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Magento: conventions and event-driven programming

Thu, 15 Oct 2015 10:00:00 +0200

Plenty of platforms have moved to event-driven programming. In a watered-down form, though, since it isn’t always what we think of as events that fire and run in the background.

I’ve spent a few intense weeks developing on Magento to wrap up a project. Like WordPress, Magento has a set of events you can hook your own routines into, so they run whenever those events are fired.

Deployer, a good alternative to Capistrano

Sat, 14 Feb 2015 10:00:00 +0200

For a long time at DIGIO we’ve been going round in circles about how to deploy our projects to the server better. Our workflow was based on a Git repository that was updated from the server with a simple git pull, so if anything went wrong we could reset to a version in the Git history.

Speeding up the PHP log in your web project

Sun, 01 Feb 2015 10:00:00 +0200

We’ve recently been working on a framework developed by the Emagister team and, as you’d expect, although it shares quite a few features with our own framework, Creamture, there are other things that work differently and where we weren’t getting optimal performance.

Easy JSONP web services and AJAX iframe in CodeIgniter

Thu, 08 Jan 2015 10:00:00 +0200

Although this goes back quite a while, it’s still very useful. It has become the norm for web applications to be full of AJAX queries and requests: a template is loaded first, and the content is then updated through asynchronous queries or requests.