Magento 2 Grunt based tasks management
Magento 2 Grunt based tasks management : After more than a year since its official stable release, Magento 2 can finally be used in production environments as it has passed the test of time. For us, old timers, working since the first versions of Magento 1, the new structure is at least puzzling and some things might need to be explained. One of those things is the Continue reading →
Panama Papers and WordPress updates
Panama Papers and WordPress updates : Sometimes is hard to keep up with updating your website, but when you are covering your clients illicit money transfers into off-shore accounts, maybe you should be a bit more concerned with security. Allegedly, a WordPress security breach was used by the hacker that got his hands on the leaked "Panama Papers" documents. Based on a blog post by a Continue reading →
Bernie Sanders and broadband speed
Bernie Sanders and broadband speed :   Don't you feel that sometimes politicians go over the board to show how their supporters are complete morons? Making a tweet that compares the internet broadband speed across US with Bucharest's broadband speed wouldn't be such a big deal if you would know how to do a proper comparison and how to properly argument your position. I agree that Continue reading →
SQL vs NOSQL? When and why…
SQL vs NOSQL? When and why… : As promised a few months ago, I am writing this to provide more details over the technologies discussed on the Microsoft Summit 2014 agenda. One of those technologies is NOSQL. David Chappell in his "NoSQL on Azure: An Introduction" presentation has brought a few interesting ideas over why you should use NOSQL, when you should use it and what happens Continue reading →
Ever heard of Ubuntu Phone? What about FirefoxOS or Sailfish?
Ever heard of Ubuntu Phone? What about FirefoxOS or Sailfish? : Everywhere you're looking someone is on a smartphone. Everyone chats, talks, plays or even works on the latest model or wants the latest model of … an iPhone or a Samsung. I use them both and I'm wondering if we're missing something. So I started looking into what's the latest by anyone else but Samsung or Apple and I've observed Continue reading →

What are content management systems (CMS)?

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Well, as the name says, content management systems, or in short CMS, are builds (custom or platform based) that provide content creators, editors and content managers the ability of managing the content in a structured, easy to use way. For example this post is being written using such a system, specialized for blogging and general presentation websites called WordPress. WordPress Continue reading →

Augmented reality – From an image to Microsoft Hololens

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A few years ago I had the luck to see, first hand, the first augmented reality commercial apps being developed in Romania. They were interesting, but were lacking a lot of features concerning the proper image detection techniques, 3D model management and putting all that in a functional app. Now after a short period of time Microsoft has announced the Continue reading →

Memcached setup and optimization for different platforms

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Have you ever wondered if query caching is enough? Well it isn't because not just data query results increase the load time of a webpage but also the data processing that requires computation power and processor time. What if your application is using the same object processing with no or minor data changes. Then the fastest way to handle this Continue reading →

Magento optimization

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As we presented previously Magento is the best open-source online shopping platform available on the market. So, what is the reason a big number of retailers still prefer hosted platforms or simpler solutions? To answer that I need to provide some details on the technical background of the platform. Magento is build using Zend Framework 1, which is a very Continue reading →