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Sylius themes: extend templates like a pro with exclamation mark
Sylius is a powerful tool based on Symfony which allows to build pro shops within a reasonable time while giving unlimited potential for development of additional features or custom behaviors. One drawback of such approach is that it may become a problem when an update of the Sylius itself occurs, especially that documentation has some misleading information. This article is about helping you to prevent one situation which may lead you to state in which your code is heavily affected by potential updates....
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PS4 to Facebook streaming: Twitch-to-Facebook app
Gameplay streaming becomes more and more popular, people each day watch multiple players on Twitch or YouTube. Lately Facebook tries to take its part in this trend, yet some platforms, like PS4, do not allow to stream directly using its mechanism. This application allows to restream contents from Twitch to Facebook, live....
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PHP + MySQL: Bulk import, best methods
Data processing often ends up with storing of the data in some kind of a database, often that task is given to a MySQL-compatible server, for example MariaDB or MySQL Community Server. Depending on the actual and particular environment different interface may be better or worse, but this article is not about exploration of libraries, instead we shall try to find the most efficent way of storing processed data in the database....
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Wykoping: Java client + PHP worker and webservice for re-sending notifications
Custom Android notifications client for Polish reddit-like website called Wykop.pl. Created as a response to users' requests who reported that official application of the service is low-quality and with limited functionality while the actual mobile version of the website provided a fairly good interface to all functionalities apart from notifications. Wykoping fills that gap: when a notification is tapped on the mobile device it opens user's default browser and directs to the url relevant to the message....
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Parsing huge XML files with PHP
PHP offers many ways of handling XML files: SimpleXML, XMLReader, Mixed: XMLReader + SimpleXML, SAX Parser, DOM, XMLReader + DOM (any even more, like SDO, but we shall skip this one as its intention was different): each of those has its pros and cons. In this article I will show you the benefits and problems of using all of those and a method which is a result of my experiments and which I have found to be the most efficent for my needs....
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RPi Robot's first trick
One of my hobby projects is to develop a Raspberry Pi based autonomous robot, so far it is nothing more like a playground for some basic ideas, but hopefully one day I will have enough time to make it more advanced. So far you can check this short example (with code) of a simple trick....
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IDCT EYE Alpha: Raspberry Pi Camera
Some time ago I have published a short post on a Polish digg-like (reddit-like) website called wykop.pl about my little pet-project, a small hobby to make a night camera with raspberry pi. In this article I describe the used hardware and software, a jumpstart to such projects....
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