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Kick off Your Small Business with Magento Go

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With internet prevailing its effect on every corner, businesses got the chance to spread across the world.

Once a small cotton factory is now the biggest ready-made clothing supplier of the world and this is not a single instance as there are millions like this.

Keeping that legacy alive, Magento development platform launched the online eCommerce building platform Magento Go. It lets you develop an online store for your small business with very much less investment.

And the best thing is you don’t need to be a techno-buff for this due to its simplest operations and easy learning interface.

Magento introduced a SaaS (software-as-a-service) version of its e-commerce platform named Magento Go. It allows small businesses or merchants to build easy-to-use shopping portals for customers around the world.

If you’re thinking of setting up an online store for your various product ranges, then it can help you build your store with your designs.

Magento Go include some basic features like Order Management, Customer Analytics and some cool features like Coupons and Gift Cards, which were not available in the Magento Community edition.

The designs, impressive templates, product flexibility, and search engine friendliness are some of the major features in Magento Go.

Magneto Development team recently updated additional features to Magento Go for merchants of the United Kingdom like Royal Mail Shipping, UK Cookie law compliance, improved PayPal payments, VATs and many more.

A trial out period of 30 days is available which can be then subscribed with fewer cost plans to run your e-commerce business. Customer engagement majors like assisted shopping, product comparisons, and wish lists are also taken to make the interactions more useful.

It Connect which is a market for a place for other Magento Go plug-ins is available for merchants who want to add additional features to their stores.

It is really going to kick off your small business if you know optimal utilization of the resources available to reach the maximum number of people.

At Andolasoft we’ve got expert developers on Magento development who have broad experience over handling individual projects on Magento. We have been developing the best quality, highly scalable websites for small to large scale enterprises.

Whether you’re a start-up eCommerce business or a large retailer switching to eCommerce, we can help you by building search friendly and secure websites as per your requirements.

 

Integration of Google reCaptcha with Rails application

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ReCaptcha is a powerful captcha service to be use with a form to stop spam. This blog demonstrates the use of reCaptcha in rails application. Here I have used the ruby version 1.9.3 and Rails version 3.2.8.

Environment

  • Ruby version – 1.9.3
  • Rails – 3.2.8

Step#1

Create an account with Recaptcha “http://www.google.com/recaptcha” and register your site name with your google account to retrieve the public and private key that will be used later on the application

Step#2 

Installation of Recaptcha

  • Gem
  • Open your Gemfile and add this code
gem 'recaptcha', :require => 'recaptcha/rails'
  • Plugin
  • rails plugin install git://github.com/ambethia/recaptcha.git

Step#3

Create a file named recaptcha.rb in RAILS_ROOT/config/initializer and fill it with these codes

ENV['RECAPTCHA_PUBLIC_KEY'] = 'youractualpublickey' ENV['RECAPTCHA_PRIVATE_KEY'] = 'youractualprivatekey'

Step#4

Usages Open your views file and add this code

<%= recaptcha_tags %>

Step#5

Validation In controller, you can check the captcha validation by the following

if @model.save && verify_recaptcha(:model => @developer, :message => "Oh! It's error with reCAPTCHA!") #captcha is valid else #captcha is invalid end

Samsung Galaxy S3 or iPhone 5 – Which one to pick?

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Now iPhone 5 has been launched and available for sale, people swarm to the Apple Stores all over to buy this new iPhone. There is also Samsung Galaxy S3 which was launched recently in May 2012 and available at most of the Smartphone vendors. So which one are you choosing? Apple has witnessed doubled pre-orders for its new iPhone after the launch although critics don’t think Apple came up with a revolutionary iPhone as expected. Rather they praise the Galaxy S3 which has some improved features as compared to iPhone 5. So let’s make a comparison between the two and you judge.

Here you go:

Processor And Memory:

Galaxy S3:

1.4 GHz Quad core Exynos processor; 16/32 GB, extendible to 64GB

iPhone 5:

A6 dual-core processor- clocked with 1GHz;  16/32/64 GB

OS:

Galaxy S3:

Android Ice Cream Sandwich, soon to be updated to Jelly Bean

iPhone 5:

iOS 6; expected to be the best platform for iPhone developers

Screen:

Galaxy S3:

4.8 inch HD Super AMOLED screen with max resolution of 720 x 1280

iPhone 5:

4 inchHD LCD display screen with 640 x 1136 maximum resolution

P.S: iPhone 5 screens looks pretty big with quality media playback and gaming. Apple once stated that its iPhone size is the standard size for a Smartphone. But later proved wrong by companies like Samsung and HTC, Apple itself increased the size of its iPhone.

Size and Weight:

Galaxy S3:

4.69 ounces(133 grams); 8.6 mm thick

iPhone 5:

20 grams lighter weighing 3.95 ounces (112 grams); 7.6 mm thick

Camera:

Galaxy S3:

8MP Rear Face Camera; 1.9 MP Front Facing Camera

iPhone 5:

8MP Rear Face Camera; 0.9 MP Front Facing Camera

NFC(Near Field Communication): A technology to enable fast radio communication between two devices.
Galaxy S3: YES;           iPhone 5: NO

In summary, both the devices are competitive and possess different advantages.  Users need to match their needs and pick accordingly. At the same time, iPhone application development and Android application development both are improving day by day.

Components And Platforms For Mobile Application Development

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In the era of latest technologies the mobile applications are becoming more n more popular being handy and easy to use with the help of latest gadgets.

People are not only taking full advantage of these gadgets but also getting profit in the market through selling a variety of mobile applications. These are safe, user-friendly and easily accessible regardless of geographical location.

Prior to this technology the platforms like Symbian, Windows Mobile and Linux were used for mobile application development and the runtime environment like Mozilla Firefox, Opera Mini, RIM, virtual machines such as Java/J2ME, BREW, Flash were used to execute the applications. Now Android and Java are playing a vital role in a creative mobile application development environments.

Android is a framework built specifically for mobile devices. It has a well-designed operating system through Linux by Google and Open Handset Alliance.

Day-by-day it becomes the hottest, fast growing mobile platform in the world for mobile application development. Android is the exceptional platform that allows android developer to build unique, creative, sophisticate and multi tasking applications. In android smart phones the android applications can run simultaneously without affecting the performance.

Java is not only built for web pages or web application development but also it has huge contribution towards mobile application development. Using Java, html and css a java developer can build more powerful & faster mobile applications than the old generation applications written in C. Most smart phone mobile applications are built with J2ME components. J2ME mobile applications are more popular and widely used platform for wireless phones among the top manufacturing smart phone companies like BlackBerry, iOS, Android.

Andolasoft is backed by a team having strong analytical skill & solid expertise in mobile application development in various platforms like Android and Java to satisfy your needs. You will get the right help & support from Andolasoft development team for any kind of mobile application development.

Why Hire PHP Developers for High Quality Web App Development

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PHP is a widely-used Open Source, general-purpose, cross-platform & HTML embedded server-side scripting language, that suits web development.

PHP Framework is a fundamental platform that helps programmers for rapid and effective development. It’s one of the powerful tool which helps to tweak code in a standard configured manner & can be used with many relational database management systems (RDBMS).

Reasons of Choosing PHP scripting language

Simple and Easy To Learn

PHP is one of the easiest scripting language to learn and understandable by developers. The syntax is somewhat similar to Java and C. However, knowledge of HTML is the only prerequisite to code in PHP.

Instant Support

When a developer stuck with any coding issue, there are huge numbers of references, forums and support communities available online and they are free. This is simply because, PHP is very popular, widely used and having the largest user base.

Supports All Major OS

PHP can be run on top of major operating systems such as Windows, Linux, UNIX, Mac OSX and so on.

Free of Cost

PHP is an open source and 100% Free for use by anyone. This cuts down cost of production as well as hosting. For these reasons it enjoys popularity over other expensive scripting languages such as ASP, JSP and others.

Integration

PHP makes developers life easy as it can be integrated easily with any of the systems like MongoDB, Memcache, Pusher and more. More or less PHP applications can cater any verticals such as banking sectors, health/hospital industry, government sector or corporates and so on.

Frameworks

PHP developers can develop robust application within a very short time frame using a variety of frameworks like Symfony, Slim, Silex, Zend and Aiki. Each framework allows you to avail a set of benefits including code reuse, better session management and database access libraries.

Easier to fix problems

It is obvious that the web application development is not free from issues, however with PHP it is comparatively easier to troubleshoot than it’s counterparts. This is because with each request, PHP cleans up and starts over. So issue with one request does not affect another request.

Scalability

Scalability is always in demand be it for databases, hosting, or programming, scalability. PHP is built in such a way that you can easily increase your cluster size with grow of your projects.

Object Oriented

Java and Windows COM objects can be called called from PHP. Also PHP allows to create custom classes which in turn can be borrowed by other classes. This is one of the useful capabilities of PHP.

Speed

PHP does not take lot of system resource and operates much faster than other scripting languages. PHP maintains its speed even if it is used with other software. Since PHP is out for a long time, continuous effort is on to make it even better. As a result of which it is fairly stable compared to it’s counterparts.

While planning anything on CakePHP, you should always choose a reliable company like Andolasoft to handle your work. Get in touch to convert your ideas into app.

Rush Traffic to Your Website Through Search Engine Optimization

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Search Engine Optimization can be termed as the science of flooding web traffic into a website. A website is generally built for the purpose of exhibiting the product and services of a particular enterprise.

Its sole objective is to make people aware of the services it offers and procure them. But in this vast webspace, occupied by millions of websites, it not easily feasible anymore.

It is search engines like google, yahoo etc which help us to search and view websites or information from the web.

Search Engine Optimization of such a website is indispensable nowadays. SEO not only a website from getting misplaced but also helps it to get discovered in the top search engine page results, thus enhancing visibility of the website to maximum people and facilitating in the company’s growth.

Andolasoft Inc, a SEO company situated in Silicon Valley provides cost-effective SEO services with quick turnaround time.

SEO incorporates several free link building techniques to optimize a website. These include submissions of directories, articles, blogs, press releases, classified Ad postings, etc.

It also takes the help of viral marketing techniques like social networking and media sharing to spread out the website’s brand awareness.

Viral marketing, if done in a manipulative and creative way, will bring in positive results within no time. SEM(Search Engine Marketing) is yet another method to improve a websites global exposure, although it’s a money based technique.

SEO on the other hand, comprising of free techniques, is best suited for startup enterprises and helps in getting their job done with minimal resources.