Zyxware conducted a 3 day workshop on Drupal at IIT Madras as part of the recently concluded technical festival Shaastra 2014. The workshop was conducted from Jan 4 - Jan 6 by Mr. Anoop John, CTO of Zyxware Technologies.
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This is a white paper on guesstimation of per employee revenue in the SME space in the Indian IT industry. This was prepared during the process of evaluation of our billing rates to compare our rates with the market standards.
One of the challenges with working with dynamic websites is that you have to keep fighting malicious users who regularly sap your server capacity with rogue crawling of your site. To do this you would have to monitor and analyze the traffic patterns on the server regularly. You would definitely want to do this when you have load spikes on the server and you wish to find out the IP addresses, user agents and the specific URLs which resulted in these spikes.
The following is the list of holidays at Zyxware for the year 2014. This may change as per government norms.
As part of the ongoing process of migrating computers in Kerala Legislative Assembly to Free Software, we got the opportunity to offer GNU/Linux training to the first set of 120 employees of Kerala Niyamasabha. Zyxware Technologies conducted trainings for 8 batches of staff of Assembly. Each batch had a session of 2 hours each. This was spread over 8 days between November 26, 2013 to December 6, 2013.
Those of you who have been regularly visiting this site would have started seeing small changes in the site related to how it integrates with social media sites. I have been experimenting on how to increase the interactions between us and the visitors on the site as well as between visitors on the site. This is still a work in progress but I wanted to share with you some of the things I have changed on the site
We are happy to announce that Zyxware is now a Featured Service Provider on Drupal.org, a select club of Drupal providers with only another 4 members from India. This is a recognition of our contributions to Drupal over these years. We thank all our employees who have helped make this possible through their sustained contributions and members of the Drupal community who have guided,mentored and helped us as we grew in the Drupal space.
If you are looking for an opportunity to lead exciting web application development projects across sectors like news media, community networks, e-commerce, non profits etc. then this is the right time to drop in your resume to us at careers@zyxware.com. We are looking for Project Leads who can lead our team of talented Drupal programmers towards delivering true value to our clients. APPLY ONLINE
In this article I am going to tell you how to redirect anonymous users to a login form on 403 access denied pages in Drupal. There are some contributed module that provides you this feature but, if you really want to create a custom one for your site just try this. Here I will show you a PHP snippet that redirecting to login page for anonymous users on access denied.
I have a few images in a folder on a Drupal site I was recently working on. The Drupal site also had a content type that contained a title and an image field and I had a requirement to create a node for each of these images. Read on to find out how to add a file to the image field of a node programmatically in Drupal 6.
The first thing that you have to do when you want to improve something is to understand what is it that you are trying to improve. To do that you have to have some way of putting that thing which you are trying to improve into a quantity you can measure and get some kind of numbers on. This is applicable not just for your web traffic or social media marketing efforts but with anything (or rather most things) you do in your business.
In the last year or so we have been in the process of transitioning from a small business to a medium size business. With over 50 people in the rolls it was time we moved away from a bunch of people working with and around a single individual to a more structured organizaiton. As part of this transition we have been looking to change gears on our marketing initiatives. For the first time since we started our business we now have a business development team and we have active business development activities going on.
If you are in the habit of running queries directly on your production database to generate custom reports then you will run into the requirement of having to connect to your Drupal database on the Acquia cloud hosting. One of our clients wanted to do this and this is how we got this working for them.
When you host your Drupal site on the Acquia cloud your site resides on a set of different VPSes that runs Varnish, Apache, MySQL and memcache. Additionally you have your staging server, your development server as well as your production servers - all of them being VPSes.
In one of our Drupal projects which sells products online, our clients requirement was to collect tax from some states and to exempt other states from tax collection. We implemented this by integrating taxcloud account with ubercart using uc_taxcloud module. Read on to know how we implemented this.
We are looking for interns who can implement responsive Drupal themes based on the designs provided. The themes should be grid based and responsive. The themes created during the internship period will be uploaded to www.drupal.org by Zyxware if the quality standards are met and the interns will get proper attribution on www.drupal.org. The candidates will get mentoring and support to implement the responsive theme for Drupal from expert Drupal developers in Zyxware.
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Sometimes we use Drupal view_query_alter to add or modify the view's where clause. To add a new WHERE clause we may use add_where property. Whenever we use an add_where, it will create a WHERE clause along with an AND condition. There will be some cases were we need to use OR instead of AND. So if you want to know more about how to use OR clause in hook_view_query_alter, read on to know more.
I have created a module for my Drupal project. That module requires a vocabulary that should be created when installing the module itself. To create the vocabularies, while installation itself we have to implement the code in the install hook. Read on to know the code to create a vocabulary named as 'Categories'.
When I was working on a website in Drupal 6 I wanted to theme the pager provided by views in a custom way. Finally I found a solution for the issue. If you also want to theme the pager in a View for your Drupal website you can follow the method below.
Zyxware Technologies has a robust 40 member strong web applications development unit working with clients across the world. A Project Coordinator will be working with the development unit consisting of requirements analysts, technical architects, programming and testing teams to deliver true value to our clients. They will be responsible for ensuring smooth progress of the SDLC cycle for the different projects, interfacing with the clients and the different sub groups of the development unit and managing projects efficiently. Project Co-ordinator will be a part of Project Management Office and will directly report to General Manager - Software Operations. Project Coordiantor will be based in Trivandrum, Kerala. APPLY ONLINE
In the wake of the recent Companies Bill, there has been much writing on the provision for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). It has been taken up in right earnest by companies, industry bodies, think tanks and non government organisations. While the case for mandating CSR is well made, it is important to situate the CSR provisions of the Bill in a context and suggest possible directions for companies for whom CSR is a novel idea. This piece attempts to do just that.
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