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I bet you hear of unit / integration / functionality and many other types of testing, but not sure that all of you clearly understand terminology and feel the difference? This series of blog posts is...
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We all use different version control systems (VCS). Each has its own characteristics, pros and cons but my heart belongs to one – Git. It is enough to know 5 key commands, and presto!, you are a Git...
View ArticlePHP applications profiling: xdebug.profiler
Many developers I’ve talked about web application performance with assume, that the major bottleneck of applications mass is database. Well, in some cases they are right, but who guarantees if it’s...
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I have finished the previous article talking about non-functional testing. Well, let’s continue. As many of you know, non-functional testing describes tests necessary to determine the non-functional...
View ArticleTesting JavaScript with QUnit
Nowadays there is no need to explain you why quality assurance (QA, testing) is so important in general and writing Unit tests in particular. But if server-side testing has become a de facto, testing...
View ArticleBootstrapped startups
Running your own startup company is very popular topic nowadays. Tons of stories in the Web tell’s us about huge investments in hottest startups, sometimes it even seems like easy money, it is...
View ArticleManage projects with GitHub, DropBox, Google Docs, Balsamiq, Skype, Droplr
We’ve tried a lot of project management/issue tracking systems over the years (Pivotal Tracker, RedMine, Basecamp, Podio). In some way, they have always seemed lacking, confusing or just a pain in one...
View ArticleWeb design trends we love
I think most of you agree that when it comes to websites, design matters! Sometimes, that’s what the project is all about. “Life moves pretty fast; if you don’t stop and look around once in a while,...
View ArticlePhotoshop. Time Savers, Hints and Decencies
From the very begging I’ll admit that I’m not a professional web designer. Sometimes I love to draw and sometimes even have to do so. In this article I’m not going to teach you design. We are not a...
View ArticleInspiration for web development with Twitter Bootstrap
We love prototyping and having the chance to bring our coding skills to the table and integrate them into the UX design puts a big smile on our faces. We’re seeing more and more folks come round to our...
View ArticleTOP Web Design Agencies & Freelancers
Perhaps I should note in advance the fact that we are not doing design in-house. Our main specialization – development of complex and high load sites both for public and for internal customer needs....
View ArticleWeavora References
At Weavora we form long-lasting relationships with our clients and endeavour to truly understand their business. Our clients range from small start-ups to global corporations. We are proud to work for...
View Article2013: The Development Stack For Your Next Startup
Often entrepreneurs ask us same questions: ‘What technology stack should I build my startup on? What do you guys propose? What is trendy now? What frameworks/libs/tools my start up is going to use?’...
View ArticleWhy We Prefer Symfony 2 Over Yii Framework
In this blog post I’m going to tell you a story that explain why our team preferred Symfony 2 over Yii which we used for a long time and doing our best to contributed something. How it happened and...
View ArticleMythBusters: Should You Outsource Product Development? A Complete Guide
Somehow everyone think that new product executives should live and work in Silicon Valley. That every successful startup had onsite team behind it from the early days. That outsourcing or offshoring is...
View ArticleTop Factors Startups Succeed (study of over 650 early-stage internet startups)
Steve Blank summarized a prominent Startup Genome study of over 650 early-stage internet startups with these conclusions: Founders that learn are more successful: Startups that have helpful mentors,...
View ArticleEverhour. A Better Way to Track Time
The idea of building Weavora, a small-size company with a focus on custom web-development was born 3 years ago. Together with the other co-founders we’ve had a great deal of experience in the...
View ArticleWhy Tracking Time Matters
Whether you are rich or poor, time is the only resource that is equally distributed among all of us. You cannot store it or save for later use. You cannot put it in a bank waiting for easy profit. Time...
View ArticleProductivity Tools We Love
No matter what profession you’re working in, efficiency matters. Being able to get more done in less time is the key to getting ahead. Being productive isn’t about working harder, it’s about working...
View ArticleHow We Organize Doctrine2 Repositories
Doctrine introduced entity repository class as an object finder where you can keep methods to find and fetch entities. To make this process even easier it provides methods to create and run DQL...
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