Category: Tech
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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 and 7card, a modern love story
If you’re living or have spent some time in Romania, you must have heard of 7card.ro by now. If not, let me ask you this: have you ever needed…
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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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Top Banking Trends to Watch in 2022 and Beyond
Having a bird’s eye view on the banking trends is necessary in shaping strategies and eventually reaping the benefits and exploiting opportunities.
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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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How things have changed in the first 3 years of GDPR
This May 25th marks three years since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect. The GDPR is the EU law regarding data protection…
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ZiHack is back! The story of the hackathon we’ll want to put on repeat
After two years of waiting, our 11th ZiHack was back on the 15th of April: 24 hours of coding and fun, suspense and teamwork, innovation and…
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Testing the boundaries: The story of a voluntary pen-test exercise
Organizations are adopting digital transformation at an unprecedented speed. What could have been considered pioneering actions a few years ago…
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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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How we help retailers boost sales with Recommendations AI by Google Cloud
Recommendations AI, a Google Cloud solution launched in 2019, helps retailers provide personalized product recommendations for each customer…
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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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Three common security threats for Microsoft Azure users
For the past ten years or so, cloud computing has become the standard way of doing business, for both small- and large-scale organizations. The…
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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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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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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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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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Call us digital transformation wizards: the Pegasus Legal Capital case
At Zitec, we strongly believe that the best kind of advertising is a happy customer. This is how our collaboration with New York-based Pegasus…
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Students and graduates: meet Zitec’s 2022 traineeship opportunities!
This spring brings exciting traineeship opportunities for students and graduates who want to start a tech career. We’ve launched a series of…
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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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Why you should consider experience a deciding factor in the IT supplier selection process
Whether you aim to improve customer experience, optimize business processes or refine/adjust your business model, working with the right software…
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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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A day in the life of a QA tester @ Zitec
QA testing has become a vital part of software development and plays a key role in the success of the final product. But the process of finding…
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2021 under the microscope: The A to Z of security threats – Part 1
If we are to describe the last couple of years, “unprecedented times” is such an understatement. We have gone through a lot of dramatic events…
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Future-proofing your ISV organization using the Cloud
What independent software development companies need to know about Microsoft Azure Cloud in 2021 The Independent Software Vendor sector, like…
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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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Zitec is one of the fastest-growing companies on Clutch
We’re incredibly proud to announce that we have been recently named one of the fastest-growing companies on Clutch, within the Top 100 Sustained-Growth…
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Zitec becomes Google Cloud Premier Partner
Starting July 2020, we’re proud to have become Google Cloud Premier Partner, the top-level for partners who have demonstrated high levels of…
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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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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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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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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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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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Cloud: the shortest path to modernizing your legacy applications
Organizations preparing to digitally transform their business must determine how to modernize existing applications and infrastructure to achieve…
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2021 under the microscope: When cybercriminals play hide-and-seek – Part 2
In the first part of our 2021 retrospective, we tried to solve the equation of security incidents. For this, we analyzed what types of fraud…
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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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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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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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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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Zitec 2019 in a nutshell [Infographic]
As 2020 reveals itself to us, we took one last look at the challenging journey 2019 has been for our team and placed all the insights in the…
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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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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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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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The Evolution of GDPR from adoption to present day
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) turns 4 on May 25th. It is one of the most impactful laws active in the European Union and it is…
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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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Security trends, predictions, and priorities for businesses in 2022
As digital transformation accelerates in many industries and organizations rethink office work, cyber attacks are diversifying and reaching unprecedented…
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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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The Black Friday Tech Talks bring first-hand insights on the eCommerce event of the year
With Black Friday just around the corner, we are bringing together the extensive know-how of acknowledged eCommerce experts throughout a series…
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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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How we handle QA at Zitec
As humans, we are prone to making mistakes, but there are times when even a slight error can prove to be very costly. There may be flaws in the…
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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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#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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Got mad synth skills? We have a job for you!
We’re not even kidding. You know us, we take even the fun side of things seriously. So here’s the deal. You’ve probably already heard about…
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2021 under the microscope: The domino effect of security incidents – Part 3
In the first two parts of the 2021 overview, we discussed the context in which sophisticated attacks emerged, the industries that were severely…
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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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How Innoship enables retailers to streamline costs for courier services and increase delivery performance
Innoship is a company that combines technology (in a form that is easy to understand and easy to use) and know-how in the fields of courier services…
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Reinventing delivery with Sameday’s easybox locker service
Innovation has always been one of our core values at Zitec. To us, it is a source of continuous learning and growth and that is why we approach…
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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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How we develop secure web applications at Zitec
The key to secure web applications is understanding that cybersecurity is not a challenge we can solve with a vulnerability scan now and then…
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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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DocuSign, the rabbit in the hat for Zitec’s digital transformation
Since the very first day we entered the market, 17 years ago, Zitec services are focused on the digital transformation of our clients. But that…
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