hu

In my first Magento post I mentioned importance of using unit testing during development.
Somebody will say: ‘Hello, I don’t have a time to make some weird unit tests, and why should I need them anyway?’
I will not try to explain why this is necessary here, because any good experienced developer that wants to follow best practice rules will know what I am talking about…. Read more

Extending Magento web services API v2

29th FEB 2012 | Posted by Darko Goles in Extensions, Magento, Programming

In some of previous posts on inchoo.net, colleague of mine – Branko Ajzele wrote about extending Magento API – v1.

Let say that mine extension is called: Inchoo Mapy and I will extend the customer API V2 first.

Although Magento has pretty rich set of API calls, in my project I found that some of the API calls should be extended to fit our project needs. In later posts I will write about that specific needs and possibilities, but now let’s concentrate to extending core API V2 first. Read more