Open Source Development

PHP Developer in India creates Simple Clean Website Using PHP

2012-01-06T15:59:00.001+05:30

Dedicated PHP web developer in India are involved in PHP development services that is developing websites using server side scripting language PHP. Whether it is static website or dynamic website, data driven website for e-commerce business PHP can do wonders. PHP code is embedded in the HTML source code and the source code is compiled on-the-fly.

PHP acts as an interpreter and can be deployed on most of the web servers, operating systems and platforms. There are several benefits of PHP over other languages: most important is it is open source so no tension of license and developers are free to use in their own way. PHP can run on Windows server but is best suited for Linux and Apache as the upfront and ongoing cost is zero which otherwise would be very high in Windows servers. Migration from other language to PHP is easy and does not cost much. Rasmus Lerdorf who developed PHP has really done a great job! You can find free tutorials online, PHP is easy to learn.

Offshore Outsourcing PHP

2011-11-18T16:56:00.003+05:30

Outsourcing PHP to a leading custom web application development company that too in India would be an added advantage if you want to focus on core activities of your business and get most out from your web development services.

Are you looking for web application development at reduced time and cost?? Open Source Development can help you set up your offshore development center in India with promising resource pool, best infrastructure that would help deliver high end web development solutions on time, quality and time is never compromised.

You can also outsource your custom web application development needs to us and we would revert back with a custom web solutions based on your requirements.

You can Hire Indian developers, Indian programmers - dedicated web developer, software developers and iphone mobile application developer on monthly / hourly contract. We are leaders in offshore IT outsourcing services and provide turnkey custom web PHP solutions.

Virtualization Kills Traditional Outsourcing Model

2011-11-18T16:39:00.005+05:30

Offshore Outsourcing or Offshoring has been buzzword in the Indian IT industry but the trend is changing in year 2011, why and how??? With companies ready to invest their technology budget in strategic projects and are moving up the value chain this is threatening the traditional outsourcing model. It is not just control over the projects and cost benefits but high quality, cheap and best huge work force, better infrastructure compared to other countries has generated lots and lots of job opportunities in India.

"We consider the U.S. to be the hub of innovation and have recognized that there is enough talent here that can bring tremendous advantages to our existing skill set," HCL America president Shami Khorana said in an email to InformationWeek.

Global staffing would increase to grab the best at minimal investment and timeline remains the bottomline. Change in outsourcing model would effect India and India needs to think for cloud computing for secure growing India. For offshore outsourcing projects free feel to contact Open Source Development.

Custom PHP Web Application Development on LAMP

2011-11-18T16:10:00.002+05:30

LAMP is a software bundle and acronym for Linux (operating system), Apache HTTP Server, MySQL (database software) and Perl/PHP/Python, that would lead to creation of a web server. At Open Source Development a proven application framework/ MVC framework is available like Zend framework, cakePHP for rapid application development.

At Open source off-the-shelf applications and custom web solutions are available, these include CMS solutions like Joomla, Magento, Drupal that has reduced the operational cost and has simplified web development because several interactive features and management functionality. Template engines that we use are Smarty and PHP.

From our pool of talented web professionals you can hire dedicated developer for enterprises and independent software vendors (ISVs), business that need access to exceptional talent while minimizing risk and operating cost.

With years of experience in custom application development, open Source Development can develop custom web solutions for your business that can give you a competitive edge, improve your bottom line, and significantly reduce your IT costs. We are custom web development company and hiring php web developers / programmers would be find the best fit solution to tailor individual business needs. Our web developers and software programmers provide you the exact customized application and solution that suits your requirement most.

With Open Source Openness Microsoft Rigidity Tends to Flexibility

2011-11-17T15:15:00.004+05:30

How and Why Open Source Openess is bringing Microsoft close to it?? Are developers and programmers really ready to work in the environment and we can discuss the pros and cons here. No big enetrprise can deny the benefits of virtualization and cloud computing and slowly cloud is going to touch the boundaries of SMBs with a blend of Microsoft and Open Source Technologies.

Both the technologies have their standards and transparency and commitment to build consumer trust by effective collaboration at every level is important.

Designing a new protocol has been trending at Microsoft but using the existing code is implemented at Open Source. Microsoft creation of OpenNebula clouds on Windows Server Hyper-V is a live example of amalgamation of Open Source Microsoft. So, it customers today enjoy heterogeneous mix infrastructures and workloads in their data centers that include a mix of Windows and open source based software.

Open source holds a public and shared software development model and an open source initiative has said "The basic idea behind open source is very simple: When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, people fix bugs. And this can happen at a speed that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software development, seems astonishing." - Open Source Initiative

Open Source keeps you away from legal worries and expensive royalties. Also, Linux/Unix if once used for server by a developer then think it would be hard to switch to Windows server. Both the technologies have their own benefits and pitfalls and I respect both equally - Proprietary software or GNU.

PHPFox Social Network Script Solution

2011-09-21T13:00:00.002+05:30

Build your own social networking websites and online community with social network script. Once you join phpFox a large community base is there to help you actively. Source code can be edited easily as it is not encrypted. The Over 1,300 plug-ins/ mods are available for purchase or download. Remember phpFox is not free; is a featured packed social networking solution.

Also, the website you create using PHPFox CMS is search engine friendly. Also you are given full control of website layout through AdminCP. Multilingual facility is another important feature offered through AdminCP that lets you run the community in the language of your choice as well as include other languages of your choice as you want. Various monetizing tools are available with the phpFox product that would help you in integrating online payment options. You can monetize your social network with our advanced ad campaigns that gives you full control to who can view each specific ad based on a users location, gender and even their age group. Option to sponsor items on the site is made available and to sell marketplace listings. In order to access various modules and features user can upgrade to subscription plans by paying charges. For mobile version of the website default theme is available free of cost with phpFox product that would provide mobile users easy access to website on mobile devices. Facebook connect and scalability are other important features that a social networking website should have and is easily available with phpFox product.

For social networking website development you can call us at : +1 120 4030001 or drop us an email at: solutions@icreon.com

Moodle Learning Management System

2011-09-20T18:31:00.002+05:30

Originally created by Martin Dougiamas to help educators create online courses with a focus on interaction and collaborative construction of content, Moodle is continually evolving.

Moodle (abbreviation for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment) is a free source e-learning software platform, also known as a Course Management System,
Learning Management System, or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). As of October 2010 it had a user base of 49,952 registered and verified sites, serving 37
million users in 3.7 million courses.

The Moodle software is supported is : http://moodle.org/

Moodle Service Network: http://moodle.com/

Moodle is open source and so is free to use. It is widely used by universities, schools, companies and independent teachers, educators willing to to create quality
online courses. Important features of Moodle are: Online calendar, assignment submission, moodle instant messages, discussion forum, grading, files download, wiki, online quiz and online news and announcement.

Moodle support plug-ins for specific functionality like activities (word game/ math game), question types, content filter. Also, new modules can be added to Moodle using PHP. Moodle includes the TCPDF library by default that allows the generation of PDF documents from pages.
Deployment of Moodle requires technical proficiency. Free Moodle hosting providers allow create Moodle-based online classes without its server knowledge or installation and paid providers may provide more flexibility in customization and content-development.
You can run Moodle on any system that supports PHP without modification. Moodle's interoperability features include: authentication, enrollment, quizzes and quiz questions, resources, integration with other CMS, syndication.

Joomla VirtueMart E-Commerce Development

2011-08-20T17:07:00.002+05:30

Virtuemart is best for excellent shopping cart solutions. Virtuemart is not standalone e-commerce solution, it is add-on and must be used with Joomla or Mambo CMS. The extensible CMS Joomla/Mambo can be upgraded by adding and installing 3rd party extension VirtueMart. VirtueMart developers at Open Source Development provide you with a full range of Joomla and VirtueMart Customization services. Virtuemart e-commerce development service includes consultancy, development, integration, training and support.

VirtuMart is among top 10 Joomla components, it is most successful CMS add-on for shopping cart because of the following features: it is light weight; fast and secure; object oriented and clean; easy to learn, maintain and extend. VirtueMart developers provide you with a full range of Joomla and VirtueMart Customization services. Our Service includes consultancy, development, integration, training and support.

The industry we have successful delivered solutions are : real estate, enetrtainment, tarvel, B2B, B2C, education. Solutions provided help in effectively managing stock management, order management, sales management, billing and shipping.

Features of VirtueMart in Detail:

General features available with VirtueMart are multiple currencies, multiple languages, flexible tax models with multiple options for tax calculations, https encryption, shipping address management, options to view past shopping history and also there is option available to customers to manage user accounts.
Product Catalogue features include management option for unlimited products and categories; powerful and user friendly web-administration interface, advance search features, product rating and testimonials, notifications.

Administration module features include multiple files attribution and multiple images attribution, multiple product attributions, stock level control, statistics, order management, history management, managing currencies, also reporting of products.
Payment module features include all credit card processing that would include Google Checkout, Paypal, PayMate, and others.

Shipping Modules features are flexible shipping carriers and rates configuration, other shipping modules available, live shipping rates availability.

Custom eCommerce Magento CMS Development

2011-08-20T17:04:00.001+05:30

Open Source Development is an expert in providing eCommerce solutions to wide range of industries in Australia. Business focused e-commerce solutions provided by our e-commerce web developers designers have resulted our customer's online business grown manifolds. Our team of dedicated php developers, Joomla developers, Mambo developers, e-commerce designer developers, open source consultants’ work in close coordination and in consultation with our customers throughout the project delivery providing optimum customer service and ensuring service delivery is done on time and quality standards are maintained throughout.

Starting from designing to developing a e-commerce shopping cart to integration of secure payment gateway and then moving to driving traffic (doing SEO) of the e-commerce storefront can all done by us.

Our magento CMS development and customization services include: magento themes, Payment Gateway Integration, Shipping Method Integration or Configuration, Buttons and Widgets, Custom Landing Page Design and lot more.

Multi-Site, Multi-Domain, Multi-lingual Web Sites

2011-07-21T16:47:00.001+05:30

I was wondering what and how these multi-sites, multi-domain and multi-langauge sites actually differ.

First of all I will talk about multiple sites and multi-sites.

In Multiple Sites, apache control the one to many relationships between a single IP and many "websites" using virtual hosts.

For Multisite deployment Drupal approach is best where the same codebase and database to host multiple instances of drupal is used.

I have read the write-up:

http://lno.lternet.edu/node/192
http://drupal.org/node/1105042

Do the development of these sites have to do with creating a sub-directories, sub-folders or sub-domain and how does these approach effect SEO??

Could anyone please share views or personal experience on this, your comments are awaited. Keep the ball rolling!

White Label Website Development

2011-07-20T18:29:00.003+05:30

Let us first of all discuss what is a White Label Website/Product/Service??

A product or service produced by one company that is the producer that the other companies (the marketers) rebrand to make it appear as if they made it is a white label product or service.

A white-labeled website is eCommerce website which sells the products online just like the main site but, under a different domain name, brand or company name. Different storefronts are used to sell same products and services to different set of audience. Do not get confused with affiliate websites, they carry some traits of the producer.

White label sites are good from SEO point and would help your website gain ranking, as with each specific keyword rich domain you can also focus on targeted keywords. If your eCommerce storefront requires a local presence in a particular geographical area, then another brand or website which is a white label can be created having the local touch focused on localized audience. This will also help in ranking in geo-specific search engines and local search engines.

Get a white label website designed and developed for promotion of your products and services locally and globally. White Label Website Development

Dynamic Websites Development

2011-06-17T13:05:00.005+05:30

Your business success depends on your websites look and feel, easy of accessibility, attractiveness, easy navigation, quick search options and lot more. The dynamic website are built with the purpose of automation. The two main dynamic activities involved are code and content. A dynamic website can operate more effectively, be built more efficiently and is easier to maintain, update and expand. Software systems available to generate dynamic web sites are Java Server Pages (JSP), the PHP, Perl, Python, and Ruby programming languages, ASP.NET, Active Server Pages (ASP), ColdFusion (CFML) and more. Plug-ins like Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe Flash, Adobe Shockwave or applets written in Java, Dynamic HTML are available for real time element updating within web pages.

Dynamic code
Web page with dynamic code is built dynamically on the fly using programming language on the particular web page. Codes and routines on the web page are grouped together and call information from a database and assemble in a pre-defined format to present the reader. Dynamic code can interact with user by reading cookies, session variables, history.

Dynamic content

Dynamic content is offered in plain view and the Variable content is displayed dynamically on the fly based on specific criteria, generally by fetching content stored in a database. It is concerned with content change at particular point of time and display of messages, text, images on the web page. Examples are RSS sites, product driven site where a user enters product content in search and dynamically result is displayed.

PHP is one of the best programming languages used in developing powerful web sites and dynamic applications. Open Source Development understands the essentials of your business. Your website needs to load quickly, be found easily (visitors and search engines), be linked well (pilots) and generate real business leads (maximize ROI). PHP Development Company provides professional, high quality web development, dynamic web solutions to clientele globally. Our dynamic website development portfolio includes customized web solutions from various industries like real estates, legal, manufacturers, pharmaceuticals, entertainment, education, travel, mobile, IT.

The dynamic page generation was made possible by the Common Gateway Interface (CGI), stable in 1993. Also, SSI is a direct approach to handle server-side scripts at web servers. Flexibility, stability, automatic updation can be provided to dynamic websites using PHP and HTML along with CMS. Dynamic websites may be client-side server scripting or may be server-side scripting.

Client-side scripting and Content Creation

Client-side scripting languages like Java script, DHTML and Flash technologies use rich interfaced pages technology to generate client side content on the user computer . A web browser retrives page from server, processes code on the page and displays page redable content.

Server-side scripting and Content Creation

Server-side scripting the program running on web server that can change content on various web page.

Examples of dynamic websites are product and service based sites like e-commerce sites, auction sites, content based sites selling advertising space. Hire dynamic website developers to cut your business operation cost and to get highest quality custom web application development services.

Ecommerce Shopping Cart Solutions

2011-04-28T11:55:00.002+05:30

Enjoy the endless features and functionality of your shopping cart.

For a growing business small or large, e-commerce websites allow your company to market products or services at affordable price. E-commerce website design end e-commerce website Development Company offers professional web design, quality web development and search engine optimization all together for your business growth so that you are found and reached by your potential customers and also visible in search engine result pages for respective searches.

E-commerce web development company design and develop e-commerce shopping carts and offers best e-commerce web solutions for business growth. The online shopping carts and websites developed are easy to navigate, simple to manage and allow your company to sell products or services online. Each website is professionally designed & programmed to match your business' needs & goals.

E-commerce website development team is ready to help your company find a custom ecommerce web solution for your business website needs. Web developers and designers work together to come up with best custom web solutions. They work hard to develop custom web application solutions that will best suit your business needs. These ecommerce websites are built to perform and provide results that make for a successful website.

E-commerce shopping cart Development Company aims to provide the best professional e-Commerce web design solutions at an affordable price. Do not hurry in choosing a company as you can find number of e-commerce development companies online. The best of all provide quality web solutions with features such as unlimited products and categories, proper information on the website before you proceed to promise security and ease, a secure one page checkout, these professional e-commerce web development companies make online transactions easy for both website owners and customers. From selling a product or subscription, to taking payments for a service, e-commerce design development team can develop the custom eCommerce website perfect for your business. There's no limit to what your eCommerce site can achieve providing your products or services online.

Also these companies have e-commerce SEO team generally that ensure visitors will find your website and products, making your website a success. Experience of these companies let them place your website in top ten search results for most competitive keywords. Ultimate result is increase in traffic and new potential customers coming to online shopping store; visitors’ patterns can also be analyzed and website's user experience can be optimized with sales as top priority. So, if you are planning to have your own online shopping store for your business then, consult a shopping cart or e-commerce application development company for best results.

Professional E-commerce Website Development and Web Design

2011-03-05T14:41:00.006+05:30

Get an e-commerce development service at affordable price by custom web application Development Company. From selling product and services online at the storefront, to sending newsletters, adding new products, updating existing ones, running promotions on the e-commerce shopping cart to complete website tracking and analysis all can be done with ease if your website is custom developed and optimized to best fit your business needs.

Custom web application Development Company provides easy, safe and secure custom web solution. Open Source Development e-commerce content management system is customized for each client giving you the control you need to run your website efficiently. Open Source Development makes the e-commerce websites from both customers and owner perspective making online transaction safe, secure and navigation easy with lesser steps. Website developed are interactive, easy to maintain, track, update. Also, e-commerce SEO service will make your e-commerce website rank in top 10 for the most competitive keywords. This will help your visitors find your business easily and improve sales.

Open Source Development, an e-commerce website development company can push the limit of your e-commerce website. Starting from getting client's vision behind developing e-commerce storefront, then moving to fulfilling it by gathering all relevant information like audience, demography, competitors our e-commerce web site designers developers create a website that is visually appealing. Throughout the development process there is constant communication between designer, client, developer. The developed website should effectively communicate what client means, fulfill his business needs. Then in the testing phase we assure that website's fast-loading graphics are created with it search engine friendly HTML coding. Using a custom shopping cart applications like Zen-cart, X-cart, Magento and osCommerce the content given by client that is data about products and services are integrated with shopping cart system. Other than e-commerce website development open source development offers e-commerce website hosting also.

Open Source XML

2011-02-23T11:21:00.001+05:30

Source: http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/Languages/XML/XMLFamily/BigPicture/bigpix20a.html

PHP Developer Salary

2011-01-25T16:39:00.002+05:30

Are you stepping into web development job and have several questions in your mind related to salary structure. Whether you are a newbie or an experienced web developer and if you moving up in your profession to higher profile what salry do you expect and what in general web developer, php developer, php programming is drawing??? There are lots of website that offer day-to-day salary updates. Know about the current salary package of a PHP MySQL programmer, php developer in India. Here you can find list of websites with detail of php developer's salary:

http://www.indeed.com/salary/PHP-Developer.html
http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/php-developer-salary-SRCH_KO0,13.htm
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=PHP_Developer/Salary
http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/php%20developer.do

CSS Tricks for a Website Design

2010-12-31T15:57:00.001+05:30

Listed below are 10 CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) tricks that will help you improve your web designs.

1. Image gallery of your website should provide users with image thumbnail image with just mouse hover, this also helps to load the image gallery fast.
2. Using simple CSS tricks organize and style index files to easy deal with lots of glossary terms.
3. Create alert box to display important content at the same draw user attention by using neat CSS.
4. CSS sliding sprite window to show different images in different state of link.
5. Using CSS solely you can create gradient effects on text.
6. Use sliding image gallery especially for a photographer’s website to organize images on your website. The sliding image gallery may be horizontal or vertical.
7. Round corner in CSS is recommended for websites. Greg Johnson created web apps to automate the process. All you need to do is create anti-aliased corners without using images or javascript.
8. Pure CSS line graph can be created by using CSS to create a line graph.
9. Pure CSS Accordion Effect can be produced easily with JavaScript frameworks but can now be achieved using CSS.
10. CSS Rollover Buttons - With rollovers you can add visual feedback to your website’s buttons; its look is similar to sliding sprite window of course mechanics behind is different. As a visitor moves their mouse over a rollover button, it changes to indicate that it’s click-able.

PHP Framework for Website Development

2010-12-03T13:02:00.002+05:30

Use of PHP framework will secure, ease, clean and quicken website development. PHP framework is a common platform that will help us develop web applications. Use of framework will save lots of time as developer need not repeat same set of code again and again and connection between database and application can be easily established that helps to build Rapid Applications (RAD). The PHP operates on Model View Controller (MVC) architecture where M stands for raw data, V for actual data being viewed, C for controller domain logic that handles data exchange between database and user interface. PHP frameworks come with variety of options and functions bundled with that may be best of one application but not for another.

PHP Frameworks should offer database support, community support, documentation support, model view controller architecture. You need to assure that the database and web server is compatible with the framework you've chosen. With varying degree of preferences and requirement PHP framework choice will differ. Modern PHP frameworks have adopted the convention over configuration approach (decrease the number of decisions needed to be made in order to gain simplicity without losing flexibility) to increase the speed for developing web applications.

Reviewing the Frameworks:

Yii PHP Framework –is a high-performance component-based PHP framework that's a good choice for developing large scale apps. It's loaded with great features and was written in OOP (which requires PHP 5 and above).

ash.MVC

Kohana – is a PHP5 framework that offers documentation and community support and comes with multiple session drivers.

CodeIgniter – offers toolkit to create full-featured web applications. It is powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint.
Akelos - framework is based on the MVC (Model View Controller) and favors "convention over configuration".

CakePHP – rapid development framework enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications. By letting developer write less code CakePHP reduces development costs.

Zend Framework - written strictly in PHP 5, is OOPs framework. Its loose architecture lets you use various Zend components to enhance your applications functionality.

Symfony - PHP Framework holds a library of various classes written in PHP 5. Architecture, useful components and excellent tools are provided for creating complex web apps.

Prado - is a component-based and event-driven programming framework that helps you build applications based on PHP 5; It is rapid application development framework based on OOPs concept.

DIY -

Solar Framework - is a PHP 5 framework for web application development. It is fully name-spaced and uses enterprise application design patterns, with built-in support for localization and configuration at all levels.

Maintainable - PHP Framework was formally built to host its creators personal projects. However, it was further released to open source. Like any framework, it's certainly not appropriate for every application. It's designed primarily for use with small-to-mid-sized applications.

Seagull - is a mature OOP framework for building web, command line and GUI applications. Licensed under BSD, the project allows PHP developers to easily integrate and manage code resources, and build complex applications quickly.

Fuse – is a Model View Controller framework for PHP. Taking influence from other web frameworks; such as Ruby on Rails (RoR) and CakePHP, then adding in custom, intuitive features of our own design, FUSE has developed into a robust, stable platform for MVC development using object oriented PHP.

AjaxAC - is an open-source framework written in PHP, used to develop/create/generate AJAX applications. The fundamental idea behind AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) is to use the XMLHttpRequest object to change a web page state using background HTTP sub-requests without reloading the entire page. It is released under the terms of the Apache License v2.0.

Phocoa - (pronounced faux-ko) is PHP framework for developing web applications. PHOCOA's primary intent is to make web application development in PHP easier, faster, and of higher-quality.

Limb - is an OpenSource (LGPL) PHP framework mostly aimed for rapid web application prototyping and development. The current actively developed branch of framework is Limb3 (there is also Limb2 but it's not maintained anymore).

ZooP - has been in development since 2001 and in use for the last 6 years in a number of different production environments. While it predates the recent proliferation of PHP frameworks, it's based on solid MVC principles, including separation of display, logic, and data layers. It's designed to be efficient, modular, and extensible; striking a balance between lightweight and fully-featured.

BlueShoes - is a comprehensive application framework and content management system. It is written in the widely used web-scripting language PHP. BlueShoes offers excellent support for the popular MySQL database as well as support for Oracle and MSSQL.

Qcodo - Qcodo Development Framework is an open-source PHP framework that focuses on freeing developers from unnecessary, tedious, and mundane coding.
Recess - is a RESTful PHP framework that provides a fun and enjoyable developmental experience for beginners and seasoned developers alike. Recess is fast, light-weight, and has a very small footprint ideal for LAMP development and drag-and-drop deployment to shared hosts.

PHPDevShell - provides a shell for your code to run in. It was developed from the ground up to be fast, secure and to provide immediate results for the developer using it. Simply plug your own PHP scripts into PHPDevShell’s secure menu system, or take the extra step and develop your own plug-ins for PHPDevShell.

ez Components
WASP
WACT
QPHP

So choose the right PHP framework from the large list available that best-fits your application development requirement. Implementing these PHP frameworks provide the developer more in terms of usability, security, speed, and stability by reducing overall workload and speeding up the coding and development process, eliminating the need to code repetitively. If you are looking for smooth running web applications, or bespoke php development using lightweight or other PHP frameworks like cake PHP, Zend feel free to contact us, or get a free quote.

PHP MySQL Software Programming Tips

2010-12-02T12:18:00.003+05:30

Learning has been simplified with lots of learning tools available and most popular of all is Internet where a user can not only learn but also can surfer as per ones need and can find related stuff, immense flexibility! Online learning is fast, cheaper and offers wider range making Internet the ultimate place to learn.
Coming to PHP mySQL programming for beginners; you can find lots of PHP free e-books online. PHP/MySQL Programming for the Absolute Beginner by Andy Harris is one of the many available.

Gradually you will acquire programming skills that is necessary for practical programming applications and will also learn how these software skills can be put to use in real world scenarios and apply them to the next programming language you tackle.

First of all you need to become familiar with PHP environment, then set of functions, variables, arrays, loops. PHP is closely related to HTML and tied to MySQL database for connectivity. PHP is used today for developing many web applications, also used in many scripts and web projects; I have already discussed in my previous post salient features of PHP.

PHP Tips to Improve Your Programming:

SQL injection cheat sheet: Follow the best practices mentioned in the SQL injection (security exploit) sheet to avoid scripting attacks.

PHP’s List of Comparison Operators: PHP Programmers should be very well familiar with use of PHP comparison operators.

Follow Shortcuts to improve speed and performance: This can be achieved by making code simpler and smaller.

Follow a control structure that by dropping a brackets in single expression wherever possible. Learning a language will lead to achieve the same result in several ways.

Favour str_replace() over ereg_replace() and preg_replace(): When using regular expression use of ereg_replace() and preg_replace() is preferred as it is much faster than str_replace().str_replace()11 is much more efficient (61% more) than regular expressions at replacing strings .

Use of ternary operator frees up line space and makes your code less cluttered, making it easier to scan.

Use Memcached for efficient database caching.

Use PHP framework like cakePHP to reduce time spent to develop a website.

Use the error suppression operator correctly.

Switching isset for strlen makes calls about five times faster.

Irrespective of the platform you are working php knowledge has become must-know for all developers. PHP developers should learn and use every time they program the techniques listed above. These tips will speed up not only a developer’s proficiency but also make the code much more responsive, cleaner and more optimized for performance. Good Luck!

So, I am sure beginners are ready to ready to roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty with the language.

Open Source E-Commerce Shopping Cart Solutions

2010-10-19T13:04:00.006+05:30

Chossing a shopping cart from the many shopping cart available in the market complete depends on you. What shopping cart features you need for your website. In this post I will discuss of the open source shopping acrts that provides you access to your source code to modify it as per your specific needs and customize to your needs. The shopping carts I will be discussing are PHP/MySQL that run on both Linux and Windows servers and are easily affordable. Pay-per-month shopping carts are of less value as they are expensive compared to those I will highlighting.

In general all shopping carts share the following common features:

Customer Management
Product Management
Payment Modules
Shipping Modules
Order Receipt Emails
Ability to use SSL secure layers for ordering process

Features that vary from shopping cart to shopping cart are:

Time it takes to modify the cart to look like a current web design
WYSIWYG ability to modify product descriptions using different fonts, colors, etc.
Ability to import/export from Excel spreadsheet
Wholesale/Reseller Pricing

What shopping cart features you need based on that you can choose from the shopping carts I will be discussing.

Magento

Magento shopping cart is based on latest PHP5 OOPs standards and Zend framework.

Advantages The company behind Magento is Varian that keeps updating code and fixing bugs. Magento comes with good collection of default template and multi-store capable.

Disadvantages With very limited technical documentation it makes programming modification (except graphical changes) and customization very difficult. Also, Magento is very complicated and heavily layered so much more time and higher budget is required for customization. As the code is complicated and it is heavily layered this makes Magento run slow.

Oscommerce MS 2.2

oscommerce.com is maintaining Oscommerce shopping cart. Oscommerce also forms the basis for both Zen Cart and CRE Loaded.

Advantages Oscommerce is simple so it runs well through so forms the backbone of basics shopping carts. It has most available number of modifications and contributions. It is up to date with MySQL 5 and PHP 5 because of its latest security update.

Disadvantages To install Oscommerce all contribution (add-ons) for your shopping cart is time consuming and very costly.

Also, absence of graphic template system makes design modification very difficult.

CRE Loaded Chain Reaction Edition of Oscommerce

Oscommerce forms the basis of CRE Loaded. 3 versions of CRE Loaded is available of which regualr is free; Pro adds credit card encryption and better product attribute support and B2B adds separate price level support. CRE Loaded comes with many more contributions installed and most popular and used of all is Easy Populate which lets you populate your database from various sources (template system, administrator access levels, an affiliate manager, an Excel file, coupon codes). Also, the Oscommerce templating systems installed allows you to more easily integrate a design into the system and control which information boxes show on the left and right columns.

Advantages Many more contributions from Oscommerce already installed.

Disadvantages You will find buggy code for few modules like vendor shipping. Contributions from oscommerce more difficult to install compared to CRE Loaded own.

Zen Cart

Zen Cart features are based on Oscommerce but to use these need to be converted to Zen Cart. The wide array of Zen Cart features are product attributes managers, built in coupon system, ability to select what credit cards you accept, html editor for regular web page contents, template system.

Advantages Many contributions from Oscommerce are installed by default; Oscommerce is stable and requires no licensing fees.

Disadvantages As thera re many contributions admin arae becomes very disordered. To use Oscommerce contributions they need to be converted to Zen Cart.

X-Cart

X-cart is a commercial package and is most competitively priced and easy to modify.

Advantages Commercially supported and very few bugs. It uses Smarty Templates system.

Disadvantages Licensing fees

OSC Max

With many useful contributions installed this is best version of Oscommerce. It is easy to use as default Oscommerce installation.

Advantages No licensing fees; contributions installed are very useful; wholesale/reseller pricing module already installed
and is well-documented.

Disadvantages Has Personal preference disadvantage.

Joomla and Virtuemart

On the Virtuemart website they have a combined installer that installs Virtuemart with Joomla. This is the solution you would want if you have to have your CMS (Content Management System) combined with your shopping cart.

Advantages Virtuemart combines well with Joomla CMS and it is easy to install and posseses the basic shopping cart features.

Disadvantages Less add-on available compared to other shopping cart and high-end shopping cart features are missing here.

It is good to start with loaded versions - Zencart, CRE Loaded, or OSCmax to get out best for your shopping cart in less money and less time.

Offshore PHP Software Development

2010-10-13T17:53:00.001+05:30

Offshoring is company's business process relocation from one country to another with the motive of cost reducation and comparative advantage and at the same time this international trade creates value for other country. India remains first offshoring destination for major global firms because of large pool of english speaking people and technically proficient manpower.

Custom development company in India helps businesses to build the robust, secure and versatile web applications in an effective and professional manner. These companies strictly follow software development practices and the web development methodologies revolve around agile, scrum, spiral model and various delivery models that best fits client's requirement.

India is heading in offshore PHP software development because of its commitment to quality, vast domain expertise, fast communication channel, one stop solution and above all its cost effective solution and quicker turnaround time. The web development process provides custom application solutions that are tailored to best fit every clients requirement at the same time increase ROI and custom satisfaction. Custom development also helps reduce cost and shorten product development cycle.

Custom Development Company India

2010-10-13T16:34:00.004+05:30

The emerging businesses experience the innovation with custom development company in India. These custom development companies India are experts in web design, custom web applications offering custom web application solutions.

Custom development companies in India are putting their best to become as one of top notch providers of "next generation web development" in almost all the popular web technology. Offshore outsourcing has been the buzz word in IT industry. Offshore php software development is more prevalent compared to Microsoft software development because of several salient features of open source technology (most important of all open source code).

Open source development company cater services ranging from SMB's to large enterprises on open source technologies such as php software development, ROR development, web designing, custom application development, ecommerce solutions, community portal development, cms component development, Magento installation and open source consulting by open source consultants. Core competencies of these companies lies in custom web development, php web programming, content management system, application development, flash ajax game development, e-commerce web design solutions.

Technology driven solutions are based on LAMP and other open source technologies. The web developers and web programmers follow proven technologies throughout application development cycle to deliver bespoke end solution. Also, these companies ensure that their customers get constant support for application life cycle management.

If you would like to contact us, you can fill the form available on our official web site for free web development quote.

Open Source Important Features

2010-09-02T16:42:00.001+05:30

Open Source – Shared Codes!! Shared Efforts!!

Open Source term was coined in 1998 but it started in early 1950s as a community collaborative force. Open source says free access to the source code as well as free re-distribution of code. Source code evolution is welcome in open source community. To make the modification of the source code easy, so access to un-obfuscated source code is required; to get the reproduction and distribution simplified modification may be made to compiled form.

Open source is rapidly evolving as open source developers and programmers are able to freely use, able to do experiment and further redistribute after modification. Distribution of modified open source software is allowed under the license of the original software.

Integrity of the author's source code is another important feature of Open Source. This includes distribution of patch files with source code at the build time for program modification.
All persons are equally eligible to contribute to open sources.

Open source is free to be used in any field of work commercially.

Distribution License remains the same, no addition License required for re-distribution.

Software distribution rights and program rights as defined in program's license remains same for all.

The licensed software must not place restriction on other software distributed along with. Other programs distributed on the same medium must not be open-source software. Distributors of open-source software have the right to make their own choices about their own software.

For open source software product reuse license must be technology-neutral so that there is no conflict over software distribution.

Drupal CMS SEO Checklist

2010-09-02T15:11:00.002+05:30

If you have a website designed and development using Drupal CMS then SEO Checklist module is good for your website optimization. SEO Checklist will help you to better optimize your website in major search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing. SEO checklist module suggests the list of modules for Drupal SEO, all you need to do is check all and once done it will help automatically. By checking the modules mentioned in checklist you save your time keeping record of what has been done on the site.

SEO checklist is a powerful organization tool that module keeps record of what all have been accomplished for the website. You have a complete record that you can show clients or refer to in the future. Vertical Tabs module is recommended for SEO checklist.

Drupal is best CMS for SEO. Drupal CMS because of its salient features:

1) Easily Configurable
2) Flexible CMS
3) Drupal Optimization Possible
4) Content Duplicacy checkpoint
5) Clean code
6) Easy to integrate with 3rd party SEO services
7) Fights Spam (antispam module prevents spambots)
8) Allows to create sophisticated hlanding pages using Content panes
9) Custom layout without writing code
10) Community Features
11) Thriving Ecosystem

Find good list of Drupal modules at volacci.com. Some very common modules that will help in optimizing your website are:

global redirect
page title
Google Analytics
html purifier
nodewords
pathauto
pathredirect
scheduler
search 404
seo checklist
mollom
NEW XML sitemap
sitemap - plaintext
menu attributes
apache solr
open calais

Custom PHP Programming

2010-08-18T12:27:00.003+05:30

Web programming and development companies in India offer cost effective solutions to their clients as per requirements.

PHP companies are different from traditional programming companies because they design and develop websites and applications using PHP offers platform in-dependency and fast execution. These companies possess their experience in PHP programming, AJAX programming, custom application development, e-commerce development solutions, database based projects and open source integration and customization that help to deliver high end web programming. PHP MySql Programming is basically used in development of database driven websites and applications development.

Customers satisfaction, bugs free code, high quality, latest technology are hallmark of custom php programming.

We can develop any type of custom web based application like content management systems, shopping carts, job portals, classifieds, PHP portals and any custom project based on your requirements! Our PHP Developers are professional, experienced and well know with current frameworks and technologies!

You can check PHP development Company PHP Portfolio to take a quick look on our capabilities. Please send us your project details (web development quote) so that we can provide you exact cost and time frame for completion of project!

PHP Development with PHP 5.3.3 Release

2010-08-18T12:15:00.003+05:30

PHP users are advised to upgrade their PHP to latest PHP 5.3.3 release. The PHP 5.3.3
release focuses on improving the stability and security of the PHP 5.3.x branch with over 100 bug fixes (145 bug fixes; 13 additions; 2 extensions upgraded (sqlite and PCRE)).

For users upgrading from PHP 5.2 there is a migration guide available on http://php.net/migration53, detailing the changes between those releases and PHP 5.3.

For a full list of changes in PHP 5.3.3, see the ChangeLog.

"Methods with the same name as the last element of a namespaced class name will no longer be treated as constructor. This change doesn't affect non-namespaced classes."

Hycus India's First Content Management System CMS

2010-08-07T12:26:00.008+05:30

INDIA’S FIRST CMS

Hycus CMS is the first content management system (CMS) released in India and by an Indian team. Hycus CMS 1.0.0 was released on 6th of August 2010. Hycus CMS is a PHP based content management system, it is free and open source CMS. Hycus CMS is an easy to use, configure and maintain because of its challenging features. This Indian CMS provides ease of maintaining your own website with the powerful SEF tools and configurations that brings your business websites number 1 in search engines. Also The basic feature list of the cms:

The basic features of the Hycus CMS are:

It is very light weight CMS.

You can find in admin side fully featured CK editor.

Removable admin side.

Admin side (can also be disabled) and is fully Ajax based.

Site's content, menus, blocks management made easy.

Site's configuration is at your finger tips.

RSS feed for your contents can be created.

Front end user management available.

Search with extendable plugins.

Designing made easy.

Html/CSS templates to Hycus templates is easy.

Contact page.

Search Engine Friendly URL's (SEF).

Multiple Websites maintenance with same single set of files.

Add contents in other Indian languages (available only from admin side).

Requirements:

PHP 5.0 or above

MySQL 5.0.51 or above

Javascript enabled browser

Browser compatibility

Firefox 3

Google Chrome

Apple Safari

Microsoft IE7 and IE8

Opera 10

The developers say "We are working hard to keep our content management system more friendly for users and developers to work on. We will be releasing new modules and blocks using the API of Hycus-cms (in other words, add-ons for Hycus-cms). Also we are working at more advanced security measures, to avoid any hacking attempts."

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Custom CMS vs Pre-Built CMS

2010-07-12T19:44:00.005+05:30

In the web development industry the debate continues over the advantages of pre-built CMS like Drupal, Joomla and that building a custom CMS from the scratch. Remember, custom cms is personalized cms that will do exactly what needed. I would just share my opinion on the ongoing debate.

Ofcourse, custom systems developed are always unique. The custom system developed from the scratch are more easier and faster to use as best fit client's requirement. To create a website from pre-built CMS developer needs to write longer code as it takes much time to override the default that comes built-in with pre-built CMS.
Also, the custom system is more easier to use, it is full-blown cms compared to pre-built cms.

I would say both pre-built CMS and custom CMS has its own set of advantages, before choosing any CMS you need to take few factors into consideration:

Time Frame: Is time frame critical?
Budget: Custom CMS is costly; but in case existing CMS (pre-built CMS) is not very close to your needs then the custom cms works more cost effectively.
Requirement: Whether the pre-built meets your requirement, if pre-built CMS meets 80% or more of the requirement the go with pre-built.
User of Content Management Systems: Who are users of the CMS if they are business people then the user friendliness of the CMS is very important whereas if your users are going to be programmers then the user interface might not be that important for them.

Other important factors before selecting between pre-built CMS and custom CMS are Time to market, user interface, technology preferences, usability, ease of use, performance.

These points are important in deciding between pre-built cms and custom cms as well as choosing between customized software development or off the shelf solution.

If you have any query about open source CMS solutions, feel free to contact us.

Drupal CMS Developer India

2010-07-12T19:40:00.001+05:30

Power your website with Drupal CMS, Drupal CMS is a powerful cms that will let you build high quality website or web application in less time, easily that will provide more flexibility over other cms based websites.

Drupal development companies have expert team that are experienced in custom drupal designing and drupal web services. The drupal design company develop crisp layouts, design drupal templates, use clean CSS code that is finally integrated with Drupal, which provide interactive user interface. Drupal cms modules help design SEO-friendly Drupal dynamic websites.

Drupal application development include: drupal installation, website migration - from other cms to drupal cms, drupal cms modules customization, drupal integration, maintenance of drupal site, drupal patch management, taxonomy system setup, vocabulary creation, and lot more.

Drupal is preferred over other cms because of its several unique features; using these features the custom application development companies provide social networking solutions like forums, blogs, polls; purely content management system, drupal shopping cart solutions, job portal industry solutions, entertainment industry solutions, real estate website design development, eduactional websites drupal design, corporate website drupal development, complete drupal customization as per every client's need.

With the help of Open Source Development expert team of Drupal developers India get a fully functional website with any number of features your site or business portal requires at best price; high quality and least time.

Mozilla Firefox Web Browser

2010-07-02T19:46:00.002+05:30

Mozilla punctline "We Belive that the internet should be public, open and accessible" makes it most common browser with its worldwide monthly usage share (6.9% as per W3C) and (23.81% of worldwide as per Net Applications) next is Internet
Explorer and Chrome, Safari, Opera. The worlwide usage stats varys based on source between 20% to 30%. Look at latest browser usage share statistics.

IBM contribution in building firefox cannot be denied. With IBM and Rediff making Mozilla a default browser, IBM 400,000 employees will be using Mozilla as default browser promoting the open source web browser as Enterprise-Ready Application.
To promote Mozilla browser all IBM computers will have the firefox browser preinstalled, and vendors selling IBM browser-based software will be expected to support Firefox.

Mozilla Firefox ia a open source web browser available for free and is part of Mozilla Application Suite. Mozilla salient features have made it grab the market being the most used browsers among developers and web programmers but to web surfers.

Features of Mozilla:

Mozilla lets you customize as well as personalize look of Firefox to exactly what you like to do online.

Mozilla Firefox is standards-compliant browser.

Firefox is more safer, secure compared to other web browsers.

Mozilla Firefox is open source free product by Mozilla.

Fully-customizable browser for effecient web surfing.

Mozilla is faster compared to other browsers.

Firefox is full featured and add-ons support is very strong, with built-in support for the next generation of themes, called Personas that sets Firefox apart from other web browsers.

Mobilefirefox is best suited for all sort of devices.

Also, the mobile version of the Firefox web browser called Fennec, is now available in for Android handsets.

Expression Engine is Web Publishing Multisite Manager

2009-08-31T14:10:00.002+05:30

ExpressionEngine is a CMS (content management system) developed by EllisLab and written using PHP programming language and MySQL database. The “Core Version” of ExpressionEngine is available free, and you can get “Personal” and “Commercial” versions by paying onetime fee.

The core of this system is highly flexible because of the multiple site manager ExpressionEngine on which all the websites in EllisLab network run.
In brief ExpressionEngine alone take cares of our membership, blogs, contact forms, community forums, wiki, knowledge-base, everything. These days it is fondly used for websites and blogs management. Because of its rich features and flexibility ExpressionEngine is becoming popular these days and easily acceptable among developers compared to CMS like Joomla, Drupal.

The full featured Tag module for expression engine provides a "folksonomy engine" that can be well integrated with ExpressionEngine.

Features of ExpressionEngine can be categorized into: Web Publishing, Template Engine, Add-On Modules and Plugins, Communications, Commenting and Trackbacks, Typography, Tracking, Utilities¸ Member Management, Search, Spam Deterrents, Utilities, Data Caching, Security. Multi-site concept, multi-lingual support, custom module development, blacklist feature implementation, search engine friendly URLs, inbuilt powerful search engine, versioning system etc are some of its interesting features.
The ease with which a user can configure this site and the extent to control things make it most popular.
Expression engine web sites benefit your clients because it is an integrated system. Non technical users can edit site from web browsers directly. ExpressionEngine solutions are reliable, repeatable.

Advanced E-commerce Platform Magento

2009-07-13T10:54:00.002+05:30

Magento is the advanced e-commerce platform that enables web traders to remove possible obstacles in the way of business process implementations. This application tool increases the downloading limit up to 600,000, making it the most convenient commercial tool for getting user-friendly online business solutions.

The software tool has outshone all the leading e-commerce and portal-building platforms. It can be further used for managing and implementing heavy-duty enterprise-level content management system. However, it is important to notice here that Magento application is not meant for all and diverse requirements. But, Magento is the most used and compliant e-commerce platform to be used in the online marketplace.

How it differs from other applications? You can easily download Magento and use it in your website. It enhances the ability to create customized themes and module extensions. It helps a webpage to gain desired popularity level that leads to a stable growth for the company. Being a product of Varien - a type of e-commerce design house, Magento is benefited by offering the traditional web agency services.

By using Magento, you can easily get a theme based framework that offers individual layouts, skins, and templates in order to gain customized look and feel. Get your e-commerce shopping cart website design and development using magento ecommerce customization.

Static versus Dynamic Websites

2009-07-10T18:33:00.001+05:30

Websites are of generally two types; static and dynamic. Both the websites are quite different from one another. Let’s discuss the difference between the two.

As it name suggests, static websites usually consists of web pages arbitrarily put together. Usually, these pages are stores on a server and they are displayed in the same format when you click them. However, dynamic websites have more functionality and they are formed on the foundation of many different underlying technologies. Dynamic websites have their own database and they store all the contents there only. They can be viewed by using a script when it dynamically retrieves and packages the content into a web page.

Static websites have very limited functions whereas a dynamic website has better functionality. However, dynamic websites can become really complex and can be difficult to use. Dynamic websites can be broken into two main categories;

Certain web environments have come into use to deal with the complexities of the dynamic website. In terms of functionality, these could be broken down into:

• Content Management System (CMS)
• Shopping cart or ecommerce system

Money Making with Blogging

2009-02-17T16:35:00.001+05:30

24.com (South Africa) conducted a blog survey (1000 bloggers were surveyed), it was largest blog survey and its statistics were finally manipulated on 10th of December 2008 and few amazing facts and figures came out (Author of SA Blog Report - Mandy de Waal). Most bloggers are of age group between 25 and 44 and blog was just for fun not for commercial value to earn money, very few bloggers make money and that too very low amount.

Blog research results showed only eight percent of surveyed bloggers have a commercial motive, and out of this number around 85% earn between R1 and R1,000 while 15% (or 12 surveyed bloggers) earn between R1,000 and R3,000 each month.Some 43% of respondents earn more than R20,000 monthly, while more than 15% earn over R50,000 per month. Interestingly, 58% of local bloggers are married or cohabit, and 46% of them have children. There is an even split of men and women blogging and 58% are between the ages of 25 and 44.Some 95% of respondents said English or Afrikaans was their first language. Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria are blogging epicentres and account for more than 75% of surveyed bloggers.

Survey result also says that blogging has lot to do with bloggers online and offline lives. South Africa capital Cape Town appeared to be blogging capital as most responses were from there.

On an average 1 to 5 blog posts per week was calculated to be done, blogging platform is considered and taken as an outlet to express personal, pen down individual ideas thoughtfully. Graph showed 50% bloggers posted just 1 post per week, only 15% posted 4-5 postings weekly. Another interesting fact was that 65% spent 1-10 hours average weekly on their blog.

I would like to conclude by saying blogging provides open platform for individual to contribute and share information, experiences. Internet Blogging is self empowered. We need to become more aware and utilize blogs as revenue generating model that involves larger audience, diverse participants from all over the world and easy integration and mobilizing people to think and act.

Dedicated PHP Developers

2009-02-09T18:20:00.000+05:30

To ensure top class PHP development services to the customers' worldwide open source development company in India utilizes its resource pool to provide custom web design services India, custom web application development services, CMS development, CMS customization India, ecommerce website development, B2B open source solutions, B2C web portal development. Our dedicated team members have extensive, hands-on experience on website development using PHP MySQL as programming language. Our work areas include these segments:

Open source consulting; web site design, website development, website integration, website maintenance, custom web application development, custom software development, custom software solutions, CMS development, CMS integration, CMS customization, social network application, vBulletin, workflow management, tracking software solutions, discussion board, forums, Wikis, blogs, portal development.

Open source web design development is able to achieve php web development using open source development capabilities:

• Methodologies: extreme programming, agile development, Rational Unified Process (RUP) , Model View Controller (MVC)
• Technologies: Ruby on Rails, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), Web 2.0
• Skilled in a variety of DBMS platforms such as MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server
• We have set of PHP coding standards and practices as well as software development methodologies in place. The coding standards well define the conventions, techniques and styles to be followed during every aspect of project development from design to coding.

Open source Development Company dedicated php team, joomla developers, drupal developers, Ruby on Rails programmers, sugarcrm consultants, open source developers solely work on clients projects to meet their needs and fulfill their requirements and specifically work your projects.

India ranks first in outsourcing because of its rich resources, uninterrupted good quality services it has been providing to its partners globally without any failure. Indians are well-known for their entrepreneurial skills, technical skills, expertise and in-depth knowledge and innovative nature. Software development or web development companies in India offer affordable, dedicated and expert programmers, developers, consultants to customize the client’s requirements and provide bespoke solutions. Either you can outsource to India or can hire Indian web developers, PHP programmers, they are well trained, they attend seminars and workshops on latest design tools and development technologies. It is really essential to remain up-to-date with new tools and technologies and have enough knowledge to upgrade the existing ones. Starting from requirement gathering to final delivery of project these dedicated php developers work under guidance of senior developers, programmers, project managers and get full support from them. Our programmers and developers and web designers are very innovate, think in broad way, they inculcate and explore to add value to your services. Most important point based on which you can select a web application development company or company for outsourcing PHP is spectrum of services they are offering and experience of team members.

Is your website down? Know and Recover – Why and How???

2009-02-09T16:51:00.000+05:30

What if a well designed and developed website does not load fast. I am sure your visitors will be taken to your competitor’s website and may be those visitors do not visit your website again as time is money and to view a website nobody would like to wait and gaze. So why not check for few factors which will speed up your website load time. Few points are: number of objects your web page has as objects overhead dominates web pages latency. CSS techniques are recommended for any website rather than using graphic techniques. Every net surfer hates website which doesn’t load. What if this is our own website? Before coming to reasons for website going down let me discuss few important things which I think needs to be considered at the initial stage. Do not use multi-threaded html; images could be in more compressed form; HTTP compression is recommended for java script.

Very common problems seen for websites down time:
• May be server problem; DNN error or network issues;
• Error in your website’s application
• Web space limitation.

Outcome of server downtime: Decrease in traffic; Less Visitors; Downtime in your ROI.

There are many companies providing website monitoring services, we have been using InternetSeer that sends error alert showing at what point of time your website goes down and type of error, reason behind website downtime, also sends error alert when website is up. It is all upto you to select website monitoring service provider.
Website Monitoring is integral part for website maintenance and website owner must have strong foot hold on monitoring important ports.

Before hiring a web monitoring service provider check list of services they provide like whether they provide multi protocol support (FTP, DNS, HTTPS, Ping, etc.) ; downtime notification (SMS or Email); global monitoring, uptime and performance report, multi-lingual support, maintenance.

Get open source consulting, your website designed and development by open-source-development company located in India.

Joomla CMS Customization India

2008-12-24T14:08:00.000+05:30

We expertise in Joomla CMS development, Joomla CMS customization, state-of-art custom web design with Joomla CMS, e-commerce application solutions with open source CMS features and search engine friendly urls and search engine optimization coding.

Open-source-development.com offers comprehensive one-stop web solutions for your website and it is your words and our work put together turns dreams into reality. Do you have an existing Joomla extension that needs modification?? Are you thinking of redesigning your existing website and moving it to some interactive Joomla template and customize it???? ready to have Joomla template for your website? Then you are at the right destination, we will develop a Joomla website, add new themes and functionalities to existing Joomla extension to make it more interactive, enticing and easy for users to manage.

Main features of Joomla are:

Authorized access to different modules based on access permission is possible.

Real time content updation is possible. It is very simple and easy similar to word processing, no prior HTML knowledge required.

Creation of content menus dynamically can be done.

Polls creation is easily possible.

Managing all types of file and file formats from multimedia to audio and video files, text files, pictures in different formats like .png, .jpeg, .bmp

Managing News Feeds, from different news source web sites

Managing built in RSS, search engine friendly URLs and search engines.

Since Joomla is open source off-the-shelf-application it is cheap as code is free, only cost of customization is involved. Maintenance cost is reduced as it is easy and simple to manage for those using it, no extra employee is needed. Mere knowledge won’t work; you need to be purely tech savvy to modify the core source code of Joomla CMS. There are different modules and components which are available by default, come along with Joomla CMS. All you need is to choose from them as per your requirements, also you can add new feature on your own. Do not worry! customization of footer, header and advertisement banners can be done. Joomla programmers and developers develop new design, theme and template and integrate on the existing script. Enjoy custom Joomla CMS development, Joomla CMS customization, Joomla website development, Joomla web design, outsource Joomla development services to India.

Drupal Web CMS Development

2008-12-24T12:54:00.000+05:30

Drupal web content management system made a bit simpler and easier for you. To avoid head over heels in development, developers, designers and programmers put heads together to savvy with code and module configuration.

Drupal developers and programmers can combine various modules of Drupal and its features to create a variety of community based sites with minimal code manipulation.

O’Reilly Media has been putting out media in regards to technology and tech community; chronicling new developments and staying up on tech trends has kept them at the forefront of the industry.
Comprehensive knowledge about core Drupal framework, which all modules to select for certain websites and certain modules not to included as best development practices. It is really enjoying if you are overly tech savvy and know to use Drupal to fullest for a range of situations and styles; just utilize your knowledge and share your expertise.

If you are thinking of developing a dynamic website full of interactivity with less coding and custom template and themes Drupal Web Development is one of the preferred options. Why Drupal content management system for your website:

Reliability: Drupal successfully runs on thousands of websites across the globe and because it is open source CMS it is easy to track bugs and fix them. There are many Drupal communities which are working to help Drupal developers and programmers share their knowledge and improve performance of websites by managing codes. Dedicated team of Drupal developers are working to keep every thing right way.

Maintainability: Drupal CMS provides tool sets to customize your website requirement, whether you want to upload text, image or audio, video files or product catalogue there are different modules to upload these easily. Drupal Content Constuction Kit (CCK) similar like SDK (Software Development Kit) helps to build forms and controls as you desire.

Adaptability: Developers from Drupal communities contribute to make Drupal more organized. Drupal is widely acceptable by SMEs (small and mid sized enterprises) and media corporations for developing e-commerce websites, discussion boards. Drupal is easily and readily adaptable to myriad of web development needs.

Customizability: Interactive websites are pleasing for users and provide users real time updation facilities. Drupal “off-the-shelf-application” provides templates and themes to customize appearance to meet your particular requirement. Drupal comes with lots of built in functionality which can be customized to provide interactivity to websites.

Outsource Drupal development services to open source web design development company in India. Whether you need small scale Drupal programming to develop small websites, great look websites with usability and interactivity or e-commerce websites, media corporations open-source-development.com will build complete website including Drupal coding modules and custom themes.

Issue Tracking Software Eventum

2008-12-19T18:53:00.000+05:30

Eventum issue tracking open source off-the-shelf application is available under General Public License (GPL) and is developed by MySQL AB Team. Eventum has been written in PHP language and MySQL is used at the backend for database. Whether incoming technical support requests or software development team bugs and tasks request eventum is used to track and manage various issues.

Below is summarized system requirement of open source off-the-shelf application Eventum:

PHP Scripts handling web server is required.
PHP5.1 and newer version is needed with following extension.
• PCRE Extension
• Session handling enabled
• MySQL Extension
• GD Extension
• IMAP Extension (c-client imap library)
• gettext support if you want to use localization
For email support SMTP and POP is server is needed.
MySQL database server is required.

Installation is very simple and easy as Eventum bundles the libraries, but eventum file should be placed in directory.

User Management by creating users within application; multiple projects can be defined and accordingly we can set categories and priorities; issue creation by login in the application; custom search options, external e-mail account integration; e-mail alerts to set notification alerts; integration with source code management software and time tracking are important features of Eventum.

Advantages:
Cost effective product, can be easily customized, it is simple and easy to use and eventum provides effective issue tracking.

Any enquiry from you will receive our prompt attention. Open-source-development.com could provide you with latest web design, web application development based on latest technologies using off-the-shelf or custom application development solutions. Your early positive reply is most awaited. Thank you!

MVC web application development India

2008-08-01T16:20:00.001+05:30

Model-View-Controller (MVC) is architectural design pattern for interactive web design applications of software systems that separately defines each layer. The interactive application is arranged in three different layers: Model, View and Controller. Using this style or pattern software is separated into model representing core functionalities, the second module is view that is used to display model to users and controller lets the users control the model. Model or application model consist of data representation and business logic; second module is for views that offers interface for user input and third is controller that is used to dispatch request and control flow. This programming model and implementation infrastructure allows developers to use the application source code without changing in different client-server environment. Since model, view and controller are used in single, non-partition space they can be easily deployed.

Ruby on rails technology uses this model view controller (MVC) architectural design framework fore creating database driven websites using Ruby programming language. MVC reduces code complexity by avoiding developers to write code again and again that is code redundancy. All this is achieved by making complex web application easy to handle by dividing the web application into simple layers.

This programming model or methodology is not suited for systems with many domains but is well suited for single domain system because of its simplicity. Modification is easier as model, view and controller are separate. This allows easy modification of data and reduces code duplication as all the three data behavior, data presentation and data control are separate.

Application operates on this domain specific information Model, database interaction and business logic are handled by the model, also multiple views may exist for single model (these are user interface elements), these are actual HTML code that are displayed in the browser and controllers manage web server interaction, these are user actions that may lead to changes in the existing model.

MVC makes the complex web application developmentsimple to mange and implement. Controller lies between model and the view and is responsible for extracting objects from database using model and giving it view for user. It is view that takes data given by the controller and produces the HTML output for the web browser, at the same model and controller are set free to do their specific jobs while view is busy generating HTML codes. The view is added sum of HTML and Ruby and adds dynamic content from model without relying on third party for formatting. Rail framework captures HTML and sends to web browser. Ruby on Rails development takes these concepts and bundles into single pack.

Measure your website performance

2008-08-01T14:18:00.000+05:30

Is your website ranking good in search engine result pages (SERPs) for all your main services and products?? Just online visibility of your website will do or brand making essential these days??? Competition is very high, there are websites that are good look wise, have thousands of daily visitors and still there ROI is very low, why have you every thought what all factors are accountable for no sales. Our approach and strategies should be very practical and based on niche results associated with customer satisfaction in current secnario. Web effectiveness can be determined by prioritizing our objectives and concentrating on our goals to improve web effectiveness and ultimately improve ROI.

Along with the wide range of industry verticals and challenges we face day-to-day we do not need to make a hasty move, rather we need to concentrate on web effectiveness. Your business online, business through your website is the path that defines your website growth. Website is the channel for creating brand, visibility and generating traffic and converting good share of it into sales. Today we are facing new challenges every day and it is really very difficult to differentiate unique challenges that really are metrics and measuring gauge for your website. Measuring customer satisfaction for customer retention with the website is the proven methodology that a website, online business owner should keep into consideration. We need to keep check guard to find that are our customers and visitors able to find what they are seeking. Website product and services should prove itself for brand commitment and sales loyalty. Every website has its weak areas but one should know on which segments to focus for maximum return on investment. Enhancements that will have greatest impact on customers’ behavior need to be prioritize. Analyzing visitors segment will foster brand loyalty; keep regular check on performance analytics for best results.

Web 2.0 application development India

2008-05-02T14:31:00.000+05:30

Web 2.0 by its nomenclature appears to be a new version of the World Wide Web. Some users perceive it as another version of the web with added technical features. In reality, Web 2.0 actually refers to the paradigm shift in the way end users and software developers use the World Wide Web. Web 2.0 reflects the changing face of the web; from its earlier read only version it is slowly and steadily becoming more participatory in nature.

Earlier versions of popular websites on the net were read-only with users having only a limited choice in terms of customization. Only the owners of the websites could modify/change the content of the websites. These days’ they have the power to change the look and feel of the websites they frequent and modify their features according to their convenience. One can say that web 2.0 has ushered in a revolution by enabling collaboration amongst users through information sharing capabilities. The emergence of wikis, blogs where users can not only read what others have written but also post their comments have led to the development of theme-based communities.

Web 2.0 with its interactive features has led to enhanced creativity in the online space. New tools, applications are being released into the online space helping users to entertain and enjoy themselves. Some of them can also be used to enhance personal productivity. Web 2.0 has ushered in new possibilities for the software developer’s community as well. Software applications can now be run entirely through a browser, which means that the network can now be used as a platform. The participatory nature of these applications allows users to add value to the application as they use it.

Web 2.0 provides much more functionalities to users as compared to Web 1.0. Presently users can host web casts, podcasts, blogs and access RSS feeds something which was unthinkable in the days of web 1.0.Websites with such in built functionalities have given great freedom to personal expression and have become very popular among the web surfers community. The immense popularity of photo-sharing sites is an example of this. These websites have also managed to generate enough traffic by giving an opportunity to users to express them. Community based social networking sites built on the Ajax, Flex framework offer interactivity through a rich user-friendly interface. These portals contain applications created by users, developers that are free to use and help in visitor retention and brand loyalty.

Open Source Software Solutions will improve your web presence!!!

2008-04-25T11:18:00.000+05:30

Remain up to date with the help of latest tools and technologies, if still having a static website with gloomy look, no need to worry!! Just you need to migrate your existing static website to an interactive, user friendly dynamic website with open source customized solutions and using off-the-shelf applications that use PHP programming, web scripting language and MySQL database. Open source web design development companies are basically using LAMP (Linux operating system, Apache server, MySQL database and PHP programming language), Web 2.0 or Ruby on Rails technologies and the methodologies followed in open source web development are either extreme programming, agile development, Rational Unified Process(RUP) or Model View Controller(MVC).

Why open source solutions are gaining popularity and wide acceptance worldwide, main reason behind is that open source is free and the users are free to manage the code, change the code, developers and programmers get chance to learn more and innovate. Open source software solutions allow us to constantly change websites in real time, changes are reflected dynamically and this gives open source users best experience. I have found that open source has gifted us with the opportunity to remain up to date and by constantly updating content; websites are not designed for only visitors but readers who will visit your website and really like to go through it. The open source flexible models this gradually improves your traffic and sales.

Open source software development companies in India are providing open source consulting, business ready solutions, offshore and outsourcing customized solutions to server your clients. Open source web development, software development does not require very high level of expertise. Open source customized solutions and off-the-shelf applications has provided a real development model that engulfs users providing them freedom to use code and manage code make a comprehensive business sense because of its inter-operability, interactive, robust, cost-effective. Open source developers and PHP MySQL programmers with flair of professional output assist in building quality systems that are web based using open source technologies like Ruby on Rails, Web 2.0 and LAMP.

I would like to add a note that outsourcing enterprises outsourcing PHP, outsourcing Ruby on Rails and other applications in India have been moving from staff augmentation to well managed services to improve cost margin. But, with the growth and maturity of open source market some risk will automatically sprout in the industries.

Outsource PHP development in India

2008-04-24T15:35:00.000+05:30

Once again back, as I have been discussing in my another blog "Offshore IT Outsourcing Company India" http://offshore-it-outsourcing.blogspot.com/, offshore outsourcing; this time I am here to share my views on outsourcing PHP to India. Offshore and outsourcing have become IT business buzz word and business lexicon. I would really appreciate if my blog readers actively participate and share their views and post comments so that these can bring us together to improve our knowledge base. I have been repeatedly describing offshore and outsourcing, how they differ and how they are inter-related.

Now, talking about offshore development center, India ranks number one and is the centralized hub for offshore outsourcing, software development, web application development, PHP programming and PHP web application development. India is the kernel of wide range of technology services, business processes, consultancy, re-engineering, software outsourcing, customer relationship. By offering slew of services that spans across diverse industries, India draws on core capability of process expertise. The technology based solutions give competitive edge in this IT driven and techno savvy business world. Open source developers, programmers are moving ahead by crossing all the barriers, resolving development problems, removing bugs as open source is available free. Dedicated PHP developers, skilled PHP professionals, devoted professionals in India have geared up the PHP outsourcing application web development market in India. As the source code is open for developers, they can make real time updations, modify content, add new categories and also delete existing one, all depends on their accessibility permission granted. This has resulted in better and best utilization of resources and cost reducation.

Developers can easily modify different applications using PHP programming language and MySQL database, the off-the-shelf applications can be customized to meet clients' requirements. As PHP source code is open to developers they can modify the source code to provide custom application solutions. Apart from PHP open source code available, third party integration is available with PHP. Clients willing to migrate static websites to dynamic websites or migrate websites from PHP4 to PHP5, it is really simple and easy to do. PHP web development provides with more interactive, more user friendly, interactive websites so that the website visitors stick to your website. Also, different content management system can be developed using PHP server side scripting programming language and MySQL large database.

The greatest achievement is ecommerce websites that run online storefront, sitting at your home or whether at your workplace you can browse the online virtual store catalogue and do shopping and pay online, these ecommerce storefronts payment gateways are completely authenticated. With user based communities soaring high, social media optimization usability model is the next generation business model. Many applications can be developed dynamically using PHP and MySQL like discussion boards, user polls, blogs, forums, social book marking sites, tagging, online storefront. Open source LAMP tool is of great help for PHP application development and custom application development. India is growing as PHP outsourcing and development center and is growing as is outsourcing and hiring PHP developers and programmers.

PHP website optimization

2008-02-25T12:08:00.000+05:30

Could anyone give me answer to the question why do we optimize websites?? I found website optimization and SEO interlinked. Even though your website has excellent look and feel, your website is not found and as a result you loose your customers. So where lies the flaws??

I am sharing my personal experience with you. I have been into search engine optimization from 2006 and got chance to optimize lots of websites. I started up with static, in-house company's project and today I have slew of in-house, on-site and offshore clients' projects; static as well as dynamic.

By optimizing a website you sharpen its edges so that it can effectively serve its visitors, search engines and professionals who are developing and maintaining your website. I believe, websites are for promoting services, products or just for information. So, have a checkpoint to know whether your website works?? I mean is your website driving traffic. Only, when there are visitors then there will be sale. To have good website traffic your website should be listed in SERPs for the work you are promoting. This will check how efficiently your website works. Target right keywords and market area.

Website optimization and SEO techniques will ensure to generate highest possible conversion rate from visitors and sales.

Coming to dynamic websites, the benefits of dynamic websites out-weighs the problematic areas. Ethical SEO and ROI is essential for creating brand awareness. Now coming to dynamic website optmization for Google, it is really a hard not to crack. Your website may end up without ranking if you make hasty move. So make strategies!! Dynamic websites like e-commerce and portal websites have lacs of URLs and hardly are indexed by Google. Since, the pages are generated dynamically or on-fly - the dynamic URLs have characters like ?=! in URL encoded, as suggested by SEO experts by reducing these characters from the URL your ranking is pushed forward. Really, fruitful but only to certain degree. Next, I can to know about URL re-writing to remove the URL-encoded variables that were generated by scripting languages that dynamically append links with session id variable to keep state with visitors blocking cookies. The session id is long and unique each time google comes to the page. URL re-writing provided amazing results, all dynamic pages getting indexed.

PHP programmers need to turn-off the link appendage, PHP.ini file, this will instruct server to turn off session.use_trans_sid and turn on session.use_only_cookies. In case you do not access to PHP.ini file you can turn-off link appendage by writing an .HTACCESS file and adding "php_flag session.use_trans_sid Off" and "php_flag session.use_only_cookies On". I have not used but I am sure other technologies must be using similar logic for allowing and disallowing session ids and cookies files.

I am sure this will help you to improve your website visitors and generate business leads and sales and also maximize your profit.

Sun Microsystems accquires MySQL - expected make billion dollor database market

2008-01-17T13:17:00.000+05:30

MySQL, the most popular open source database will be soon acquired by Sun Microsystems and brisk up Sun growth strategy in Billion db market.

In SANTA CLARA, this week Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) declared about its explicit agreement to acquire MySQL AB, open source icon and developers of one of the world’s fastest growing open source database.

Acquisition of MySQL by Sun Microsystems will augment Sun’s stand in the global IT market as will include $15 billion database market. Sun is declared to be the largest contributor in the commercial open source market and pioneer web economy platform provider.

With SMO i.e. social media optimization, expanding social networks, sprouting new social communities, increasing number of user driven social communities and their integration has really helped web technology to grow rapidly and move ahead from web 2.0 to web 3.0 and now to semantic web and Latent Semantic Analysis (LSI Indexing). With slew of web deployments globally, aficionados of Facebook, Stumbleupon, Twitter, orkut, Chinal Mobile, LinkedIn, Baidu,
With millions of global deployments including Facebook, Google, Nokia, Baidu and China Mobile, MySQL will synergies to Sun. This will transform the software industry landscape by driving new adoption of MySQL's open source database in more traditional applications and enterprises. The acquisition by Sun and then integration with Sun will intensify MySQL commercial appeal that it has been offering to IT sector and also ameliorate its value proposition with the addition of Sun's global services organization. Also, MySQL will find a new distribution channel through Sun's channels including its OEM relationships with Intel, IBM and Dell.
Sun’s MySQL acquisition reaffirms Sun’s global web economy position. Talking about the growth plan, we find a very firm base to support as acquiring MySQL amplifies investment in technologies manifolds. Supporting our overall growth plan, acquiring MySQL amplifies our investments in the technologies demanded by those driving extreme growth and efficiency, from Internet media titans to the world's largest traditional enterprises," said Jonathan Schwartz, CEO and president, Sun Microsystems. "MySQL's employees and culture, along with its near ubiquity across the Web, make it an ideal fit with Sun's open approach to network innovation. And most importantly, this announcement boosts our investments into the communities at the heart of innovation on the Internet and of enterprises that rely on technology as a competitive weapon."
MySQL's open source database because of its flexibility, inter-operability is successfully and widely deployed across all major operating systems, applications, myriad industries, slew of hardware vendors. The complementary product line-ups will extend MySQL's database reach and are expected to bring new markets for Sun's systems, virtualization, middleware and storage platforms.
"The combination of MySQL and Sun represents an enormous opportunity for users and organizations of all sizes seeking innovation, growth and choice," said Marten Mickos, CEO, MySQL. "Sun's culture and business model complements MySQL's own by sharing the same ideals that we have had since our foundation -- software freedom, online innovation and community and partner participation. We are tremendously excited to work with Sun and the millions of members of the MySQL open source ecosystem to continue to deliver the best database for powering the modern Web economy."
MySQL's open source database is the "M" in LAMP - the software platform comprised of Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Perl often viewed as the foundation of the Internet. Sun is committed to enhancing and optimizing the LAMP stack on GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows along with OpenSolaris and MAC OS X. The database from MySQL, OpenSolaris and GlassFish, together with Sun's Java platform and NetBeans communities, will create a powerful Web application platform across a wide range of customers shifting their applications to the Web.
More than 100 million copies of MySQL's high-performance open source database software have been downloaded and distributed and an additional 50,000 copies are downloaded daily. This broad penetration coupled with MySQL's strength in Web 2.0, Software as a Service (SaaS), enterprise, telecom and the OEM embedded market make it an important fit for Sun. With MySQL, Sun will have the ability to deepen its existing customer relationships and create new opportunities with companies seeking the flexibility and ease-of-use of open source systems.
Following completion of the proposed transaction, MySQL will be integrated into Sun's Software, Sales and Service organizations and the company's CEO, Marten Mickos, will be joining Sun's senior executive leadership team. In the interim, a joint team with representatives from both companies will develop integration plans that build upon the technical, product and cultural synergies and the best business and product development practices of both companies. MySQL is headquartered in Cupertino, CA and Uppsala, Sweden and has 400 employees in 25 countries.
As part of the transaction, Sun will pay approximately $800 million in cash in exchange for all MySQL stock and assume approximately $200 million in options. The transaction is expected to close in late Q3 or early Q4 of Sun's fiscal 2008. Completion of the transaction is subject to regulatory approval and other customary closing conditions. The deal is expected to be accretive to FY10 operating income on a GAAP basis.
The management teams of both companies will host a media and analyst conference call today at 10:00 am EST, 7:00 am PST. The call can be accessed at http://www.sun.com/investors. For those unable to listen to the live conference call, a telephone replay will be available for one week following the call by dialing (888) 566-0103 or outside of the U.S. by dialing (402) 998-0958. No passcode is required to access the replay.
About MySQL
MySQL AB develops and supports a family of high-performance, affordable database products. The company's flagship offering is 'MySQL Enterprise', a comprehensive set of production-tested software, proactive monitoring tools, and premium support services. MySQL is the world's most popular open source database software. Many of the world's largest and fastest-growing organizations use MySQL to save time and money powering their high-volume Web sites, business-critical systems and packaged software -- including industry leaders such as Yahoo!, Alcatel-Lucent, Google, Nokia, YouTube and Booking.com. With headquarters in the United States and Sweden -- and operations around the world -- MySQL AB supports both open source values and corporate customers' needs. For more information about MySQL, please visit www.mysql.com.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.
MySQL and the MySQL logo are registered trademarks of MySBL AB in the United States, the European Union and other countries.

Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, OpenSolaris, GlassFish, Java, Netbeans and The Network is the Computer are registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems in the United States and other countries.

This Sun Microsystems PR contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements include statements regarding the expected benefits resulting from the acquisition, Sun's strategy and commitments, Sun's integration plans for the acquisition, the expected timing for closing the acquisition and the impact on Sun's financials of the acquisition. Such statements are just predictions and involve risks and uncertainties such that actual results and performance may differ materially. Factors that might cause such differences include the failure to (1) receive regulatory approval, (2) successfully integrate MySQL and its employees into Sun and achieve expected synergies, (3) accurately forecast the acquisition-related restructuring costs and allocation of the purchase price to in-process research and development, goodwill and other intangibles acquisition related inventory and other asset adjustments, as well as the impact of equity-based compensation expense associated with FAS 123R, (4) compete successfully in this highly competitive and rapidly changing marketplace, and (5) retain key employees. These and other risks are detailed from time to time in Sun's periodic reports that are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Sun's annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007 and its quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2007. Sun assumes no obligation to, and does not currently intend to, update these forward-looking statements.

Source: Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire MySQL

CMS Solutions India

2008-01-04T18:43:00.000+05:30

In very less time CMS industry got associated with the IT industry and has become integral part of development. CMS has made its separate position in the market and holds good share of open source development to provide customized solutions at minimal investment. Content Management System is a software system that helps user to manage slew of content on their desktop and web. Content covers computer files, documents, video, audio files, electronic files, records and web content that can be efficiently managed by categorizing and sub-categorizing. All updations occur in real time and changes are reflected dynamically.

Whether a company is looking for a simple website design or a complex website solution, CMS will help you make your own website. Most important is deciding which CMS to go with, the most crucial step. If you have bit knowledge of website, no need to study or learn new language, it is user friendly and very interactive. You have secure access over the internet and also the admin has the right to set access permission for users. No need to worry, no need to hire a technical professional you can do on your own and once you implement it management is very easy. Adding new content, categories, deletion or updation is successfully reflected across company’s boundary. The entire chain enjoys the real value of business. CMS solutions provide your website with complete interactivity, basic features and advanced features that you are looking as a part of your procurement process. These features can be customized as per your need.

Blogs, forums, RSS, support, vBulletin, helpdesk, groupware features are of great interest for user and clients that help you to remain in the chain. Many new CMS communities are growing and emerging that provide online code and support for further development of community.

Main open source CMS includes:
Portal CMS – Joomla, Typo3, PHP Nuke

Blogs – Wordpress, Nucleus CMS , Simplog

e-Commerce – osCommerce, Opencart
Groupware – eGroupWare
Forums - phpBB
e-Learning - Moodle
Image Galleries - Gallery 2
Wiki - MediaWiki
Lite - phpCMS
Miscellaneous - SugarCRM

SAP PHP framework for you!!

2008-01-02T19:44:00.000+05:30

What's this? Seems that some folks over in the SAP Developer Network (SDN) are working on a new framework for SAP and PHP, the SAP Network Wiki is a being developed as complete transaction based framework around the SAP transactions.

As you may see...My main goal is to develop an SAP PHP based Framework, name it SAPHP, or something else. Of course, a lot of work must be done and a lot of things must be improved...For example:

* SE11 --> Be able to create Tables, Domains, Data Elements.
* SE10 --> Be able to create new Transport Orders.
* SE38 --> Be able to create programs and save them on SAP.
* ST22 --> Be able to read the Short Dump information.

Something to take a peek at and maybe keep one eye on for awhile to see where it goes...

For more information on open source development, Outsourcing PHP Development, Joomla Development, Drupal Development India, SugarCRM Consulting, RoR Outsourcing India
Source: New SAP PHP Framework, IT toolbox

Effective B2B Marketing Strategies

2007-12-26T15:13:00.000+05:30

B2B is exchange of information, product or services between businesses, Business to Business. According to figures published in 2000, B2B exceeds e-tailing by 10 to 1and is expected to have a compound annual growth of 41% in next few years. Its strategies and models are still evolving and changing. Business To Business (B2B) is electronics online commerce between businesses.

Business to business online commerce is liked by all businesses and those doing b2b commerce. The expanding B2B online commerce is going to be very big and really it is difficult to estimate any size of it. It is not easy to nail precise market size figure of B2B business. Talking about B2B companies, there are basically 2 types of B2B companies: vertical and horizontal.
Vertical B2B companies work within an industry vertical to make money from advertising on specific sites that are specialized in different sectors. These industries may earn from e-commerce websites they host on their server in form of transaction fees. Largest vertical B2B companies include Internet Capital Group, VerticalNet (Nasdaq). Horizontal B2B companies follow different procedure and operate at different levels across slew of industry verticals. Apart from other product services, core concentrated industry include IT and software related services. You need to create efficient market and streamline business, supply and demand should be continuous that will create better price market.

If you really posses marketing skills then you can draw niche business solutions, you need to integrate effectively scattered market elements. Create a competitive advantage, long term relationship with your customers, integrating all the resources and monitoring the pricing strategies. Know your business to proceed on B2B marketing pathway, best fit of B2B into your business will bring you closer to success strategies. Marketing to business is becoming more viable in comparison to marketing to consumers (B2C). Proper mixing and use of tools and pricing strategies will help integrate marketing with sales. Effective B2B marketing involves clinching over sales elements and marketing elements together.

For nay kind of B2B e-commerce website solutions, shopping cart solutions, you can contact us, B2B Companies in India

When and Why Joomla or Drupal??

2007-12-19T15:22:00.000+05:30

Joomla vs Drupal which way to go??

Lots of emerging communities of Drupal and Joomla are rocking the social media network. The community members are increasing every day. Don’t get overwhelmed which to choose; first you need to keep your vision clear, look for your general and specific requirements, and move ahead keeping in view that success and quality is the bottom line of the website development. You need to be very focused on your goal and objectives should be very transparent. I have done lots of research on internet and played putting combination of keywords, key phrases in the google search, delved into the matter which to choose, also read forums, blogs and discovered few important facts, which I am going to discuss in my post.

Joomla has proved to be the best to work providing rich and colorful templates, customization option, extensions and components available really boost your website functionalities but these are true for web designers; web developers are not so happy working with Joomla; Drupal is preferable for web developers.

Drupal provide flexibility to SEO executives as it is more search engine friendly, because it provides SEO friendly URL re-write module. Drupal’s feature to install several sites with one set up in comparison to Joomla one set up for one site installation and multiple set up for multiple site installation is really tedious and you need to update components one by one. Also the same login detail can be used for different sites in Drupal. Granting access permission on Drupal is fine tuned. Distributed network approach of Drupal makes is best CMS for online community development. Drupal supports ensemble of inbound feeds, supports blogging, non-exclusive tagging, ubiquitous outbound RSS feeds. Drupal has developed distributed community features for community networking, content creation and distribution.

When Joomla?? If the user is non-technical Joomla is better choice, no need to have earlier knowledge of the tools. Easy installation and set using mouse can be done. If you are least bothered about Joomla users of your website and access permission is not at highest priority, Joomla is best. Again, if you do not need SEO out of box, Joomla is preferred.

Power of Rich Internet Applications

2007-12-10T12:39:00.001+05:30

Rich Internet Applications (RIA) for desktop, web applications and your web browsers can enhance their productivity by helping to build Ajax applications. Create and deploy RIA; RIA can be built using AJAX and Flash technologies.

RIA is a web application with features and functionalities similar to desktop applications. It provides good user interface, transfers processes to web clients and retains bulk data on the application server.

Implementation of Ajax RIA can enhance value of service oriented systems. Open source developers can combine and leverage the powerful capabilities of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with Rich Internet Applications technology. Developers can use many available free components, use to use layouts, data management tools.

Dealing with number of people in business ride is actually a roller coaster ride to retain your business and customers, RIA provides flexibility to users, developers, companies who ever wants to roll out. Good RIA can switch between the web and desktop.

Features of Joomla Open Source CMS

2007-12-10T11:37:00.001+05:30

Joomla came into begin on 17th August, 2005 as a result of Mambo’s fork. It is licensed under General Public License (GPL), is free an open source content management system. It is written in PHP and uses MySQL database. Joomla in general means ‘all together’. It has proved to be a strong tool for information dissemination.

Flexibility and use of plug-ins, other extensions like components help to extend the functionalities and also add other new functionalities. Integration of these components and extensions with the existing modules makes Joomla more popular among its community members. Joomla forum has more than lakhs of threads and millions of post from more than lakhs of registered members in 40 languages. Easy installation and management makes Joomla most reliable tool for content management of simple website, corporate website, intranets, e-commerce solutions, communities, blogging, forums, social networks and many more. Its important features include page caching to improve performance, RSS feeds, blogs, polls, language internationalization, flash features and printable version of pages.

Joomla facilitates building of highly scalable websites, with better interactivity and dynamic database driven websites, technical and non-technical users of Joomla can exploit Joomla for their use. The myriad of free components, theme and template available are available for simple website development to complex applications. The Joomla! project continues to serve as a model for community-focused open source software development." says Christopher Justice, sponsor of the Joomla!

Joomla is an open source software for website development accepted worldwide.

CMS Software Systems

2007-12-03T16:57:00.000+05:30

Choose the right content management system for your organization – whether proprietary CMS, Open Source CMS or Hosted CMS.

From content creation to content maintenance and content access; content organization, its placement and up gradation all are well defined and modularization of segments. Understanding your requirement and emphasizing the business needs will help you choose the right CMS.

Content Management System is a system used to manage a web site content.Contents are categorized, organized and managed for interactive use by contributors. Content includes computer files, audio/video files, documents, electronics files. World class CMS deployment with the open source CMS!! CMS is a collaborative creation of community members and workflow process is one of the most important feature of CMS. Workflow process is the flow of document in order to publish the content on the web.

The flexibility to assign and define categories and sub-categories, identification of users and assign users with their role and responsibilities, incorporate custom search, multilingual support and ability to track and manage multiple version of single instance of content; customization using components, theme, template and plug-ins are some of the other important features that makes CMS best system to organize content on web.

Drupal Solutions India

2007-12-03T12:32:00.000+05:30

Drupal was a bulletin board system that became an open source CMS in 2001. Drupal is a modular open source CMS written using a programming language PHP. It is environment friendly and is well off with all operating systems; runs well with both the servers (Apache, IIS); MySQL database is used for storing the content. Complete content manipulation is in your hand. The basic functionalities available in default configuration are of great help to developers, designers; they can extend the functionalities using plug-ins. It provides a modular approach for developing your website, you can add, edit, and delete content. Content may be a computer file or other audio/video files, web content or an electronic document that can be managed easily by the owner himself/herself – no need to hire a technical person if you have the basic knowledge, a user friendly interface.

Drupal originated from a Dutch word ‘druppel’ which means a drop. Offshore Drupal development and outsourcing of these services have provided bigger opportunities for Drupal developers to outsource their work to global IT players. Also, open source nature of the software makes it user-friendly. Content can be customized as per individual need. Drupal kernel callbacks allow modules to insert functions into Drupal’s path of execution. Drupal 5.3 was released on 17th Oct 2007 and a month ago in November beta version 6.0 was released with featured freeze feature.

The modular approach provides Drupal with greater flexibility. It provides with the ability to categorize content, post and review comments, custom search is also provide, build multi-level menus, can actively participate in forums, blogs, RSS feeds, grant user access and access control, caste polls, add new content, updated existing ones, can re-write search-engine friendly URLs, generate reports.

Drupal community has contributed by providing many free modules that can be shared among the Drupal and other users of the community. Few successfully developed and most widely used modules include workflow features, organic groups, Google sitemap, Integration with CVS, e-commerce, photo galleries, and mailing list management. Icreon Open Source Development is a leading Drupal Consultant and provider of Drupal solutions in India and to offshore clients too.

Open Source Solutions

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Open source provides transparent model for distributed system. Indian companies are able to successfully deliver PHP mySQL based free and open source software solution to clients worldwide. If you need to enhance your online activities, marketing sales and traffic and promote your website and company brand choose from the range of open source CMS solutions. Quality portal development or osCommerce store development, web development services, Indian open source developers have expertise over open source portals (Drupal, Joomla, Typo3, Mambo), Blogs, eCommerce, Groupware, Forums(phpBB, SMF), e-Learning, Image galleries, Wiki, Lite, Miscellaneous services that comprehensive services.

Open source provides flexibility, interactivity, user friendly interface, cost effective solution, modular approach, open source code to add and manage, exempts from vendor lock-in for your website. Number of open source communities are emerging with social media gaining strength and huge communities are backing it up. Interaction between end users, customers are improving that will help to have long term relationship with client.

Huge communities are backing up open source CMS and people are glued together, this has improved communication network, channelizing flow of information dynamically and world has come closer. Open source technology has help you garner price saving and accept new upgrade that come to the market. Open source solutions have touched many industry vertical.

Drupal Solution Provider

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Enjoy the power of Drupal at WWW level by using Drupal solution for application development, ecommerce stores and portals.
Drupal is an open source framework or a platform and content management system for developing dynamic websites with plethora of features.

Drupal solution providers plan, implement, co-ordinate, provide consulting, training and support for maintenance of all interlinked segments for best result. Performance tuning, optimization, upgrade and migration, plug-ins development, websites hosting services using Drupal CMS, module development, customized groupware development solution, workflow management solutions, document management system development, are other services that a Drupal service provider in general assures to provide.

Drupal important features are: wide range of templates available to choose from, then after finalizing the design template you can customize the template and change the look and feel of the website. Design integration, configuration and module installation are another important feature of Drupal. User can customize the website according to client’s requirement and can add and modify contents. This helps to increase productivity, improve operational efficiency, and minimize risk.

If you desire to develop a dynamic, liscense free website at minimal investment and that too easily manageable then Drupal is the best solution. If you wish to change the look of your static website to an interactive website Drupal provides easy migration services; you can also customize the existing Drupal by improving its functionalities by incorporating plug-in. For any kind of information on Open source technologies, Drupal consulting please visit our website Open Source Development.

PHP Development India

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India is an offshore software development center, PHP mySQL development and mySQL programming center. PHP developers and programmers in India are accepting new challenges everyday, resolving them and moving ahead. Open source codes are available for developers free of cost and the source code can be used, managed and updated. User can view, add, edit i.e. modify source code and update these code.

India has number of expert developers, dedicated Joomla professionals, skilled web designers, expert PHP programmers these together have driven India in the outsourcing PHP development market. PHP developers leverage expertise scalable business solutions to their clients for all kind of projects and size of business. Open source available are of great help to developers as the source code are available freely for use that helps in better utilization of resources and cost reduction.

PHP mySQL can be used for many applications as it helps to modify existing module by using custom software solutions, using existing source code of custom software or customizing as per client requirements. Many software can be modified because PHP provides open source code and also it provides easy third party integration. With internet becoming everyday need websites are migrating from static websites to more interactive dynamic websites. Web applications have made websites more enticing and users spend more time on websites surfing, innovating, researching, learning and shopping. Ecommerce websites and online storefronts have becoming very popular these days. User can do online shopping, can buy any thing of their choice sitting at home. Organization at all levels of an enterprise is first need and this has introduced Content Management System (CMS). Companies to sell their services and products needs to gain visibility and generate leads and for this email newsletters circulation is essential to be in touch with your clients and visitors, send them latest updates. With internet soaring high many online communities have emerged and social media optimization has become very strong web promotion tool. I would say, all these email newsletters, ecommerce websites, message board, forums, online storefront, content management system, social bookmarking sites, blogs, vBulletin, B2B, B2C portal development, Ajax programming, database development are some of the applications that are developed using PHP and mySQL.

India is an offshore PHP development center; that outsources and hire dedicated PHP developers India. Open source tools like LAMP is used for CMS solutions and application development. For more information on open source web site design development services, open source development is one of the open source cms companies, e-business consultants that offers Php Application Development Outsourcing, remote server administration services, rich internet desktop applications, customized cms solution, multilingual website translations services, SugarCRM Consulting, Drupal Consulting India, Application Migration Services India, typo3 development, web 2.0 applications development India, rup software development, IT Staffing Services, internet blogging solutions.

Outsourcing PHP Development

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PHP continues to swing as the most deployable web (server-side) scripting language and the thrust of the PHP development on the software development industry has submerged other commercial software applications to some extent. PHP can be implemented on most of the platform, web servers and operating system.

The immense power of PHP application development is reflected on the software development industry and it is inflicting the web applications development. From your personal blog to corporate enterprise PHP has touched all level and type of industries. The LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) architecture is used for developing PHP applications. PHP is server side scripting language and runs on the web by taking stream of text as input and gives web page as output.

Across the industry vertical the same industry standards are followed and modifications are reflected instantly across the industry boundaries.

Open Source – A collaborative software development approach

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Open source means a source open to all, in technological terms open source is an open culture for collective decision making, implementing and sharing at all levels of development and all level of enterprise. Free Open Source Software (FOSS) and Free / Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) are all used interchangeably.

Open source was coined at strategy session held at California; it is not just availability of source code to users but complete flexibility and freedom to use, modify, add and redistribute content. Open source software is available free of cost and freely for use.

Vast communication network and social networks communities use these technologies to distribute their information and products. Open source technologies have lead to decentralization and distribution of files information. Weblogs or Blogs is most important open source media, regularly updated and published in reverse chronological order. One of the set back is replication of website content.

Message Board open source culture includes discussion boards and forums, participants enjoy mutual benefits.

Open Source Development

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Open Source is a non-propritery set of principles and practices, software source code available to general public without access restriction, providing users with the flexibility to create new content and contribute individually or in collaboration.

Open source development paradigm is becoming popular as it provides collective information sharing, decision making or error fixation broading knowledge sharing network. It is difficult to list all the facilities and benefits, discussing main features of open source we find that user can not only view, but also modify and share all the informations openly.