29 January, 2015

Top 10 must know advantages of PHP

At a time when the industry was dominated by Java and .net, PHP was the only language which showed courage to come into the market and sustain in the industry. In the initial phase of its life, PHP has seen lots of obstacles but with time and its potential it is able to overcome those obstacles and come out as a winner in the industry. Now PHP is a popular language among the web developers in the industry. This is due to its flexible and open source nature. There are hundreds of advantages in PHP which makes it a first choice for the web developers but today we will discuss some ten features and advantages of PHP in brief.

28 January, 2015

Django - The web framework for perfectionists

Django a web framework for modern web developers: In the era of web applications, it will be unfair if we don’t discuss about an powerful web development tool of the industry. We are talking about Django!! Last week, one of my friends asked me about Python programming. I told him that, Python is a super powerful language just like Java or in some cases it is better than Java. Moreover, if we compare the inbuilt functions, modules etc then Python is simply unbeatable. Python developers can deveop any complex and huge project with much better efficiency and accuracy that any other language. That time, we discussed about Django which is a Python web framework. Though Python can be used to develop any type of applications starting from web apps, Desktop apps, Mobile Apps etc but, Django is dedicated to web apps only and fortunately it performs outstanding for its cause.

FileMaker best practices for developers to follow

FileMaker is used to create custom solutions in several companies nowadays as they do not demand any additional time or effort. The presence of a cross platform relational database further helps users to modify or update their databases by simply dragging new elements into layouts, screens and forms. The latest version of FileMaker also allows the data to be accessed from various mobile as well as conventional devices. There are certain best practices that the developers must consider and implement in order to build accessible and robust solutions with the help of FileMaker.

Save time and boost productivity by following these WordPress tips

Lately, WordPress has evolved to be a powerful platform lending itself to infinite possibilities; the only limit being one’s own creativity. Thousands of new sites of WordPress are created every day; a significant percentage of the internet runs on WordPress with the monthly views of pages rising considerably. Statistics indicate that the numbers of views as well as percentage of internet running on WordPress sites will further continue to grow as many people have chosen it as their preferred content management system.

22 January, 2015

5 Reasons Why Businesses Should Include Drupal in Their Digital Agenda

As an open source content management framework, Drupal is used by businesses across the world for building a variety of websites. Along with being a popular back-end framework, Drupal can also be used for business collaboration and knowledge management. It is designed with most features provided by other popular content management systems including creation and maintenance of accounts, customization of page layouts, menu management, RSS feeds and system administration.

21 January, 2015

What should we know about Vanilla JS?

With the introduction of Web 2.0 as well as a host of web applications, the frameworks have become increasingly complex. Such complex frameworks are widely used for websites, chats, social networking sites and even for Wikipedia. There are various javascript frameworks which can be implemented easily by editing the DOM structures or the CSS styles. Then the REST requests have to be sent and the HTML elements have to be manipulated as well as animated. Hence, there are a wide range of choices when it comes to developing the modern web applications. In fact there are a number of JavaScript developers who prefer working with jQuery. If you are planning to work with JS, it would be helpful to know that Vanilla JS and jQuery are often compared. The debate on which is a better tool to work with will continue. As per experts while working with a robust website or large amounts of front end codes, jQuery is especially helpful.

20 January, 2015

Handy tools for ColdFusion developers

ColdFusion is a framework which was developed by Jeremy Allaire and J J Allaire in 1995. But in 2005 it was taken over by Adobe. From then with few enhancements in the framework it is now well known being a powerful framework for web development process. Well many times we see people using ColdFusion term as a language. But the fact is it is a framework which is developed in the language CFML. Since it is a framework, we can expect futuristic features for the web developers which will definitely decrease the effort for developing enterprise standard web applications in less time and more accuracy. Moreover, it has already a good track record of around one decade which indicates its efficiency and reliability in the industry. There are many modules, features and plugins for the ColdFusion framework which will help the ColdFusion developers in developing quick websites with all modern amenities. Let us have a quick look over few important tools which can be integrated with the framework to make it even powerful and efficient.

19 January, 2015

Why do customers prefer Zend certified PHP programmers?

The Zend PHP Certification is a widely recognized program that measures the expertise of the PHP professionals. The employers use this certification to evaluate their prospective employees. This certification is offered by the company that includes several areas required to develop applications. The reason why customers are increasingly opting for Zend certified PHP programmers is that every company is looking forward for maximum returns at low costs. In addition the competition is rising as well. Under such circumstances the Zend.

Features of ASP.Net vNext that will wow you

Yet another breakthrough from Microsoft: After ruling more than a decade through its flagship product asp.net, this time Microsoft came up with a new framework which can make you say wow with its first look. This new product is asp.net vNext. It is developed considering the future demand in mind by the efficient team from Microsoft. A web developer can develop an enterprise standard futuristic advanced web application using vNext in less time and more accuracy. Hence tech experts are accepting this as a breakthrough from Microsoft to make a clear path for the future. Let us have a brief look over its awesome features.

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It’s Open Source! Yes you heard it correctly. The Microsoft’s asp.net vNext is an open source micro framework for the asp.net developers. Open source means a developer can modify its source code as per his requirement. So now we can develop web projects without the need of visual studio. Moreover, the asp.net vNext is available on Github. So we can expect a better support as well.

vNext is micro yet efficient: Thought vNext is micro in size but it is extremely efficient in developing enterprise standard web applications for future. It can produce responsive web applications which are not only eye catchy but also light weight. Moreover due to small size this needs less memory for both development process as well as execution of the application. This framework is extremely optimized considering the future web browsing devices like smart phones and tablets in mind. Hence we can say though it is tinny in size but its dynamite in performance.

vNext is compatible with Cloud: We all know the importance of cloud service for the future generation web applications. Every web developer or asp.net developer must learn to integrate cloud support in their application making it fit for future. Cloud support helps in developing light weight yet efficient web applications for modern hand held computers like smart phones and tablets. Due to light weight, asp.net web developers can give you better user experience without compromising on the quality of the application.

vNext can produce cross platform apps: Microsoft sought loudly while introducing asp.net vNext that “Mobile first, Cloud first”. From this we can easily guess what vNext is aiming for. VNext is to develop industry standard mobile web applications which can run on different platforms. Asp.net developers can now produce single app which can give the same user experience in different platforms like windows, MAC or Linux. Moreover web developers can produce cross platform smart phone apps for Android and IOS along with windows operating system.

No need to build, every time you made change: Unlike ASP .net framework, the vNext framework does not require the asp.net developers to build the application after change made by the developer. Now web developers can simply modified the code on the IDE and they can view the effect just by refreshing the browser without any need of build. This helps in preventing the irritating behaviour of asp.net framework for the web developer.

The same charm of .Net still exists: Just imagine an asp.net application which needs just 10% of the framework and for that the developers have to install the whole framework. This is nothing but waste of time, effort and memory. To prevent this peculiar situation, asp.net vNext comes with a tiny package with all those necessary features of asp.net with addition of few futuristic features to help the developer in developing modern web applications. At the same time it doesn’t take away that awesome charm of asp.net while you are projected to the new vNext environment.

You can hire developers from top asp.net development companies in India who can help you build web applications according to your ideas within allocated budget and time schedules.

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15 January, 2015

Rise in Selenium Testing. What makes it so good?

Selenium is a widely used automation testing tool that is applied to test the web based apps. It is an open source testing tool that can run easily on several OS and browsers. A user friendly tool, it can be used to run test scripts on any web browser that have been developed by using various programming languages, including, C, Java, C++, Python, Perl, .Net, Ruby, etc. The big question here is why Selenium? Well, one of the primary reasons is it is still one of the finest tools available for testing web applications. Its compatibility to work with multiple operating systems and browsers has increased its demand.

14 January, 2015

Top IDEs for Ruby on Rails

Importance of IDE for ROR: Ruby on rails is a modern web language-framework combo to develop enterprise standard web applications on the fly. In past two years we have seen there is a stupendous popularity gain of Ruby on Rails due to its simple syntax and easy to learn approach. Web developers love the way they are developing web solutions in a much faster way than before using Ruby on Rail framework. Experts have already indicated about a bright future for Ruby on Rails in coming period. Any framework is incomplete without an IDE because, IDE provides lots of assistances to the web developer or ROR developer while developing quick websites. IDE can remember all the function names, variables, classes etc and it will assist the developer while writing the code with auto complete feature. It also helps in writing readable and maintainable codes with proper indentation. The best part is it notifies basic mistakes on the web developer’s code on the UI. Hence a web developer or Ruby developer can’t ignore the importance of IDE in rails framework. Let us have a quick look over few featured IDE for Ruby on Rail developers.

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RubyMine: Well, JetBrains has a tremendous popularity among the web developers since it has produced many industry standard development environments. Rubymine is yet another wing to its feathers. It is probably the best IDE for the Ruby developers to develop modern web applications effortlessly and of course quickly. JetBrains provide a free 30 days trial period for this product for the web developers. You can also purchase a full functional Rubymine IDE to develop enterprise standard web applications on the fly.

Komodo IDE: Well, we don’t need any introduction for Komodo IDE for the web developers. Komodo is almost everywhere starting from HTML, CSS, PHP, ASP, Python and Perl etc. Everyone knows the reliability and assistance that Komodo provides to the web developer in developing effortless web applications. Komodo has all those features which are needed to write faster and better codes for the Ruby developers. Hence it has all time popularity among the web developers in different languages.

Aptana Studio 3: Aptana Studio 3 is an open source development tool for developing modern web applications. It also enables the web developers to test their web applications in single environment. As Komodo, is also supports languages like PHP, Python, Ruby, HTML5, CSS3 and Java Script etc. It provides the support for protocols like FTP, FTPs, SFTP and Capistrano. The best part is it can automatically publish your ROR application to hosting services like Heroku and Engine yard. So this is treated as the most featured IDE for ROR developers.

Arcadia: This is totally dedicated for Ruby developers. Because this IDE is developed by Ruby language and hence it can best fit to Ruby on Rails framework. It is extremely light weight tool kit. It provides all features of an ideal IDE like editing, debugging, source browsing, auto completion, syntax highlighting etc. Moreover it also supports cross platform compatibility test for the Ruby developers.

Besides above there are many small and light weight IDEs for Ruby developers like ICE coder, Netbeans, Redcar etc. Almost all the IDE share common features for the web developers with a very few unique features within them and those unique features make them to stand unique.

You can hire developers from top Ruby on Rails development company in India who can help you build Ruby applications within allocated budgets and time schedules.

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13 January, 2015

Android developers are in great demand – Reasons

Smartphone market is getting hotter: It is next to impossible for any tech savvy person to ignore the importance of smart phones in recent trend. It is already predicted that the smart phone market is going to be 200% larger in next year. Already we have seen a stupendous growth of smart phone market in past few years. Moreover the market is getting even hotter due to the entry of world’s top IT giants into the smart phone market with their products like Google’s Android operating system, Microsoft windows 8.1 and Apple’s iOS. On the other hand, it is providing a great platform for the software developer and web developers to showcase their talent by developing enterprise standard smart phone apps which can be a native app or a web app or a hybrid one.

12 January, 2015

How easy is it to develop agile applications using PHP?

The development of agile software seems to be a difficult task if one is not familiar with specific frameworks that are designed for this purpose. In such cases, indulging oneself in building complex software applications may turn out to be a highly time consuming affair. In-depth knowledge of appropriate frameworks powered with proper utilization help in the faster development of agile applications.

08 January, 2015

HTML5 for your mobile website. How good is it?

In past decade, we have seen a tremendous growth in the use of mobile devices due to entry of low cost budget handsets in developing countries like India and China. Moreover new touch screen based operating systems are being well accepted by the users. Google’s Andriod, Apple’s iOS and Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 are making the environment warmer. At this point of time, web developers in the industry are also inclining towards developing web applications for smart phones and tablets. Due to portability and small in size, mobile devices like Smart Phones and PDAs are getting an overnight popularity. Moreover, these devices are having all time internet connectivity through mobile networks using 2G and 3G services. As a result, users love to browse internet using these portable devices. This triggers the web developers to develop modern mobile websites and mobile apps for their users.

07 January, 2015

Few Tips and Tricks to Work on Selenium

As a portable software testing framework, Selenium is used widely for automating websites and web applications for testing purpose. Along with automating web browsers, Selenium is also effective in automating the web-based administration tasks. It further allows QA professionals to write test cases in C#, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Python, Objective-C and Ruby. At the same time, the testing framework is also compatible with major operating systems and web browsers. However, you must be familiar with a number of tips and tricks to effectuate web application testing with Selenium.

06 January, 2015

Certified ASP.Net developers is what businesses look for. Why?

Every business in recent trend is being influenced by the IT industry knowingly or unknowingly. Internet connectivity has seen a magical change during past few years. It is now not limited to just a specific size of region on the globe rather it is now covered almost all geographic area of the globe. Well this is possible due to the GPRS and 2G or 3G mobile networks available around the globe. Due to wireless internet connectivity the cost of infrastructure has been limited to a great extent. Moreover, user needn’t to spend much for the desktop machine rather these are replaced by modern era smart phones and tablets. Users love the way they browse internet from their hand held computer devices at any time at anywhere using the internet connectivity through mobile networks. On the other hand, enterprise is getting the benefit from this situation because it helps them to reach at their target audience without much effort with accuracy. So every business now relies on web applications to expand their business.

05 January, 2015

Ruby on Rails development has gained popularity these days – Reasons

In the era of web application: If we say we are in the web era, it will be not at all an over statement because in past decade if something has crossed all the limits of human expectation that is none other than web application services. Almost all the sectors and domains are heavily influenced by the web application industry. May it be IT, education, finance, tourism or garments industry etc all are taking the help of web services to expand their business to a next level. In this phase, we have seen a number of new languages that are web domain specific in nature have entered into the industry to help the web developers in developing industry standard web applications. Ruby is such a language which is highly motivated to develop enterprise standard web applications for modern platforms efficiently.