Thursday, April 30, 2009

What are you focusing on?

A Tale of Swami Vivekananda,

Once swami vivekananda pointed out a finger and asked his disciple

'Do you see it?'

'What do you see?'Swamiji asked.

From the disciple's asnwer he surmised that he has not seen what he pointed out.

'Of course, your finger, Sir' He answered.

Most of us are like this disciples.
We miss the scenic beauty the finger is pointing out. We see only the finger.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Offshore Software Development

What is Offshore Software Development?

Offshore software development is a model of software development process where software development services are provided by an external supplier
who is located at different country from client's location. Many a times it refers to the company / parties to whom work is outsourced, is located at geographically different area. This paradigm is called as Offshore Outsourcing.

The main reason behind using offshore software development:
- Higher costs of development in advanced countries
- Nature of software needs when it can be outsourced
- Skilled and Cheap Manpower availability in some countries

Majorly India, Israel, Canada and Ireland are leading countries involved in Offshore outsourcing business. There are many other countries like European
, Asian, mainly developing nations are a part of this.

Advantages:
- Low Cost
- Taking advantage of Different timezones
- Advantage of internet based development
- No fixed cost for the company which is outsourcing
- Focus on key Strength or core competence and outsource other things
- Take a edge on competition with reducing cost but keeping quality

Contact us for any queries on Offshore Software Development .

Whats Next:
Industry experts have predicted that in coming years R n D i.e. Research and Development will be outsourced more.
Again this trend will work till the developing countries can product sufficient number of highly skilled professionals.
Its also being said that after some years this process will slow down as the developing nations will not be able to match up the demands
of highly skilled persons like MBA's, PHD's etc.

Still in the long term scenario its being considered as growing area of Outsourcing.



Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Facebook opens Activity Streams

Considering rising popularity .. Facebook has recently opened up Activity Stream. It will enable
- Instant Actions based on events
- Real time notifications
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The goal is to give Facebook members applications designed to let them access, organize, read, interact with and manage this flow of postings, the company said on Monday in an official blog.

Developers will be able to access activity content via the new Facebook Open Stream API (application programming interface).
Dave Morin, Facebook's senior platform manager, said the API will for the first time allow activity streams to appear outside of the Facebook Web site.

"We expect developers will create many different client applications on mobile phones, desktops and other Web sites, and provide many interesting ways to consume the stream and create unique experiences for users," Morin said in an interview.

This is a good move because it will help Facebook members have more control over the sometimes-overwhelming speed and quantity of information flowing into their activity streams, IDC analyst Caroline Dangson said.

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Saturday, April 25, 2009

Running Windows 7 on a netbook

Microsoft has said that any version of Windows 7 will run on a netbook. We try it with Windows 7 Ultimate.

This is seemingly significant notification from microsoft. As even currently many notebooks with limited hardware are unable to run Windows Vista. Hence for such notebooks microsoft recommends running win XP.

The surprising thing is although Microsoft is claiming that it will run on limited version notebooks but intel has not confirmed so. In fact they are saying they doubt the same.

Microsoft states that Windows 7 requires a 1-GHz processor, 1GB of main memory and support for DirectX 9 graphics with 128MB of memory (for the Aero interface). The company recommends that you have at least 16GB of available disk space for the installation; Windows 7 actually takes up about 5GB.

Trek to Ramshej

Last sunday we had been to Ramshej fort. It was a fine early morning where we started like at 6 AM. The fresh and cool winds welcomed us on the ascending path. Enjoying the fresh air we reached the plateu quite rapidly. There we took a look at the old door which is almost closed now due to sand / rocks etc. We found that this must be the ancient entry point of the fort.

Afterwards we reached at the top and seen many water cisterns.

By remembering the glorius history of ramshej fort and the killedar's memories, wondering how they have fought with almost no weapons for almost a year with Aurangzeb, we returned back the home.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

iPhone sales up 123 percent, Apple profits up $1.21 bn

Despite the economic slowdown, There is no impact on Apple Inc. as Cupertino-based electronic and software giant posted a quarterly profit of $1.21 billion on revenue of $8.16 billion.

Driven by higher sales of iPhones and iPods, Apple's quarterly profit is 15.2 per cent up from $1.05 billion during the same period a year ago.

The International Sales contributed 46% to company's revenue.

During second quarter, Apple sold 3.79 million iPhones, up a huge 123 per cent from the same period last year.




Saturday, April 18, 2009

Ruby on Rails

Ruby on rails is an open source web development framework for applications developed using Ruby Programming language.

Ruby on rails is often called as ROR or Rails. Ruby works good with Agile software development principles / methodology.

Ruby on Rails uses Model View Controller i.e. MVC architecture for web applications.
Like any other web programming language Ruby needs web server. Mongrel is the webserver which is a favorite option for ruby. But Ruby can also be run using apache and similar web servers.

For more information on ruby on rails please visit http://rubyonrails.org/

for any queries on Ruby on rails development contact us.

Lets write your first Hello World program using Ruby on Rails




Thursday, April 9, 2009

Why wordpress is very popular?

WordPress is a very popular open source script used as publishing platform.

1)Wide applicability:
It can be used across many industries.
2) Templating system:
Templating system can help to change template of wordpress and hence you can have any look which is similar to your site / your needs.
3) Open Source
As its open source which is written with PHP-MySQL, a very popular web development tools. Using script one can edit themes to have advanced effects / facilities.
4) Search Engine Optimization:
The url management is search engine friendly and often permalinks are provided.
It helps in getting your site listed in Search engines.
5) Huge plugin architecture:
Wordpress has very huge plugin architecture. You can add many useful facilties which can be added as a sort of plugins.
6) Integrated Stats:
Wordpress gives you up to date stats on how many people are visiting you site / blog, where are they coming from, popular posts seen by the people, search engine terms used to search ur blog etc. In short it presents good analysis which one can use to take decisions.


Why use Wordpress?


  • Security
    • WordPress offers user logins
    • These logins may belong to one of five different access levels
  • Database access and mapping
    • DB classes are to remove logic to connect to the database and make running queries more simple
    • The Options storage mechanism is provided to allow for simple storage and retrieval of data that doesn’t need to have queries run against it
  • URL mapping (SEO Friendly)
    • WordPress offers the Permalinks options that allow for easily modifying how URLs will be generated and used
    • The WordPress Rewrite API allows for modification and addition of rewrite rules
  • Web template system - WordPress’ template system with themes is highly capable and flexible
  • Caching
    • Caching offers execution speed improvements by caching frequently-used objects
  • Web services - WordPress supports publishing via Atom, XML-RPC, and email as well as automatic pinging and producing and parsing RSS feeds

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Thursday, April 2, 2009

WordPress Templates, wordpress customizations, themes, plugins

WordPress is a very popular open source script used as publishing platform.

Why word press is so popular...
1) Wide applicability:
It can be used across many industries.
2) Templating system:
Templating system can help to change template of wordpress and hence you can have any look which is similar to your site / your needs.
3) Open Source
As its open source which is written with PHP-MySQL, a very popular web development tools. Using script one can edit themes to have advanced effects / facilities.
4) Search Engine Optimization:
The url management is search engine friendly and often permalinks are provided.
It helps in getting your site listed in Search engines.
5) Huge plugin architecture:
Wordpress has very huge plugin architecture. You can add many useful facilties which can be added as a sort of plugins.

Just comment here if you want to know more or have any queries.
Also we can help you in wordpress development, Customization, wordpress template implementation anytime.



 
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