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On SmashingMagazine, a great article on building HTML email, highly recommended to all web developers as even if we don’t like it, in most of our projects we will get to the point of sending emails.So don’t waste more time and go ahead and brush up those HTML skills.
I have recently discovered SEM a web application that offers a powerful interface to track your social media behavior and understand your audience.With this tool, you’ll be able to:See which brands in your industry have the biggest audiences and engagement ratesAnalyze trends in your competitor’s posting habitsRead what the people and brands in your industry are talking aboutIdentify influencers that mention your brand or your competitors on TwitterDiscover the top hashtags used on Facebook and Twitter by your competitorsUnderstand where your brand stands among the competitionFrom the first day of use, I have realized how powerful this tool can be,...
During a recent project, we faced the issue of adding a multi-language functionality to our application.We store our Laravel applications on DigitalOcean, but this tutorial will work basically on any other hosting company.Using Laravel middlewares we found a quite easy and straightforward solution.In this tutorial, we will show you how to easily create your own.ADD AVAILABLE LOCALES IN THE CONFIGURATIONSIn order to allow only certain locales to work, simply add right below the locale key in config/app.php the following array:'locales' => [ 'en' => 'English', 'it' => 'Italiano'],CREATE A CUSTOM MIDDLEWAREFirst, let’s create a custom middleware running the following command.php...
CO-WORKING, WHAT IS IT?This is my first article about co-working, therefore I will do a small intro. I have been always a big fan of this concept and the people that gravitate around these places, but what co-working really means?Co-working is a way of working that involves a shared working environment, often an office. Unlike in a typical office environment, that co-working is usually not employed by the same organization.Typically it attracts professionals that work from home, independent contractors, freelancers, and people who travel often.Co-working is also the social gathering of a group of people who are still working independently,...
VALIDATION CLASSESI often found myself looking on the net for the right classes to validate forms using the Prototype library that comes with Magento and finally decided to write a small post about validations.Using these validations is as easy as using the following classes to the form fields in your forms.'validate-no-html-tags' => 'HTML tags are not allowed''validate-select' => 'Please select an option.''required-entry' => 'This is a required field.''validate-number' => 'Please enter a valid number in this field.''validate-number-range' => 'The value is not within the specified range.''validate-digits' => 'Please use numbers only in this field. Please avoid spaces or other characters...
Sam Aaron and the Sonic Pi Core Team created at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory Sonic Pi a free software that will allow you to code music. Ah did I forget to mention that is free?Composing music has never been so geeky, download Sonic Pi, and you are ready to unleash your creativity.Starting it’s easy and the key to coding with Sonic Pi is understanding and mastering the live_loopThe key to living to code with Sonic Pi is mastering the live_loop.Here an example:loop :bells do sample :perc_bell sleep 0.5 end There are four core concepts to a live_loop.The first...
CoderDojo is a global movement of free, volunteer-led, community-based programming clubs for young people.SoipoServices in partnership with the Comune of Piano has started the CoderDojo Terra Delle Sirene, where young people, learn how to code, develop websites, apps, programs, games and explore technology in an informal and creative environment. In addition to learning to code attendees meet like-minded people and are exposed to the possibilities of technology.Within the CoderDojo Movement, there is a focus on community, peer learning, youth mentoring, and self-led learning, with an emphasis on showing how coding is a force for change in the world.During our first...
Today is the big day for Google, the annual I/O developer conference is about to start. The conference starts at 7 p.m. Central European Time and you can watch the live stream directly down below. Looking forward to checking what Google is work on.
During one of my latest Magento projects I had to create custom cron jobs, so I decided to write a small how-to guide, that might help you do the same.
Today I would like to talk about SULU CMF, which is at version 2.o.Sulu is a is a fantastic project based on Symfony 2 full stack and other open-source application like PHPCR, Doctrine, Backbone.js, and Require.js.It is meant to help developers create multi-platform, multi-language, and multi-channel sites giving some boilerplate functionalities.Ah did I mention that it works great and it looks sleek ?! Check the gallery below and don’t forget to download the project to give it a try.INSTALLATIONTo begin with, you will need the code, which can be cloned from the sulu-standard repository on GitHub.$ git clone https://github.com/sulu-io/sulu-standard.gitAfter the...