Archive for April, 2010

Software Developer

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

A software developer is a programmer who is concerned with one or more facets of the software development process, a somewhat broader scope of computer programming. This person may contribute to the overview of the project on the application level rather than component level or individual programming tasks. Software developers are often still guided by lead programmers but also encompasses the class of freelance software developers.

Open Source Web Solutions

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

In India we have seen a surge in the Open Source stuff. We have seen a mad rush for off the shelf solutions. Clients are ready to shred off Dollars as well as Pounds to get an Open Source work their way.

The beauty about this all is that we have good brainy Software Engineers, who are capable of providing quality and timely delverables. All this makes us Indians as a hot destination for maximum of the Open Source out sourcing.

Php, Ajax and Xml…The Big Trio

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Open Source Websolutions are moving at a very fast pace and we have a trio of names as its back bone. Php helps us to create Dynamic web pages, which are handy for SEO stuff, Ajax lets us to have a Static feel with a Dynamic tinge to the web page and Xml does the trick on the back end, with its data transmission skills.

So the new slogan for todays web technology is PAX. So guys, lets start packing our skill sets with all these hot shots to be the front runners of the new horizon web techs.

Joomla – The CMS

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Joomla is an Open Source Content Management System(CMS), which enables you to build Web Sites and Powerful Online Web Applications. Many aspects, including its Ease-of-Use and Extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site Software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

What is a Content Management System (CMS)?

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Content Management System is a Web Software that keeps track of every piece of content on your Web site, much like your local public library keeps track of books and stores them.

Content can be simple text, photos, music, video, documents, or just about anything you can think of. A major advantage of using a Content Management System is that it requires almost no technical skill or knowledge on your part to manage. Since the CMS manages all your content, you don’t have to worry about this.

ASP.net – What is it all about?

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

ASP.net was developed by Mark Anders and Scott Guthrie after the release of Internet Information Services 4.0 in 1997. It’s initial prototype was called “XSP” and was created by using Java. Earlier lots of features like garbage collection etc. were not provided by Microsoft. As “XSP” was built on the top of Common Language Runtime (CLR), it provided lots of features which were proposed but not yet implemented by Microsoft. It offered an object-oriented programming environment.

XSP was re-implemented with the intention to provide as an easy migration path for ASP developers using C# and renamed as “ASP+”. Now ASP+ was used in conjunction with COBOL and support for a variety of other languages like Visual Basic.NET, C#, Python, Perl etc.

After four years of development, ASP.net 1.0 was released on January 5, 2002 with lots of features like Code behind Model, interactive user controls, better user authentication with accounts and roles, rendering technique, state management etc. With ASP.net, the gap between writing Windows-based applications and Web-based applications has been closed.

Design Patterns … What does that mean?

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Design patterns were brought to the software community in a book coined Design Patterns, written by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides (known as the “Gang Of Four”).
The core concept on which design patterns were based, presented in the introduction, was simple. Over their years of developing software, Gamma et al found certain patterns of solid design emerging, similar to an architects designing houses and buildings can develop a blueprint for where a bathroom should be located or how a kitchen should be looking. Having those blueprints, or design patterns, means they can design much better buildings more quickly. The same concept applies to software development as well.

Drupal … A nice and crisp CMS.

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

One more CMS named Drupal … having good ease of development and enhanced features compared to other of it counterparts.