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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:

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

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

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Magento API V2 Soap unit testing

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

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Fancy Magento Global Messages

23rd FEB 2012 | Posted by Davor Budimcic in Design, Frontend, Magento
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Magento Global Messages are sometimes not enough visible to the customers.

Let’s improve their visual impact by putting them on top of the page, and prettify with some nice animations!
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Android – playing with separate threads

20th FEB 2012 | Posted by Darko Goles in Android development
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This time, I played a little with Threads and I tried to implement somekind of simple-test separate thread and start it inside main activity and also return results from separate Thread so it can be used to update UI for example. Read more

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Android global variables

6th FEB 2012 | Posted by Darko Goles in Android development
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Sometimes we need to define global variables accesible from inside our android application to hold some shared values.
Simplest way to implement this is to subclass Android.app.Application class and define static variables that will hold our data. Read more

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Symfony2 translating validator messages

15th SEP 2011 | Posted by Darko Goles in Symfony, Tools & Frameworks
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After some digging and searching, I found the way that suit me best for translating messages from validation config file. I like to use yml format so let me show how I did it: Read more

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Creating simple Symfony2 service

10th SEP 2011 | Posted by Darko Goles in Symfony, Tools & Frameworks
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I am not talking about web services, but I am talking about symfony2 service container and the way of basic creating services inside Symfony2 project that are accessible from all other bundles via service container.

Why do I need to make some part of code like service inside Symfony2 anyway?

There is one possible problem: Read more

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Symfony2 translator

5th SEP 2011 | Posted by Darko Goles in Symfony, Tools & Frameworks
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Using built – in translator with Symfony2 project is pretty simple.

First make sure you enabled it in main config file: config.yml Read more

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Symfony2 Assetic

17th AUG 2011 | Posted by Darko Goles in Symfony, Tools & Frameworks
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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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