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Best Website Builders

- E-Commerce

Website building software

Website builders help eliminate manual code editing in the website construction. There are two categories of these tools – online and offline. Online website builders are often provided by web hosting companies. Offline tools (often called website design software) create pages on a computer and publish them on a host. Continue Reading

Apple Watch and Wearable E-Сommerce

- E-Commerce

Wearable Devices E-Сommerce

2015 has all chances to bevome the year of more practical wearables, especially with the wide range of new smartwatches with Apple Watch at the head. But what is the meaning of these new devices for the e-commerce? To answer this question, we will show how wearables can be used in digital commerce and retail environment. Continue Reading

How to Become a Rock Star Front End Developer

- Fire development

Rock Star Front End Development

Good front-end developers are always necessary. There are a lot of low quality specialists, which perform different basic tasks, but there is a lack of rock star developers. And it is no wonder. Just look at job postings and you will see how much front end job descriptions vary. Despite the large number of web design schools and coding courses, unemployed high quality specialists are rarity. In this post, we will tell about all essential skills you will need on your path to a rock star front end web developer. Continue Reading

Meet Magento developers: Extendware

- Magento tips & tricks

Best Magento DevelopersStore speed is very important for visitor experience. In fact, Amazon estimates that every 100ms in store slowness results in a 1% drop in profits. That can add up to big money, especially when you realize that 100s is a fraction of a second. Even worse than this, Google ranks sites in its search engine results according to speed. The slower a store the lower the rankings which means fewer customers for your store. Continue Reading

40 Hottest Startups 2015

- E-Commerce

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Starting a business always requires inspiration. Luckily, during last few years dozens of successful startups have joined the competition. They have showed a lot of new business ideas and different ways of their implementation, introducing us to a wide variety of new products and services. In this post you will find the most interesting startups, which are famous for their uniqueness and fresh ideas.

The Best eCommerce Startups 2015

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MOA – Magento on Angular

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In this post, we’ve gathered all necessary information about MOAMagento on Angular. Standard Magento can disappoint you because of its crufty Javascript, tangled interface, and heavy SOAP APIs. Magento on Angular or MOA tries to solve these problems. AngularJS, Angular in short, is an open-source web app framework. It is maintained by Google and a wide community. MOA was designed to simplify development and testing by providing a framework for client-side MVC (model–view–controller) architecture along with other components.

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How To Become A JavaScript Developer

- Fire development

JS

JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting programming language with dynamic typing and first-class functions used as a part of web browsers with the support of client-side scripts. It supports imperative, object-oriented, and functional programming styles. Other fields of use are server-side network programming, game development, and creation of applications. Web-based environments, which relies on JavaScript are PDF documents, desktop widgets, and site-specific browsers. Continue Reading

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

The Best Alternative MySQL Database Engines For Magento – Percona, Mariadb

- Magento tips & tricks

You can always move out of MySQL. At least, there are 2 alternatives: MariaDB and Percona. MariaDB is a fork of the MySQL developed by the community under the GNU GPL from the original creators of MySQL. The intents of MariaDB include maintaining high compatibility with MySQL, ensuring a “drop-in” replacement capability with library binary equivalency and matching with MySQL commands and APIs. Percona Server is another MySQL alternative which if free and open source. It offers high scalability, improved performance, useful features, and all the necessary instrumentations. In addition, Percona relies on self-tuning algorithms and supports high-performance hardware. In this post, we gathered all the information necessary to understand whether you should stay with  MySQL or move to alternative solutions, such as MariaDB and Percona.

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