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Setting up Magento debug enviroment using xdebug and Aptana Studio

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I’m using Aptana studio for few months already. It is Eclipse/PDT based so I’m sure all this can be achieved in any Eclipse based platform.

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Git vs SVN A.K.A. Everyone likes control

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Hi! Today I’ll try to make an objective overview of both SVN’s and Git’s pros and cons from developer side. I won’t go into depth of configuration of any of …

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Magento LightSpeed Extension – Review

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In the last 7 years of my involvement with web development I have had an opportunity to open a great number of different “boxes“ when looking for web site improvement. …

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The principles of SOLID programming

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Hello there! Today I’ll be explaining The principles of SOLID programming. When I first got serious about OOP, I jumped to design patterns, but then I realized that everyone need …

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Understanding PHP’s OOP – basic terms explained

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Hello there! I’ll explain some basic terms of PHP’s Object Orientated Programming terms that any developer needs to know. Perhaps you already use all of those, but if you don’t …

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How to work with SVN and Zend Framework in Eclipse PDT

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This post is for all those Eclipse fans. Latest version of Eclipse PDT can be found at: http://www.zend.com/community/pdt

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How to extend Magento core controller?

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Hi, today I’ll show you how to edit Magento’s core module without messing with core files themselves, or “the right way of doing things”.

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Load XLS files into Magento modules using PHP-ExcelReader class

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Recently I had a small problem and it turned out that it wasn’t small as a initially thought. I had to read XLS (Microsoft Excel document) into PHP. After I …

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A tale of Twitter Goodies

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Hello everyone! I decided that I’ll share some information on topic of Twitter implementation to a website. At the moment, Twitter offers three official “Goodies”, and we’ll go through them. …

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Facebook implementation – XFBML and META tags

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Hi everyone! In this article, I’ll be explaining some of new and “modern” tags and their attributes that emerged together with Facebook API.

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