Yesterday we launched a new, redesigned version of our Croatian website – inchoo.hr. The new design follows the inchoo.net’s look and feel with a little twist in the header to improve the differentiation of the two websites. The difference is obvious in the color scheme and contour of our hometown Osijek that can be seen in the header.
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Assuming that you already installed PHPUnit because there are already many tutorials about that, I will write just one short tutorial about setting up test environment for Zend application. I am currently using windows 7, and NetBeans IDE for php 6.9.1.
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Seems like URL shorteners have gain extreme popularity with web services like Twitter. Not to mention the fact that long URLs are somewhat hard to pass along. They are also harder to verbalize in a conversation, and above all in some cases they are almost impossible to remember.
There are quite a large number of URL shorteners out there these days, mostly free. One of the freshest is Google’s URL shortener. This article is not about outlining the features that make this shortener better then the other ones (as I am sure some offer more features at the moment). This article is merely for the purpose of showing you how easy it is to use the Google URL Shortener service via your ZendFramework libraries.
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Well, any version control system is great, at least in compare with none at all. But what’s happening with your database? Today I’ll show you how to create automated solution for backup and insertion of MySQL database into Git repository.
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Well, in short – it isn’t! But, when it comes to branching, it comes to “merging problem”. I say problem although it isn’t, and if you’re interested, I’ll show you why.
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Hi Everyone,
After all the work we have done to get our new website up and running, we are now trying to get the attention of the design community and show that we do design in the same way we do development; with distinctive passion and quality. If you want to help us to win this award, all you have to do is to go to cssdesignawards.com hover the image and vote for us!
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Hi! Today I’m going to write an article about basic Git usage in practice. I’m not going to go into depth of Git repository setup, but rather on developer’s side – what’s important to understand to start using it?
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Hi Everyone. Since I started working at Inchoo – in fact since my interview, Tomislav (our CEO) has been talking about the revamping of Inchoo.net. In Brazil we have a popular saying: “In a blacksmith’s house, the skewer is made of wood”, which can be applied to almost all types of businesses. You know the drill, unless something is really hurting, we keep our non-billable projects on the back-burner and keep the focus on our clients and opportunities for new projects. Thankfully, we found a gap in between projects and I was the designer responsible.
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Hello again! Today I’ll discuss some of the basic coding rules if your’re using Zend framework (or even Magento, which is written over Zend framework). Some might think that this is an redundant topic, but I strongly disagree – if you work in a team.
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Hi! As any developer, I’ve encountered a small problem when working with PHP under Apache. It’s all good until you have to test the “real life” situations. For example – if you use imagemagick library in your application. It can get quite heavy on server load. So if you want to read a solution for it, read on.
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Hello everyone! Recently I’ve noticed that some developers don’t pay much attention to memory management in Zend framework. And here I’m not talking about Zend_Cache, but rather about object sizes. And if you’re thinking that I’m writing nonsenses, let me show you how to reduce memory usage by more than 100 times (in my example :D).
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Hi! Today I’m going to explain a part of Zend framework DB functionality. Transactions in general are quite useful, like temporary tables, but in most of situations unnecessary. Because of that, I’m going to explain when and how to use them through Zend framework.
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For my second 🙂 article I’m again writing about Ext.js. Ext.js has one great part for showing data – grids. These look really nice and you can style them pretty easily. It all works like a charm when you’re using them for static data. But what when things get dynamic? What when you don’t know the number of the headers that you need in the table and not just rows? Here’s where this article will help.
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Developing sites and applications demands the best tool you can afford. PhpStorm is by far the best friend you can get when dealing with web development. Here’s why.
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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.
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 them neither will discuss specific commands, but rather functionality itself.
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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. After opening these “boxes” things often didn’t seem as it was specified – luckily this is not a case with Magento Lightspeed extension : )
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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 a good grasp of the SOLID principles before you’re ready to tackle Design Patterns – in more of an Architect role – that is. So, to conclude this short introduction, I’ll try to explain this in as low-level of knowledge as possible.
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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 know which is which, you will have a problem in team communication. If so, please read on.
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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
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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Hi to all of you! Today, I’m going to explain SELF JOIN in MySQL – I’ll answer why and then how should you use it.
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It’s been a while since I last time played with beauty of Zend Framework.
Each time I check new features it seems to me that the things are more simplier than the last time,
I might be wrong (I wouldn’t bet on that) or I’m just getting better 🙂
Hi, this is part 2 of my most recent article “Usage of temporary tables in MySQL databases“. If you haven’t read it, please do before you continue. In this specific article, I’ll give you a real example of temp table usage, and hopefully, you will see its advantage.
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Hi! My recent project had some specific requirements regarding the work with database. Since DB server had some limitations (regarding number of queries), and fairly big number of queries that needed to be executed I created a solution that included temp tables. And now, I’d like to explain how to use them and why.
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Hi! Today I’ll explain some basic terms and show you on a simple example how to set up DNS records manually. First of all, let me start by explaining some basic terms.
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Today I’ll explain how to setup testing environment with https protocol on Ubuntu. It should take around 10-15 minutes to do it manually. I assume you have installed LAMPP on your development PC.
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Hi, first of all, I’d like to explain the title of this post. I won’t go into depths of complicated examples, but rather explain the logic of it.
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This isn’t post for ordinary people, so if you do not know what is virtual host or how to set it up please skip this article and don’t waste your time.
But if you wish to save your time you will use some of this tools.
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Hello guys. Today I’ll try to explain 2 things. First WHY to use stored procedures. And second, HOW to use them. First of all, a small notice. I’ll explain the subject on PostgreSQL example, because of the fact that I used that language syntax most recently.
So let’s begin with the question “Why?“.
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