Measuring performance with JMeter
With the continuous growth of the number of services available online and a majority of potential clients or users opting for an online approach to those services, having a well optimised web...
View ArticleCreating a programming language: Larry Wall and Perl
Programming is beyond the grasp of most people, it doesn’t matter if we’re talking about Perl or another language. Most individuals will look at it as more than a foreign language, as something beyond...
View ArticleJavaScript: Do you like games? (part 1)
Maybe I should ask if you’ve ever thought about how games work, perhaps even about building a game from scratch? If not, turn away now; I see lots of math in your future! In my childhood I was...
View ArticleJavaScript: Do you like games? (part 2)
Time to get started on the core components of the game engine. We should be able to render something on the Canvas before the end of this article! Note: please be aware that I’ll add links to specific...
View ArticleJavaScript: Do you like games? (part 3)
The last article was a bit long so we’re going to move forward in smaller increments. Let’s start with a discussion on how movement works in games. The 18th century Swiss mathematician, physicist,...
View ArticleJavaScript: Do you like games? (part 4)
We’re going to continue with DisplayObject which extends Scene. You can review the schema in part 1 of this series but we’re going to make some changes to how things are named. Its job is very simple;...
View ArticleJavaScript: Do you like games? (part 5)
I believe it’s high time we attempted to build a game with the engine we have so far; wouldn’t you agree? We’ll be making Asteroids, which first made its debut in November 1979; released by Atari Inc....
View ArticleJavaScript: Do you like games? (Part 6)
It’s time to cover asteroid generation. I bet you never thought playing with rock would be fun… well, you were wrong! Before we code, let’s visualize and put into words what we want to achieve: we want...
View ArticleAlternatives for Integrating Magento with Third-party Applications
This article is a case study for integrating Magento with other systems when web services are not suitable, and we will go through some real life examples. By default, Magento implements two types of...
View Article3D Cyberpunk Alley Environment
A while back, I’ve worked on creating a new environment: a piece of city in which various characters will be placed. We’ve decided on making an alley just off a main street, at night. My goal was to...
View ArticleLearning Perl from a Java Perspective
Duke is a Java developer with 5 years of experience. One day, Duke got curious and wanted to learn something about a language called Perl. Duke has a friend, Larry. Larry is a Perl developer for quite...
View ArticlePerl Case Study: Mobile Platform Build System
This is a case study about a project we did in Perl for one of our customers, ST-Ericsson, a global wireless platform and semiconductor supplier to top mobile device manufacturers. The challenge...
View ArticleAnd we’re off! The annual PHP pre-employment training has begun
One month after we launched the Open Call, our selected trainees are finally here for day #1 of the PHP pre-employment training. Over the course of the next 10 weeks they will participate in a wide...
View ArticleNET Core: lighter, cross-platform and open-source
We were used with Microsoft as being against open-source and using ‘vendor lock-in’ practices. In the past, in order to do development you needed Windows and Visual Studio which were not cheap at all....
View ArticleUsing Docker for Magento 2 development
In the last year the Docker project got a lot of adoption due to its simpler and streamlined use flow, portability across systems, application isolation, lower resources footprint, container...
View ArticleCommon mistakes in coding styles
Have you ever wondered how it would be if we, as programmers, coded in the same way? If we created code using a similar set of universal rules as in the case of the language we speak and write in?...
View ArticleOutsourcing Destinations: Asia and Eastern Europe
Tech is something that exists on a global scale, a community of people and companies that work together to create unbelievable things. It doesn’t take into account nationality, ethnicity or borders....
View ArticleOur latest milestone: we’re now a SensioLabs Bronze Partner
Starting with April 2017, Evozon Systems is the newest SensioLabs Bronze Partner, providing Symfony and PHP full stack expertise to customers from anywhere in the world. Having worked together on...
View ArticlePerl Survey Data Paints the Picture of Perl in 2017
As a software development company with many Perl developers and an entire department created around this technology we explored the data of the Perl Developer Survey run by BuiltinPerl and found some...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure: 3 reasons why migrating your ERP to this cloud is the right...
The entire concept of cloud computing is based on the effective sharing and usage of resources that an organization leverages, as well as the granting of access for these resources to all stakeholders...
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