Why Software development in Python?

At present there are a host of languages which can be used for building a nice and robust website. When planning to build a website one is spoilt for choices which at times can be confusing too. Which one to use and which one not to use? All languages have their own inherent strengths and weaknesses. If you have a clear idea as to what application you want to build and what your needs are you can choose effectively? 

Still having said all this there is one language which can fairly meet all your expectations and you can use it without spending much time in doing a cost-benefit analysis. That language is Python. I have listed below the reasons why I think Python is so good. At Mindfire we have been working in Python for more than 5 years and based on our experience and dealing with clients I can safely say that Python is the one for you. The offshore Python development team at Mindfire is one of the best in the country.

The strengths it has are: 

Object-Oriented Programming

Every structure in Python is designed to be OO just like it is in Smalltalk. So you don’t have to do it yourself. OO features like Inheritance and Polymorphism are already implement in Python.

Fast to Learn

Since the source code resembles pseudo code, it s very easy to learn Python. This is a big advantage if you are building the website on your own or setting up a team to build a website for you.

Fast to Code

With its host of features – coding in Python is comparatively easier and faster than other languages.

Readability 

Python’s syntax is clear and readable and since it imposes some order for programming, the code turns out properly indented and easy to read.  The code is nice and clear, which makes it very easy to read and maintain.

Easy to get support

Since the Python community is large and active – it is very easy to get support whenever you are stuck in any issue. The community is very co-operative and helpful.

Reusability

The Standard Python library, which is part of Python distribution, has a lot of pre developed modules. One can break a program into modules and reuse the ones already developed. This saves time and effort, which in turn helps make website live date earlier.

Portability

Since it is written in portable ANSI C, it is not attached to any specific operational system. This makes it easy to deploy it in different systems thus increasing the portability.

To know more about our expertise in python development and to hire pyhton developers, please contact us at sales at mindfiresolutions dot com or call 1-248-686-1424. We will be glad to help you.

WordPress Website Development For Effective Websites

How can one get effective and fully functional websites by using WordPress for website development? This question is answered by the end of this article “WordPress website development for effective websites”.

WordPress is one of the most popular and widely used OpenSource blogging tool and a highly dynamic content management solution in the world. The fact that it is free and is supported by a large community of WordPress enthusiasts adds to the list of benefits of using WordPresss. Powered by PHP and MySQL, its customizable platform is practically the backbone of the Web 2.0 development. WordPress as a Content Management System is extremely user-friendly and offers significantly easy management of content. Undoubtedly when WordPress is touted as an unbeatable blogging platform and a great plug-in to develop a content management system, it has an immense capacity to customize and manage an entire website all by itself.

If you feel that WordPress is an apt Content Management System and are confident about its capabilities to build up a competent website for you and hence you want to hire WordPress developers of a website development company to do this job for you, then look no further. Mindfire Solutions is also an offshore WordPress website development company which offers its 5+ years worth of experience for the benefit of your WordPress blog designing, WordPress CMS customization, Wordpress plugins and widgets customization and Wordpress website development inclusive of content editing and publishing initiatives. We try to optimize your business in exploring the array of tools and features of this portal and effectively making use of the various 'Content Management System' features it offers. This goes a long way in helping us meet your internet marketing goals and overall business targets. Whether your requirements deal with creating a new set of innovative plug-ins, customizing an existing set of plugins and themes, localizations, interesting themes and brand specific layouts that fit the requirements of a WordPress page, we specialize in all of the above. In order to give a fillip to your business growth, you can also leverage on our WordPress development capabilities that includes both innovative graphics, and WordPress programming capabilities that allows you to build an excellent page.

While we guarantee you exceptional website development services we gladly welcome you to experience our complete set of services which help you through the implementation as well as set up, migration from an alternative Content Management System to the WordPress portal, comprehensive solution development and deployment, integration of template designs that meet your SEO goals, constant up-gradation as well as porting services. Mindfire Solutions provides the one stop shop for all the above mentioned activities to have a fully functional website made using WordPress. Whether you intend to give your internet marketing strategies a push or you are interested to take up WordPress development initiatives in an innovative manner along with ecommerce facility, Mindfire solutions has the right set of WordPress website development professionals to meet your needs. Our skilled talent pool and flexible business model offers a large scope in expressing your brand personality and image on the web in a brand new perspective. For more information on our website development skills please visit our web development skills page. Please refer to our sample WordPress projects to get to know about our WordPress development skills better.

To know more about our expertise in application development in WordPress CMS, please feel free to visit our Wordpress Application development expertise page and to hire wordpress developers for your requirements, please contact us at sales at mindfiresolutions dot com or call 1-248-686-1424. We will be glad to assist.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Development: Where one should go?

In this fast moving market scenario one cannot run his business in a system where he tract each and every trigger of his business in day to day life manually. The most successful businesses these days are powered by certain platform which takes care of all your business logic and attributes with its “out of box” functionality. In this regards, First thing coming into one’s mind is Microsoft Dynamics CRM (Customer Relationship Management) which has power to manage all complex business logic with its ‘out of box’ feature. And it gives extensive facilities to customize it according to your business requirements as well. It is also true that a business cannot stick with one system or environment. Modern business solutions not only connect people inside and outside the organization, they also give them context and insight which drives better decisions and boosts productivity. You have to communicate your people and business with multiple systems. One live example would be Dynamics CRM with SharePoint.  There are many instances where people run their particular part of business in SharePoint and another part is running in Dynamics CRM. In this case they need skillful Microsoft Dynamics CRM developer who will develop such a system where Dynamics CRM system can communicate and exchange data with SharePoint system.

A business house, which is a leading service provider in the field of renewable energy and is operational in biomass and energy projects in Europe. They have managed their business with cutting edge technologies like SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM etc. They have developed their application to support their employee workspace in SharePoint 2010, and maintained all sales related activity in Dynamics CRM 2011 which helped their business build profitable customer relationship by shortening sales cycles and improving customer loyalty through day-to-day tasks for sales, customer service, opportunity etc. Their primary concern was to develop a system to communicate CRM 2011 interface with SharePoint 2010. To be precise, he wanted to create a project folder in the document library of SharePoint 2010 while an opportunity creates in the CRM System. Mindfire’s offshore Microsoft Dynamics CRM development team builds a system which bridges a communication path between these systems.

Mindfire Solutions, 12 year’s old software development and testing company has extensive experience and expertise in Microsoft Dynamics CRM Development for more than 6 years and counted as leading company in Dynamics CRM application services in India. Several of its expertise are Microsoft and dynamics CRM 4.0 certified. Mindfire Solutions CRM team has deep knowledge on CRM 4.0, CRM 2011 and Online CRM. The CRM team has executed many offshore projects on Dynamics CRM 4 and CRM 2011 successfully across domain and of different complexity. The range of services provided by Mindfire Solutions on Dynamics CRM 4 and Dynamics CRM 2011 development services are Customization service on Dynamics CRM, Dynamics CRM Custom work flow development, Dynamics CRM Plugin development and integration, Third-Party integration in Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Custom SSRS Report Development on Dynamics CRM, Remote Support to maintain Dynamics application. The other service Mindfire solutions provides are Microsoft Dynamics CRM Consulting, MS CRM Installation and Role-based security definitions, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Implementation, Configuration and upgrades and Microsoft Dynamics CRM maintenance.

To hire dynamics CRM developers expert from India or Microsoft Dynamics CRM Development team, call 1-248-686-1424 or email sales at mindfiresolutions dot com. We will be glad to help you.

iPhone app development for Digital Marketing companies

New research is indicating that mobile marketing is fast catching up and is about to outperform traditional marketing initiatives. It is no more being looked upon as a new strategy which is in its experimental phase. Use of mobile phones and especially the increase in the number of smartphones has become a game changer since the device allows users easy access to SMS, email and the web - anywhere and at any time of the day. From the marketing perspective, the Mobile Channel is providing less expensive options for targeted programs which has a great impact in increasing the response rates. Also, there are ways and means to track and measure the results of the campaigns. The sheer ubiquitous nature of the device is making this marketing channel very effective. All this has made it a necessity for Digital Marketing companies to have access to a strong mobile development team. This can be achieved either by having an in house development team or partnering with a company which has the requisite expertise in the area. This is where Mindfire Solutions, based on years of experience in iPhone app development, provides Digital marketing companies with flexible partnering options to handle all their Custom Mobile development needs. 

We have been the preferred offshore iPhone development partner for many Digital Marketing Companies for executing Mobile marketing campaigns for their customers. Our strength lies in our technical skillset and our domain expertise in customized iPhone app development. As an example, in one of the projects we handled the development part of a Branding campaign which a Digital Marketing company was doing for some of its clients. Our custom iPhone app development team successfully built an interesting game which had a set of logos and a set of questions related to each logo. Through the game, information related to the companies was easily passed on to the users. With 2 rounds, it was a good way to engage people and at the same time brand the companies. 

Mindfire Solutions is the ultimate destination to hire iPhone developers for dedicated iPhone app development work. Our iOS Application Development team has an average experience of 4+ years and has successfully executed 50+ iOS projects till date .In addition to this you will also get the benefit of flexible hours of working at affordable cost. Mindfire Windows iOS development India team’s technical expertise can be used for your various Mobile Marketing Campaigns like Mobile Social Networking, Location Based Services , Mobile Payment ,Mobile Commerce ,Mobile Email ,Apps and Games ,Mobile Search and  Mobile Web. To get our new clients to understand and experience the quality of our delivery, we have the provision for a 100 hours risk free trial*.

Our engagement models are quite flexible. You can either hire a full time dedicated team of iPhone developers based out of India or augment your development team but having an extended team with us.  To know more about our expertise in Custom iOS development services and outsourcing your mobile app development requirements, please contact us at sales at mindfiresolutions dot com or call 1-248-686-1424. We will be glad to help you.

Why Use Magento?

There are so many E-Commerce products available in the market – all claiming to be the best. Why then should one go for Magento? Let’s look at some of the amazing features Magento has which makes it the hottest thing in market at present. We at Mindfire have been working in Magento for quite some time and have a team of more than 10 developers who have very good working knowledge on all the features listed below.  We have one of the best Magento development team in India and a lot of clients have done their offshore Magento development with us. 

The features are as follows: 

Marketing Promotions and Tools

Flexible Coupons (pricing rules) with ability to restrict to stores, customer groups, time period, products, and categories

Catalog Promotional Pricing

Search Engine Optimization

Google Site Map

URL Rewrites give full control of URL's

Meta-information for products and categories

Catalog Management

Batch Import and Export of catalog 

Google Base Integration

Downloadable/Digital Products

Advanced Pricing Rules and support for Special Prices (see marketing tools)

Product Browsing

Multiple Images Per Product

Product Image Zoom-in Capability

International Support

Multi-Lingual

Support for Multiple Currencies

Order Management

View, edit, create and fulfill orders from admin panel

Create one or multiple invoices, shipments and credit memos per order to allow for split fulfillment

Analytics and Reporting

Admin Dashboard for Report Overview

Abandoned Shopping Cart Report

Best Customers Report by Total and Number of Orders

Site Management

Control multiple websites and stores from one Administration Panel

Web Services API for easy integration between Magento and any third-party application

A/B and Multivariate Testing

Catalog Browsing

Layered / Faceted Navigation for filtering of products in Categories

Layered / Faceted Navigation for filtering of products in Search Results

Product comparisons

Product Reviews

Mobile Commerce 

iPhone optimized

Payment

Multiple Payment Options Supported

Payment Extensions Available through Magento Connect

Configurable authorization and capturing of funds

Checkout

One-Page Checkout

Checkout without account/Guest Checkout

Shipping to multiple addresses in one order

You can check our Magento development India page to have a look at the expertise and skills we have – it has details about the Offshore Magento development team we have and the work we have done.

Another area in Magento which is growing fast is Magento Mobile. With the increased use of mobile by people it has almost become imperative for all ecommerce sites to build a mobile version of it. Magento mobile clearly is one of the best solutions currently available in the market. Given below are some of the reasons which make it so famous: 

• Magento Mobile native application support for iPad and Android. 
• Push notification service with Urban Airship.
• Allowing sharing of product information with all common social media including Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Consumers using a Magento Mobile store application can share information about their favorite online stores with friends using their social networks.
• Improved Image zooming capabilities with Magento Mobile. 
• Easily managing multiple devices with a single installation. Easily extend your mobile presence to iPhone, iPad and Android devices.
• Making app fully customizable: Deploy new device-specific features and branded themes with just a few clicks. Quickly update the colors and appearance of your app with the new Magento mobile admin, even after customers have downloaded your app.

Our  custom magento development company have very good expertise in developing and maintaining apps developed using Magento Mobile. The Magento mobile experts at Mindfire are competent enough to build a mobile version of your application from scratch. 

Qualitative Website Development using Zend Framework

A deeper insight into the PHP community and you find that this huge developer base is divided into two categories. There are those developers who choose the normal “out-of-box” PHP and there are the others who swear by their favorite frameworks. So whether you are in for the plain vanilla PHP or you support the frameworks way of doing things, it is all a matter of choice.

A PHP framework can be called a good one if it helps the developer spend lesser time on trying to improve the security, help him make websites that are subsequently easier to upgrade and should also significantly reduce the time spent on building websites and web applications.

So the question arises that why should one use Zend Framework specifically for developing a qualitative website. Zend is currently the PHP framework of choice for enterprise businesses. One can say this with certainty because there is a high demand in the market for “Zend PHP certified” developers. But just going by the job boards does not make Zend popular, it is also a complete package of  advanced features, plugins and free optional downloads. And Zend was built by the makers of PHP. Need we say more?

Here are some Zend products which make it so popular amongst the developer group.

The first product is the Zend Server, a web application server meant for PHP applications that are crucial from a business point of view. The zend Server helps develop applications faster by offering a consistent, supported, and up-to-date PHP stack which includes in-built PHP caching APIs and Zend Framework built in.The Zend Server also contributes towards rapid and consistent deployment getting applications out into production faster and more reliably. Its ability to optimize application performance, faster problem resolution and scalability to handle load makes it a favourite amongst enterprise users.

The second product is Zend-Right scale cloud solution which is the only solution that enables a business to easily manage a PHP runtime environment in the cloud. Not only does it help deploy PHP applications in the cloud and providing on-demand provisioning coupled with automatic scaling, but also is an enterprise grade secure PHP stack with high availability in the cloud.

The third product from the PHP stable is the Zend studio which is a development environment exclusively for professionals that includes PHP code editing, debugging, profiling, unit testing, diagnostics and more. Thus using the Zend Studio ensures developing and maintaining faster code, quicker problem resolution, cloud-enabled platform and availability of team-oriented development features to increase team collaboration.

Finally the Zend Guard which is the most popular PHP encoding and obfuscation product on the market. Using the Zend Guard protects the PHP application from unlicensed use and reverse engineering thus protecting the intellectual property which is threatened by the increase in availability of commercial applications in PHP.

The products by themselves would not be of much use if you lack a technology partner to make the best use of all these wonderful Zend products to build your PHP application just the way you want it built. Mindfire Solutions, a custom PHP development company from India has more than 10 years of PHP application development experience and is perfectly equipped with a team of Zend certified engineers.

To know more about our expertise in custom PHP development company and to hire PHP developers, please contact us at sales at mindfiresolutions dot com or call 1-248-686-1424. We will be glad to help you.

Needs on MS Dynamics CRM development, where should one go?

In the today’s competitive and fast moving market scenario it is very important to maintain your business in a very modesty way, whatever information you want or need should display right away from your laptop screen in few clicks. One platform or application should be there to handle all you customer data in terms of sales, marketing, Human Resources, accounts, finance etc. If you to maintain your business better, then one solution would be to implement, i.e. Microsoft Dynamics CRM development. These days many business houses planning to implement Dynamics CRM (Customer Relationship Management) to maintain their business or have already implemented it. In both case they need a reliable and trusted partner who not only study and understand the business logic but also provides suggestion and business solution time to time manner to improve the process. In the same hand they should have strong expertise in terms of Dynamics CRM Customization, Dynamics CRM Custom work flow development, CRM Plugin development, Third-Party integration in Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Custom SSRS Report Development in Dynamics CRM, Dynamics CRM Remote Support for development etc. for both on CRM4 and CRM 2011 which will make your task easy in day to day life.

Now the big question is, what is your situation? And what you want exactly to handle your business, do you have idea in your mind to implement Dynamics CRM in your business? Or you have been implemented Dynamics CRM already? Or you want to just connect your SharePoint system to Dynamics CRM platform? For all the requirements above you need to hire a dedicated Dynamics  CRM partner who will support you to enhance and maintain your Dynamics CRM system.

Mindfire Solutions, 12 year’s old software development and testing company has extensive experience and expertise in Microsoft Dynamics technologies for more than 6 years and counted as leading company in Dynamics CRM Application development services in India. Several of its expertise are Microsoft and dynamics CRM 4.0 certified. Mindfire Solutions CRM team has deep knowledge on CRM 4.0, CRM 2011 and Online CRM. The CRM team has executed many offshore projects on Dynamics CRM 4 and CRM 2011 successfully across domain and of different complexity. The range of services provided by Mindfire Solutions on Dynamics CRM 4 and Dynamics CRM 2011 development services are Customization service on Dynamics CRM, Dynamics CRM Custom work flow development, Dynamics CRM Plugin development and integration, Third-Party integration in Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Custom SSRS Report Development on Dynamics CRM, Remote Support to maintain Dynamics application. The other service Mindfire solutions provides are Microsoft Dynamics CRM Consulting, MS CRM Installation and Role-based security definitions, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Implementation, Configuration and upgrades and Microsoft Dynamics CRM maintenance.

Mindfire Solutions is the ultimate destination to hire dynamics CRM developers and programmers India. You get the benefit of most flexible hours of working, affordable cost, experienced Dynamics CRM consultants and time savvy benefits. We have a highly experienced team of dedicated outsourced Dynamics CRM Developers with years of experience in Offshore Dynamics CRM application development services. We also have 100 hours risk free trial* for new clients.

To hire Mindfire Solutions expert Dynamics CRM developers/programmers India call 1-248-686-1424 or email sales at mindfiresolutions dot com. We will be glad to help you.

QTP Testing – Where should you go when you need this urgently?

First of all let us analyze what would happen if your software application is not regression tested when you fixed a minor change… Things can be smooth and run in your live production server and things can go wrong…Disastrously wrong because of one wrong fix at the wrong place which can mean total outage of your system from the live interconnected web world. But the costs of regression testing manually do not seem to justify itself. Hence it’s a catch 22 problem – You want to take up insurance but you don’t want to actually fall sick. So in this case, you would want to still do all the detailed regression testing for your application but you would like to reduce the costs to a minimum. The answer is QTP (Quick test pro). Quick test pro automated testing provides you with that flexibility of reduced costs and agility in your application. QTP has its own ‘record and play’ mechanism which runs your quick and minor development and run it every day without taking much time to assure you that everything are fine in your application and it will run without any error in your live server. If you have such situation in your day to day development work or your application break every alternative day when you fix few minor bugs then you would test once the Quick Test Pro (QTP) tool once and you can feel lots of difference in you development and testing cycle.

When we say about QTP, one of the most powerful automated regression testing tools in the market, we should be take the licenses cost in to the account. Although the cost of testing in terms of time, man power effort is low as compare to the manual testing but the license cost is bit high because of its sophisticated and high reliable features.  If you want to try this QTP testing and don’t want to purchase high cost QTP license then you can get it in share basics. The best offshore location to have this type of automated regression testing of your application is QTP Testing India Mindfire team.

To address this concern Mindfire Solutions a leading offshore QTP Testing India hub, offers automated regression testing service on QTP Automation Testing in a very innovative way, In case you don’t have a QTP License in hand or your budget does not allow you to buy QTP license, we do have a special offer for you.

• You can use our license for your application to tested.
• Mindfire has QTP experts who will generate the QTP test scripts for your application every day or in the required interval of time and daily testing reports will be sent to you regularly, on your demand.
• For your future use, we can send you the test scripts. If you purchase QTP license at any future date, you can use those in future.

To know more about our expert QTP testers and outsource your testing requirements to a reliable QTP testing company India, please contact us at sales at mindfiresolutions.com or call 1-248-686-1424. We will be glad to help you.

Custom iOS development for Mobile Marketing

With the change in the media consumption habits and patterns of consumers behavior which seems inclined towards making buying decisions on mobile devices, there is also a paradigm shift in terms of higher dependence happening  in the use of Mobile marketing channels by digital marketing companies in order to increase the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns. Besides Mobile Website and Mobile application, the mobile marketing channel offers many more options as a channel to digital marketing companies e.g Mobile Commerce, Mobile coupons, Location based services marketing, QR codes  to name a few. Mindfire solutions has deep expertise in having helped its Digital marketing clients execute the various options available successfully by developing custom made iPhone / iPad solutions to meet their needs.

One of our clients had conceived of a unique and interesting way to handle the branding of some of its customers through Mobile Marketing. They wanted us to custom develop an iPhone / iPad game app  to meet the purpose  which we successfully did. The was later ported to Android as well. It was based on recognizing logos of its clients and answering questions related to them. Game has a set of logos used worldwide and set of question related to each logo. The Game is divided into 2 rounds. In the first round shows randomly selected logos from the database are displayed on the screen. There are hints, equal in number as the number of logos, which are displayed on the screen one after the other. The player is required to identify correct logo for each hint. In second round of the game makes it more engaging. For the matches done correctly by the players questions related to the logos are put up. Points are given to user for each correct answer and overall score is displayed on screen. The core idea behind all this is nothing but branding. Through the process of getting the customer to first identify the logos and later gain various information about the company, this game is actually sharing information about the companies the logos belonged to. The game does enough in terms of sharing relevant information related to the logos i.e company which a player identified correctly and which the company wants to share. For the logos not identified correctly also, the game triggers a curiosity in the minds of the players to search for more information about the logo and hence the company.

Mindfire Solutions is the ultimate destination to hire services for dedicated offshore iPhone development work. Our iOS Application Development team has an average experience of 4+ years and has successfully executed 50+ iOS projects till date. In addition to this you will also get the benefit of flexible hours of working at affordable cost. Mindfire Windows iOS development India team’s technical expertise can be used for your various Mobile Marketing Campaigns like Mobile Social Networking, Location Based Services, Mobile Payment, Mobile Commerce, Mobile Email ,Apps and Games, Mobile Search and Mobile Web. To get our new clients to understand and experience the quality of our delivery, we have the provision for a 100 hours risk free trial*.

Our engagement models are quite flexible. You can either hire a full time dedicated team of iPhone/iPad developers based out of India or augment your development team but having an extended team with us.  To know more about our expertise in custom iPhone development company and to hire iPhone developers, please contact us at sales at mindfiresolutions dot com or call 1-248-686-1424. We will be glad to help you.

Are Testers Creative??

Imagination is the strongest tool for tester to use. Many times it isn't while directly testing the app that some thing falls apart it when you play with it. That's another secret to good testing. Play with the product. Example while testing a phone to send and receive SMS I was able to prove that it could send and receive and passed the test. I then tried to send and receive and the same time. The phone locked up. There was no test case designed for it. I was just playing with it..

Testers  have to be creative with your test ideas. Think of scenarios that have not yet been tried. This is where you’ll save time by first understanding the duplicate bugs. It may sound hard, but it is time well spent in trying to understand the application and the scope for the test cycle. This creativity not only helps you for this particular test cycle, but will prove to be useful in other situations as well. So the point that you need to remember is this: Don’t just look for simple bugs.

Go through the other reports logged and try to reproduce the bug and see if you can dig deeper for serious bugs. It does help to generate quite a few new ideas if you take some time and spend in reading other tester reports.

You will enjoy creativity in coming up with different attacks (methods for finding defects) to show presence (or absence) of defects. However, it is most likely that you will first have to execute tests created by others (less creativity here). Then you will have enough understanding of the different types of possible defects, and conceive new tests that others will execute (more creativity).

Rather than executing test cases that have been written and executed over and over again, creative thinking testers adopt a more fitting and flexible approach to testing. Thinking testers delve into the unspoken assumptions and subject the product to a series of tests to determine its stability under different contexts and circumstances.

Creative testers are known to question the current testing methodologies and frameworks in order to find out the best-suited approach to a testing project. They will combine several different approaches to come up with a customized and suitable approach specific to the context of a project. 

If needed and feasible, thinking testers will rewrite old test scripts as well as write new ones. In some cases, creative testers may test randomly without writing a test case or following a series of defined test steps.

Thinking testers are known to think creatively, critically and broadly. They change the perspective of the whole team towards testing. Thinking testers adopt a brave and more flexible approach towards testing and challenge their teammates to do the same. Thinking testers take away the boredom that may frequently be associated with testing. 

Rather than simply testing the functionality and validating the product, creative thinking testers explore the product under different circumstances it may be susceptible to. Because of this, the delivered product is of a very high quality and has the highest chance of succeeding in the live environment.

Successful projects are a result of good people allowed to do good work. The characteristics that make someone succeed as a tester on an agile team are probably the same characteristics that make a highly valued tester on any team.

Creativity, openness to ideas, willingness to take on any task or role, focus on the customer, and a constant view of the big picture are just some components of the agile testing mind-set. Good testers have an instinct and understanding for where and how software might fail, and how to track down failures. 

Mindfire is a complete Agile software testing partner have have creative testers who do a good job of testing and delivering value.  It is a 12 year old  Offshore software testing company  which holds creative testers and offer quality work in their projects and follows An “agile testing mind-set” is customer-focused, results-oriented, craftsman-like, collaborative, creative, eager to learn, and passionate about delivering business value in a timely manner. Its has 1000+ testing projects, 750+people with 4+ years of Average Experience ISTQB and QTP Certified QA Engineers, 75+ team of certified Testers , Experience on tools QTP, Selenium, Jmeter etc  Experience in various verticals such as Healthcare, Mobile etc.

Python Development Services Picks Up Steam

At Mindfire we have one of the best Python development team in India and our knowledge and experience enable our clients to get a high quality application developed within a short time and at a fraction of the cost of developing it locally. Python developers at Mindfire have knowledge in a variety of frameworks. We have expertise in frameworks like Django, Pinax, Zope and web2py and have done quite a number of projects in each of these frameworks.

Recently we worked in a project which was developed in Pinax. A small summary of the project and the work that we did is as given below: 

Executive Summary

Client wanted to create a world class social networking and collaboration platform for a highly technical group of users. A key feature that client wanted was a quick and easy way for the user to create and add search content.

We decided and proposed using Pinax which provides an integrated collection of Django applications that provide the most commonly needed social networking features. We also proposed highlighting of relevant content as the user types and creation of dynamic tags. 

Our Solution

We designed and implemented a Python Django based application that makes the tagging process automatic. Whenever a user posts either a blog or question or event, the content gets tagged automatically. We used OpenCalais API to get the tags from the content that the user enters. We also used Django Supertagging App to make all content tagging processes automatic. This included implementing inline highlighting of content as user types in the content. Along with Autotagging we also allowed users to enter their own tags to make the app as flexible and user friendly as possible. We used heavy Ajax implementation and used caching to avoid repeated calls to the OpenCalais API. Once the module was ready we integrated the code with design templates provided by the client.

Technologies Used

Python, Django, Pinax, niginx front end, apache backend, MySql, GIT, OpenCalais REST API for tagging.

The client was pleased with Mindfire’s effort and reckoned that they were happy to have discovered a professional offshore IT unit. We shall continue to be the service provider for the next versions of the client’s product. They have not only allocated the support and maintenance work of the current system to Mindfire but have also chosen us for future customization work.

At Mindfire we challenge ourselves regularly to keep learning and stay abreast of all the latest happenings in Python area. Be it a new framework or a new tool or a new way of application development, we learn aggressively and are always ready to take up new and challenging work. This zeal for learning and increasing our knowledge base translates to very good work for clients, that is why we our clients keep coming back to us again and again. Python developers at Mindfire are very professional and ensure that we always make high quality delivery and on time.

To know more about our expertise in python development and to hire pyhton developers, please contact us at sales at mindfiresolutions dot com or call 1-248-686-1424. We will be glad to help you.

How To Protect Data Corruption By Testing?

In today’s information-driven enterprises, business critical information must be highly available, from internal company-sensitive data to applications that manage crucial partner and customer relationships. Outages are costly in lost revenue and damaged reputation, and can be crippling to the business.

Without the ability to reliably maintain the integrity of data, computers would be useless. No one would  rely on a system that scrambles bank accounts, garbles inventory data, or loses order information. Customer's business are critically dependant on every component of a computer system having a high degree of data Integrity. Data Integrity problems are most difficult to detect with traditional testing techniques.

Validating data integrity requires testers to think differently from other programmers. Testcases that programmatically determine when an error is encountered and consists in gathering diagnostic data are very powerful . Expose bugs that do not surface in cursory testing, such as memory management bugs, memory leaks, buffer overflows, etc. 

Ensure that the application meets the performance baseline established during performance testing. This is done by running regression tests against the application at a specified maximum load. Avoid modifying your system registry or over-clock your hardware to yield performance boost unless you're absolutely sure of what you're doing. You don't wish to fry your computer. 

Do not share or allow network access to any unknown users. Your computer data can be prone to theft and modification if anyone on the network can access your files freely. When you receive mails with attachment from unknown senders, do not open it. Attempt to create tests that have minimal requirements on configurations and other system attributes. Also keep the test execution simple. This makes it easy to port te tests from test system,share the tests with other testers and ensure lots of reuse.

In contrast, some emerging software disciplines such as extreme programming and the agile software development movement, adhere to a "test-driven software development" model. In this process, unit tests are written first, by the software engineers (often with pair programming in the extreme programming methodology). Of course these tests fail initially; as they are expected to. Then as code is written it passes incrementally larger portions of the test suites. The test suites are continuously updated as new failure conditions and corner cases are discovered, and they are integrated with any regression tests that are developed. Unit tests are maintained along with the rest of the software source code and generally integrated into the build process (with inherently interactive tests being relegated to a partially manual build acceptance process). The ultimate goal of this test process is to achieve continuous integration where software updates can be published to the public frequently. 

Mindfire hires dedicated certified testers to prevent data corruption and protects clients data most securely without fail. It is a leading dual shore outsource software development product and software testing company. Being an Agile software testing partner , we create cutting-edge software products exclusively for small to mid-size technology companies. Contact us today and we will connect you with the best Agile partner to help you ramp-up your software development quickly and safely! At Mindfire we provide daily test report for our client which will help them to stay updated about the project progress. We have hands on experience in Offshore Enterprise Application Testing, Expertise in Modular testing approach,  Experience in testing successful deployment in actual environment . To discuss how we can help you, please contact us on sales at mindfiresolutions dot com or call 1-248-686-1424. 

Benefits of having WordPress Apps for Mobile Devices

There are huge benefits of having WordPress apps for mobile devices. Read on to know more.

Firstly, we can assess the prevalent situation in the following manner. WordPress is practically treated as the gold standard of content management systems owing to its great popularity as an easy-to-use, flexible and of course an open-source blogging and CMS system. There is not much to say about the mobile revolution except for the fact it has drastically changed the way people use the internet. With an explosion of mobile devices in the market and specifically the smart phones, more and more people are using their smart phones not just for blogging but also for researching products and services and making decisions to buy them. So while relying on WordPress is becoming the standard for delivering content, a growing number of users are using mobile devices to consume that content. At the same time from a business perspective, the significant increase in tablet computing and mobile technologies is encouraging more and more companies to take advantage of these devices in order to differentiate themselves from their peers. And they do this by developing apps for mobile devices such as iPads and smart phones in order to give themselves an edge over the competition. 

A few years back, WordPress was one of the first significant apps available on the iPad and iPhone devices and, while initially it struggled to be useful, it has graduated into quite the handy app. The latest version 3.1 of the app is all the more better with an updated look and the inclusion of WordPress.com stats, a new simple post preview, and a brand new Friend Finder feature which helps the user find friends who are blogging on WordPress.com. The WordPress app for android version 2.1 is an Open Source app that empowers the user to write new posts, edit content, view stats, and manage comments with built-in notifications. In fact, WordPress for Android supports both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress (3.0 or higher) blogs. A BlackBerry user who has a WordPress blog and fancies blogging on the go, just needs to grab the latest version of WordPress for Blackberry v1.6.3 from the BlackBerry App World. This version comes with some reliability improvements, support for stats and better error messages should they happen. The WordPress for Windows Phone version 1.5 includes apart from crash fixes and minor UI improvements and updates a brand new Stats button for bloggers, Posts Scheduling, comments management involving multiple comments for bulk moderation, infinite scrolling and media uploading. These apps are  contributed greatly by enhancing customer experience.

Mindfire Solutions has a team of more than 30 expert WordPress developers as well as a highly skilled Mobile Applications Development team who have more than 8 years of Mobile apps development expertise. We have successfully executed a number of projects which required us to develop or customize WordPress apps for Mobile devices leaving our clients extremely satisfied and enabling them to tap into the mobile devices user segment.

Custom Drupal Development

Choices abound when it comes to selecting a content management system. No two content management systems are exactly alike and, depending on one’s specific needs, one may have an edge over the other. Three content management systems dominate the current open-source landscape: Drupal, WordPress, and Joomla!

These are three very powerful platforms with vibrant ecosystems – thousands of end-users, commercial vendors, and developers. Thousands of add-ons have been contributed for each CMS by extremely active developer communities, which help create dynamic and powerful websites much faster and a lot easier. For example, if you want built any of the common (and many of the not-so-common) web app features in your site, chances are you would find them already available as add-ons! It would be interesting to note that all three of them have been written in PHP, use MySQL database, and are licensed under the free GNU General Public License.

When to Use Drupal

WordPress, with its installation simplicity and content presentation paradigm of treating all articles as either blog posts or web pages, is the best starter CMS and very intuitive for new users to grasp. Diverse plugins and themes make its use even simpler.

Compared to WordPress, Joomla sites require more coding to get them to look and behave the exact way you want. Hence, it is a better fit for more complex sites managed by persons with stronger technical skills. The availability of numerous extensions and themes make the job easier here, too.

Drupal is relatively harder to learn, but once you are up to speed on its learning curve, it has much more flexibility compared to WordPress and Joomla to scale up a site in terms of complexity. Driven by a powerful core, great extensibility, superior content presentation paradigm, and aided by the largest active web developer community, Drupal has the ability to scale up to very dynamic and complex sites catering to a variety of business needs.

Custom Drupal Development

Today, Drupal is powering millions of websites around the globe. Drupal sites range from personal blogs to industrial-strength enterprise applications. Drupal is behind some of the most popular e-commerce portals, community sites, corporate sites, government sites, etc.

Drupal offers a sophisticated and powerful programming interface for developers which lets one create a site of any complexity one can imagine. Custom Drupal development services enable Drupal users to powerfully customize and extend Drupal’s core capabilities and add new features to suit their unique needs. Expert Drupal development services, offered by Drupal service providers, can expedite the process of customizing and/or extending Drupal's core functionalities. Custom Drupal development services can also make the whole process painless and worry-free.

Mindfire Drupal Development Services

Custom Drupal development companies like Mindfire Solutions provide expert Drupal development services backed by years of experience of providing custom Drupal solutions for a variety of industries and customer needs. Mindfire's team of Drupal specialists has earned it the trust of its clients and industry-wide reputation for delivering first-class Drupal development services. If you want to hire drupal developers or extend Drupal’s functionalities and need some development help, get in touch with Mindfire today – call 1-248-686-1424 or email sales at mindfiresolutions dot com – to leverage the strong track record and solid experience of custom drupal development company to personalize and extend Drupal capabilities.

If you want to hire drupal developers or extend Drupal’s functionalities and need some development help, get in touch with Mindfire today – call 1-248-686-1424 or email sales at mindfiresolutions dot com – to leverage the strong track record and solid experience of custom drupal development company to personalize and extend Drupal capabilities.

Offshore Python Development

Whenever any of the past clients think of offshore Python development, Mindfire is the only company they turn to. The Python development team at Mindfire is one of the best in India and our knowledge and experience enable of clients to get a high quality application developed within a short time and at a fraction of the cost of developing it locally.

The experts in the Python development team at Mindfire have knowledge in a variety of frameworks. Expertise in frameworks like Django, Pinax, Zope and web2py makes us good enough to take up any type of work. This knowledge also helps our clients in getting their application done in the framework that best suits their need. Since we have the know-how on different types of frameworks we pass on our suggestions to clients in the requirements gathering phase itself. Timely decision helps save time in the long run by reducing rework.

In addition to knowledge on different frameworks, Python developers at Mindfire have very good exposure to building and deploying applications on different types of servers. We have developed applications for Linux, Apache, nginx and GAE to name a few. This expertise comes with a strong desire and passion for learning and with experience in working in these areas. Python development team at Mindfire focuses a lot in learning new areas and things about Python and using that knowledge in building better quality applications for our clients.

To build smarter applications not only knowledge on framework and server is required but also a good knowledge on different tools available is required. Smarter tools enable the developer to get the same job done in a quicker time and this time saved is added revenue for our clients. Celery, Tastypie, Pylint and Fabric are some of the good tools that the Python development team at Mindfire uses. Because of all this, i.e good and thorough knowledge on different frameworks, different servers and good tools our development time is very less and the application developed is of the highest quality. Till date we have never lost a client or had a client complain about the work deliverables and we have had many clients come back to us regularly whenever they have work in Python to be done.

This clearly shows the trust clients have in the Python experts India team at Mindfire. Unlike other companies we don’t just provide coding services. Because of our experience and expertise we add value to the application by contributing in improving the design specification given by client and during the development phase by saving on time. Most clients appreciate the fact that we don’t just blindly do coding as per the suggestion given by them – what they like and respect about us is the professionalism we show both while giving suggestions and while implementing them. We take care that we do not go overboard and cause interference in the development process – rather we work collaboratively with our clients to deliver the best application possible.

To know more about our expertise in python development and to hire pyhton developers, please contact us at sales at mindfiresolutions dot com or call 1-248-686-1424. We will be glad to help you.

Need developers to maintain existing BlackBerry Applications?

If you are reading this article “Need developers to maintain existing BlackBerry Applications”, then you must be a hardcore BlackBerry supporter who still prefers to continue the BlackBerry way. And despite all the fancy names that have now become blockbusters in the mobile market you still want to rely on the fortress-like security levels that come only with a BlackBerry. RIM is ecstatic about the BlackBerry 10 smart phones and so are our expert developers of the Mindfire Mobile Team.

Even with the latest deployment of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) in several government and private organizations, BlackBerry phones are still very much in use in the sectors of Banking, Manufacturing/Production, Defence, Food and Hospitality, Real Estate, Mobile Commerce, Healthcare etc. to name a few. There are already existing applications in BlackBerry which you would want to maintain for your employees and / or customers. Also migrating apps from the older versions of BlackBerry operating systems to the relatively newer ones will be a tough job unless you have employed the services of a professional mobile development company.

Any Blackberry app can be developed using the Native BlackBerry Software Development Kit (SDK) or BlackBerry WebWorks as well as Appcelerator and other cross platform technologies such as Titanium, Rho Mobile etc. Mindfire Solutions has an expert mobile development team who has executed projects successfully using all the methods mentioned above. Mindfire Solutions carries out extensive maintenance projects for industries just like yours. The mobile software maintenance work that we carry out for our customers includes, maintenance of existing code, solving day-to-day operational issues, migrating existing Blackberry apps from one version to the other, customizing existing applications to perfectly suit the customer’s specific needs and adding in performance enhancers to make the app work even better.

Mindfire Solutions’ expertise in BlackBerry Application development can be attributed to the legacy of more than 8 years of mobile applications development and especially more than 3 years of BlackBerry apps development. Our skilled developers have an average hands-on experience in BlackBerry Apps development of 2+ years and have expertise in developing cool applications making use of the tools such as the RIM BlackBerry SDK, JDE 4.1 to 4.7, Netbeans and Web Service/XML. Hence if you would like to outsource your BlackBerry Application support and maintenance to a professional software development company, then rest assured that Mindfire Solutions can help you in your software development endeavors.

Mindfire Solutions is a 12-year old leading custom blackberry app development company with a strong track record of working with SMBs like you who are present across geographies. Our spirited mobile development team is not just known for its passion to create and customize BlackBerry apps but also to provide long term maintenance and support as and when needed. Along with a guaranteed Mindfire promise of unparalleled quality, we also have 100 hours risk free trial* for new clients.

SharePoint Custom Solutions Development

SharePoint custom solutions development is used to leverage SharePoint’s true power by organizations around the world. SharePoint has been designed to be highly customizable and flexible. SharePoint’s core capabilities can be powerfully customized and extended to make it fit specific business contexts better. Organizations operate in their own unique ways and SharePoint respects their uniqueness. You need not change the way you do business to be able to use SharePoint’s power. Instead, SharePoint can be flexibly customized to suit the way you do business. 

SharePoint Custom Solutions Development

No two organizations run completely alike and SharePoint has been and is being customized in simple to sophisticated ways by organizations around the globe to leverage its true power. For organizations that have been able to harness SharePoint’s real power through thoughtful SharePoint customizations and extensions, the benefits they are reaping are phenomenal. For some such organizations, SharePoint, from a mere tool, has gone on to become a competitive advantage. SharePoint can be used in two fundamental ways. You can either use the pre-built, off-the-shelf software to quickly deploy collaboration and productivity sites. Or you can develop any web-based functionality imaginable on top of the SharePoint platform to suit the unique needs of your organization.

You can powerfully customize SharePoint capabilities like Sites, Communities, Content, Search, Insights, and Composites to suit your business needs better. You can develop custom web parts and work flows, simple and advanced search features. You can develop custom application pages, content types, event receivers, timer jobs, delegate controls, web services, and reports. You can create custom actions, custom ribbon controls, utility apps using SharePoint object model and web services, etc. The scope and depth of SharePoint custom solutions development is limited by your imagination only. 

Custom SharePoint Development Company

A custom SharePoint development company can ease the process of SharePoint custom solutions development for SharePoint end-users. Certified and experienced SharePoint developers can not only understand business needs and suggest best ways of going about fulfilling them, they can also build high-quality custom SharePoint solutions using less development time. 

Custom SharePoint development companies like Mindfire Solutions provide expert SharePoint development services backed by years of experience of providing SharePoint custom solutions development services for a variety of industries and customer needs. A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Mindfire has 6+ years of SharePoint custom solutions development experience with 100+ projects for global clients. Mindfire's 25+ team of certified SharePoint specialists has earned it the trust of its clients and industry-wide reputation for delivering first-class custom SharePoint services. Mindfire is a one-stop custom SharePoint solutions provider offering the entire spectrum of SharePoint services with experience in all SharePoint versions including 2010, WSS, MOSS. 

If you want to customize and/or extend SharePoint capabilities and need some development help, get in touch with Mindfire today – call 1-248-686-1424 or email sales at mindfiresolutions dot com  – to leverage the strong track record and solid experience of Mindfire’s SharePoint experts to personalize and extend SharePoint capabilities. Mindfire's flexible working model and fine-tuned processes will result in significant cost reductions and decreased development time which will greatly suit your budget and business needs.