Tag: Open Source

Utility Open Source Apps In CakePHP That You Need To Know

Posted on by Prakash S.

CakePHP is one of the most popular open source web application framework. It provides an extensible architecture for development, maintenance and deployment of PHP applications. Being based on the MVC Architecture & ORM, it is relatively simple to understand and helps developers to write less code without losing flexibility.

The key features of Open Source Apps written in CakePHP are:

  • Flexible Licensing
  • Works from any Website Directory, with Little Number of Apache Configuration involved
  • Integrated CRUD for Database Interaction
  • Code Generation & Built-in Validation
  • Request Dispatcher with Clean, Custom URLs and Routes
  • Fast and Flexible Templating (PHP Syntax with Helpers)
  • View Helpers for AJAX, JavaScript, HTML Forms and much more
  • Email, Cookie, Security, Session and Request Handling Components
  • Flexible ACL and Data Sanitization
  • Flexible Caching and Localization

CakePHP has the second largest active developer team and community among the PHP frameworks, bringing great value to the project. It keeps you away from reinventing the wheel.

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Github is the #1 resource for Cakephp projects in my opinion. 2nd place probably is occupied by Code Google and then comes Sourceforge.

Orangescrum

Orangescrum is a flexible project management web application developed using CakePHP framework. It’s an efficient Project Collaboration Tool that gives you full visibility and control over your projects. Orangescrum offers all the basic features you need for smooth running of your project. No matter where you are globally, with Orangescrum you feel like sitting next to your developer. With an intuitive interfaces, easy-to-use functionality, you organize your project activities to a great extent.

Disclaimer: It’s our own project management tool.

https://github.com/Orangescrum/orangescrum

Croogo

Croogo is a free, open source, Multilingual Content management system built using CakePHP MVC framework. It’s an open source project released under MIT License. With Croogo CMS, you can create your own content type such as blog, node, page, etc.  Also you can categorize content with Taxonomy and it also offers WYSIWYG editor to edit content directly from browser.

Zhen CRM

Zhen CRM is a self-hosted CRM with full source code (in CakePHP and MySQL) that aims to be visually easy to use, simple and straightforward, and provides all the features you need from a full-featured CRM!

Vamcart

Vamcart is a CakePHP based open source Shopping cart. It is easy to use and simple to install. It is not required to have any special knowledge to install Vamcart on your server. Just download the files from vamcart homepage and put them on your server’s root directory and open Vamcart installation page directly from the browser. The script will automatically install shopping cart on your site.

QuickApps

QuickApps is a CakePHP based open source Content management system. It is easy to use and simple to install. It allows developers and advanced users to easily build complex websites without reinventing the wheel.

 

Recommended Blog: Containable Behavior in CakePHP

Definitely, this list is incomplete. Share your favorite open source CakePHP application with us in the comments below.

5 Google Services To Help You To Reach Your Business Goal

Posted on by Jay

Every single company or organization has certain goals or objectives. If you are an entrepreneur, then the biggest concern for you is to achieve your organization’s goal.

These goals may vary from organization to organization. Some common business goals are making profit by selling products or service, brand promotion, client retention and so forth.

Here are the top 5 Google products or services those can help you to achieve your business goals.

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Google AdWords :

For us Google AdWords is the first thing that come to our mind for advertising our services or products for bigger audience through search/display medium.

According to recent survey more than 2 billion people use Google search and as per Double Click Ad Planner, advertiser can reach to 83% of unique Internet users around the world through Display network.

These numbers are self-sufficient to explain why you should consider Adword paid marketing for your business.

You can pass your message to your potential customer through text, image, video or other rich media Ad medium.

Google Analytics:

This is definitely one of the best API released by Google to give you the insight of business. If you are a business owner, and you are looking for key insights of your business, which may help you in decision making process then you can’t undermine the power of Google Analytics.

You can see from where you get traffic, where did you losing your visitors, what are they searching for, which medium gives you better ROI and lots more.

This is without a doubt helps you to give better online experience to your visitors and to transform them to your potential customers. It has both free and premium versions.

YouTube:

Video is an excellent medium to raise awareness, drive traffic to your site and also helps to generate lead and sales for your business.

YouTube is the largest online video sharing site. According to YouTube, every month, more than one billion people visit YouTube and watch over six billion hours of YouTube videos.

So to reach such a huge customer base through such a powerful medium must be in your marketing list. Also YouTube provides powerful analytic tools that help you to check how your videos can perform and what you can do better.

Besides that you can promote your YouTube videos through AdWords for Video campaign management tool.

AdMob:

Mobile or smartphones has created new revolution in the advertising world. What do you want more than to connect with your visitors in 24X7 basis?

These screens may look small but opportunities they generate is really hard to match and AdMob gives a stage where you can grab those opportunities.

You can promote your apps to countless smartphone and tablet users across the AdMob network; monetize your apps with ads from over a million Google advertisers worldwide, and lots more.

Wildfire by Google:

Wildfire is social marketing software acquired by Google in 2012 for $350 Million.

This acquisition becomes the blessing for an enterprise, who wants to create attractive and interactive social media campaigns, run social ads, and measure social ROI easily and effectively.

This an ideal tool if you want to incorporate social media marketing in your marketing strategy; however most of the features available in Wildfire are not free.

Today we share few products or services of Google that you can include in your marketing strategy.

Apart from this you can consider Google Merchant (highly recommended by considering its increasing popularity), Double Click program, Google My Business and many more.

See Also: Advantages and Disadvantages of Hiring Remote or Virtual Team

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I hope you enjoyed this topic and this list is definitely incomplete without your suggestions and feedback. So feel free and share your comment below.

How To Install Nagios Core on CentOS, Fedora, or RHEL Server

Posted on by Jay

Nagios® Core™ is the industry standard Open Source system and network monitoring application which enables organizations to identify, resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical business processes. It watches hosts and services that you specify, alerting you when things go bad and when they get better. Nagios Core serves as one of the foundation blocks of Nagios XI – commercial monitoring solution.

It was originally designed to run under Linux, although it should work under most other unices as well.

Steps to install :

STEP-1:

Install prerequisites packages

       #   yum  install  gd  gd-devel  httpd  php  gcc  glibc  glibc-common

STEP-2:

Disable selinux. open the file: /etc/selinux/config by issuing the following command          

       # vi /etc/selinux/config

Then, type “disable” opposite to “SELINUX” e.g  SELINUX= disable

STEP-3:

Create a user “nagios” and set password for it by typing the below commands.

       #   /usr/sbin/useradd -m nagios
       #   passwd nagios

STEP-4:

Create a new group “nagios” for allowing external commands to be submitted    through the web interface and add both the nagios user and the apache user to the group by following the below steps

       #    /usr/sbin/groupadd nagios
       #    /usr/sbin/usermod -a -G nagios nagios
       #    /usr/sbin/usermod -a -G nagios apache

STEP-5:

Create a directory “download “ and download nagios-core and plugins to it.

       #  mkdir download                  
       #  cd  download
       #  wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagios/nagios-3.4.4.tar.gz
       #  wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagiosplug/nagios-plugins-1.4.16.tar.gz

STEP-6:

Compile and Install nagios-core package by following below steps

  • Change directory to “download” folder
       #   cd ~/download
  • Untar the nagios-core tar bal
       #   tar xzf nagios-3.4.4.tar.gz
  • Change the directory to “nagios-3.4.4”
       # cd nagios-3.4.4
  • Configure the package and install 
    #  ./configure
#   make all
#   make install
#   make install-init
#   make install-commandmode
#   make install-config
#   make install-webconf

STEP-7:

Create a password to log in to the web interface by issuing the following command.

       # htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin

STEP-8: 

Start the service and set it on chkconfig to start at booting time.

       #  service nagios start
       #  chkconfig nagios on

STEP-9:  

Compile and Install nagios-plugin package by following below steps.

  • Change directory to “download” folder
       # cd   ~/download
  • Untar nagios-plugin tar ball
       # tar xzf  nagios-plugins-1.4.16.tar.gz
  • Change the directory to “nagios-plugins-1.4.16”
       # cd  nagios-plugins-1.4.16
  • Configure the package and install.
       # ./configure
       # make
       # make install

STEP-10:

Start the apache service and enable it on boot by issuing following command.

       # service httpd start
       # chkconfig httpd on

STEP-11:  Now, connect to your nagios server through browser by typing.

       # http://Your-Nagios-IP/nagios or  http://localhost/nagios

Then, enter login credentials.
Username: nagiosadmin & password you have chosen earlier

Features of NAGIOS Core

  • Monitoring of network services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING, etc.)
  • Monitoring of host resources (processor load, disk usage, etc.)
  • Simple plugin design that allows users to easily develop their own service checks
  • Parallelized service checks
  • Ability to define network host hierarchy using “parent” hosts, allowing detection of and distinction between hosts that are down and those that are unreachable
  • Contact notifications when service or host problems occur and get resolved (via email, pager, or user-defined method)
  • Ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host events for proactive problem resolution
  • Automatic log file rotation
  • Support for implementing redundant monitoring hosts
  • Optional web interface for viewing current network status, notification and problem history, log file, etc.

Recommended Blog: How to install and configure Jaspersoft in Linux Server(RHEL/Centos/Fedora)

I hope you liked this topic, if you have any questions or comments please feel free to put under comments!

Why CakePHP is Popular? And The Role Of CakePHP Developer

Posted on by Jay

CakePHP is an open source PHP based rapid development framework. It offers great run-time infrastructure along with abundant set of libraries for CakePHP developers. Cake PHP development is supported by the MVC (Model View and Controller) architecture which differentiates the programming logic from the data presentation layer.

It also features other programming concepts like Front Controller, Association Data Mapping and Active Record. Along with these, there are numerous other features that make CakePHP one of the most preferred web development frameworks among others.

Let’s take a look at some features here

Wide Community:

CakePHP developers are supported by huge peers who make use of this framework. There are many contributors and programmers who share the community. For this reason, using the framework is simpler for development as well as for research.

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Reusability:

It facilitates the developers in saving a lot of efforts through PHP development. Because the programmer make use of a pre-written code for more than one project. In other words, they can focus on the logical and creative part of application whereas the tedious task of coding could be handled with ease.

Open Source:

The framework is open source, for which the CakePHP developers do not have to spend any amount in the process of development and have complete access to its source code. It also assists the developers in adding robustness and improves performance in web applications.

Some of the roles of CakePHP developers include

    • Manage development efforts and framework efficiently
    • Support product releases
    • Ability to handle lot of projects in less time
    • Overall review of the quality & progress of the work
    • Support stable user growth

Conclusion

Here at Andolasoft we provide our customers with a unique and up-to-date approach towards their Web-app development. We design and develop intriguing web applications using PHP/CakePHP. We follow agile development approach to deliver project on time and within budget to our customer

Ruby Rails Development Sphere & Associated Myths

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Ruby on Rails development is fast changing the norms of web development across the globe.

Companies around the world are fast catching up with this magical web development framework for exploring and executing its true potentials; thereby serving their clients with really cost-effective, quick and dynamic Ruby on Rails Applications.

Ruby developers and Rails developers are becoming the most sought after skilled professionals, for Software companies to hunt for.

Ruby on Rails, being an Open Source tool, coupled with fast development life cycle, requires much less resources in terms of Programmers and man-hours; which results in the service provider and client being the ultimate beneficiaries.

Silicon Valley based leading Software firm, Andolasoft Inc. is a formidable force to reckon with as far as Ruby on Rails development is concerned.

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With a vast pool of Programmers as well as Domain Leads, this fairly young Enterprise has carved out many Social Networking Sites, Social Media Marketing web apps.

Andolasoft services include but not limited to RoR Development, RoR Application Migration, Social Media Integration, System Administration, Redesigning of Existing Apps, Performance Improvement Related Tasks and Rescue Support.

Irrespective of all its popularity, RoR also has few myths related to it.

Applications can be built hundreds of thousands times faster than other technologies: The fact is Rails doesn’t write the code automatically.

It just lets the developers work easy by managing certain functionalities; thereby allowing them to focus on other crucial modules.

It also manages the laborious part of lifting of user interactive modules. Having said that, such myths reflects a wrong opinion upon customers, whose expectations sometimes become too high for the service providers.

Even Non-programmers can build web applications: This is by far the silliest perception about Rails development. Although the simplicity of this framework and clean syntax of ruby language assist in quick development, but still experience is required as far as writing code is concerned.

Rails developers do need to write new and unique code, apart from using the Rails conventions on top a comprehensive web development framework.