Kategorie: English Articles
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Development Environments with Vagrant and Puppet
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Motivation Setting up the infrastructure for new projects can be quite a pain in the ***. Even after the initial setup is done, adding new developers to the team requires a lot of time. Besides explaining the project to the new team member, the project’s development environment has to be installed on the new developer’s…
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Analyze information paths in complex IT-projects —
Use case to visualize several information paths and their impactvon
My main motivation for writing a blog post about that topic can be summarized in a single sentence “The developers produce software that the customer really needs!” It sounds simple but means that developers require appropriate information in order to deliver output that corresponds exactly to the input that the customer provides, or rather to…
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Grunt – a JavaScript build tool
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Build systems have a long tradition in software development infrastructures. They allow for easy automation of tedious tasks that have to be run often while a software product is in development. And there is a great variety of such tasks: compiling source files, running unit tests, gathering metrics from the code and finally deploying it.…
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Mayflower and Symfony2
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Two weeks ago, I had the chance to attend Symfony Live 2012 in Berlin. At first, I tried to get a ticket by submitting several proposals for talks. This didn’t work out but the organizers were very kind and invited me to attend the conference for free! A couple of days later, I read about…
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Image similarity search with LIRE
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Content-based image similarity search — determining the images in a database visually similar to a search image on the basis of pixel data alone — is a hot topic. Applications are numerous. Just recently, amazon.com has introduced a visual product similarity search for some products, and google has introduced a search-by-image feature. In addition to…
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Development environment for Magento, OXID and Shopware
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Developers in smaller and larger e-commerce agencies/shops are often faced with different development environments. Customers who want to evaluate e-commerce platforms like Magento, OXID or Shopware have to handle everything from downloading the packages, their LAMP stack and installing it on-the-go. Of course, you might have your own virtual machine, but for a quick shot…
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Software Architecture Decisions – how to do it wrong the hard and the easy way
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When it comes to software architecture, stuff gets funny. First we learn everything about it at university. We learn to use it as a part of our main project plan. We learn how to do risk evaluation. And, as a matter of fact, we learn how to create a lot of different UML diagrams: component…
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Interview with Mage+ creator
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[You may have heard about the Magento fork Mage+.] Lee, just tell us: who are you and what are you doing? I’m a Magento technical architect, developer and contributor to Magento CE. I specialise in architecting and building large scale and complex installations of Magento – having built enterprise Magento platforms for Warner Music…