Just a couple of days ago, Google and Apple announced subscription based services offering publishers new possibilities to distribute digital content. Traditionally, publishers were and to a certain extent, are still reluctant to sell their content via such services. The reason is very simple; piracy, which directly hits the publishers’ income. However, the success of … Continue reading It’s Google vs Apple for digital media publishing
C# Parameterless Properties – (Part II)
C# Parameterless Properties – An Example Few weeks ago we investigated how C# Properties are emitted by IL. We saw how the value implicit parameter is introduced and used. In this article we take a look how one can leverage Properties’ potential to build more robust code. The code is self-explanatory and comments are added … Continue reading C# Parameterless Properties – (Part II)
C# Parameterless Properties – (Part 1)
In this blog entry we will take a look at C# Properties. Properties in C# are used as fields. Their main purpose is to isolate the actual data by allowing the developer to perform some validation prior the client access the guarded member variable. Properties are meant to be simple and efficient. In Object Oriented … Continue reading C# Parameterless Properties – (Part 1)
Magento SQL Logging – (Part II)
In the last article we saw the different ways how one can analyse the SQL Queries running under the Magento’s hood. These are listed here again: To see all queries issued to the database Modify the core Magento code that deals with the database query generation Enable Magento Pdo MySql debugging Switch on MySQL logging … Continue reading Magento SQL Logging – (Part II)
Magento SQL Logging – (Part I)
As with any e-commerce solution Magento stores nearly all the data of the online store in a database. To simplify the communication between code and the database Magento provides a number of abstraction functions. The use of abstraction to communicate with the database leads to the question of what queries are being issued to the … Continue reading Magento SQL Logging – (Part I)