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29December 2009

Wide range of soft ware development companies’ uses many different project management tools for a many aspects. Any soft ware developing company has its common objectives; it is very important that the company develop the soft ware very efficiently and deliver the product on time. Not only that every soft ware company follows certain rules & step by step approaches for their development. Some PM tools are well design to verify all the stages which project should follow and the quality of outputs respectively.

Project Pier

This is one of the great project management tools written by using PHP and MYSQL and it has been developed to satisfy the entire requirement which I mentioned above by software industries.

Features

• To-do list
• Milestone management
• Messaging system
• Email notifications
• File sharing
• Project Oriented Access Control Management

Bugzilla

Bugzilla is one of the web base project support tool for testing. It is originally designed and use for Mozilla project. It is general purpose tool released under Mozilla public licenses.

Features

• Optimized database structure for increased performance and scalability
• Excellent security to protect confidentiality
• Advanced query tool that can remember your searches.
• Integrated email capabilities
• Editable user profiles and comprehensive email preferences
• Comprehensive permissions system

Manits

Manits also one of the bug tracking web base solutions released under the terms of GPL. Software is written totally in PHP scripting language and uses the backend as MYSQL & postgreSQL databases. And it has in-built and could be integrated with many features, feature list.

Experts in open source Project Management tool Bugzilla & Manits, Contact Wakensys at 1.773.552.1355

This article was posted by RANGIKA PERERA

28December 2009

Are you looking for a website that not only shows customers what your company sells but also you need to sell them while they are there? So online shopping cart stores are best solution for this matter. To have online shopping store you can buy a shopping cart and signup for a hosting account. But that way always won’t give the total functionality or fit to your requirements. So that is why open source shopping cart is more important where you can customize the code according to the requirements.

osCommerce:

osc

Magento:

Magneto

Magneto is a professional and latest open source shopping store offering flexibility and control.

With “Magneto” shopping cart..
• Offers professional features, flexibility, content and functionality of the online store.
• Can establish an e-business with convenient product and catalog browser options.
• Can establish extended customer management, advanced analytics, reporting and marketing promotions tools.
• Administrator interface is intuitive.
• Completely scalable and backed by an extensive support network.
• Clean urls which are great for SEO.
• Allows smooth Integration with 3rd party apps.

ZenCart:

Zencart

PrestaShop:

prestashop

Agoracart:

agrocart

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28December 2009

One of the newest innovations that the Google has introduced to the web world is Google wave; it is an online real time tool for communication and collaboration. It is simply a place for users to share verity of information, live discussions and it is incorporated by photos, videos, maps and rich text formats.

This article was posted by RANGIKA PERERA

23December 2009

Blogging is a new trend of keep in touch with the community around and very nice way of sharing knowledge among them. Having a blog to a web site would keep always visitors up to date. It is important to make blog post every now and then but one other thing we have to count on is community response to the posts that we make. In another words it has to be two way contribution of knowledge. This is where proper commenting function always makes the blog so interacting and gives whole new value to a discussion.

Blog comments are lifeblood of a blog, it makes a discussion deeper and more interesting. It is a social aspect that makes blog such a powerful component among the community. As the conversation builds, so will the relationship with your reader and the popularity.

When writing comments try to catch the attention of people, make it more an on going conversation make involve not only the author but also the other readers as well. It would be main fact of increasing the traffic to your site. It is really unnecessary to make the text bold to highlight the comment.

Almost every blog has a comment functionality, in the comment section you may notice as first entry you required to enter some details in order to make a post. Name, e-mail & web site link, so make sure you are not repeating the same info. for the second time. It will give the impression that you are spamming the comment area for some other links.

Most of readers used to comment blogs without a proper understanding about the article, In fact they don’t spend time on reading it, no sense at all, completely divers the whole idea by using a different interpretation. So make sure you have a good understanding about the whole conversation is about.

It is not nice to be harsh on others comments that could be there opinions, they might be wrong but pass the massage across in a polite manner without showing that you are the “guru” on the subject. Remember this is a one way of sharing the knowledge. Try to compliment the effort that they have put on writing the articles.

This article was posted by RANGIKA PERERA

22December 2009

Very important fact that adds to your business is to have attractive and fully functional web site to feature your product or services to outer world. Web site is the first reception for your consumer. So it is very important design a web site with defined functionality of your organization, enriched & cost effective website.

PHP is a general purpose scripting language, widely used among web industry. Easiness of embedding PHP in to HTML has given the web pages more dynamicity. Since its open source it compliance with integrating soft wares with existing systems and for the constant changing requirement. PHP could deliver low cost yet high performance websites. PHP very much popular scripting language to build heavy functionalizes web applications, dynamicity of a web application always suites people driven businesses.

Customer Specification

We can deliver product according to the customer specification. Development is from the scratch to its final delivery.

Product Re-engineering

If your web site need fine tuning for more efficiency to fits the needs of the business.

PHP Migration

We can transfer existing PHP 4 applications to take use to heavily enhanced and completely object-oriented PHP 5 or we can also convert applications written in Java, ASP or NET to PHP.

For more information consult Experts in PHP & MYSQL, Contact Wakensys at 1.773.552.1355

This article was posted by RANGIKA PERERA

22December 2009

Search Engine Optimization or shortly (SEO).This component is very important for a web page. What’s SEO do? It is the method of analyzing and constructing individual web pages, as well as entire sites, so that they can be discovered, analyzed, and then indexed by various search engines. It can make the content of your web pages more relevant, more attractive, and more easily read by search engines and their crawling and indexing software

Why SEO is very important? For an example if we want to create software, there are thousands of software companies for our need but we are searching through search engines in that situation SEO is helping to us. That means if we optimize the page it will be taking a higher priority of searching results. SEO projects certainly follow are; social networks, Blogging & content writing. This trend of technique is to increase the visitors and most certainly increased the results per page, which would bring the visibility of most highlighted details of your web site and in your business. Fore instance your highlighted detail would be your company contacts, surely you would like to see your contact details are been listed among the first ten result of the search engine. That’s why SEO is very important for a company. every companies are in this competition.

If you want to optimize your web site and get an advice from search engine optimization (SEO) consultants in Chicago.

Contact Wakensys at 773.552.1355

This article was posted by Arshad

22December 2009

DotNetNuke (DNN) is an open source Portal and Content Management Framework, based on Microsoft’s .NET technology. It is a Content Management System that makes easy to create, deploy and manage websites, intranet, and extranet. The best part about DNN is it is fully customizable. DNN uses pieces of software called modules that can be developed in numerous ways and therefore get the best solution for any website. Also, one does not have to be a technical user as DotNetNuke web content management (WCM) system and application development platform was designed for end-users-everyday users who maintain websites for charitable organizations, non profit groups and so on.

Apart from the community edition, DotNetNuke also comes in the professional edition with premium functionality and technical support options. These additional features ensure success for organizations running business critical websites and applications.

In the community edition you would find features such as:

*Google Analytics Support

*Change Audit

Including the above mentioned features, the professional edition contains additional features such as:

*Google Analytics for Marketing Support
*Advanced Content Approval Process
*Granular Permissions
*Distributed Caching Provider
*File Integrity Checking
*Health Monitoring
*Vulnerability Database

DotNetNuke follows a three-tier architecture model with a core framework providing support to the extensible modular structure.

Contact Wakensys at 773.552.1355 for more information.

This article was posted by Mufthie

22December 2009

OpenBrauo is a web base open source ERP system for small and medium size businesses. And it is integrated with compiere ERP program and provides the entire states of the company including business functional information plus the work flow. It accompanied with modular adding functionality without any software developer which make easier to use in day to day business.

Other than its existing common features, it facilitates with e-mail functionality, reminders and alerting system with keyboard functionalities. In built reporting functionality and the data export functionality supports the administrative task of the company. Information could be exported to PDF, EXCEL or CSV directly from application. As a security precocious any record in the system can be easily audited and traced to user who created it.

Integrate open source ERP with any third party business solution to make it a powerful Model-driven application Platform that gives you the capabilities to run your business, to automate all the business functionality in the organization quickly, affordable and easily. OpenBrauo demo

For more information on open sources ERP solution contact Wakensys at 1.773.552.1355

This article was posted by RANGIKA PERERA

21December 2009

E-learning is very much popular concept in every corner of the world of education. Seems to be the concept provides a grater solution for many barriers in today’s most educational systems. Generally speaking this is a process of sharing knowledge to a wide range of students with maximum control over their resources. By means of effective e-learning system not only the student benefits but also the educational provider to a great extend.

Moodle is one of the main E-learning packages with significant user base of more than 50,000, especially design for online base education and most importantly it is open sources and released under the terms of open sources license. Moodle is an acronym for “Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment”. It is freely available, easily deploy and maintain. Sine it has been written using PHP and SQL type databases (MYSQL) can be further extending functionality using PHP under the same license. And it can be run on windows, MAC and Linux.

Moodle infrastructure support many types of plug-ins;

• Enrolment methods
• Content filters
• Access levels
• Themes
• Question types
• Activities & games using math & words
• Interactive chat

CMS Course Management system facilitates with very efficient admin panel to administrate the student enrolments, course registrations and manage the educational recourses in a very flexible and controlled manner. Students who have access privileges to the system may sign in from any geographical location, in fact they have the privilege of review their status, update with lessons and new syllabuses, mean while students could interact live with the other students by using chat module with file sharing.

Now days why most of Universities, Collages & institutions are more likely use an e-learning package because of student population. Moodle e-learning package is a full comprehensive solution is not only for the student population but also for the dynamic functional changes which arises in any educational institute.

Experts in open source e-learning software & virtual learning environment Moodle, Contact Wakensys at 1.773.552.1355

This article was posted by RANGIKA PERERA

18December 2009

Since a CMS stores the content of site to database, keep separately the design of site from content and modularized CMS s are highly scalable. So if someone builds a search engine friendly web site, mostly it’s better to use a content management system rather than building sites with plain HTML pages or Dreamweaver templates. So “What will be the best CMS? ” is a common question raised from developers for their products. From CMS s’ Drupal and Joomla are most leading CMS that used for development.

These are some pros and cons on these two CMS s.

Joomla:

• Easy install & setup
• Content editing is simple
• Easy modules addition
• Versioning is available
• Easy learning curve
• Only one site per installation
• More intuitive administration user interface
• Some not much important modules like calendars, polls, etc.
• Limited roles and permission allowances
• Modules cost you money.

 Drupal:

• One installation for several sites.
• Learning curve is still a lot more challenging.
• Content editing is simple
• Versioning is available
• Administration area is clunky
• Powerful templating system
• More user groups & user permissions
• Human readable URLs
• Flexible in its configuration
• Adding a visual theme get more time.

This article was posted by piumi ishanka