Category: Archive
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Meet AngularJS
Recently, AngularJS has gained quite a lot of popularity in the js frameworks field, and this trend is expected to continue also in the near…
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Innovative project for the European Space Agency
We’re very proud and excited to announce this first and most innovative project we’re working on for the European Space Agency (ESA): a laboratory…
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Zitec becomes Google Premier Partner
Starting this month, Zitec becomes one of the Romanian Google Premier Partners, meaning that along the past years we have demonstrated AdWords…
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Better Myself With Zitec
A year ago a special phase of my running activities started, a new level of my passion. That was the time when I received a new support as a…
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Digital marketing success story: EVOhoreca
Our collaboration with EVOhoreca started almost 5 years ago. We have been constantly helping the company reach its goals: to increase its…
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Golden fish, grant me a wish!
How to make a Rubik’s Cube mosaic, from a QA/tester point of view Sitting in the nice massage chair that we have in our fun-room, I kept staring…
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Congrats on the 1st billion downloads!
So they did it! Fabien Potencier and the Symfony community deserve one big round of applause on their new milestone: 1 billion free Symfony…
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PHP traineeship kick off
It is now on! This year’s PHP traineeship has started and we have 8 new colleagues who joined the Zitec team to learn the basics on one of the…
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What are Remarketing Lists for Search Ads (RLSA) and How to Use Them
This article is dedicated to advertisers who want to supercharge their PPC performance. It contains valuable information about how RLSA campaigns…
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Time Management is in our code
We are all amazing tech people. Sometimes, though, you might feel overwhelmed with the amount of workload that may appear in your line of professional…
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11 FREE Easter icons for your website
A free Easter icons pack from Zitec’s design team is free for download We’ve released a free series of 11 icons for your Easter thematic projects…
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Another year of running with Zitec
Every year I become more and more addicted to this lifestyle called running. Every year I get more and more competitive. Every year I make new…
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Pursue your passion. Start with a Zitec internship.
In order to support the professional development of students and graduates, Zitec started organizing internship programs that have been running…
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ZiHack v5.0 is on!
With an eye on the protests and an eye on the code, this morning we took on a new challenge: 24hours of coding a.k.a. ZiHack v5.0, a hacking…
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The 8th edition of the Traineeship was a blast!
It’s been a tremendous 3 months here at Zitec. Soon after we moved to our new offices, this year’s traineeship started. 15 trainees on PHP, QA…
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The journey from a trainee to a full-stack dev and QA
We’ve just completed another successful Zitec traineeship that has created a new generation of QA and developers. The three months journey…
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Best of ZiHack v5.0
So another edition of ZiHack is now over and after 24 hours of coding, an awards ceremony and a live concert, we’re now happy to say it was an…
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Integrating ZF into a legacy app
Why doing that ? No matter how neat or good looking code you write at some point, inevitably there’s a time when new coding technologies or frameworks…
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Facebook’s new feature allows businesses to recruit through Facebook Jobs
Almost every week we see something new from Facebook, whether it’s a different font, button or new features for Pages, Messenger and other…
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Why your website needs an SEO audit
As any other thing in this world, SEO is about understanding your problems, accepting them and starting to fix them. That’s why, there is no…
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Volley! An Android HTTP library from Google
What is volley? Unfortunately, those of you who came here hoping to find women in swimsuit hitting a ball on a beach will be disappointed because…
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Zitec on Smashing Magazine
For those who don’t know yet, Smashing Magazine is arguably one of the most popular blogs for web designers and developers, informing the readers…
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Top 5 ecommerce platforms in 2016 (part I)
Where did it all begin? Starting from an article I have stumbled upon, I began wondering what do the most used e-commerce platforms bring to…
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Meet Magento Romania 2017 – day 1
Part of our Magento team (Lucian, Roxana, Vlad and I) are in Cluj-Napoca these days, attending the ‘Meet Magento Romania’ conference. Yesterday…
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Meet Magento Romania 2017 – day 2
This year’s Meet Magento Romania got to an end, and we’re excited to give you an overview of how interesting we found this event where we learned…
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Thoughts about Online 24/7 by Zitec & Google
More than 70 representatives from different industries joined us last week for the Online 24/7 event organized by Zitec in partnership with Google.
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Online 24/7 with Zitec and Google
We are inviting you to the Online 24/7 event, an event organized by Zitec together with Google, in which we’ll discuss about the benefits of…
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Zitec awarded as Best System Integrator
It’s been more than 5 years since we first implemented Microsoft Azure on one of our projects, also marking the beginning of an important partnership…
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Career path for web developers
Web development represents an attractive working field for many people, but if you wish to develop your career in a professional manner, your…
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RESTful webservice using Zend Framework
Intro Webservices are more and more used these days because of the way they decouple the service consumers by the service itself. It is very…
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5 basic SEO tips and tricks for bloggers
When you are a blogger, most of your attention is, as it should be, focused on creating quality content. But I am sure that one of your main…
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Custom event after an order has been placed in Magento 2
Sometimes it can be pretty hard to find the right spot where you can hook up your custom code in Magento 2, without messing up the entire application.
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Development and deployment workflow
About Here, at Zitec, we deal with a variety of medium to large projects developed “agile” style. While “agile” is good for the customers…
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ZiHack v3.0 – this year’s apps
This is it, the moment we’ve all been waiting for – ZiHack v3.0, Zitec’s annual 24 hours hackaton, the third edition! Two years ago we started…
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Build Smarter Software with Neural Networks
Posture matters We recently started work on an interesting but deceptively simple project. It’s all about a device that tracks and helps improve…
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#ZiHack 7 – wonder hack!
It’s been a while It’s been 7 years since we first hosted our annual 24h hackathon: #ZiHack. We’ve had six previous editions in which we’ve…
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ZiHack v2.0 – The Movie
Ladies and gentlemen, in the last 2 weeks you’ve read stories and you’ve seen pics of the fabulous Zitec Hack 2012. It is now time to share with…
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We Nailed It @ TechCrunch Disrupt London
Intro Between December 5th-6th, the Zitec Team (Vlad Stefanescu, Gabriel Croitoru and Tiberiu Popovici) entered one of the biggest Hackathons…
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Zihack#7 – apps & awards
For this year’s #ZiHack we took inspiration from da Vinci’s Vitruvian man and hacked it into the Zitruvian Man & Lady, with the help of our…
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Adina Nichitean: from Intern, to Head of Magento
Adina joined Zitec in 2011, when she found out about the Drupal internship, from a newsletter. After talking to our HR department, she passed…
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What are the most important search engine ranking factors?
In the previous post, I’ve talked about the most important things that should be checked when analysing a website, but I haven’t tackled…
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Hidden issues with PHP sessions
PHP sessions represent a very common practice to acquire data and user persistency across HTTP requests. While in 99% of time they are successfully…
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Online. All Day Every Day
Or as we named our awesome event: Online 24/7. The same really. The main point is this: is your business online? If not, it should definitely…
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Meet Magento Germany 2014 – see you there!
The 8th Meet Magento Germany conference is approaching! It will be held in Leipzig from 12 to 13 May and we will be there! For this year’s event…
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Brand Storytelling through Instagram
First thing’s first. What is Instagram? Well, actually the question should be why is Instagram? Because the app itself is actually pretty basic…
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A glance into Shopify’s app development
Shopify is one of the trending e-commerce platforms this year. Earlier this year we started developing extensions for Shopify and we wanted to…
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Software resume tips
As you probably know, your resume represent your first interaction with a potential employer if you’re actively searching for a new job or…
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Internship – an opportunity for your career
If you’re student or fresh graduated and you have not started yet your career, you have to take into consideration the possibility of an internship…
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Two More Days Until Zitec Teambuilding
There are only two days left until the beginning of the most anticipated event of the year: the Teambuilding. This June we intend to make it…
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5 Reasons Why the Latest Version of Photoshop Will Improve Your Workflow
That moment when we absolutely ignore the update button because we’re too busy or too lazy to click it. Let me put this straight. Update now!…
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The PHP traineeship becomes a Zitec full-time journey
Our PHP team has grown – all 8 trainees proved to be a good fit here and have now joined the Zitec team after a three months learning journey.
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Database versioning
Why While using a code versioning process and pushing the code to the production environment without FTP-ing it is a first step in getting the…
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Zitec @ the Triathlon Challenge!
Yes! We gave in and accepted the Challenge this year so Zitec had two teams participating at the Mamaia 2011 Triathlon! To see how we did, start…
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For those about to travel
For those of you who don’t know it yet, HotelPeeps is a concept (check out the HotelPeeps site and the Facebook application) dedicated to those…
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How to add custom product attributes and attribute options in Magento 1.x
Anyone who worked on maintaining a Magento website or create a new online store from scratch using Magento 1.x definitely stumbled upon adding…
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Drupal Internship v2.0 @Zitec is waiting for applicants
A new challenge Due to the success of our first internship organized this year at Zitec, we decided to challenge you again to learn PHP Drupal…
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The day before the hack. ZiHack!
Hello, world! Today is the day before the hack. ZiHack! We’re planning a day&night hack here, at the Zitec headquarters starting tomorow, at…
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Meeting future developers from Brasov
We love to interact with passionate students. The most rewarding part is sharing our experience with them and see their interest in discovering…
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The Yahoo! Login Page Creative Competition
The Zitec Design Team participates in The Yahoo! Login Page Creative Competition. Here are our personal visions about what we would like to…
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Parallel processing with PHP and Gearman
Some background first Often you come to a point where you need to process data in a non-blocking fashion and in multiple threads at once. A solution…
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Zitec Hack Day&Night 2011 – The Apps
Some of you might know we’ve been planning this internal hack event for some time now. We’ve had some rough moments putting together all…
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Zitec Hack Day&Night 2011
What is Zitec Hack? We’ve been thinking about making this happen for quite some time. We were looking for an event that would allow the Zitec…
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SSL certificates
What is SSL? SSL is a protocol, not a HTTP extension, not a digital certificate nor an encryption method. As it finds itself at the TCP layer…
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Why our team buildings are true adventures
We’ve just come back from a four-day team building in the Danube Delta celebrating our 14th anniversary: We make it so! We’ve been working with…
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Zitec. Rebranded.
There’s a time in every company’s life when rebranding is inevitable. Most of the times you want to target a different market, or simply to…
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Google Engage Training
After attending a training a few weeks ago, hosted by Google, I decided to write this article in order to share some of the most important…
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What is Drupal?
Drupal is the result of the combined effort of nearly 800.000 developers, designers and site-builders who collaborate in a vibrant community…
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The New Zitec HQ
Hello everyone, this is really big news and we are all very excited about it! We moved our headquarters downtown, to a new building that’s nicer…
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Zidox is the new star on Business Wall of Fame
Lights, camera, action! Ladies and gents, we give you the Wall of Fame! Now, for those of you who haven’t heard of it yet, Business Wall of…
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The amazing power of CSS – selectors and attribute selectors
Selectors are one of the most important aspects of CSS as they are used to „select and style” elements on an HTML page. Attribute selectors…
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Keep Running. Keep Dreaming.
Florin Simion is a friend of Zitec and we admire his passion, commitment and determination. This is why we decided to support him in what he’s…
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Let’s talk digital!
We’re getting ready for the largest expo-conference for digital & mobile business solutions – the Internet & Mobile World 2012! The conference…
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Zitec at Internet & Mobile World 2012
Now that the Internet & Mobile expo-conference is over, it’s time for us to make a short review and share our thoughts. First of all, we would…
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Celebrating 10 years of Zitec – Infographic
After so many challenging projects, this team still finds itself as passionate and as enthusiastic as it started 10 years ago, only somewhat…
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Pure CSS Logos. No Images, No JS.
A few years ago, creating a logo only with the use of CSS sounded a bit crazy. Now, with CSS3, you can replicate a lot of fancy effects you thought…
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Over 5000 lives saved. In 30 minutes.
We’ve been waiting for this moment for over 2 years and I’m really proud and happy to finally be able to say it: we’ve saved over 5000…
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ReStart Romania – successfully completed!
Champagne, laughs & good vibe Friday night at the ReStart Romania Gala, where 3 of the finalists teams got awarded for restarting things up with…
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Internet&Mobile World – numbers and figures
The Internet&Mobile World 2012 will probably go down in the Zitec history as one of our coolest booth for an offline conference. Your feedback…
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ZiHack v2.0 Countdown
Less than 24 hours until the ZiHack….Yes, that’s right, folks, the second edition of Zitec’s annual 24-hours hackathon will start tomorrow…
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ZiHack v2.0 Update
We’ve been posting photos all day of the teams having fun during the surprise activities we prepared for them. But now it’s time to update…
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Top 5 ecommerce platforms in 2016 (part II)
Earlier this year, I’ve written a short presentation about the top 5 ecommerce platforms users were interested in back in 2016. In today’s article…
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ZiHack v2.0 – The Story
ZiHack v2.0 came to an end and after 24-hours of hackathon and another 6 hours of pure party, one question did not let me go to sleep: “What…
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ZiHack v2.0 – The Apps
This year’s hack has come to an end, so let’s take a quick look at all the projects that were implemented during ZiHack v2.0. Bea-cu-mine The…
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Open Source, Community Driven – Zitec contributes to Drupal
When working with an Open Source, Community Driven product like Drupal it is sometimes easy to just forget that you are benefiting from the work…
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The profile of a Zitec team member
For most people, a cool job would be a dream come true. In order to be happy with your career, you must follow your passion and find an employer…
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The Zitec T-shirts
Ladies and gents, today we want to give you a full overview of the Zitec T-shirts and the story behind each design. If you have a favourite…
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Optimizing the Power Consumption of Embedded Systems
Power consumption – a challenge for mobile electronic devices developers Power consumption is a key specification to which designers must pay…
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Magento 1.x and FAN Courier & PayU
Intro If you’ve built an online store on Magento 1.x, you’ve definitely come to the point of adding at least one shipping method and a payment…
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Design Department 10 Commandments
Here at Zitec, we all strive to do our work at the highest professional standards. Constant improvement, innovation, expanding our knowledge…
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ZendCon Europe 2013 Experience
This year Zend hosted their first conference in Paris and we decided to take part (only in the audience for now). Even if it was a lot smaller…
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eTravel Awards for Paravion.ro and HotelPeeps.com
Yesterday was a big day for the Zitec team: one of the brands we’re working on was awarded no less than six awards at the eTravelConference…
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Automate Windows GUI apps with AutoIt
This article showcases some of our experiences with the automation of Windows GUI applications, featuring the open source tool – AutoIt. Why…
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Zitec teambuilding in the Danube Delta
The teambuilding around this time of year has become a Zitec tradition. This year we also celebrate 10 years of Zitec, so we had to make it…
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Mobile awards for Paravion.ro and Zitec
It was a good day for mobile sites yesterday! We were invited at the Start Mobile award ceremony to find out we’ve won another two great awards…
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Zitec Coat of arms explained
This year was our 10th anniversary as a team and, as I’ve mentioned it before, we went for a custom anniversary T-shirt illustrating the brand…
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How to track form submissions on a WordPress website with Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics
Unless you were born literally yesterday, chances are that you’ve probably heard about the magic platform called WordPress. According to data…
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Zitec branding module for Magento
Magento is an open source e-commerce platform built using the Zend framework. Over the past four years, Magento has been the leading e-commerce…
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ZiHack v3.0 awards
One hack, 43 hackers, 10 apps and one hell of a job! We said this before, but we didn’t really get a chance to show you all the apps and tell…
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Debugging in Magento
Everyone who has the good fortune of working in programming wants to work with the newest technologies, write new code and implement great ideas.
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Use These 3 Key Reports To Take Your Google Analytics Skills To The Next Level
Go beyond Last Click Interaction analysis of marketing campaigns by learning how to use three key reports provided by Google Analytics: Assisted…
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Natural born traveller? Be ZAFF and earn money!
Affiliate marketing: passive income Affiliate Marketing is a good way of earning money without having to invest. They say if you have a blog…
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Branding Case Study – Rozmarin Immigration Consulting
Rozmarin is a company specialized in immigration consulting services in Canada. Their promise is a unique approach of the clientele by personalized…
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Zitec Magento Team met Magento Community
On the 28th of February, part of our Magento team (Irina, George, Claudiu and I) participated in ‘Meet Magento Workshop’, organized by Mind…
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RoMagento Bucharest 2015
The first RoMagento conference is approaching! It will be held in Bucharest on the 7th of May and we will be there! During our presentation you…
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ZiBand – Pasiunile care ne leaga
Cand vine vorba de pasiune, fiecare o are pe a lui. Pasiunea mea este muzica. Imi place sa cant si sa-mi vad evolutia cu trecerea timpului.
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Winners of the Zitec I&MW 2013 awards
Now that the second edition of the Internet & Mobile World expo-conference is over, we think it’s time to announce the winners of the Online…
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Marius Balteanu: Head of Quality Assurance and the Newest Member of Zibord
When he came to Zitec, on a Monday, November 5th 2012, the first thing he noted was the quiet in the office. He had worked in an advertising…
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Cool Work Environments #1 – Zitec
Last week we met the Young HR Pros community at the Zitec HQ, for a sharing evening about our work space. How the event went, what we talked…
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How to win the Xamathon
Last week, on December 9-10th, Microsoft Romania hosted the Xamathon, a hackathon also organized in other European countries, that promotes the…
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Zitec 2016 in a nutshell [Infographic]
Looking back over the last 12 months, we’ve put all the numbers together and marked the most important facts about us, only to give you an idea…
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#ZiHack 6 – teams, apps & aftermaths
As I begin writing this I’m already thinking that after this #ZiHack edition, next year’s event should be themed… But I guess as eager as we…
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The Anatomy of User Experience
A good user experience (UX) can turn users and visitors into customers and can help increase the fame and renown of a business among users, distinguishing…
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How to find a really special deal for this winter
Since it’s the winter holidays season and we’re all about travelling, I thought today we could have a close look at HotelPeeps.com, a travel…
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Universal Windows Platform apps
This year, on the 29th of July, Microsoft officially released Windows 10, an operating system designed to provide a user experience more enjoyable…
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The Why, What, and How of Custom Channels in Google Analytics
Why should you go through the trouble of defining new channels when Google Analytics offers this grouping by default? The answer’s simple:…
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Mobile development frameworks
Why should you use a framework? I recently started investigating the ways I could develop a mobile application (especially Android), which is…
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Usability Mistakes – It Can Happen To You Too
Our daily needs and desires make us access a wide variety of websites every day. From shopping online to meeting our information needs, or to…
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The Zitec HQ
It’s been two years since we’ve moved our headquarters downtown and as the times passes by, it looks like we’ve made a great choice. We’ve…
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9 steps for a rockin’ keyword research
With over 40,000 search queries every second on Google, marketers have an important job to make sure their clients are getting their spot…
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The story of two Internships!
It all started with our first Zitec Internship… Back in 2011, the internship for Drupal was a big success for Zitec since that’s how we got 2…
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A Story on a Black Board
Star date: 2013.312 – artists’ log “When the right moment came and all the planets were aligned for the great and long expected Event, the…
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Handling .NET assemblies in PHP
This story is about manipulating or consuming managed assemblies (AKA DLLs) in PHP, mostly (but not only) on Windows systems. Managed and Un-Managed…
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A new Traineeship journey is about to start. All aboard?
We are ready to embark on a new journey with a bunch of cool people for our Traineeship Program! The start will be in July and we cannot wait…
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Bring your iOS Apps to Windows
“Bring your code to Windows” is an important motto brought by Microsoft along with Windows 10 and Universal Windows Platform (UWP) releases.
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Using Custom Reports in Google Analytics to monitor your campaign performance
We all know that Google Analytics offers a large amount of data and reports as well as numerous possibilities of playing with the numbers in…
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Preventing SSL session exploits
Safe enough ? I would start by stating that the current article does not underline any vulnerability with the SSL protocol itself, but it shows…
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The importance of coaching at work
It’s important for us to see that our colleagues are happy at work and we are concerned about their personal development. At Zitec, we encourage…
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