How To Build Web Apps for Multiple Devices

Long gone are the days when computers and PCs were predominant devices for people to surf the Internet. Technology has seen great advancements and people are now increasingly using mobile devices of varying screen sizes that run on different platforms, like Android, Windows, iOS etc. However, advent of tablets, smartphones and phablets has also brought challenges for businesses to develop web apps that are fit for multiple devices.

This blog explains important factors a developer needs to take into consideration before beginning to develop a web app for multiple devices. But first, let’s talk about why so much hype has been created around web apps when other solutions like native apps and hybrid apps are also available.

Web apps are the future because unlike native apps that require installation through an app store, they can be easily accessed through different browsers on different devices. Nowadays, there is an app for everything, but a user has to deal with storage issues as a mobile app on an average weighs 20MB..Read full Blog at- How To Build Web Apps for Multiple Devices

iPhone vs. Android Development- A comparison

iPhone and Android… both of them are the most sought after smartphones of the generation. With these two smartphones, life is getting easier and smoother. However, for a developer, application development for these two smartphones is definitely a treat, since he can address a global audience with the apps. The comparison between Android and iPhone application development is as cited below:

• Programming language: iPhone app development language is Objective-C, which is a programming language based on C with some extensions on object-oriented versions such as interfaces, dynamic typing, classes, inheritance, messages and many more. On the other hand, android application development is based on Java. Many developers opine that Java is a no-brainer programming tool. For this reason, if you are a developer, who loves coding, iPhone application development might excite you more than android development.

• Platform comparison: With iPhone, finding functionalities is very difficult, while the case is quite opposite with android. iPhone application is quite closed, while android development is based on open source. To download the iPhone source code, you might need to resort to Google, but downloading android source code is easier and faster. In other words, android platform classes are predictable and consistent in terms of layout. For this reason, beginner development choice should be android rather than iPhone development.Read Full Blog at- iPhone vs. Android Development- A comparison

 

What is Liferay?

Liferay is an open source and free enterprise portal, which is mainly used to enable corporate extranet and intranet. It is also described as a web application framework or content management framework. It has all the features that a website can offer its users. It is made of many functional units, which are known as portlels. Written in Java, Liferay offers extensive support for extensions and plug-ins for many programming languages. It runs on any Java Runtime Environment powered computer system and should be coupled with an application server. Liferay is a programming interface for Java programmers, but the administrator can install the website without having sound technical knowledge. This is the primary feature of Liferay. Some features of Liferay, which have made it so popular among businesses, are mentioned below:

Simplified User Interface Development: It offered simplified internal and external websites for different users. It uses a singular presentation layer for all businesses.

Flexible Enterprise Integration Framework: Its central presentation layer allows administrators, users, and developers integrate various services from backend applications.

Liferay Secure Single Sign On: It can integrate all different systems for the end-users while they can access these applications by logging in through the Secure Single Sign On.

Custom Fields: The administrator now can edit, add, and customize attributes of the users directly from the portlets of Liferay without accessing or modifying the company database.

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Top Tools to Power Drupal Development

Drupal has become one of preferred CMSs (content management systems) in the world for both individual blogs and business websites. What make Drupal development powerful are Drupal tools. These tools power Drupal developers to design and develop unique websites from scratch. Drupal has gained popularity, thanks to Drupal toolkit for developer. Instead of inventing and employingsolutions, you can use these custom-built ones.

In Drupal development, 90% of the challenges can be met with a few popular tools. Most of the developers sitting in offshore development centers use these tools for custom development of websites. These tools are highly customized by the developers to offer you the right solution to meet your requirements. You can easily outsource your custom development project to these offshore development centers to get high-end results using Drupal.

Top Drupal Tools

Admin Menu – In Drupal, this is the most widely used menu tool. It lets you develop the nerve center of your website CMS. It defines the role of the administrator and other users when it comes to using the CMS.  It is a theme-independent administrative interface universal for all kind of development.

Theme Developer – This is one of the most powerful of all the Drupal tools. It allows developers to install and customize Drupal themes for your website. It can easily identify the theme that is being used in on particular section of the website. It also holds crucial information like the usage of ‘tlp’ file or theme in the website…Read full blog at- Top Tools to Power Drupal Development

 

Lean Start-up – Lean Product Development for Start-Ups

Most Technology Start-ups take the following conventional approach in their endeavour to start a successful business :

– prepare an elaborate business plan

– pitch it to investors

– build a team

– develop and introduce a product

– sell the product

Research shows that 3 out of 4 start-ups end up failing in their endeavour somewhere along this path. In most cases, further the stage of the failure from the point of inception, higher is the cost of failure.

 The alternative Lean approach for Product Development by Start-ups is essentially based on the following philosophy :

 – build a ‘minimum viable product’ based on continuous ‘customer development’

In the Lean Start-up model the founders do not begin with a business plan, instead they begin with the search for a business model. In this approach, multiple quick iterations of experimentation and feedback are conducted which result in a business model that is executable.

This will typically follow the following sequence :

– Translate idea into business model hypothesis.

– interact with one or more customers to test the hypothesis and validate the assumptions about the customer needs.

– create a ‘minimum viable product’ to fulfill a customer need

– let your customers try out the product and get feedback

– based on the customer feedback develop the next iteration of the ‘minimum viable product’

 Business Model Hypothesis :

Founders are expected to briefly describe the hypothesis in a framework called Business Model Canvas. This involves listing out how the company will create value for itself and for its customers in the Business Model Canvas (shown below) provided by Business Model Generation…Read full blog at – Lean Start-up – Lean Product Development for Start-Ups

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Expression Engine CMS: Reasons to love it!

With Expression Engine CMS creating such a ripple in the industry, the definite and obvious question that arises, is what makes it such a popular CMS with the developers. Is it equally workable for big and small websites? What extra features does it provide which makes it a tough competitor for other Content Management Systems like Joomla, WordPress, Drupal and the rest.

When it comes to your website, you would definitely want your CMS to do more than just manage and publish contents. You after all want a CMS and not a blogging tool! Let’s see how can Expression Engine help you come up with reasons to have it for your website.

Expression Engine is not free, okay. But which one actually is! If you consider the entire development cost and associated expenditure, I really doubt if you’ll feel the same for other CMS! You need to pay a license charge for EE and renew it annually..Read Full blog at-Expression Engine CMS: Reasons to love it!

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Big Data, Human Resources, and the Future of Hiring

Big data is gigantic amount of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data available from various sources across the internet and even internal systems. The problem though is, how to utilize this vast resource of vital information. The answer is Big data analytics. Big data analytics is now seen as the future of human resources and recruitment, like any other organizational function.

In the present scenario, almost every job seeker exists on social media, online job portals, etc. This provides HR professionals a great opportunity to identify top talent with the help of right analytical tools to dig into this data.

Previous means to recruit were past experiences, opinions and guts. But making uninformed decisions while hiring often resulted into selection of poor candidates, and subsequently into considerable revenue losses for businesses.

However, with the advent of big data, it’s now possible to gauge a candidate’s potential performance, skills, productivity, etc. in order to ensure accomplishment of desired objectives. All you need are right tools to accumulate, mine, analyze the data for managing tasks related to human resources.

LinkedIn, a social network of millions of professionals, acquired Bright in 2014 to use its algorithm in order to extract useful information from massive data that exists in its database…Read full blog- Big Data, Human Resources, and the Future of Hiring

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Why Web Based Project Management Is The Future

Project management is pivotal to success of every project. But traditional means of project management have become obsolete now as they are not as effective as expected for some domains like software development. With traditional approach, project managers often face problems in planning, monitoring and controlling. But significant advancement in technology in IT has brought forward a modern approach called web based project management. It helps you effortlessly, effectively track the status of your project from the beginning to very end.

It gives you an assurance that your project resources, expenses, time and equipment are all worth to make your project a success. Web based project management gives rise to collaboration, which is one of the major concerns of project managers who use desktop based software that requires installation on different machines.

 

Web based project management ensures that all the documents related to the project are  available at one place at any given moment. Besides, any member of the project team can access the information from any part of the world through any web browser, which boosts performance, productivity and efficiency. Collaborative features of web based project management helps team members send instant messages, set up email alerts and share files… read full blog- Why Web Based Project Management Is The Future

5 Most Effective Strategies for Growth Hacking

In this blog, I am covering the five most effective growth hacking strategies to take your new business to great heights.

1. Identify growth goals that need not to be extravagant but achievable
2. Referral Program
3. Platform Hacking
4. Use Retargeting Ads
5. Remarketing Tools

The term growth hacking has created a lot of buzz already, with Facebook, Hotmail, Twitter, Instagram etc having grown beyond expectations and estimations of many renowned growth experts world over. You must be thinking what’s this new jargon is all about, right? Well, growth hacking is actually the linchpin for startups to grow a new business and it is completely different from traditional means of marketing, like ads on television, radio, newspaper or setting up big distribution partnerships. Until now, Search Engine Optimization(SEO) was the only means to grow business by attracting visitors to a particular website through improvement in its ranking in search engine results. However, SEO is not enough to get the much-needed growth to your business now, you must employ growth hacking techniques along with SEO to achieve the objective.

The distinction between conventional marketing and growth hacking is very important to understand to get your business what it needs to survive in the very beginning – GROWTH. Growth hacking means using marketing tricks that are effective to increase user base for new companies. Growth hacker has only one business to do, increase the numbers of users and make every decision from the perspective of growth only, nothing else at all. Growth hacking strategies are meant to make your presence viral on the internet so that people can take a good note of what you are saying and offering to them.

The aforementioned statement does not implicate that traditional marketing tricks do not target growth, but the approach is highly intensive when a new company adopts growth hacking. Growth hacking does not mean getting 10 million users for your business in no time. Instead, it means getting a first few users who will get you more users with everyday passing by. For example, cross-posting on Craigslist did wonders for AirBnb and increased its user base to an extent that left its counterparts scratching their heads.

1. Identify growth goals that need not to be extravagant but achievable 

First, ensure to have 10,000 visitors on your product page. Put ads on social media and use influence marketing to generate leads. You can increase traffic on your website through blogs, so pay special importance to it and use remarketing to ensure conversions of at least 5 bounced site visitors every two weeks.  Read full blog at-5 Most Effective Strategies for Growth Hacking

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Why is it Better to Leave the CMS Choice to Your Web Developers!

Content Management System (CMS) makes website management a much easier task, freeing you from the dependence on a highly skilled developer to update or publish new content. CMS provides the much-needed power to a website to effectively manage all the content, especially on a corporate website. In simple words, CMS could be described as significant advancement in technology to store and manage website pages, blog posts, images, videos and everything related to content on your website without facing the hassles of using HTML codes.

Benefits of CMS system are:

• Boosts your SEO efforts.

• Gives you control of your website and enhances marketing initiatives.

• Improves your business communication.

• You can control the flow and visibility of your content.

• You can easily search, retrieve and reuse content to come up with new products in quick time.

• Non-technical staff can easily perform the task of making updates, provided some training is provided to them.

There are indeed so many benefits of CMS, but it’s not easy to determine the kind of CMS you need for your website. Well, you don’t even need to think a lot about the CMS that suits your business, since a web developer is the best person to decide which CMS is apt for your website, based on size of your business, functionality requirement, editor, customization need, etc..Read Full blog at-Why is it Better to Leave the CMS Choice to Your Web Developers!

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