Magento Developers Make Batch Import / Export of Data Super Easy

The import/export feature in Magento development is a very useful tool. This feature is one of the most important in the ecommerce space.

Magento 1.5 comes with a new core module called ImportExport that is fast.  Using the import/export tool one can imports products en masse. It is easier when adding, say, fifty products all at once – create a csv or xml file with the required fields from the database and import the products. Conversely, you can retrieve a csv or xml file through export.

Export also lets you export all the products. Say, when moving a website or to reinstall/ upgrade a website.

Apart from using import to update existing products, magento developers can create new ones

The flexibility offered in the interface means it can be used to communicate with the outside world, including legacy systems, third party applications, price aggregators, external order sources, fulfillment systems, accounting, etc.

The new import/export module is faster

Import or export is a for all purposes, just a transfer between one medium and another, loading data from one resource, applying alterations / reformatting, and saving to another resource – database and local file, ftp server and database, parsed html page and Excel spreadsheet, Google Spreadsheet and catalog, and so on.

External resources can generally be one of the following:

•     Local files

•    ftp, sftp servers

•    Database tables

•    Soap services

•    Standard input / output

•    http interface

•    html source

•    Google Spreadsheets

•    Custom resources such as specialized db interface, cache repository, etc.

A Magento Developer can import and export essentially anything Import / Export in Magento includes:

•    Adding and/or editing batched product data via a file (MS-EXCEL, CSV and Tab-Separated values)

•    customer batch export

•    Batch export any type of data in any implemented format and import back after changes

•    Data export for pricing aggregators (shopping.com, priceGrabber, bizrate …); automatically ftp the files.

•    Data import and integration with third party ERP / inventory management / accounting applications (SAP, Great Plains, MAS 90/2000, Oracle, Netsuite, Quickbooks, Peachtree …)

•    Integration with third party CRM solutions (SugarCRM, SalesLogix, Salesforce.com, ACT …)

•    Integration with order management applications and EDI interfaces

•    Fetching or publishing RSS/Atom feeds such as new products, special prices, product availability, order status, etc.

•     Add/edit/remove products using the import/export tool

•     Automatically import simple grouped and configurable products

•    Import Customers with csv file

•    Import Manufacturers

•    index

•    Magento Attribute Reference Card

•    Stock Level Import Script

•    Use Magento connect to export products to VTiger

It also imports configurable products, custom product options, multiple categories & multiple images, etc.

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Joomla Programmer Expertise for Business on the Web

Joomla is an award-winning open source content management system (CMS) to build powerful online applications. The Joomla content management system provides excellent navigation along with superior CMS features. Joomla is a powerful open-ended suite of management tools that provide control over the presentation of content, at the same time, maintaining its separation from presentation.

DCKAP Joomla developer team has successfully completed and delivered a diverse range of Joomla web applications for business for its various clients. DCKAP’s Joomla programmers now work from the new fully equipped development center and also on client site as required.

The projects include an interactive community training portal / social networking web application, where the organization’s employees in training or in call centers get used to it. Expert Joomla programmers used commercial extensions to build the games – online and offline – and to track the scoring according to the user groups. DCKAP’s Joomla developers used JUGA to control the user access to the game site and using JUGA, user groups like Public Access, Associate, Superman etc., can be created.

There are many reasons to have an e-commerce Web site. It allows visitors to browse products or merchandise and purchase immediately. For some retailers, online e-commerce has vastly augmented the traditional brick-and-mortar storefront, reducing business overheads, opened up sales to a worldwide market to supplement direct sales from the physical location.

Joomla is an excellent choice of a Content management system to use for any business site. A Joomla site built by an expert Joomla programmer can easily grow and expand to suit the needs of any business as the business expands. It gives the business owner complete control over content on the site.

Developing effective business applications requires specialized expertise in the technologies. For a business considering contracting a Joomla development company or a Joomla developer/ Joomla programmer, it would be of great significance to select the right Joomla developer resources and setting out the specifications with clarity and completeness.

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Drupal Programmer brings new expertise for Business

Drupal is a widely used content management system (CMS) well suited for web applications of any kind from web logs (blogs) and micro sites to collaborative social communities. The versatile platform for Drupal development now comes with a new user interface, accessibility improvements, powerful image handling capabilities, support for rich content metadata, security features, scalability and database interoperability enhancements and automated tests to ensure stability. Drupal experts can build the most effective and customized business web applications.

DCKAP Drupal developer team has successfully completed and delivered a diverse range of Drupal web applications for business for its various clients. DCKAP’s Drupal programmers now work from the new fully equipped development center and also on client site as required.

The projects include a full-featured job board for engineering personnel that facilitates all aspects of a powerful job search. DCKAP’s expert Drupal programmers designed and built the application where job seekers can search for jobs by title, job type, company, city, category (taxonomy), as also detailed description for the job. They can deposit their résumés and submit them to potential employers. Employers can place job advertisements and search for potential employees.

Drupal is an excellent choice of a Content management system to use for any business site. A Drupal site built by an expert Drupal programmer can easily grow and expand to suit the needs of any business as the business expands. It gives the business owner complete control over content on the site.

Developing effective business applications requires specialized expertise in the technologies. For a business considering contracting a Drupal development company or a Drupal developer/ Drupal programmer, it would be of great significance to select the right Drupal developer resources and setting out the specifications with clarity and completeness.

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Ruby on Rails for Web & Mobile Applications

Web development and web application development have taken increasingly to open source software, the web platform and its related technologies over the past several years now. Both performance and scalability have acquired newer, higher norms with Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails, built from the Basecamp project by David Heinemeier Hansson, is a framework for rapid web application development. An object oriented programming language, Ruby has taken the concept from Smalltalk, ease of use from Python and flow from Pearl. Rails is a comprehensive open source framework for developing database supported web applications and dynamic websites using the model view controller (MVC) architecture.

With a database and web server combined with the Rails web development environment, a Ruby on Rails developer can build simple complete web applications with rich functionality and interactivity. Because of the flexibility it provides, Ruby on Rails is well suited for ecommerce development, content management, collaboration and online communities (social networking). Rails works well with a wide range of web servers and databases making it easy to deploy web solutions.

The main features of Ruby on Rails (RoR) development include a Model View Controller (MVC) architecture that separates data from logic. The Rails database access library simplifies data handling. The Rails framework consists of extensive AJAX libraries. Ruby uses this library to generate AJAX code and the required Java script is automatically generated.

The Ruby on Rails framework includes the following packages: 

ActiveRecord, ActiveResource (Active Web Service Package), ActionPack, Active Support, ActionMailer. The Ruby on Rails programmer can customize these packages by adding plug-ins. Ruby on Rails programmers can also extend the existing functionalities of these packages.

Ruby on Rails development companies help develop database driven web applications. Flickr is an example of a web application developed for sharing photos on web. Ruby on rails developers can design simple and logical web applications. Database driven websites share a common set of parameters. Rails handles the code for connecting an application to its database. MVC for application development separates data from logic. The scaffolding technology of the Rails framework creates the skeleton application that contains model, view and controller components. The controller performs all the actions of the application.

Ruby on Rails development is used by the Ruby on Rails developer for providing object oriented and component based web application development services. Ruby on rails development companies provide Ruby on Rails developers, Ruby programmers and Rails experts.

The need for web development tools has led many companies to produce sophisticated tools to help the Ruby on Rails programmer create and deploy impressive and highly functional web sites.

Ruby on Rails is a fully developed web frameworks that allow programmers to create a fully functional web site using one program. Ruby on Rails offers a full version on the free open source space. Ruby on Rails being open source, it is constantly worked on and improved by Ruby on Rails programmers to improving and enhancing its features and making it easier to use.

Ruby on Rails also allows more agile development in comparison to other technologies such as PHP.

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DRUPAL Developments: Recent Happenings in the Drupal World

Drupal is a free open-source software framework that powers millions of websites and online applications. It runs on industry standard hosting platforms and connects to virtually all legacy systems. With a community of hundreds of thousands of users and developers, Drupal's success has spawned an enormous business ecosystem.

Drupal Developer

Open Media Foundation (OMF) augments its Drupal resources

Open Media Foundation (OMF) is embarking on a third phase of the project to help bring the vision of a collaborative Public Access TV network forward. Adam Mordecai joins OMF as new Director of Special Projects, accompanied by Joe Meersman, a Drupal developer who has been developing nonprofit websites in Drupal for the past year through OMF's Internship Program. Adam and Joe join a strong team of developers at the Open Media Foundation, dedicated to putting the power of media and technology in the hands of the people.

Drupal Programmers

Demand Availability Gap for Drupal Programmer Talent

There is a large and increasing market demand for qualified Drupal programmers, Drupal developers and Drupal designers due to growing adoption of the open source social publishing platform, according a press release in marketwatch.  Despite a tough economic climate, demand for the Drupal programmer has never been greater, with the job aggregation site indeed[dot]com reporting nearly 3,000 open positions for those with Drupal skills, says the release.  Stephanie Birdsall of Arizona State University is reported as saying that there is a real need in the marketplace for training college graduates in Drupal. As a school that heavily invested in Drupal for hundreds of websites, they would like to see the next generation of Drupal programmers, to ensure that Drupal continues to be a robust and well-supported platform.

Drupal Developers

Drupal 8 CMS to be based on components from PHP frameworks

Drupal, the CMS behind millions of websites, including whitehouse[dot]gov, is getting a core infrastructure overhaul to optimize its code base. Drupal developers decided to go with an existing open source solution instead of creating a new project. CMSWire, quoting Drupal creator Dries Buytaert, reported on Nov 9, 2011, that Drupal will (continue to) use components from PHP frameworks — not necessarily limited to Symfony2. Symfony components are standalone reusable PHP classes. The quality and the numerous possibilities offered by the different Symfony2 components tipped the balance in favor of collaboration between the two communities, according to an announcement. The Drupal community is one of the more active, better-known open source communities.

Drupal Themes

Major changes are on the way for Drupal 8

Drupal 8 CMS is set for major changes, with respect to themes, templates, forms and elements and focus on HTML5, according to a Nov 9, 2011 report on CMSWire.  Most of the templates and theme functions are to be revamped. Drupal 8 will be implementing new form input types and elements to convert Drupal to HTML5. Other core initiatives for Drupal 8 include an improved process for designing Drupal themes and improved Drupal core support for using multiple languages for content, structure and interface. Drupal 8 is also expected to be more mobile-friendly, with responsive themes and improved front-end performance.

Drupal Development

DrupalCon Denver Scholarship Deadline is Here!

An announcement on drupal news said the deadline to apply for scholarships for DrupalCon in Denver is here -- anyone who has not yet applied can do so online until November 18, 2011 midnight Mountain Time. The DrupalCon Denver scholarship program allows community members who would otherwise not be able to attend DrupalCon to benefit from the DrupalCon experience as the Drupal Community benefits from each scholar's attendance. All those seriously into Drupal development read about the eligibility requirements and get the link to the online form by visiting DrupalCon Denver's Scholarship webpage at denver2012.drupalscholarships.

Drupal Experts

Dries Buytaert Looks East for Drupal Experts

Drupal is doing extremely well in North America and in Europe, Drupal founder Dries Buytaert said last week at the Drupal Singapore meeting at Plug-in Blk71 speaking to delegates from Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines. (Dries then visited India as well). He said there are hundreds of Drupal firms, all facing the same problem – finding more Drupal talent. According to Dries, Drupal is doing so well that the lack of Drupal expertise is actually the main thing that is holding Drupal back in the Western world. That is where Dries sees a big opportunity for any country in the world to create pools of Drupal talent. He said wherever you happen to be based in the world, if you are a Drupal expert, you can make money – probably a lot of money, if you are good.

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Magento Commerce Developers build Enterprise & Mobile Apps

Magento is a feature-rich eCommerce platform built on open-source technology that gives online merchants flexibility and control over the look, content and functionality of their eCommerce store. Magento’s intuitive administration interface features powerful marketing, search engine optimization and catalog-management tools for sites tailored to unique business needs. The Magento eCommerce solution is designed for scalability.

Magento is the fastest growing eCommerce platform today. Magento for online stores offers complete flexibility and control over the user experience, content and functionality. Magento professional open source eCommerce platform has an intuitive interface and comes with powerful marketing and catalogue management capabilities. Magento is optimized to give customers a rich online shopping experience. Designed for scalability, Magento is the proven eCommerce solution for merchants of any size and any business.

Magento eCommerce Development is the preferred option for creating dynamic ecommerce solutions Magento eCommerce Development delivers the best shopping cart solutions

Magento Development 

Magento developers are equipped with the technical resources to build complete online shopping solutions with fully customizable shopping cart system powered by Magento.

The platform also delivers other advantages, for instance, promoting and resources, web optimization, catalog management, product or service searching, shipping and delivery, settlement, checkout, m-commerce and many others. Based on the requirements of the businesses, Magento commerce developers personalize and accomplish strikes on the internet site. Magento is preferred as it is inexpensive, lowers vendor-lock in time, and presents easy plug-in and compatibility with other third party applications.

A Magento programmer can also develop mobile-optimized editions of web applications, for those on the move. Mobile editions can with mobile internet browsers can feature a full web-site directory or a selection of products customized for mobile consumers. This is significant, as conversion through mobile phone is steadily on the rise.

Magento Programmer Services

Backed by expertise and rich experience, Magento developers and Magento programmers offer the full range of Magento services. A well qualified and experienced Magento programmer can implement and customize your Magento store. An expert Magento team has competent Magento programmers with experience in all the features of Magento and Magento designers for rendering a captivating visual appeal to your Magento store. An expert Magento developer can provide you impressive Magento website designs from skilled, talented hands.

• Creative Store Designing

• Design Implementation with Magento

• Magento Store maintenance

• Magento Customization

• Magento Migration

Best Shop System in the German Market

Germany's leading e-Business open source and web technologies print magazine T3n conferred on Magento the coveted “Best Shop System” award in Hanover for the most innovative and pioneering products, projects and services. Germany has one of the most developed eCommerce markets in Europe and is home to a very large and growing Magento community. Magento’s mission is to empower the eCommerce ecosystem for success.

Magento Enterprise Premium for Big Business

Magento launched the Enterprise Premium package tailored specifically for large-scale eCommerce implementations that need the scale, expertise and support to run high volume business. Magento Enterprise Premium comprises of multiple Magento Enterprise licenses, Platinum level SLA Magento support, Magento expert consulting and a training course. Merchants get the advantage of the best-in-class features of Magento Enterprise, such as multi-store fronts with a single admin interface, persistent shopping cart, RMA, private sales, marketing and merchandising tools and more, all with the added support, consulting, training and scalability to meet the needs of eCommerce business.

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Joomla Facebook Connect: Now “As You Like It” Open Graph Tags

You don’t have to just “Like” something anymore – you can now make cookies if you like.

Very recently, Alex Andreae has written about a flexible system from Facebook, to use any verb you want in place of ‘like’. Read on.

Last year, Facebook introduced the Like button and Open Graph tags. Those features, well supported in Joomla, are a way for a user to "Like" an object, say a certain web page.

Today, the Facebook “Like” button has become wildly popular and has contributed in no small measure to the growth of traffic for business web applications.

Joomla developer – get in touch with experienced Joomla developers to implement Facebook integration on your Joomla site. Joomla web applications can benefit by adding the Like button on the web pages. JFBConnect is a popular Joomla Facebook integration extension.

The Open Graph tags are what let you describe that object easily, so that when the Like is added to the user's timeline, it has the proper context with the page's title, description and image.

Ask a Joomla programmer how the Open Graph tags can significantly improve your SEO ranking. Joomla programmers know the best ways to optimize your Joomla application for the search engines.

After more than a year and billions of Like clicks, Facebook realized that people needed to be able to 'do' more and that "Like" was a little generic. That 'more' is coming in a flexible system from Facebook to use any verb you want on your site.

For instance, in your Facebook application, you'll be able to define verbs like "Loves", "Read", "Attended", "Made", and whatever else would work on your site. Combined with some additional Open Graph love, you'll be able to define your pages with a lot more flexibility: one page can be a "Recipe", another an "Event" and another still a "Joomla Extension", if you like.

Putting them together, when users interact on your site, you'll be able perform any combination of verbs and objects:

"Alex attended a Super Event"

"Melissa made Sourdough Cookies!"

Each of these events will push a notification to the user’s timeline, with links back to your Joomla site. Others can use those links from Facebook to learn more about why (and how) Alex and Melissa were all interacting with your site! That is great for visibility, promotion and engaging with your users, as well as growing your site in organic ways.

Get in touch a Joomla development company to tip you off on how to drive the most traffic possible to your site. There are reputed Joomla development companies that have built good business web applications in Joomla and know quite a few things on Joomla SEO optimization. They can also develop custom modules, components and plug-ins for Joomla applications.

The Facebook “Like” Button in Joomla

The Like button lets users share pages from your site back to their Facebook profile with one click. You can configure it as a Joomla module to pull in the Facebook Like button, use a content plugin to automatically add the Like to all articles, or our easy-tag system for even more flexibility. Additionally, using the Facebook Open Graph tags, you can set what the title, description, image and other details that will post to the user's wall.

Facebook Open Graph in Joomla

The Facebook Open Graph tags are a way to describe your page to Facebook. When utilized, you can easily control the title, description, image, and other information that is shown in a user's wall when a page is Liked, Shared, or Commented on. This helps to ensure that the message and brand for your pages is always how you want it to be.

The Open Graph support in JFBConnect is extensive and powerful, yet flexible and extremely easy to implement.

Joomla for Business Web Applications

Joomla is a popular open-source software for creating websites and blogs. It is ideal for managing content through a simple and functional interface.  It is an award-winning content management system (CMS) to build powerful online applications.

Joomla Development is well suited for applications like:

• Corporate Web applications, portals

• Corporate intranets, extranets

• Online magazines, newspapers, publications

• eCommerce, online stores

• Online reservations

• Government applications

• Small business applications

• Community portals

• Non-profit organizations

• Educational, religious institutions

• Personal profiles, music bands, professional groups

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