DCKAP Merges Magento with iPhone

DCKAP and its team of Magento developers announced the enhancements made in their integration of Magento with iPhone.

The latest developments made in the web applications by DCKAP’s Magento developers were discussed recently and the first development discussed was about the increased efficiency of admin tools in the mobile application.

The new admin page brings the functional powerhouse of Magento eCommerce to the iPhone ecommerce channel, including full integration with the particular store's catalog, checkout, inventory, reporting, and other required details.

DCKAP Magento programmers said that with this enhanced tool it will be much easier for the admin to navigate through various views simultaneously to analyze and edit the entities and change them respectively.

This also enables to administer various devices with a single installation. As the Magento developer have made it easier for various devices such as iPad, iPhone and some Android devices to be in sync, it reduces the chances of inconsistencies and redundancy.

Magento’s cost effective method of submission and supporting the life-cycle of the application reduces the time consumed by Magento developers and simplifies the process too. Instead of using native applications which take a longer time for acknowledgement and processing these custom made applications by Magento developers for iPhone helps to increase efficiency.

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DCKAP Announces New Magento Test Framework

DCKAP has announced its innovative testing method of Magento Test Automation Framework, or TAF for short. This tool has been nominated as the optimal tool for running functional test in a normally installed Magento application by the Magento developers in DCKAP. This announcement by DCKAP has excited a lot of Quality Assurance testers. The main reason for this excitement is that this tool makes it simple to develop all kinds of tests without building an infrastructure for automation.

Besides running repeated tests, Magento TAF can also be used to create tests and write test automation scripts. Test automation scripts created within the framework can be used for testing most Magento functionality. With the users coming up with wide spread needs everyday DCKAP updates its Selenium framework to cover even more varieties of tests.

DCKAP has updated its workings with Magento’s comprehensive Smoke Test Suite which analyzes the full scope of the whole Magento Community Edition. The test cases that are implemented during the Magento nightly builds are covered using this suite and DCKAP’s Magento developer test it thoroughly.

Magento Test Automation Framework captures screenshots when a test failure occurs and saves it in the temp folder in .png and HTML formats for the Magento developers to analyze. The failed test name contains the class name, test name and a time stamp, this way it’s easy to retrieve the screenshot. And the full path to the screenshot is stored in a log next to the error message so it can be accessed directly.

Magento TAF provides the ability to the Magento developers to test unlimited UI areas. Several store views or stores utilizing different designs can be tested using this option. Each store – or store view – can have a unique UI map but operate with the original set of tests. This removes nesting and naming restrictions for UI map folders and allows users to organize them as they wish.

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Business on Web becomes more efficient with Ruby on Rails Expertise

Fremont based global technology Services Company DCKAP announced today a proactive development initiative in Ruby on Rails technology for business, keeping pace with surging market growth.

Ruby on Rails is an Open-Source web framework built using Ruby. The main goal was to enable developers to rapidly develop web applications backed by SQL databases. Nearly 8 years later, Ruby on Rails has built itself a niche in the IT development world. Our R&D team explores new and emerging technologies to create a vision of how technology will shape the future and invent the next wave of cutting-edge business solutions.

Today internet offers a tremendous potential for every businesses through their websites. The web offers an easy medium to market their products and services at international platform and acquires audiences worldwide through a wide web of online websites. But to do this effectively, a strong web presence and a user-friendly website is required. Each and every website differs from each other as there are lots of websites depending upon their usability and category like online shopping store, social networking, job portal, article or blog website, business or corporate website, personal and lot more. Still they can be mainly divided into basic categories like product or service, information sharing and other non-business websites. We create innovative software solutions for end consumers as well as enterprise customers. Our products and services are driven by open source and social computing architecture.Ruby on Rails introductions are intuitive and enable the creation of applications that demand user attention and can be easily integrated into Web applications to make them highly interactive. With creativity and professionalism of the Ruby on Rails developer, businesses will derive maximum return on investment. Ruby on Rails developers, use Ruby on Rails as a versatile tool to create highly interactive Web applications.

DCKAP’s experienced Ruby on Rails developers team, tuned in to the latest web technologies and aesthetics, with a broad palette of agile practices, help client projects succeed.  DCKAP has helped its customers build numerous applications using Rails from the tiniest part-time operations to the biggest companies.  DCKAP’s ROR experts both Onsite and Offshore have ample industrial expertise to develop seamless and cost effective web applications.

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Business on Web Development and Application goes to Higher Norms with the help of Apt Ruby on Rails Developer

Fremont based global technology Services Company DCKAP announced today a proactive development initiative in Ruby on Rails technology for business to give higher norms to web applications.

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. Nearly 8 years later, Ruby on Rails has built itself a niche in the IT development world. DCKAP is a leading software company with experience and expertise in designing, developing and deploying solutions based on RoR application technology.

January 20, 2012, Rails 3.2 was released. The major improvements were the speed of resolving routes was improved. For the ease of development, Rails 3.2.3 had allowed any field to be set in a mass assignment action in a database record and then left it to the developer to lock down the application. 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 like 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 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.

DCKAP’s experienced Ruby on Rails team, tuned in to the latest web technologies and aesthetics, with a broad palette of agile practices, help client projects succeed.  DCKAP has helped its customers build numerous applications using Rails from the tiniest part-time operations to the biggest companies.  DCKAP’s ROR experts both Onsite and Offshore have ample industrial expertise to develop seamless and cost effective web applications.

 

About DCKAP

DCKAP (www.dckap.com) is a Fremont, CA based global technology Services Company delivering technology driven business solutions that meet the strategic objectives of the clients. Founded in 2005, with offices in California & Colorado, USA, the UK, Australia and three development centers in India, DCKAP has earned appreciation from well respected Fortune 100 companies for its competent services

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Magento Provides Various New Features For eCommerce Growth

Magento developers are keen on providing updates which act as a catalyst for the growth of the ecommerce platform. These frequently made updates range in various fields from Marketing to Managing Catalog.

Marketing Promotions and Tools

Merchants using Magento are benefitted by the new updates provided by the Magento developers as it increases the extensibility and the flexibility of their sites through which they cater to the masses. 

The simplicity of creating versatile promotions utilizing Magento’s flexible pricing rules enables the increase in conversion rates. Magento couples other utilities like Up-sells, Cross-sells etc to make sure that there is a definite increase in the Average Order Value. The Average order value (AOV) is a very simple and meaningful indicator for the performance of a website. It indicates how much money a customer spends when buying something on the website in question. As opposed to the number of items, the number in question here is referring to the total value of items purchased in one visit. With the Average Order Value enhanced, the site is definitely expected to make huge profits and only when that happens the Magento developers are satisfied.

The various Marketing tools provided by Magento’s suite provided the simplicity to apply sophisticated functionality to increase the site’s online sales.

 

Marketing Promotions and Tools Offering

• Private (Club) Sales including Events, Invitations and Category access permissions.
• Flexible Coupons (pricing rules) with ability to restrict to stores, customer groups, time period, products, and categories. For example: Percent Discount | Fixed Amount Discount | Free Shipping | Buy x, get y free. | Buy x, get y with percent or fixed amount discount | Buy x, get free shipping on order | Buy x, get percent discount | Buy x, get fixed amount discount.
• Catalog Promotional Pricing by percentage or fixed amount with ability to restrict to stores, categories, products
• Free Shipping Option
• Multi-Tier Pricing for quantity discounts
• Bundled Products
• Customer Group-specific pricing and group-specific tier pricing
• Landing Page Tool for Campaigns
• Search Engine Friendly URL's
• URL Rewrites
• Recently Viewed Products
• Recently Compared Items
• New Items Promotional Tool
• Up-sells in Shopping Cart
• Cross-sells on product pages
• Send to a Friend for all visitors, or registered users only
• Send Wishlist to a Friend by Email or RSS
• RSS Feeds for New Products, New Specials and New Tags
• Auto-generated Site Map
• Google Site Map
• Polls
• Newsletter Management

Magento Developers’ Understanding of Marketing

These various schemes, discounts, coupons etc are the basic factors which affect web marketing and this is understood by the Magento developer developing the sites. By segregating user groups into various factions the users and customers attain a sense of elite. By promoting a site in various ways the versatility of the site grows too. These are very minute developments which the Magento developers understand but however minute they are, the impact they have on the sales cannot be disregarded.

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Mage Mojo Starts Providing Magento Services

One of the most prominent web hosting providers Mage Mojo announced recently that they have started providing Magento hosting to more than a thousand stores and to Magento developers. They also credited their immense growth and stability to the word-of-mouth marketing.

Mage Mojo’s announcement is regarded as retaliation to Nexcess’s announcement which was made less than a week which declared that the company will officially offer PCI DSS certified Magento services along with its hosting platform. Nexcess says its hosting services have sustained PCI compliance for some time. The distinction here, of course is that while “PCI compliance” is a promise based on a set of widely understood criteria (the PCI data security standard), certification requires the actual application of third-party audit to ensure the reliability of that promise.

Magento’s hold on the service provider arena grew 82 percent since last year which makes the popularity and demand for it plainly evident. The growing ecosystem visualizes the demand for web hosting providers to be a part of, and focus in, the open ecommerce platform.

Mage Mojo is a step ahead from its competitors in the industry as it is able to provide for the ecommerce platform at a lesser asking price since the time it developed its own technology to deal with the challenging ecommerce platform. Mage mojo says its platform merges VPS and cloud hosting to solve the problems that prevent various technologies from running Magento on their own. The end result is a platform for hosting made efficient enough for high performance, security and accessibility. 

Eric Hileman the owner of Mage Mojo released a statement on Magento and Magento developers saying “We are now hosting over 1000 Magento stores and more store owners sign up for our hosting services daily. We are the only true Magento hosting specialists. Magento store owners are seeing this as they move to our hosting services.” 

With more and more hosting providers starting to provide services of Magento, with its fortunate personality, the competition seems to be high, but as it has been proven in the past the best service providers will always thrive and the team with the most efficient Magento developer and Magentoprogrammers will always provide efficient services.

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Extensive Analysis of Joomla! Working Procedure

Joomla! the content management system is a very well known and well spread system used by various developers for their websites as well as intranet. With Joomla! developing and updating itself in frequent intervals the number of Joomla! developers developing sites has gone rocketing. 

Joomla! is used in creating versatile website and manage content like static pages, blogs, polls, news feeds, and search features. The features that attract developers to adopt Joomla! are the rich looks that it gives the websites and the level of ease in developing sites for the developers.

Installing Joomla!

Once, while installing, it is made sure that the requirements are met by the webhosts then the task of installing is very simple and straightforward. These include an Apache Web Server, a MySQL database, and PHP. The webhost company can be contacted to gain information on the availability of PHP, MySQL and Apache in the server. If these are not available in the server then they have to be installed individually and if that is not possible a new host has to obtained. Joomla is designed for and tested on many LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) configurations, but it might work on some Windows or MacOS systems, too. The installation process consists of two stages and they are:

• FTP the files to server 
• Run the obtained installer file which will setup the necessary files on the platform 

 Joomla! will automatically manage the permissions for every file and directory on the site via FTP, so separately doing this task will not be necessary.

Plugins – Joomla! Extensions

Like every other Content Management System, Joomla! too needs extensions in the form of plugins to work as a complete unit. There are latest plugins which are developed in massive quantities by Joomla developers every day. The Joomla! SEO Patch is a very vital plugin which is provided as a free commercial version by its developer. For backup and site maintenance there is another plugin called the Joomla! Pack which is a suite of enhanced tools which optimizes the usage of Joomla! by Joomla! developers to enhance the site. VirtueMart is another plugin which enables the conversion of a Joomla! site into a complete e-store.

The Joomla extension directory offers a lot of additional functionality for Joomla sites. To find if a specific extension is active and being updated the reviews on that extension could be referred.

Templates

Numerous Joomla! templates are available on the internet as per requirements Joomla Programmers can opt for the ones provided for free or the ones that are tagged premium which could be bought. Apart from the major entities of a template which are the images, HTML and CSS code, Joomla developer can also use new functionalities called “Modules”. Different components and entities could be added by Joomla! developers to their sites using these Modules in a very simple and effortless way. By adding a unique code the Joomla! developers can add Modules to their website and pages easily.

Components, Forms and other website "stuff"

The latest components that are being developed by developers from all over the world are acting as the backbone for all Joomla! sites and pages. The latest components that are being built will not be installed with the Joomla! pack, so users have to install these components separately to be updates with state of the art developments. Forms can be instantaneously created in Joomla! and can be added to the page or site immediately. One of the simplest form creators is the component performs.

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