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Wednesday, 16 January 2013

The two most prevalent open source CMS solutions used on the Web are Joomla and Drupal

Both of them Joomla and Drupal offer plenty of features for users to customize their websites and they have almost the same functionalities. Both Joomla and Drupal are free and open source Content Management Systems. But each of them has their own strengths, weaknesses and unique features. Each has its own community and user base, as well as a well-maintained repository of themes/templates and plugins/extensions.
Drupal
Drupal is considered to be less user-friendly. It needs a lot of time to get used to it. It is known for its robust code and has varieties of rich add-ons. Drupal is mostly used in many large and corporate business environments. With the advent of Drupal 7, it has gained the reputation of being as user-friendly as a CMS can be. Modules such as Panels, Webform and Views make website creation very simple for the end user, and such features are expected to progress even further in upcoming releases.
Drupal is more of a framework CMS nurtured by a large community of developers. Therefore, Drupal developers grow as fix/create things that matter most to them. The positive point is the loyal community that is always willing to give back to Drupal. On the negative side, more often than not, a newbie to Drupal is greeted by the, “if you don’t find/like it, please feel free to contribute,” condition.
Joomla

Joomla is known for its comfort of use and installation. You do not need any programming experience to build websites using Joomla. It offers a one-click installation for websites, letting you to set up a site within a few minutes. The interface is very user-friendly and it permits new sites to be easily managed and updated with a variety of extensions. It is well suited for small ventures and startups. Joomla attempts to cater to end users, designers and developers alike. The CMS is flexible and customizable, and boasts of a large community, as well as numerous extensions and templates.
With each release, Joomla has shown a steady pace of development. However, there is still a long way to go. For instance, when it comes to out-of-the-box SEO, Joomla lags behind Drupal. While the admin panel lets you do virtually everything — from publishing articles to sending newsletter emails, running a big website with Joomla can get puzzling.
How to Use CMS
Joomla has a great graphical interface and is the most user-friendly CMS. It is the easiest full-feature CMS for the site owner or the webmaster. The admin usability is good in Joomla. Even non-technical people can use Joomla without any effort and clients can be trained to use it efficiently.
In contrast, Drupal is not so easy to handle. You need some technical knowledge to work with or install the modules of Drupal. The admin interface is text-driven and is often confusing to beginners. It is difficult to manage the site when any kind of ACL (Access Control List) is used.
Performance of the CMS
When it comes to performance, Drupal always stays on top. The powerful and coarse structure of Drupal makes it easy to manage any kind of issues.
Joomla lags behind in performance when compared with Drupal.
Security
Joomla offers a dedicated Joomla Development community that offers updates and fixes as soon as problems occur. Your website is secure if you use up-to-date extensions and configure your website properly.
Drupal users subscribe to the security mailing list in order to stay informed of the security advisories. The weaknesses are found and fixed even before they conquer any live website. A survey says that more than 90% of security-based issues are caused by user-made modules and themes in Drupal.
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Tuesday, 15 January 2013

Software Outsourcing in China and Japan

Software and IT services (SITS) industry will shamble along for at least the rest of this year and the next before staging a very gradual recovery. This is according to bean-counters at Tech Market View, whose stats show the sector has been in annual decline since the recession that started in 2008 – and shows no signs of improving in the medium term.
China's growing Software Outsourcing trade with Japan is expected to rise even faster after Premier Wen Jiabao's "ice-melting" and DHC started outsourcing computer software from Japan in 1996, a time when Sino-Japanese relations were at low ebb tide.
Political hindrances have not impeded our business," said Liu. Dalian Hi-Think Computer Technologies (DHC) Co. Ltd is one of China's leading Software Development firms. Manager Liu Jun is proud of its big-name customers, including technology giants Hitachi, Sony, Mitsubishi and NEC.

Dalian, a Japanese colony for 40 years before the end of World War II, became the outsourcing center of information technology to Japan due to its geographical proximity and its skilled labor force. The city's software industry sales last year set a new record at 10 billion yuan (1.23 billion U.S. dollars), maintaining a 60 percent annual rise in the past six years.
China accounted for more than 60 percent of Japan's outsourced software trade in 2009 and has become the country's biggest software outsourcing base," said Mine Shentaro, of the Japan External Trade Organization based in Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning Province. "We think 2011 could be even slightly worse than 2010," it warned. "We are now forecasting that the UK SITS market will shrink again in real terms by 3 per cent ... and then one more year of decline in 2012, of just another 1 per cent."
This is why we have reduced our growth forecasts from 2012 onwards," it said, "We still believe that we remain in the midst of a five-year market decline in real terms. Cloud computing will have the most disruptive influence on the UK SITS segment, accounting for 30 per cent or £12.5bn of sales by 2014. But only software outsourcing company resellers and service suppliers that overhaul business and operating models will take advantage of this new delivery mode and those can do this the quickest stand the best chance of making money.
Previous years According to a government plan for the software development and information services, China aims to generate 168 billion U.S. dollars from the software sector and export 12.5 billion U.S. dollars worth of software services in 2010.
INDIA is in a recovery mode from the hugely impacted global financial meltdown surfaced in mid-September 2008. An advance estimate of the Central Statistical Organization indicates to 7.2 percent GDP growth during the current fiscal year (2009-10), though the government expects it may even surpass the CSO estimates. Coupled with this, the industry is sending encouraging feeler to fuel the hope for a better revival of the economy from the onslaught of the meltdown that had impacted among others India's exports like most of other countries around the world. The cumulative growth for the period April-December 2009-10 stands at 8.6 percent.
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Thursday, 10 January 2013

Captivating & free mobile phone applications utilizing complex SDK platforms

Technology is changing rapidly along with the way in which people communicate. Leading the way are mobile devices that use Android mobile apps exclusively and extensively.
In recent times people not only depend on their mobile devices to stay in touch, they also use these devices to make purchases, play games, read books, check the emails, online chatting, face book, twitter, ebay marketing, to use the SMS application and to watch movies etc .
As a business owner or manager, you need to capitalize on the trend by giving your business an edge in communications. For Android application users, that edge can be effective Google mobile apps that allow clients and customers to keep in touch and to communicate. We build mobile applications that make sense and are easy to use.
Now the application development process and its implementation can be made faster than other operating systems. Android SDK [Android Software Development Kit] helps the Android Apps Developers in starting and implementing applications very rapidly.
Android is a complete Open source mobile platform built on the Linux 2.6 kernel that exposes a robust operating system, a comprehensive set of libraries, a rich multimedia user interface and a complete set of phone applications.

Android SDK can be downloaded from the official web site of Android Developers. Android SDK is a Droid emulator that allows developers to test functionalities, capabilities and process of Android App Development which make developer free from loading and unloading software.
Android software development kit offers APIs and other useful and needed tools to develop android mobile applications. By nature, android is an open source so it is easily available in the android app market; which helps developers use Java programming language and create applications of different types.
Android has rich support for Audio/Media types and Graphics and has support of its core library for developers to build third party applications. It offers plenty of benefits to the Android App Developers which help them in building suitable application for Android development project.
Utilizing the complex Google Android SDK platform, our highly qualified Android Application Developer explores the unlimited possibilities of Android through its comprehensive set of development tools.
Benefits of Zaptech Solutions - Android App Development:
  • Android applications have Linux core, which safe guards them against anomalies and prevent them from crashing which leads to robust and stable android apps.
  • Simple and easy Android application development process.
  • Easy to use APIs and development tools.
  • Ability to gather information fast.
  • WebKit engine integration for rich browser facility.
  • Hassle free application porting.
  • Low mobile application development costs due to its open source nature.
  • Save time of developers which tend to understand them client’s requirements.
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We have experience of developing variety of Android Mobile Applications for diverse businesses including several small scale companies to large enterprises. Whether it's a simple program development or a highly sophisticated and complex application; we will serve you right away at your affordability.

Tuesday, 8 January 2013

Market overview and performance of software outsourcing and Development Company

Application development is the development or progress of a software product in a planned way and prearranged process. It is also referred to as software process, software outsourcing, and software lifecycle and Software Development Company.
Application development involves producing a computer program, or set of programs to execute responsibilities, from keeping track of inventory and billing customers to maintaining accounts, speeding up business process and, in fact, even improving application efficiency.
Unlike vanilla programming, application development involves higher levels of responsibility (particularly for requirement capturing and testing). The Software Application Development industry has seen a lot of revolutionize in a relative short period of time. From both sides–customers looking for software solutions and the resource pool of application development talent – there has been considerable upheaval over the last few years.
Software preservation is a very extensive activity often defined as including all work made on a software system after it becomes operational. It covers the correction of errors, the enhancement, deletion and addition of capabilities, the alteration to changes in data requirements and operation environments, the improvement of performance, usability, or any other quality attribute.

The IEEE defines Software preservation as the process of modifying a software system or component after delivery to correct faults, to get better performances or other attributes, or get used to to a changed environment.
Previous Years Market Overview and Performance
According to Gartner, worldwide IT spending exceeded $3.4 trillion in 2008, an 8% increase compared with 2007 expenditure. In a separate report Gartner (IT Key Metrics November 2008) estimates that 20% of global IT is spent on Software application development, which represents $625 billion in 2007 and $680 billion in 2008. Gartner Dataquest (March 2009) estimated 2009 Global IT spending at $3.235 trillion, which is a decline of 4.8% compared to 2008. The corresponding size of the application development market for 2009 would be US$ 647 Billion.
Current Market
According to Gartner, the growth in worldwide IT spending in 2010 is expected to reach $3.4 trillion by the end of 2010, a 4.6% increase from 2009. The projected growth reveals the significant improvement from the previous year (4.8% decline in 2009) and is expected across all major segments – computer hardware, IT services, software outsourcing, telecom, and telecom services.
Based on this, the application development and preservation market is projected using a growth rate of 4.6% from 2010 to 2012. It is assumed that 20% of global IT expenditure is exhausted on Software Development.
Competition in the Market
The Leading Competitors of the application development and maintenance industry are shown below. Further, in the US alone, there are 117,000+ firms dealing with Computer systems design and related services. IBM leads the list with a market share of 11.6% followed by HP and Microsoft at 9.3% and 8.6% respectively. IBM is also the leading employer followed by HP and Accenture.In the case of growth rate, Cognizant, Infosys and Wipro lead the list with growth rates of 16.4%, 12% and 8.1% respectively. Accenture recorded the least growth rate of 8%.

Sunday, 6 January 2013

Advanced PHP Features in Your Client-Side Applications

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly.
When someone visits your PHP webpage, your web server processes the PHP code. It then sees which parts it needs to show to visitors(content and pictures) and hides the other stuff(file operations, math calculations, etc.) then translates your PHP into HTML. After the translation into HTML, it sends the webpage to your visitor's web browser.
PHP - What's it do?
  • Reduce the time to create large websites.
  • Create a customized user experience for visitors based on information that you have gathered from them.
  • Open up thousands of possibilities for online tools. Check out PHP - HotScripts for examples of the great things that are possible with PHP.
  • Allow creation of shopping carts for e-commerce websites.
PHP is mainly focused on server-side scripting, so you can do anything any other CGI (Common Gateway Interface)program can do, such as collect form data, generate dynamic page content, or send and receive cookies. But PHP can do much more.

There are three main areas where PHP scripts are used.
Server-side scripting - This is the most traditional and main target field for PHP. You need three things to make this work. The PHP parser (CGI or server module), a web server and a web browser. You need to run the web server, with a connected PHP installation. You can access the PHP program output with a web browser, viewing the PHP page through the server. All these can run on your home machine if you are just experimenting with PHP programming. See the installation instructions section for more information.
Command line scripting - You can make a PHP script to run it without any server or browser. You only need the PHP parser to use it this way. This type of usage is ideal for scripts regularly executed using cron (on *nix or Linux) or Task Scheduler (on Windows). These scripts can also be used for simple text processing tasks. See the section about Command line usage of PHP for more information.
Writing desktop applications- PHP is probably not the very best language to create a desktop application with a graphical user interface, but if you know PHP very well, and would like to use some advanced PHP features in your client-side applications you can also use PHP-GTK to write such programs. You also have the ability to write cross-platform applications this way. PHP-GTK is an extension to PHP, not available in the main distribution
PHP can be used on all major operating systems, including Linux, many UNIX variants (including HP-UX, Solaris and OpenBSD), Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, RISC OS, and probably others. PHP has also support for most of the web servers today. This includes Apache, IIS, and many others. And this includes any web server that can utilize the FastCGI PHP binary, like lighttpd and nginx. PHP works as either a module, or as a CGI processor.
So with PHP, you have the freedom of choosing an operating system and a web server. Furthermore, you also have the choice of using procedural programming or object oriented programming (OOP), or a mixture of them both.
With PHP you are not limited to output HTML. PHP's abilities include outputting images, PDF files and even Flash movies (using libswf and Ming) generated on the fly. You can also output easily any text, such as XHTML and any other XML file. PHP can autogenerate these files, and save them in the file system, instead of printing it out, forming a server-side cache for your dynamic content.
One of the strongest and most significant features in PHP is its support for a wide range of databases. Writing a database-enabled web page is incredibly simple using one of the database specific extensions (e.g., for mysql), or using an abstraction layer like PDO, or connect to any database supporting the Open Database Connection standard via the ODBC extension. Other databases may utilizecURL or sockets, like CouchDB.
PHP also has support for talking to other services using protocols such as LDAP, IMAP, SNMP, NNTP, POP3, HTTP, COM (on Windows) and countless others. You can also open raw network sockets and interact using any other protocol. PHP has support for the WDDX complex data exchange between virtually all Web programming languages. Talking about interconnection, PHP has support for instantiation of Java objects and using them transparently as PHP objects.
PHP has useful text processing features, which include the Perl compatible regular expressions (PCRE), and many extensions and tools to parse and access XML documents. PHP standardizes all of the XML extensions on the solid base of libxml2, and extends the feature set adding SimpleXML, XMLReader and XMLWriter support.
And many other interesting extensions exist, which are categorized both alphabetically and by category. And there are additional PECL extensions that may or may not be documented within the PHP manual itself.
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Friday, 4 January 2013

Turn Your Wordpress Site Into a Powerful Online Store

Wordpress is undoubtedly the most popular CMS (content management system) for managing a blog or site. It's flexible, user-friendly and packed with awesome features. What more could you want? Well, if you're one of the many small business owners trying to conduct business online, the ability to sell products would be a great plus.
But, why Wordpress? Why not some other eCommerce solution? For me, the answer is clear. First, Wordpress allows anyone without programming experience to manage their own website. There is no need of technical programming skills and designing templates layout. Second, most of the eCommerce solutions out there are not nearly as intuitive or stable as Wordpress. Wordpress offer multipale widgets and plugins to enhance its beautyful nevigation and website layour for design.  Third, if you've already tried Wordpress, there's no way you'd consider using a different CMS because you know how user-friendly Wordpress is.
Wordpress is one of the best blogging platforms out there, but how would it work for an online store? By itself, Wordpress isn't much of a storefront, but when you integrate a professional store theme to it, then you get an amazing online store. This is where Market Theme comes in.

Wordpress provide lots of commercial website themes where clients can upload their own products well. Its commercial theme and web template give a robust Wordpress theme that turns your simple Wordpress site into a fully functioning online store in a matter of minutes. Just look at some of the great benefits you get in touch with Wordpress Website Designer. You can rest assured that with WordPress you will be on the cutting edge of the technology available.
Wordpress Website Development Features:
  • Easy installation and setup.
  • Easy customization via admin section.
  • Easy product management.
  • Multiple images per product.
  • Nicely integrates with your blog.
  • Cross-blog communication tools
  • Intelligent text formatting
  • Ping away
  • XML-RPC interface
  • Easy Importing
  • SEO-friendly.
  • Supports multiple languages and currencies.
  • Active support community.
  • Free lifetime upgrades.
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Wednesday, 2 January 2013

Definition of CMS like Joomla vs. WordPress Development

When it comes to CMSs, WordPress and Joomla are the leading names today. Both are open source Softwares, and are free to use and customize. Each has its own community and user base, as well as a well-maintained repository of themes/templates and plugins/extensions. And all have their pros and cons.
Joomla vs. WordPress Comparison
WordPress
The WordPress content management system is aperfect platform for the bloggers as it is easy to install and use.
  • You can tailor it according to your requirements.
  • Furthermore for its customization you don’t need to have in-depth and extensive programming knowledge.
  • You can make your website more vibrant by using WordPress plug-ins which can be installed easily.
  • This technology gives your website an in-built platform letting visitors to comment on your posts automatically. WordPress is one of the best CMS platform used and recognized by many bloggers.
Joomla
  • Joomla CMS is an outstanding content management system letting easy management and maintenance of your website, with little or no programming knowledge needed.
  • It offers all the mandatory features right from adding and updating everything such as images, article pages, navigation menus.
  • Increasing the functionality of a website can be managed by number of extensions offered by Joomla software.
  • Joomla provides full flexibility to developers to design a website the way they want.

Joomla vs.Wordpress
Comparison between Joomla vs. WordPress
  • If you want to add images, publish new items, WordPress is exceptionally easy to use. Whereas Joomla presents a more “feature-rich” CMS, though one needs to get the hang of making the modifications.
  • In comparison to WordPress, Joomla is supported by a strong community to help the end users.
  • Joomla is unsurpassed for creating websites concerned with e-commerce and website needing a more professional touch. Joomla has thousands of extensions to offer, which are instrumental in increasing the functionality of a website. With its wider flexibility, improved features and premier extensions, Joomla to greater extent out beats WordPress.
  • Joomla was created from the ground up and over the years it has grown as an acclaimed CMS, while WordPress was designed as a publishing platform that has developed gradually into a CMS, offering each unique skill. These are the reasons why many developers declare that Joomla wins in the comparison between Joomla vs. WordPress.
Why use Joomla over WordPress
Because of the power and flexibility provided by the Joomla CMS, it has become one of the most popular CMS available in the market. Reasons for its enormousacceptance are its features, plentifulcapabilities and a well-developed custom database work. Joomla offers a complex multiple user privilege system, with user registration and layered content privileges, while WordPress does not have the privilege system capability. Joomla is also the best open source CMS solution when it comes to multiple user groups. In nutshell both platforms work well for managing websites, WordPress is the best option for small to medium business. But Joomla is a fantastic option for a website that requires multiple user privileges or custom database work.
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