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Top 5 Web Applications That Buzzed The World In 2017

Posted on by Junaid Ali Qureshi

Hello 2018…and a lot to look forward this year in the league of ‘ Web Applications ’.

Saying that let me place the top WEB APPLICATIONS that created an uproar in the year 2017.

As you go on reading this article more you would find the web applications that made an impression on users and why they became the best out of the crowd.

So as per the saying by Alan J Perlis on Programs or Applications;

“Every Program or Application has at least two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn’t.”

Alan J Perlis

Let’s dig into the details….

Different web applications rule different domains in the working culture. Some are best for everyday tasks while others are specifically designed to deliver productive field results.

Most of us look forward to using applications that can help us enhance our business outcomes, perform our jobs better and organize the whole setup in a much better way.

And this is why knowing the top applications that are tendering the best results is deemed necessary by the professionals all around.

You wouldn’t want to miss out on a chance of improving your working status and performance, right? One must always have knowledge about which apps are at what rank in order to have a convenient life because in today’s era we are so much dependent on social media apps that half of our life depends on them.

So here we present some apps that buzzed the world in 2017 and you can confidently use them in 2018 as well.

1. Drip

Drip

Are you looking for an app that will make you a better marketer with in no time and very less effort? The Drip app helps you to develop better relations with your customers by enabling you to send customized emails. One of the coolest things about them is their unbelievable deliverability rate and expert service. Another secret of their success is their tracking capabilities with which you can know your customers better and satisfy them easily. If you want to ace you career in marketing, try this app and discover the various options.

2. Facebook ads

Facebook Ads

Social media networks were on a roll this year. Not only did they increase their number of users but also got their name carved in the success stories. The Facebook ads web application is another useful app that multiple marketing companies and others all around the world keep in their top priority app list.

And also, as Facebook got combined with a number of apps like Whats App and Instagram this year, the news widely expanded the circle of publicity. Now, the platform will look forward to enhancing its techniques and offer mind-blowing marketing and publicity features in the coming future.

3. Google Forms

Google Form

If we calls google forms a miracle or a blessing that won’t be wrong at all. It deserves all the fame that it earned in 2017 because the uncountable number of tasks that it performed is worth all the fame. The Google form app service is the perfect way to get opinions of the populace via questionnaires and surveys. You can create your custom forms and distribute the link online to get the worthy view of the best professionals in your field. A custom web application development company is often find making use of such web applications. The app also gives you access to the raw data and allows you to analyze it with Google sheets and, the good news is that it will continue to provide its wonderful services in 2018 as well.

4. Microsoft Excel Online

Excel Online

Microsoft excel online is another blessing of internet lords out there. It has countless benefits and provides a number of facilities free of cost. One can easily collaborate and get a free version of Microsoft excel within no time and get a number of benefits like using spreadsheets, making documents, presentations, customized work and much more. If you need to prepare any official or important document, spreadsheet or presentation in 2018 you can easily rely on Microsoft excel online without wasting anytime in thinking what to do.

5. Kajabi

Kajabi

The last web application that we have on our brief list is Kajabi. It is one of the wonderful apps that gained a lot of fame in the world of internet in 2017 and offers an amazing set of features. It has all those tools that you need to sell and create your own online course. It provides you a number of facilities like giving you a complete customized design for your website, a complete set up of your products, automation of your marketing highlights and uploading your content easily. You can in fact grow your own entire blog with the help of Kajabi. It also gives you ease if you want to build an online course and benefit a number of people with it. This app has done wonders in 2017 and we expect the same surprising results in 2018 as well. If you wish to own and run a great online course on any topic of interest, this app is definitely worth a shot!

The enormously huge number of web applications developed every day puts us in a pickle and one thing is for sure, while doing our jobs, we can’t take any chances, right? This is why knowing about the top applications is necessary to maximize the benefit gained and efficiency improved by its use. The top five are listed above for you. Get your hands on them and discover more!

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Why Rails Framework is Popular Among Ruby Developers?

Posted on by Netrananda M

Most companies whether it’s a start-up or an established enterprise have evidently landed to the conclusion that Ruby on Rails is the most viable option for rapid and cost efficient web app development.

Ruby on Rails or simply called ‘Rails’ is an open-source, full-scale multilevel web app framework that implements MVC development architecture for the Ruby programming language and is supported by a strong community around it.

Several reasons lie to use Ruby on rails, the main one is that it is a better choice than any other tools. However, before proceed forward let’s have a quick look on:

What Is Ruby On Rails?

Ruby is a dynamic, general purpose, interpreted language used for object oriented programming. The Framework has simple coding that a non-technical person can understand to some extent.

Developing new software using Ruby seems to be bit tedious. Rails, a special tool, was developed to optimize the development process.

Rails is the web development framework which is written in the Ruby language. After 9 years of development, Ruby was introduced.

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With this development the ruby on rails developers can easily makes the web app programming.

Ruby on Rails(Source: Clariontech)

Let’s take a quick look on the features of ROR:

Mature Framework

Ruby on Rails was first released in 2003, which possessed several large and actively maintained APIs that make application development faster, easier and more manageable. One of the best examples is CSRF (Cross Site Request Forgery) protection; using which, you don’t have to do anything to add CSRF. Active Record is an extremely powerful feature in terms of building usable data models.

MVC Architecture:

With Ruby on Rails development is based on the model, controller and view pattern, widely used web application architecture. Therefore, developers using other MVC framework languages can find Ruby on Rails to be more user-friendly.

By using Ruby on Rails architecture, you can get separate codes for different functions, i.e. data layer, presentation layer, and can maintain a resource layer.

Generators/Scaffolding:

It’s a rapid prototyping tool; Rails’ scaffold will generate a starting point that allows us to list, add, remove, edit, and view things. It will explain the command, the model name and related database table, naming conventions, attributes and types.

The generated script will produce files of Ruby code that the application can use to interact with the database. It is somewhat less convenient than dynamic scaffolding, but gives the programmer the flexibility of modifying and customizing the generated APIs.

Gems/Plugin:

Ruby gems are highly portable chunks of Ruby code that can be used inside any Ruby script or application.

Rails plugins have the flexibility to hook into every part of Rails, including generators, rake tasks and tests/specs. Rails-specific features cannot be used with other Ruby frameworks like Merb, Sinatra, etc.

Active Record ORM:

Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) is a technique that connects the rich objects of an application to tables in a relational database management system.

Active record pattern is an architectural pattern found in Ruby on Rails that stores its data in relational databases. It relies heavily on the naming in that it uses class and association names to establish mappings between respective database tables and foreign key columns.

Integrated Testing Tools:

Rails features a convenient testing tool, for which, it automatically starts producing the skeleton test code in background whilst you are creating the application models and controllers.

Rails tests can also simulate browser requests and thus you can test your application’s response without having to test it over the browser.

Some convenient tools for testing Rails application:

  • Test Unit
  • RSpec
  • Cucumber
  • Mocha
  • Flexmock
  • Factory Girl

Version Control Systems:

There are numerous version control systems. CVS was the first system widely used in the open-source community. Several years ago, it was largely replaced by Subversion (SVN). And in early 2008, most of the Rails world moved to a newer version control system, called GIT.

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Git is usually the best choice if you are new to Ruby, because nearly all code that you need to fetch as examples or libraries will be available via a GIT repository.

Conclusion

With Ruby on Rails providing a programming framework that includes reusable, easily configurable components commonly used for creating web-based applications, it is gaining traction with developers.

From the recent studies on the job growth trends, it is seen that Ruby on Rails developers are a very hot commodity. Ruby as the language of the cloud, the job market will continue to show high demand for the developers. It’s nearly impossible to be an unemployed Ruby on Rails developer.

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Beginner’s Guide to Cropping Images in PHP Using ImageMagick

Posted on by Prabhudas

While using images in a web application, developers can’t always include images of a particular measurement. In such cases, resizing the images for the application would be a good option but, not efficient either. For example, resizing a long vertical image into a horizontal dimension would just squeeze the image; thereby, affecting the aesthetics of the website and also reducing the purpose of it. Hence it would be smart to implement a cropping tool like ‘ImageMagick’ in order to fit images of various dimensions into a specified size.

ImageMagick is a collection of robust and convenient tools for manipulating images. It can be used to crop images of numerous formats such as JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PhotoCD and many more. ImageMagick facilitates creation of dynamic images that are fitting to the specific requirements of web applications.

Difference Between Cropping in GD Library and ImageMagic:

GD is the most commonly used extension for PHP. It is popular because it is easier to install and configure (`yum install php-gd` on Fedora, CentOS etc or `sudo apt-get php5-gd` on ubuntu). However, it has some limitations such as:

  • It is comparatively slower
  • It is more memory intensive
  • For certain aspects it can be more complex to use.

Below I have mentioned a sample code for image cropping using GD:

[sourcecode]<?php
function resize_my_image($file, $w, $h, $crop=FALSE) {
list($width, $height) = getimagesize($file);
$r = $width / $height;
if ($crop) {
if ($width > $height) {
$width = ceil($width-($width*($r-$w/$h)));
} else {
$height = ceil($height-($height*($r-$w/$h)));
}
$newGDwidth = $w;
$newGDheight = $h;
} else {
if ($w/$h > $r) {
$newGDwidth = $h*$r;
$newGDheight = $h;
} else {
$newGDheight = $w/$r;
$newGDwidth = $w;
}
}
$src = imagecreatefromjpeg($file);
$dst = imagecreatetruecolor($newGDwidth, $newGDheight);
imagecopyresampled($dst, $src, 0, 0, 0, 0, $newGDwidth, $newGDheight, $width, $height);

return $dst;
}

$img = resize_my_image(‘/path/to/some/image.jpg’, 150, 150);
?>[/sourcecode]

You can either output it to the browser or save it to a file using the ‘imagejpeg’ function.

Imagick:

Imagick is a less frequently used PECL extension. ImageMagick is a free tool that is used for creating and manipulating images that supports over 100 different image formats. This can be used on a command line tool for any programming language. The Imagick extension essentially provides an API for all of the functionalities available in the `convert` command line tool.

Some of its advantages are:

  • It is faster
  • It uses less memory
  • Offers more powerful functionality
  • ‘Imagick’ is lot easier to use (once you figure out how), your code may end up smaller and cleaner.

The down side of using this extension is that the documentation is extremely limited and there are almost no examples available on the web. Installation on the other hand can be a painful task as well.

Although it should just be a matter of running the command `pecl install imagick`.

Sample code:

Cropping larger images:

Put a big picture named andolasoft_logo.jpg along side with your php page, run the test and check the directory to see andolasoft_logo_thumb.jpg.

Requirement:

imagemagick with imagick extension

[sourcecode]<?php
$obj = new imagick(‘andolasoft_logo.jpg’);
//resize the above image
$obj->thumbnailImage(160, 0);
//write the thumb
$obj->writeImage(‘andolasoft_logo_thumb.jpg’);
?>[/sourcecode]

To Crop Animated Image:

[sourcecode]<?php
$image = new imagick(“andolasoft_animated_logo.gif”);
$image = $image->coalesceImages(); // the trick! To crop animated image
foreach ($image as $frame) {
$frame->cropImage($width, $height, $x, $y);
$frame->setImagePage(0, 0, 0, 0); // Remove gif canvas
}
?>[/sourcecode]

$x → The X coordinate of the cropped region’s top left corner
$y → The Y coordinate of the cropped region’s top left corner

Implementing ‘ImageMagick’ would make the website look clean and flawless. Images on the other hand retain its look and feel, thereby making the application look professional and optimized.

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