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The Complete Guide To Magento Debugging

How to Debug Magento

Integration of new solutions into different systems can become a headache without the knowledge of correct debugging.  In case of Magento, such simple constructions as print_r() or var_dump() , var_export() don’t work. Because of heavyweight constructions, you need to investigate the new effective ways to find intermediate values or broken places. Fortunately, there are a lot of tools and methods designed to turn the debugging into a developer friendly process. Continue Reading

The Best PHP Content Management Systems (CMS)

 CMSA content management system or CMS is an application that allows publishing and editing content from a central interface. Such systems are often used to run news and shopping websites or blogs. CMSs are also used by different corporate and marketing websites. Their main aim is to avoid the hand coding, but often content management systems support it for some certain parts of the website. CMSs provide different permissions to different users, that allow them access to specific elements of the project. As a result, content management systems reduce the workload and make the working process easier to manage.

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How To Become A PHP Developer (Guide, Learning Platforms, Books)

- E-Commerce, Fire development

How To Become A PHP Developer (A Guide, Learning Platforms and Books)

PHP is a web development language, which is also used for a general-purpose programming. It is installed on more than 2.1 million web servers and 240 million websites. PHP can be mixed with HTML and used in combination with various frameworks and templating engines. The code itself is usually processed by an interpreter. The PHP interpreter is implemented as a native module of a web server or as a Common Gateway Interface executable (CGI). After the interpretation and execution, the PHP code is sent in a form of resulting output to its client by a web server. Usually, it is a part of the generated web page. PHP code can generate an HTML code of a web page, an image, etc. The canonical PHP interpreter is a free software, which is released under the PHP License. It can be deployed on most web servers and works with almost every operating system. In addition, PHP can be used in standalone graphical applications, because it supports a command-line interface capability. Continue Reading

Best Tools And Extensions For Magento Developers (debug, extensions development, IDE plugins, data base debug, unit tests)

- Magento tips & tricks

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In this post, you will find all the necessary extensions and tools for the Magento development. Although there are free and paid solutions with absolutely different functionalities produced by both big companies and single developers, each Magento development extension, plugin, or tool offers a great opportunity to improve the way you work within the platform. Some tools will help you to reduce time and effort usually spent on performing various routine tasks, while others will make your projects more robust and reliable. We will provide you with more details after the break.

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The Best Project Management Tools 2015

- E-Commerce, Fire development

Every project needs a tool designed to manage it. And while it’s quite acceptable to use ordinary check-lists for small projects, growing businesses consume more and more resources, so you need a robust solution to manage them successfully. In this post we gathered the best project tools, which are going to hold leading positions on the market in 2015.

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Outsourcing, Magento Developers and The Best Freelance Platforms

- E-Commerce, Magento tips & tricks

In this post, we are going to talk about the best freelance platforms, where you can hire a team for your Magento e-commerce project. The process of hiring someone who will not become a part of your company is called outsourcing. One strong reason for it is the lack of available resources locally. Another one is money. Usually, the digital workforce costs much less than hiring a local employee. And it is much more convenient, because you don’t need an office for your employees. In addition, there are a lot of candidacies with different level of skills, flexible hourly rates, portfolios and ratings to choose from.

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