22 March, 2013

Hire iPhone 5 app developers


The imagination of users has been caught like never before by the features and functionalities offered by smartphones nowadays. Apple with its focus on innovation and unique consumer experience has performed phenomenally well in this field. With the launch of iPhone 5 the gap that exists between android and iPhone is expected to go down even further making it a stronger contender to take up the top position. The popularity of iPhone and iPad, both at the level of consumers and corporates, has led to continued demand for application development work. Software companies have been on a hiring spree for iPhone developers to capitalize on the demand and companies in other industries with Mobile development needs are keen on identifying IT partners they can rely on for their ongoing needs. Mindfire Solutions, with its years of deep experience in iOS development, is a company which has the capability to serve both the needs. With our experienced team of iPhone app developers, we have established successfully partnership with many of our clients spread across various industries. With all the expertise to bank on we can be a high reliable offshore partner for custom iPhone 5 development work. 

Healthcare is one of the areas where we have done a lot of work for last 10+ years now. A very interesting iPhone app that we developed was in the area of Ophthalmology.  This app works to combat blindness in developing and developed countries, restoring sight through specialist treatment and eye care. It is used by eye care professionals to help demonstrate various eye diseases, conditions and treatments to their patients. The app is neither meant to serve neither for definitive diagnostic purposes nor as a substitute for clinical judgments. This app was developed as a reference application for eye doctors. The application shows 3D images and videos which include eye structure as well as various types of problems that occur in the eyes. These pictures/videos are categorized according to their relevance to the eye problem. We have trusted the development skills of our developers and their unmatched enthusiasm to take up many complex iPhone app development projects in the past and have been successful in meeting their expectations, always delivering within timelines and their budget. Some of the industries we have worked with our Custom iPhone app development services include Entertainment, Lifestyle, Education, E-Learning, Real Estate etc.

If you have a need to quickly port your existing apps to iPhone 5 and are pressed against time or you are looking out for a reliable partner to custom develop iPhone 5 applications, Mindfire Solutions can be your one stop solution provider. We have been the preferred destination to hire services for dedicated iPhone/iPad app development work for many of our clients in the past. Our iOS Application Development team with an average experience of 4+ years has successfully executed 50+ iOS projects till date. In addition to this our customers also get the benefit of flexible hours of working at affordable cost. Mindfire solutions’ iPhone development India team’s technical expertise can be used for custom iPhone/iPad development, mobile web, porting and migration, testing and games development. 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 iPhone developers based out of India or augment your development team but having an extended team with us. Know more about our expertise in Custom iPhone 5 development services and outsourcing your mobile app development requirements, please contact us at sales at mindfiresolutions dot com. We will be glad to help you.

Key components required to develop a Flash Game


Online gaming industry has been growing exponentially since the 90s when it became very popular. As of 2011 the worldwide online gaming revenue was around $11-12 billion dollars, which shows how serious a business it is. Lot of companies is into developing online games and the easiest and preferred technology used for building games is Flash. We at Mindfire have been involved in games development for a long time now. The online game development team at Mindfire has developed a wide variety of Flash based games – the following link Flash game development @ Mindfire shows some of the games built by us.

Given below is a small write up on 2 basic areas of game development – Key components required in a game AND basic game development workflow. 

Key components required in a game

The following are a few key components required in a game:

Input: Input refers to how the game is controlled by the user. Typically simpler games are controlled with the mouse, the keyboard arrow keys, or both. For mobile device based games, touch gestures are the most common input method, and the Flash Platform has robust touch support.

Sprites: Sprites are the visual elements on screen, such as a MovieClip of a spaceship or a biplane in a flying game.

Sounds: Good sounds for specific events in a game are a very vital part of any game. They just add tremendous value in terms of user engagement in the game.

Collision detection: This is the code that senses when any two sprites touch on screen, which is crucial for most action-oriented games.

Game loop: This is a term sometimes used by game developers to describe the programming logic that controls the game experience. ActionScript is the programming language used to execute the game loop in Flash games. In ActionScript 3.0, there are two ways of calling a function at specific intervals. The first approach is to use the Event. ENTER_FRAME event dispatched by interactive objects (InteractiveObject). The second approach is to use a timer. The ENTER_FRAME event approach is more common, and is best used for very frequently updates such as animation, other rendering updates, and artificial intelligence (AI) routines. A timer can behave in a similar way to an ENTER_FRAME event, but an event can be dispatched without being tied to the frame rate. Timer is best for periods of time that are several seconds or more in duration. Like other programming languages, ActionScript also provides numerous other techniques to accomplish the game loop, such as for and while loops.

Game development workflow

Given below are the simple basic steps that every game developer adheres to when developing a new game:


  • Brainstorm. Ideate, discuss and debate till a final conclusive idea for the game is developed. 
  • Develop. This is the phase when the actual game is developed. The major chunk of the time is spent in this phase. 
  • Test and optimize. Continuous testing is required to ensure that the game is bug-free and fun to play. Performance improvement is one thing that is taken care of in this phase.
  • Distribute and monetize. After the game is finally developed it needs to be marketed properly, so that real players (users) get to know and play the demo version and finally buy it. 
  • Use analytics. Analysis of user feedback and metrics such as game plays, duration of game play, and more needs to be done regularly to improve the game further. 
  • Update. All the above steps except step 4 needs to be done regularly to ensure the game quality keeps improving and more and more users start playing and enjoying it. 


At Mindfire we follow the above mentioned approach to build games, have a look at the projects page to see some of the games developed by us. The flash application development team at Mindfire is a group of enthusiastic programmers who are crazy about games and don’t lose an opportunity to grab one to play with or get started to build one. 

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

21 March, 2013

Flash CS5 for on-demand video delivery


Flash CS5 professional enables on-demand video delivery in the following 3 ways:
  1. Using embedded video within SWF files
  2. Using progressive download FLV files and
  3. Streaming video from in house Flash Media Server or from a hosted server using Flash Video Streaming Services.
At Mindfire we have developed video player applications using all of the three approaches. Our Flash application development team are good at understanding the client need and building suitable application to meet the client needs. You can have a look at the projects  we have done in Flash video player to know about our expertise.

In this article I will present the list of features of the first method ,i.e. using embedded video within SWF files under the following categories: Encoding, File size, Timeline access, Publishing, Frame rate, Actionscript access, Web delivery, Performance, Usage and Compatibility. I have got the details from adobe.com website.

Encoding
By default, the Video Import Wizard prompts you to launch the Adobe Media Encoder if needed to encode video using the On2 VP6 video codec for use with Flash Player 8 and later. Alternatively, FLV files (encoded elsewhere using On2 VP6 or Sorenson Spark codecs) can be imported and placed on the Timeline (re-encoding is not necessary). F4V and H.264 files cannot be embedded on the Timeline.

File Size
SWF files contain video and audio streams and the user interface, resulting in a single, larger file size. SWF files can load each other, enabling you to break up individual video clips into multiple files.

Timeline access
When embedded in the Timeline, video appears on individual keyframes and can be treated like any other object on the Stage. Ideal for creating interactions based on individual keyframes of video.

Publishing
Each time the content is published or tested the entire video file is republished. Changes to video files require manually re-importing the files into the Timeline.

Frame Rate
Video frame rate and SWF frame rate must be the same.

Actionscript access
Video playback and control is achieved by controlling the SWF content's playback on the Timeline. Flash Professional CS5 provides several code snippets designed to control video, audio, and timeline playback in an ActionScript 3 file.

Web Delivery
The SWF file progressively downloads, unless you embed it in a movie clip. In that case, the entire video must be downloaded to the client and loaded into memory before it plays back.

Performance
Audio and video synchronization is limited after approximately 120 seconds of video. Total file duration is limited to available RAM on the playback system.

Usage
Shorter video clips (less than 1 minute) that are smaller (less than 320 × 240), and have a lower frame rate (12 frames per second (fps).

Compatibility
Flash Player 6 and later (On2 VP6 codec requires Flash Player 8 or later).

In the next article I would elaborate on the other two methods of video delivery. If you want to know more about flash website development development at Mindfire you can contact us at sales [at] mindfiresolutions [dot] com or call 1-248-686-1424. We will be glad to help you.

What makes Silverlight Out-of-browser applications ideal?



Ever wondered what makes Silverlight Out-of-browser (OOB) applications ideal for better Line-of-business (LOB) development? Here is the reason why.

It is a well known fact that Silverlight-based applications typically run within Web pages. However, Silverlight 3 onwards also renders the viable feature of having an option for having Out-of-Browser applications wherein users able to install those Silverlight based applications from the Web and run them outside the browser. These Silverlight-based applications can be configured accordingly so that users can install them from their host Web pages and subsequently run them outside the browser.

It is possible for an out-of-browser application to run without a network connection. In case you have an application which normally uses network-based resources, then with Silverlight it is very well feasible for you to implement network detection and hence provide offline support as and when an online connection is not available. In such a case for instance, an isolated storage can be used as an offline repository which can later i.e. when the connection resumes, synchronize with a server-based data store. At the same time when a connection is available, one can also check for application updates. An out-of-browser application can also be configured in a manner to require elevated trust. The advantage of using trusted applications is that they can help bypass some of the restrictions of the security sandbox. This is evident from the fact that trusted applications can operate in full-screen mode without keyboard restrictions. As your trusted technology partner, Mindfire Solutions will help you build excellent Out-of-Browser applications that perfectly suit your business needs. Whether you operate in the Media and Entertainment domain or Insurance, Stock market, Sports or Banking, our expert Silverlight developers at Mindfire Solutions are capable of undertaking a project of any complexity to perfectly meet your software development needs.

While Silverlight 3 out-of-browser apps allow any Silverlight application to have a desktop shortcut, and does not require the support of a browser to run the app, Silverlight 4 on the other hand allows elevated privileges to its user. Silverlight 4 enables the Silverlight app to access local resources which can include a network stack or a file system. The reason why Silverlight Out-of-Browser application is one of the foremost choices for Line-of-Business application development is the fact that it perfectly suitable from an end-user perspective who are more comfortable with a desktop application, would not like to leave the Silverlight sandbox application for accessing the filesystem and would like an application that will be executed even when it is has worked upon in offline mode. Silverlight 5 with its range of brand new features has enabled end users do all the things mentioned above without any hassles. Mindfire Solutions as your Silverlight development partner is able to correctly identify your business needs to develop custom made application software that complements your business requirements. Hire our expert Silverlight developers to gain access to an unmatched talented pool of developers who have executed more than 20 projects in the past 5 years and have an average experience of more than 2 years.

If you are looking for expert hands to successfully execute your Silverlight Software development project, then look no further than Mindfire Solutions.

13 March, 2013

Need Automation Framework for Game Testing projects?


There is always a cold war whether one should go with manual testing or go with automation testing. All testing gurus of software world have their own points and phrase to prove it, which is the best solution at which point of your software development phase. Few gurus even say there is no alternative of manual testing, where they proved it at some extent with some real time example and scenario and people from software industry admit their clauses also. And few other gurus also put their experience with some other valid example, how and why automation testing is effective for software testing. No matter which one is the best, but one should accept both way of testing while he think of software testing. Currently almost all software farms are adopting automation testing. When you select automation testing for your software, it is very import to get right people with respective skill set to execute automation testing.  An ISV decide to execute gaming project and as observed most of the work they do through manually testing, so as an area of interest and also for the sake of his business he want to test his gaming application with automation testing. Automation testing that to on a game application needs a special skill set. It strongly depends what kind of technologies there is and what level of system he want to automate. Automation testing requires understanding of the technology behind the system. What kind of communication protocols there is and what kind of toolkits is used and so on. It might be that some parts cannot be automated, some parts are not worth of automation, and some are easy to automate. These are the thing one should understand before going for automation testing.

You need Automation Framework for Game Testing projects? Be it manual testing or automation regression testing, Mindfire’s offshore Software testing India service provide wide range skills to help client like you since past 12 years. Be it CMS Testing, Healthcare Testing, Mobile Testing, Load Testing, Game Testing or Automotive regression Testing with tools like Quick test pro or Selenium, Mindfire has established a high level and proven strategy to server organization and ISV like you are.

Mindfire Solutions is the best company to hire game testers & automated testers and Outsource Automated & QA testing services. Mindfire Solutions provides expert software testing and quality assurance services. Mindfire also specializes in building up regression test suites, that saves us noticeable time each time application undergoes a change and major tests need to be carried out. You can also hire dedicated Quality Assurance testers from Mindfire. Mindfire expertise in Quality assurance testing comes from our long association with testing practices. Please browse through his offshore testing projects page to know more details about our outsource Automated & QA testing services. It has 12+ years of experience in testing and we are very much familiar with changes and trends in testing tools and applications. It has 200+ happy clients today in US, Europe, Australia. A robust application can exist only if there is a strict testing process and procedures. Therefore Game testers take lot of pain in detailing out the master test strategy, test plans and test scripts for you.

11 March, 2013

Customized Salesforce Helps Businesses Fine Tune Response Rates


Salesforce CRM
Salesforce.com’s Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions are one of the most popular CRM solutions worldwide. Customer Relationship Management focuses on winning and keeping happy customers. Top CRM solutions such as Salesforce CRM help businesses achieve customer delight leading to lasting customer relationships and make it easy for them to acquire new customers. As a pioneer of cloud computing technologies, Salesforce CRM has been instrumental in leveling the CRM playing field. Salesforce CRM enables small and medium businesses, too, to leverage the benefits of CRM, which was earlier possible for large enterprises only because of the economically-prohibitive entry barrier associated with old on-premises CRM solutions.

Salesforce Development
Recognizing the fact that no two businesses are exactly alike, Salesforce CRM has been designed to be eminently customizable. You can customize and extend Salesforce CRM the way you like depending on your current and evolving business needs. A basic understanding of CRM and the Salesforce system is all that is needed to start making simple point-and-click customizations. More powerful Salesforce application development would require knowledge of Apex programming language and Visualforce framework. Salesforce development service providers, owing to their specialized experience, can help you customize Salesforce CRM to your unique business needs in the most optimal and powerful ways using Apex and Visualforce. If you are an existing Salesforce CRM user who wants to extend its capabilities or are migrating from other technologies to Salesforce, endless possibilities await you. With expert Salesforce development services, you can customize and extend your Salesforce CRM to be a competitive advantage.

Mindfire Solutions
Mindfire Solutions is a top Salesforce development services provider with a strong track record of serving Salesforce customers across many industries and with diverse business needs. Mindfire provides a wide range of offshore Salesforce development services including Salesforce customization, Salesforce migration, Salesforce integration and Force.com development using Apex and Visualforce. Clients use our dedicated team of Salesforce developers to customize Salesforce functionality to suit their business workflows and to make their existing processes even more efficient. Mindfire’s expert Salesforce developers have made deep use of Salesforce.com, Force.com, Visualforce pages, Apex classes, S-controls, Triggers, Views, Page Layouts, Workflows, and have generated advanced reports and sophisticated dashboards. 

If you are an existing Salesforce CRM user or a Salesforce service provider with Salesforce customization needs, our offshore Salesforce development services can help you. Our offshore Salesforce development services can also help you with migrating customer data from your other applications to Salesforce, integrating Salesforce with your organization's on-premise applications or external cloud services, and creating powerful custom applications on the Force.com Platform-as-a-Service cloud platform. 

Mindfire's Salesforce experience and flexible working model will result in significant cost reductions and decreased development time, which will greatly suit your budget and business needs. If you want to customize and/or extend salesforce CRM and  hire Salesforce developers, get in touch with Mindfire today – call 1-248-686-1424 or email sales at mindfiresolutions.com – to leverage the strong track record and solid experience of Mindfire’s Salesforce Developers to personalize and extend capabilities and build cloud apps.

How agile is your software project?


As a tester one of the first questions you would need to ask is “how agile is this project?” 

Agile development recognizes that testing is not a separate phase, but an integral part of software development, along with coding. Agile teams use a "whole-team" approach to "baking quality in" to the software product. Testers on agile teams lend their expertise in eliciting examples of desired behavior from customers, collaborating with the development team to turn those into executable specifications that guide coding.

Agile testing covers all types of testing. The very first advantage that hiring a QA testing Company with the Agile Methodology is the saving of time and money. There is less documentation required though documents help to a great deal in verifying and validating the requirements but considering the time frame of the project, this approach leads to focus more on the application rather than documenting the things. Since it is iterative in its form, it tends to have a regular feedback from the end user so that the same can be implemented as soon as possible. And because all phases of SDLC need to be completed very quickly, there is a transparency to each individual working on the project with the status of each phase.

Mindfire is the dedicated software testing company which practice Agile methods in development as well as in testing. Everyone on an agile team works together towards a single goal and the best agile teams are those where the management have been able to provide an environment that nurtures the feelings of empowerment, togetherness, joint responsibility and trust within the team.

Agile practices are specifically tailored to eliminate all kinds of waste manifesting in a product life cycle, but more specifically, improving the quality of developed product is a major goal threaded into most of those practices.

Our team of talented professionals is dedicated to help clients achieve quality and performance goals by leveraging the domain experience, technical knowledge and substantial investments in testing infrastructure and resources.

We keep a keen eye on the pulse of market and add new solutions to our portfolio that are in line with the latest market trends and ever changing requirements of the businesses. We are a client-centric, focused team of professionals offering a comprehensive set of core and specialized testing services.

Mindfire Solutions is amongst the leading providers of Software & IT services encompassing development and delivery of complex projects for enhancing business growth of its customers. Mindfire has added value to more than 250 clients in US, Europe, Africa, Australia and Asia in the 12 years of its operations. The company has over 700 people, spread across 3 Advanced Development Centers (ADCs) in India which are equipped with ultra modern facilities, and where Mindfireans strive round the clock for achieving customer delight. 

For more information on Mindfire Solutions, Globally respected QA testing Company, please visit our website. To discuss how we can help you and to hire software testers, please contact us on sales at mindfiresolutions dot com or call 1-248-686-1424.

08 March, 2013

Why Python Framework is increasingly turning into a hot favorite?


Python is an object-oriented, general-purpose programming language. It is dynamic and  easy to learn because of its clear and precise syntax. Using Python one can  write GUI-based programs, access databases easily, can  integrate it with XML data, to perform network-related programming. It is a cross-platform tool which  can  extend the programming capabilities of C, to integrate with Java, and much more.

Python is lucid, robust, quick  and most reliable open-source framework. Using Python we can build many scalable projects easily within a short period. It has some unique features like memory management (such as the “garbage collection”, in order to clean up memory cycles), complex and powerful  libraries,  it keeps its own place among other programming languages. Python suits the needs of the major branded big companies like Google, Instagram, DropBox and NASA. It can cater all kinds of SMB's across geographies.

Helps in building dynamic webpages used in everything from mission-critical applications in the stock exchange and mobile phones to air traffic control applications and feature-length animation movies. Python flawlessly  supports all existing platforms like  Windows, Linux, UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2, Amiga, Palm devices, Nokia mobile phones, Java and .Net Virtual Machines. It is demanding for deploying applications faster than any other language speedy, easy to maintain the code, the faster release of bug fixes and the faster integration of new functionality for application updates. It is compatible with other technologies.

Mindfire Solutions provides offshore software development services to businesses and organizations. If you require custom software, a corporate website, a software solutions outsource partner or just a consultant - you should be speaking to us. We like to build long lasting relationships with all our clients and offer them support that will ensure the profitability and maintainability of their projects. Has worked on and delivered various applications and software with Python.  Mindfire's team of Python developers has good experience and knowledge in Python application development supporting technologies, databases and reports. Mindfire's rich expertise in different technologies has been generated in the course of delivering many Python projects for our clients in different parts of the world. Hire python programmers from India who have extensive knowledge and experience in the technologies they are responsible for. As well, they endorse our commitment to quality programming, meeting customer specifications and expectations, and they understand the importance of on-time delivery.

Mindfire Solutions is a 12+ year old software development and IT services company with a strong track record of working with small and mid-sized clients across US, Europe, Australia and Asia. With more than 750 spirited software engineers across two development centers, Mindfire has successfully delivered over 1000 projects for its base of 300+ clients spanning SMBs,ISVs,SaaS,Global 2000 & Fortune 500 firms. We welcome you to study these project samples. To discuss more on python development services please contact us on sales at mindfiresolutions dot com or call 1-248-686-1424. We would be delighted to help you.

Windows Phone 8 development


Windows 8 has been launched by Microsoft with a desire to capture both tablet and PCs. However there are 2 versions of it, one which runs on the Intel Platform and an RT version meant for ARM based devices. The Metro style apps which Microsoft is urging developers to build can work on both the platforms but the existing ones which have not been converted to Metro style  cannot be run on Windows RT. The announcement of a launch in early November and the support it has garnered from most of the top mobile manufacturers is likely to create some major changes in the industry. Microsoft also plans to launch the platform in over 180 countries. However for the operating system to succeed the availability of apps in the marketplace takes the center stage. There is a lot of encourage being provided to developers in this regard. With 100,000 apps already available as of June, the number is expected to go up further. If you have the idea of a brilliant app, or a need for porting your existing ones for which you are looking for a capable development partner Mindfire Solutions with its team of certified developers can be your one stop solutions for any custom windows phone 8 development needs.

The new trend of BYOD is fast catching up as organizations see a need to offer more flexibility to their new age workforce and make them more productive and engaged at the same time. As one such organization, you are likely to have a number of customized / proprietary software which will now need to be tweaked and in this case converted to metro style in order to ensure that they run on all Windows 8 devices. Given the lack of lead time available, this will not only require considerable effort but also a good understanding of the technologies to bring in the changes which need to be made. Whether its web technologies like HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript or C#, VB, and C++ with XAML, we have developers who are strongly versed in in these skillset and executed multiple projects. 

Mindfire Solutions is the ultimate destination to hire dedicated Windows Phone 8 offshore development work. You get the benefit of most flexible hours of working, affordable cost, experienced mobile software developers and time savvy benefits. We have a highly experienced team of dedicated experts who have commendable experience in Windows Phone 7. Mindfire Windows Phone App development India team’s experience with Handheld devices and related technologies go a back a long way. We have kept pace with the rapid evolution and have executed numerous projects on Windows Mobile Operating system and on devices ranging from Pocket Pcs to Smartphones. Our expertise goes from mobile apps development from Windows CE operating system to Windows Mobile 5.0 to Windows Phone 7.0. Given our background and expertise we can be reliable Custom windows 8 Development Company. We also have 100 hours risk free trial* for new clients. 

Our engagement models are quite flexible. You can either hire a full time dedicated team of Windows Phone 8 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 windows 8 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.

07 March, 2013

Building Great Line-Of-Business Applications using Silverlight 5

Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating highly engaging, interactive user experiences for Web, Desktop and mobile applications when online or offline. With the release of Silverlight 5, a host of new features are available to Silverlight Rich Internet Application developers as well as businesses that use Silverlight. This enables users of Silverlight to create a project in 3D, make effective use of OpenType features such as ligatures, stylistic sets and contextual alternate in Silverlight thereby providing excellent support for rendering OpenType fonts and helps create native operating system windows along with customizing the chrome of those windows. Some more features of Silverlight 5 include low latency sound effects, multi column and Linked Text by making use of RichTextBoxOverflow to enable text to flow in columns or a free-form layout and finally, capture double click, or even an arbitrary number of clicks by introducing the concept of a click count.

Silverlight is indeed a very powerful tool which is both platform and browser agnostic and provides a cross platform version of the .NET framework. Most importantly, the ease of deploying Silverlight runtime to clients makes a much favored tool for creating Rich Internet Applications. Silverlight 5 brings a gamut of new features to the table for developers building marketing, media and line-of-business (LOB) applications. While Silverlight 5 is a very handy tool for executing 3D projects, enhancing audio and video features, and providing 64-bit support, it offers a sea of benefits for Line-of-business application developers. These benefits include enhanced data binding, better debugging, implicit data template support, vector printing to name a few.

In order to build appealing applications for Web, Desktop and Mobile you must therefore have to choose an ideal technology partner who has an in-depth understanding of your technology needs as well as has the ability to grasp your business requirements. Mindfire Solutions is a leading service company which provides a large number of services on the Silverlight platform and has skills to serve each of your needs as a Silverlight Consultant and a Silverlight Development Partner. Some of our service offerings in the Silverlight area are as follows - Silverlight Development, EMR/EHR Applications, Custom Silverlight Application development, WCF RIA services for Silverlight, Silverlight Dashboard development, Web Portal development using Silverlight, Plugins development, Maintenance and Support services etc.

Mindfire Solutions has extensive hands on experience in customizing Silverlight applications for clients belonging to various domains, thus enabling them to leverage the complete portfolio offerings of Silverlight. Also, Mindfire Solutions is a Microsoft Gold certified partner thus adding to our credentials. Our Silverlight development history spans more than 5 years and we have experience in developing a variety of Silverlight Applications catering to various industries. As your trusted Silverlight development Partner, the skilled Silverlight development professionals at Mindfire Solutions are dedicated to equal importance to both implementing technology as well as understanding your business environment. This astute dedication ensures that your application is built according to your needs while still following the industry standards required for your implementation to succeed.

If you are in need of Silverlight developers who have great experience in developing Silverlight applications to execute your project efficiently then look no further than Mindfire Solutions, your trusted Silverlight partner.

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

Need Dynamics CRM 2011 Custom Workflow Development?

Many organizations implemented or thinking to implement Dynamics CRM 2011 to get World-class customer experiences form their valuable clients and begin with customize the Dynamics CRM 2011 workflow. By giving customers the right tools to boost their business and amplify their presence and hold-on good impact on the market, they can drive their organization to achieve goals and generate maximum return out form the investments. These days organizations implements Microsoft Dynamics CRM which helps to increase productivity and create a connected organization that is equipped to please customers. Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4 and Dynamics CRM 2012 give his users to customize Dynamics CRM workflow to reach their requirement. The result is a compelling and engaging experience for customers that set your business apart from your competitor. An Independent Software Vender provides automated solutions on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 platform which involves developing accelerators, Dynamics CRM 2011 plug-ins development and other custom components to extend the capabilities of the platform.  The requirement was for a Dynamics CRM 2011 customer that mostly deals with the financial data. For better data management, the need was to transform a one-to-many financial relationship in a grid control to represent the data more efficiently in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. In other words, create a re-usable control for the presentation and revision of financial grids on a CRM2011 with features like grouping, calculated fields, sorting, column summarization and more. The ISV needs service on Dynamics CRM 2011 Custom workflow development. He has no idea how to do developed Dynamics CRM 2011 plug-ins or Customize Dynamics CRM 2011 workflow.

He searched many Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Partner India Company. But no one help him to customize his Dynamics CRM 2011 workflow. Then he contact Mindfire Solutions, a 12 years old offshore Dynamics CRM 2011 development company which is one of the best offshore XRM development service provider India. With 25+ Dynamics CRM certified developers and having more than 6 years Dynamics CRM 4 and Dynamics CRM 2011 it has counted as a leading company in Dynamics CRM Application development services in India. 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 Third-Party integration in 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 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 dedicated offshore Dynamics CRM programmers and developers India, who will help on Dynamics CRM 2011 Custom workflow development. 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/Development India or Microsoft CRM Customization services call 1-248-686-1424 or email sales[at]mindfiresolutions[dot]com. We will be glad to help you.

Titanium App Development Services


Appcelerator Titanium is a popular choice for creating cross-platform mobile, tablet, and desktop apps. Titanium lets you build full-featured iOS, Android, mobile web (and soon BlackBerry) apps. Titanium apps have access to native device API and use truly native widgets. What’s more, Titanium development is also a lot faster than Objective-C or Java development.

Mindfire Solutions is a top Titanium Mobile app development company offering expert Titanium development services. Mindfire has one of the largest teams of Titanium certified app developers in India. Mindfire’s expert Titanium developers have successfully delivered a number of cool and engaging Titanium cross-platform apps for their global clients.

Take for example the Titanium pregnancy app for iPhone and Android created by Mindfire. Our clients had a pregnancy app built for iPhone users which was very popular. However, being confined to only the iOS platform, the app covered only a part of our client's target audience. In order to reach the large number of Android users, our clients decided to create the next version of their popular pregnancy app targeting both iOS and Android platforms and adding a host of new features in the process.

Our clients had the choice of creating two separate “native” versions of the app – one for iOS (using Objective-C) and the other for Android (using Java). However, our clients realized that targeting users across platforms creating native apps for each in turn would entail a lot of development time, expenses, and maintenance effort which could easily become economically prohibitive.

The natural alternative was to go in for cross-platform mobile development wherein you create the mobile app once and deploy it to multiple popular platforms. There are many cross-platform mobile development frameworks available in the market today but not everything is created alike – they differ in the manner in which they accomplish the common goal of cross-platform compatibility. 

For our clients’ business needs, we zeroed in on titanium app development which is one of the top cross-platform mobile development choices in the world today owing to its ability to create full-featured native apps with access to platform APIs and hardware features. Mindfire's Titanium developers rose to the challenge of creating a better cross-platform app targeting both iOS and Android than its iOS predecessor with half a million app-store downloads. The new cross-platform app could now be used by millions of Android users worldwide in addition to the iPhone ones.

The Titanium app was ready much faster than its Objective-C and Java versions would have been. It was just as feature-rich and easy-to-use as its native counterparts would have been. The technical choices made by our experienced Titanium developers (such as the use of Amazon Web Services to store user data and Urban Airship for push notification) resulted in an app that was light, fast, and with great user experience. 

If you want to do cool Titanium Apps and need some Titanium development help, get in touch with Mindfire Solutions 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 Titanium developers to bring your cool mobile app ideas to life.

Custom iPhone 5 Development


An apology by Tim Cook for falling short of meeting the high expectations of the people and urging them to look for alternative till they work on developing Maps, has now shifted the focus of people on looking at the offerings of the device. Besides being the thinnest, lightest and the fastest iPhone ever, there are about 200+ new features in iOS 6 on the iPhone 5. However, from the developers’ point of view, the discussions are mostly around the impact of the new 4-inch display .It has resulted in rendering all the existing 700k apps, unless ported,  to be visible in a letterbox mode i.e. there are black bars providing padding on sides in landscape mode and on top and bottom in portrait mode. The important thing is that the solution does not lie in just increasing dimensions and filling up the space like it was when the retina was introduced. We at Mindfire Solutions have years of experience in iOS app development and clearly understand the nuances and the intricacies involved in the business. With all the expertise to bank on we can be a high reliable offshore partner for custom iPhone 5 development work. 

Since there is no choice left effectively but to adapt to the new display size, the initial round of effort will be more directed towards ensuring that the existing apps look good in the new screen. Subsequent focus will be on how to make the best use of the additional space which can be made available. Both will require good understanding of the type or nature of the existing app. The ones which use light images and have less scrollable portions will require less effort for porting compared to the ones which have high graphical content and less amount of scrollable areas. For the game developers, iPhone 5 might end up being a big accelerant. With higher resolution and processing power and a bigger screen, there is likely to be a shift towards developing deeper and richer games. For the existing games, there will be a need to revisit their apps’ designs if they want to take advantage of the iPhone 5’s larger screen.

If you have a need to quickly port your existing apps to iPhone 5 and are pressed against time or you are looking out for a reliable partner to custom develop iPhone 5 applications, Mindfire Solutions can be your one stop solution provider. We have been the preferred destination to hire services for dedicated iPhone/iPad app development work for many of our clients in the past. Our iOS Application Development team with an average experience of 4+ years has successfully executed 50+ iOS projects till date . In addition to this our customers also get the benefit of flexible hours of working at affordable cost. Mindfire solutions’ iPhone app development India team’s technical expertise can be used for custom iPhone/iPad development, mobile web, porting and migration, testing and games development. 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 Offshore iPhone 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.

To know more about our expertise in Offshore iPhone development services and to hire iPhone developers for 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.

04 March, 2013

Why Choose Joomla CMS?


Among the CMS tools available currently in the market, Joomla has a sizeable fan following. There are a substantial number of companies who use Joomla to build their CMS. The reasons for the same as many, still I will list out some of the “out-of-the box” features of Joomla which make it so special. Joomla template development in India has been going on for some time and there are quite a number of companies working in this. Among them Mindfire would come across as one of the best in Joomla, considering the varied types of work done by the Joomla developers at Mindfire India.

Given below are some of the important features of Joomla which make it so good (source Joomla website): 

User Management
Joomla has a registration system that allows users to configure personal options. There are nine user groups with various types of permissions on what users are allowed to access, edit, publish and administrate.

Authentication is an important part of user management and Joomla support multiple protocols, including LDAP, OpenID, and even Gmail. This allows users to use their existing account information to streamline the registration process.

Media Manager
The Media Manager is the tool for easily managing media files or folders and you can configure the MIME type settings to handle any type of file. The Media Manager is integrated into the Article Editor tool so you can grab images and other files at any time.

Language Manager
There is international support for many world languages and UTF-8 encoding. If you need your Web site in one language and the administrator panel in another, multiple languages are possible.

Contact Management
The Contact Manager helps your users to find the right person and their contact information. It also supports multiple contact forms going to specific individuals as well as groups.

Content Management
Joomla's simplified three-tiered system of articles makes organizing your content a snap. You can organize your content any way you want and not necessarily how it will be on your Web site. Your users can rate articles, e-mail them to a friend, or automatically save a PDF (with UTF-8 support for all languages). Administrators can archive content for safekeeping, hiding it from site visitors.

On public Web sites, built-in e-mail cloaking protects email addresses from spambots.

Creating content is simple with the WYSIWYG editor, giving even novice users the ability to combine text, images in an attractive way. Once you've created your articles, there are a number of pre-installed modules to show the most popular articles, latest new items, newsflashes, related articles, and more.

Syndication and Newsfeed Management
With Joomla, it's easy to syndicate your site content, allowing your users to subscribe to new content in their favorite RSS reader. It's equally easy to integrate RSS feeds from other sources and aggregate them all on your site.

Template Management
Templates in Joomla are a powerful way to make your site look exactly the way you want and either use a single template for the entire site or a separate template for each site section. The level of visual control goes a step further with powerful template overrides, allowing you to customize each part of your pages.

System Features
Speedy page loads are possible with page caching, granular-level module caching, and GZIP page compression.

If your system administrator needs to troubleshoot an issue, debugging mode and error reporting are invaluable.

The FTP Layer allows file operations (like installing Extensions) without having to make all the folders and files writable, making your site administrator's life easier and increasing the security of your site. Administrators quickly and efficiently communicate with users one-on-one through private messaging or all site users via the mass mailing system.

Web Services
With Web services, you can use Remote Procedure Calls (via HTTP and XML). You can also integrate XML-RPC services with the Blogger and Joomla APIs.

Powerful Extensibility
These are just some of the basic Joomla features and the real power is in the way you customize Joomla. Visit the Joomla Extensions Directory to see thousands of ways to enhance Customize Joomla Template to suit your needs.

Customize your Drupal CMS effectively


Content Management Systems
The basic function of a content management system (CMS) is to easily manage and present information on web sites. Content management systems differ in their features. While a simple CMS may have a few basic features, an enterprise CMS offers an extensive suite of complex and powerful features.

What Is Drupal
Drupal is a powerful content management platform. Drupal is free, open source, and powers millions of websites worldwide including some of the biggest sites on the web, such as The Economist, The White House, etc. Drupal allows you to easily organize, manage and publish your content. Behind Drupal's power and popularity lies its ability to allow an endless variety of Drupal customization to suit your particular context. Drupal is supported by one of the largest developer communities around the world who have enriched Drupal over the years with thousands of powerful and versatile Drupal add-ons. These Drupal add-ons make creation of powerful and dynamic websites a lot faster and easier. 

When to Use Drupal
One is faced with a number of choices while selecting a content management system. Open source content management systems like Drupal, WordPress, and Joomla are some of the most popular choices today. Different content management systems have different content presentation paradigms, target use scenarios, community support, etc. Depending on the particular context, one CMS may hold an edge over the other. Drupal, for example, is relatively harder to learn than, say, WordPress. However, Drupal offers one of the most sophisticated developer interfaces which enables one to create highly complex and dynamic sites. Drupal sites have much greater flexibility for being scaled up to any level of complexity. Drupal powers millions of websites today – from personal blogs to enterprise applications. 

Drupal Customization
Drupal intrinsically has a powerful core and yet is extremely customizable. To suit your specific needs better, you may do some Drupal customization yourself or take the help of custom Drupal development service providers. Expert custom Drupal development India enable you to powerfully customize and extend Drupal’s core capabilities and add new features to suit their unique needs. Expert custom Drupal CMS developers can not only speed up the process of your Drupal customization, but will also make the process a whole lot smoother.

Mindfire Drupal Services
Mindfire Solutions, a 12-year old leading software development and IT company, provides expert custom Drupal development services backed by years of experience of providing engaging Drupal customization solutions across diverse industries and customer needs. Mindfire’s dedicated team of Drupal developers has successfully executed 50+ global projects and is trusted by clients for their technical skills and delivery excellence. Mindfire’s team of Drupal specialists have delivered Drupal projects involving Drupal 7, Drupal 6, Drupal customization, Drupal core extension, Drupal theming, Drupal deployment, Drupal custom solutions development, Drupal support and maintenance, and Drupal independent verification and validation. 

If you want to hire drupal developers or extend Drupal’s functionalities to suit your unique needs better 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 drupal development India experts to personalize and extend Drupal capabilities.

Time for Windows Phone 8 has come!


Backed now by a strong smartphone OS, the push for Windows Phone 8 seems to be gaining traction. After having persuaded Verizon to support them in US, Nokia has now convinced China Mobile to sell Lumia 920. Access to close 700 million subscribers with a 3G penetration of only 10% will provide a huge opportunity. AT&T and T-Mobile are already offering the Lumia 900 and Lumia 710, respectively. Having taken care of establishing carrier partnerships the focus now has to be on convincing the users. And this will require the number of apps available in Windows Phone marketplace, which currently stands at around 100k, to go up fast. It will only add to their concerns that they will keep getting compared to the numbers available in iTunes store and Google Play which are around 650k and 600k respectively .This if looked upon from the developers side proves itself to be a great opportunity. Also, Microsoft has ensured that both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 share the same kernel and so in the process has made it possible for porting apps development in either of the platform an easier task. This can act as an added incentive for the developers. With reduced effort they can have two versions of their apps running successfully across desktops and mobiles.

The success of all this is however hinged on how aggressively Microsoft promotes and pushes Windows Phone 8 as the next generation smartphone device. If one were to look at history to draw deductions, developers willing to stake a chance are unlikely to end up disappointed. They have managed to woe the critics already. Creating a similar impression in the minds of people will require changing the battleground. Mindfire Solutions has years of experience of having successfully executed multiple projects on Microsoft Mobile Operating systems. Our expertise goes from mobile apps development from Windows CE operating system to Windows Mobile 5.0 to Windows Phone 7.0 and now to Windows 8 development. If you have the idea of a brilliant app or are looking for a reliable offshore partner for your Windows Phone 8 app development services , we are ideally suited, given our exposure and expertise, to meet your requirements . 

Mindfire Solutions is the ultimate destination to hire dedicated Windows Phone 8 offshore development work. You get the benefit of most flexible hours of working, affordable cost, experienced mobile software developers and time savvy benefits. We have a highly experienced team of dedicated experts who have commendable experience in Windows Phone 7. Mindfire Windows Phone 8 developers team’s experience with Handheld devices and related technologies go a back a long way. We have kept pace with the rapid evolution and have executed numerous projects on Windows Mobile Operating system and on devices ranging from Pocket Pcs to Smartphones. Given our background and expertise we can be reliable Custom windows 8 Development Company. We also have 100 hours risk free trial* for new clients. 

Our engagement models are quite flexible. You can either hire a full time dedicated team of windows phone 8 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 windows 8 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.

Great features of Flash 11


The latest version of Flash,i.e Flash player 11, has a lot of cool features. Features which can help build fabulous applications and which make working easy and convenient as well. Hire flash developers India from Mindfire, it's team has people who have good expertise in all the latest features and have developed applications for clients using these features. 

Below I have listed down the list of features which were new in the latest release (source Adobe website). 

Concurrency (ActionScript workers)
Developers can create more responsive content by offloading tasks (high-latency operations and long-running computations) to background "workers" that run concurrently to leverage more machine resources.

Webcam support for StageVideo
Utilize GPU acceleration to render webcam video streams with better performance.

Stage 3D accelerated graphics rendering
Explore a new architecture for high-performance 2D/3D GPU hardware accelerated graphics rendering by Adobe, which provides low-level stage3D APIs for advanced rendering in apps.

Native 64-bit support
Flash Player can now take advantage of native support for 64-bit operating systems and 64-bit web browsers on Linux®, Mac OS, and Windows®.

Protected HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS)
Protect streaming video across devices without the complexity of a license server.

Multi-threaded video decoding
Deliver live streaming and real-time interactive video with improved playback performance and increased frame rates of high bit rate content running on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.

Enhanced mouse controls and relative coordinates
Create immersive, panoramic games for new classes of content, including first-person games that take advantage of infinite scrolling, mouse lock, relative mouse coordinates, and right- and middle-click events.

Secure random number generator
Developers can now take advantage of cryptographically secure random number generation to build more secure algorithms and protocols.

JPEG-XR support
Support for the JPEG-XR advanced image compression standard (International Standard ISO/IEC 29199-2) provides more efficient compression than JPEG, enables both lossy and lossless compression support, and adds support for alpha channel transparency.

High-efficiency SWF compression support
Take advantage of LZMA compression to reduce SWF file sizes by up to 40%, enabling users to benefit from richer experiences with shorter download times and reduced bandwidth consumption.

New removeChildren API
DisplayObjectContainer now implements a removeChildren API allowing developers to quickly remove all of a container’s children using a single API call.

New MovieClip property
Take advantage of the new MovieClip.isPlaying property, which returns the MovieClip's current playing state.

Native text input UI (mobile)
Mobile apps can now take advantage of the native text input controls on Android, BlackBerry Tablet, and iOS operating systems, including platform-specific user interaction behaviors such as magnification and text selection.

At Mindfire Flash Application Development has been going on for more than 6 years now and we have good exposure to all earlier versions as well as the new features of the latest version. We have one of the best flash development teams in India. We have built applications for varied industries like Social media applications, Elearning industry, Games etc. 

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