In the first week of December I had the pleasure to attend, together with my team, one of the biggest and most important PHP conferences of the year: SymfonyCon 2015. It was held in Paris and it marked the celebration of 10 years since the Symfony framework project started.

Many of the web programmers need the rendering time of a web page to be as short as possible. One is confronted with this problem first of all when one has to choose the tools to work with on a new project.

Year 2016 brings important fiscal novelties for entrepreneurs, regardless of the form of organization: SRL (LLC – Limited Liability Company), PFA (Registered sole trader), etc. The main modifications are brought about by the appearance of the new fiscal code (Law 227/2015) and of the Order 2634/2015, which bring important updates to the form of fiscal – accountancy documents. We present below an overview of the main modifications with an impact on the entrepreneurs’ day to day activity.

At the beginning of the year, we all make new plans and set new goals, hoping that the new year will be favorable to their achievement. If some people take into account what the horoscope says, we have decided to give more credit to some important representatives of the IT community in Cluj. Therefore, we asked them to share with us their previsions regarding the year 2016. Based on their answers, we cannot but draw a very optimistic conclusion: year 2016 is going to be beneficial for the IT industry. 

Moqups. The Moqups.com startup from Cluj for the creation of online drafts has recently launched the second edition, much improved. The projects carried out can be published online or downloaded in the form of PDF or SVG. There is also the possibility of inviting collaborators and working together on a draft. 

Launch of the issue 43 of Today Software Magazine January 27 (Cluj) - 6:00 PM Siemens Cluj Office , Cluj-Napoca. Today Software Magazine Community built around Today Software Magazine Since: 06.02.2012  Members: 2424

Team Foundation Server (abbr. TFS) has the promise of being an out of the box, all in one box solution to ALM within an organization. You can use it to manage your project and track your team’s work, to manage your code, to build and test your software. You can do so either with Team Foundation Server installed on your own server, or by using Visual Studio Online in the cloud.

The beginning of the year found me diving into some marketing issues that kept puzzling me for some time. Among others, the fact that digital marketing is probably the hottest concept in the world of marketing these days: digital marketing courses, jobs, strategies, agencies; are all in high demand, including in our local community. 

Given the economic and business volatility, uncertainty of outcomes and the high risk of investments, is it possible that the huge upside potential of uncertainty is left on the table? In these conditions, how can we value that potential and overcome the difficulty of presenting a compelling business case based solely on traditional standard methods that rely heavily on information available at the moment of the appraisal (e.g. ROI, NPV)?

Designing technical mechanisms that are able to reproduce the functioning of the human body has been one of the most attractive topics, ever since we can remember. If you are wondering why, the answer is a very simple one: people have always attempted to simplify or to improve the activities they need to perform on a day to day basis.

Roku has been erupting these past few years. Beginning as a lowly startup in 2002 and now boasting over 10 million users, Roku is the biggest player in the home media streaming device market, having sold 37% of all streaming devices last year.  The next closest competitor is Chromecast at 19%.  So even though this startup has been duking it out with goliaths like Apple and Google for the home media market, it’s been doing so quite successfully.

This article is part 2 of a series showing how to prepare, design, and implement a RESTful API. After setting up the grounds in the first part, this time we are going to look at how an API is designed, what concerns we should have in mind when doing that. But first, we will have a look at what REST is, and what are the architectural constraints it imposes on a system.

At the start of each and every year, most of us plan on making radical changes, whether we’re talking about ourselves or the conditions around us, usually in order to reach an extraordinary result – most sales so far, the best software, most motivated employees, largest profit etc. We know that and, therefore, in order to support the momentuum, we will greet you with the new challenges that might slow you down in reaching your extraordinary result in business. We’re keeping our fingers crossed they won’t!