DCKAP ROR Team Busts Major Myths

DCKAP today announced certain developments with its Ruby on Rails application development. DCKAP and its team of Ruby of Rails programmershave been developing application on the Rails platform with extreme competency for clients from all over the world.

 

DCKAP has its team of PHP developers too but to clarify certain queries their teams of Ruby on Rails developers and PHP developers have come up with details on the differences between ROR and PHP. DCKAP’s Ruby on Rails developers also came up with facts that broke the common myths about Ruby on Rails.

 

The major advantage in developing applications using the blocks provided by Ruby on Rails is that it exponentially reduces the time consumed for developing the applications and even during maintenance of the application time is saved as the Ruby on Rails programmers do not have to check each every line of code.

 

Another added advantage of this method is it becomes easier for a group of Ruby on Rails developers to write code in a uniform way and standardize the working procedure to make it simpler for further developments of a particular application.

 

Ruby on Rails developers clarified it to their clients that ROR is not a plug and play application with which web applications can be built but it is a programming language where lines of coding has to be done to develop applications. It was also explained the working of ROR where blocks of functions can be edited, used and re-used.

 

With clarifications such as this, Ruby on Rails developer have come forward and expressed their expectations from clients such as the time given for the completion of projects etc.

Busting the Stereotyped Myths about Ruby on Rails

Origin of Ruby on Rails

David Heinemeier Hansson created Ruby on Rails as a by-product during the development of Base camp. David collected some underpinning code from the application to use and re-use in the applications he was planning to develop down the line.

The framework which David built later proved to be extensible, expandable, and multi-purpose which was further developed and enhanced by a team of developers called the Ruby on Rails team. After making various enhancements Ruby on Rails evolved into an efficient software development team. 

 

General Ruby on Rails Properties

Rails are designed predominantly to develop web applications in an easier way and this enables the ROR developers to develop with mellowed down difficulties. Rails provides Ruby on Rails programmers with expendable building blocks which can be altered, used and re-used for any number of times which helps them to efficiently analyze the code. These blocks of code can be used by the Ruby on Rails developers to integrate and customize in any way found suitable by them so that the blocks can be converted to develop applications with their unique functionalities.

The major advantage in developing applications in the above way is this exponentially reduced the time consumed for developing the applications and even during maintenance of the application time is saved as the Ruby on Rails programmers do not have to check each every line of code. Another added advantage of this method is it becomes easier for a group of Rubyon Rails developers to write code in a uniform way and standardize the working procedure to make it simpler for further developments of a particular application. 

 

Busting Myth #1

 It is a fact that Ruby on Rails makes it a very simple task to build web applications in a very limited time span. It does have a lot of pre-built components which can be used, altered and re-used and a ton of built-in functionalities. But the actual framework of Ruby on Rails is code. It is definitely not a plug and play application which can be customized for the application that a developer wants to build by just integrating and editing the design along the way. Ruby on Rails developers are presented with a menu of code from which they can choose the block which is the most suitable for their application and they can modify, and extend to create a completely customized application. 

 

Busting Myth #2

“Rails make it easy” campaign has actually affected it in a slightly negative way hurting some Independent Rails development shops. Regardless of the application’s feature set clients are expecting Ruby on Rails developers to deliver the application within days. Rails actually saves the Ruby on Rails developers’ time by letting them concentrate more on application specific functionality rather than things like database connectivity. Heavy lifting required in building user interaction is completely taken care by Rails. Developers can use this pre-built code, and spend more time making applications that are more reliable and easier to use. Rails makes development more fun and it eliminates much of the tedium involved in building web applications, but it doesn’t build them for you. 

 

Busting Myth #3

Believing that to develop applications using Ruby on Rails the developer need not be a programmer is a farce. In reality there are more tasks in building an application using Ruby on Rails than just assembling components according to the design. 

It is true, however, that you might not need to be as experienced a developer to create a Rails application as you might need to be to build, for example, a PHP, Java, or Objective-C application. To build apps the Ruby on Rails developer has to be proficient in coding.

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

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. 

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.

Magento and AOE Media Join Hands for Powerful Online Marketing

Today at the Magento Imagine eCommerce 2012 conference, Magento, a leading eCommerce platform provider and division of X.commerce, Inc., an eBay Inc. company, announced that it worked with AOE media, a Magento partner system integrator, to successfully meet the commerce needs of Rovio Entertainment Ltd., creators of the popular Angry Birds game. The implementation highlights will be discussed later today in AOE media's session, "Deployment Pipeline for Magento Enterprise in the Cloud."

AOE media has sought Megneto Enterprise to host and scale to provide for the growing user volume. This is solely because of the increase in demand caused due to the epidemic brought to AOE media by Angry Birds.

Rovio’s Business Development Director spoke to the press recently and said “Since the inception of Angry Birds, our brand's explosive growth has led to more than 700 million downloads as of February. To help us, we approached Magento Programmers and AOE media for a solution to effectively handle the increase in demand of our webshop. We are pleased with the variety of tools available on the platform that have allowed us to create a unique and seamless shopping experience for our customers. Having the option to plug and play other capabilities gave us exactly the flexibility we were looking for."

Rovio has now developed a fully-scalable solution according to its business needs and it credits Magento’s flexible platform for the developments that have happened since it has joined hands with Magento.

The added advantage of Magento’s platform is that it allows integration with Shipwire extension which facilitates Rovio fulfillments services to automatically get the global warehouses managed. This develops the efficiency of shipping which in turn optimizes cost and an increase in global inventory availability.

With such rigorous developments in business for Rovio and AOE media they definitely needed services from Magento which was provided and proved to be fruitful.

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Ruby 1.9.3-p194 is released

This release include Security Fix for RubyGems: SSL server verification failure for remote repository. And many bugs are fixed in this release. 

Security Fix for RubyGems: SSL server verification failure for remote repository

This release includes two security fixes in RubyGems.

• Turn on verification of server SSL certs
• Disallow redirects from https to http

Users who uses https source in .gemrc or /etc/gemrc are encouraged to upgrade to 1.9.3-p194.
Following is excerpted from RubyGems 1.8.23 release note [1].
"This release increases the security used when RubyGems is talking to an https server. If you use a custom RubyGems server over SSL, this release will cause RubyGems to no longer connect unless your SSL cert is globally valid.

You can configure SSL certificate usage in RubyGems through the :ssl_ca_cert and :ssl_verify_mode options in ~/.gemrc and /etc/gemrc. The recommended way is to set :ssl_ca_cert to the CA certificate for your server or a certificate bundle containing your CA certification.
You may also set :ssl_verify_mode to 0 to completely disable SSL certificate checks, but this is not recommended."

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Features Of Adobe Flash Player 11.3

Adobe Flash released a beta of their upcoming Flash Player Cyril- Flash Player 11.3. The 11.3 release focuses on adding a number of features that would make Flash a more attractive gaming platform. To this effect Flash developers have added support for streaming textures. Games running using Stage3D can now stream textures, starting with lower quality and increasing quality as the texture load.

Flash also adds support for keyboard input while in full screen mode. With this feature, games are essentially limited to windowed mode if they need any kind of keyboard control. Full screen input will ask the user for permission, since it has the potential for misuse.

A number of improvements to audio have also been made, with support for low latency audio in their streaming API. Low latency audio support has also been added to their Sound API. Native JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) support enables ActionScript Flash programmer take advantage of fast parsing and generation of JSON-formatted data. Existing data could be integrated with minimal or no modification to the ActionScript project. Other interesting new features include FrameLabel events, now quality for individual bitmaps can be changed with support of Bitmap.drawWithQuality, the release outside mouse event is back and Flash Player now supports native encoding of bitmap data to PNG, JPEG, and JPEG XR. The last one will greatly improve the performance of online image editors.

While Flash Player 11.2 introduced auto-updates for Windows, 11.3 introduce auto-update for Mac OSX as well. For this release of AIR, Adobe seems to have focused on mobile. A number of new features have been added to AIR:-

* AIR supports USB debugging of applications running on iOS devices.

* For AIR apps running on Android 4.0, Stylus support has been added.

* For those developing AIR applications for iOS on Mac OSX, the developer tools now support running AIR apps in the simulator.

* AIR apps are now better while running in the background. They can perform network operations in the background and get notifications when the app is about to be suspended.

Finally, for Flash developer of AIR applications for Mac OSX, AIR adheres better to Apple guidelines. The next Flash Player release code-named Dolores will focus on performance, after which there is to be a major revamp of the core language and runtime, which might just mean Flash Player 12. Flash animations and Flash 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.

Added Up Mobile Features of Magento Enterprise 1.12 and Community 1.7

Magento and its team were pleased to announce the release of two of its best offerings Magento Enterprise 1.12 and Community 1.7. After this announcement the various key features of these releases were also discussed by Magento and its team of Magento developers and Magento programmers.

The latest enhancements in these released applications are believed to develop the efficiency of the platform and help the merchants provide their customers a personalized shopping experience.According to these developments the customers may now place their order within a few clicks; they can use their mobile utilities to shop in a more convenient way, and now the users can have multiple wishlists too. And these advantages help the merchant to boost the consumer engagement with the site, it also helps in increasing conversion and transaction size, and it enables the automatic promotion of the brand as the customers getting benefitted amount a lot to this aspect.

The improved customer segmentation which in turn enhances the ordering capabilities act as advantages to every merchant with the Magento tools developed by Magento developers and even those running B2B get benefitted. Apart from these benefits, these latest Magento releases have gains for Magento developers too. These gains include a new API, and backup and rollback systems.

Following are some of the key features in the new releases and how they can benefit the merchants and the Magento programmers.

Mobile Storefronts for Ease of Shopping

The new releases enable merchants to create a storefront rapidly and effortlessly in an optimized way for mobile devices. This augmentation enables customers to shop from wherever they are and even while they are on the go. This obviously helps the merchants to develop their business in exponential levels as the mobile platform is building up in terms of hundreds of thousands every day. This mobile interface uses HTML5 technology and supports iPhone, Android and Mobile Opera browsers. It includes out-of-the-box features.

Device Specific Features

The new releases are modeled in such a way that they can detect the device in which they are installed and according to the platform it is installed in the media capabilities alter. Without such alterations of media specifications the application will not be in a mode in which it can be utilized in an optimal way. The media specifications predominantly are audio and video based, so the add-ons and plug-ins necessary will also be certified by the platform.

Optimal Search Preferences

One of the most taxing features in any mobile ecommerce platform for both the customer and the Magento developer is the search feature. With the release of Magento Enterprise 1.12 and Community 1.7 this has been tackled efficiently. The search engine present by default has been developed in such a way that the accuracy of it crawling to the exact words has been improved. This makes the search engine more sophisticated, user friendly and displays results in a highly efficient way.

Lucid Display of Products

The basic need of such ecommerce web applications like the ones developed by Magento developers using the Magento platforms is to showcase customers the products and services in a legible way so that the level of business gets enhanced. With the new releases from Magento the method of displaying the products has been honed to the fullest. Now the products can be viewed individually with a single click and its details can be viewed either briefly or extensively.

Efficient Viewing of Images

With the growing technological advancements of mobile devices and their highly improved hardware progression it is only astute for Magento developers to come up with features utilizing these features. The images present in the web applications for ecommerce used to provide minimal actions on images and pictures but with the new and advanced features of Magento it is possible to carry out various actions like Pinch, multi-touch and scaling images. The various images present on the page can be viewed one at a time by easily swiping on after the other. Touch phones being the order of the day it is not a surprise that Magento developers have given much preference to such basic specifications.

Facilities for Cross-selling and Upselling

Instead of using other parties to perform tasks such as Cross selling, where products are sold among or between established clients, markets, traders, etc, and Upselling, which is a sales technique whereby a seller induces the customer to purchase more expensive items, upgrades, or other add-ons in an attempt to make a more profitable sale, the new Magento tools enables merchants to perform both the tasks.
With these improvements as stated above both the releases Magento Enterprise 1.12 and Community 1.7 are welcomed by Magento developers and Magento programmers with hail and positive reception.

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Ruby On Rails- The Most Preferred For Web Applications

Ruby on Rails is a development tool that gives web developers a framework and provides structure to the code that is written. The Rails framework helps developers to abstracts and simplifies common repetitive tasks while building web applications. Rails is written in Ruby, a programming language. What Ruby is to Rails is similar to PHP is to Symfony and Zend, or Python is to Django. The reasons for the developers prefer Ruby is because of the elegance and directness of the language.

The principle of Ruby on Rails development is 'Convention over Configuration' (CoC). This means that the programmer only has to write new code for the areas in which their application deviates from the standard.  Another characteristic of Rails is REST (Representational State Transfer), a software architecture based around the client-server relationship. It encourages a logical structure within applications, which means they can easily be opened up as an API (Application Programming Interface).

Agile web development is implemented within the Rails community. This is a particular method of structuring the development process as per the communication between the developers and the client. In a short period, Ruby on Rails has earned a huge following. This is largely due to the rapid development of dynamic web applications. The following are the reasons why Ruby on Rails is preferred by the programmers/ developers.

•    Here the process of programming is much faster compared to that of the other frameworks and languages due to the object-oriented nature of Ruby and also because of CoC as it reduces the amount of code that needs to be written.

•    CoC makes it easy for Ruby on Rails developers to move between different Rails projects, as each project will tend to follow the same structure and coding practices.

•    Ruby code is readable and hence is self-documenting. This increases productivity, as the need to write separate documentation is minimal and is easy for other Ruby on Rails programmers to pick up projects.

•    Rails enables him to build Basecamp with Ruby, and consequently to build large applications.

•    The CoC and DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) maxims and Agile methodologies all aim to make the web application development process easy for a Ruby on Rails programmer.

•    Quick turn-around time is provides an integrated web server and an interpreted language helps in code modifications immediately, thereby minimizing the code-debug cycle.

•    Most e-commerce sites benefit tremendously from Rails' user-friendly features and modular approach to site development. Features that are high-end e-commerce suites, such as bulk uploads and updates, custom pricing algorithms, and photo resizing/cropping can be included in Ruby on Rails web application development.

•     Membership and social networking are generally developed on Ruby on Rails because of the variety of plugins that are available helps to solve the social networking challenges that might arise.

•     If the purpose of the site is to present thousands of articles, audio files or other database-friendly content, Ruby on Rails is a great solution because of the ease with which users will be able to navigate the site, and with which one will be able to upload and manage the content.

•    New projects that require custom solutions for novel database structure to support a creative new business model Ruby on Rails is an ideal way to build these solutions at minimal time and expense. 

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The Features Of ActionScript 2.0 And ActionScript 3.0

The scripting language used for Flash is ActionScript which is based on ECMAScript from which JavaScript is also derived. One can find excessive use of Adobe Flash and ActionScript 3.0 in mobiles, desktops, smart phones, tablets, televisions, laptops and digital pads. The following are the major advantages of Flash. 

1. Cross-browser compatibility
Flash is browser independent. It has no issues with cross browser compatibility. Flash Programmer need not worry about the HTML and CSS code being interpreted differently in different browsers. As long as the Flash player plug-in is installed on the user´s computer, Flash content could be viewed without any issues.

2. Interactivity
Flash supports audio, animation, and advanced video handling and interactivity. Flash is vector-based, but allows incorporation of bitmaps. Flash applications can collect data, online games, feedback forms, photo slide show, audio, movies, charts, shopping carts, and different web applications that server-side scripts can do, thus making the website more interactive and expressive.

ActionScript 3.0 is much more structured and object oriented compared to ActionScript 2.0. Flash Developers from other languages are likely to be comfortable with the stricter type checking system, improved class inheritance system, better debugging, and unified event handling in ActionScript 3.0. But for developers who learned ActionScript 2.0, the transition to ActionScript 3.0 can be bit intimidating. Most of the code examples found that are written in ActionScript 2.0 will not be compatible when written in ActionScript 3.0.

A Flash Player includes two virtual machines so that it can support ActionScript 3.0 as it evolves, while still supporting legacy ActionScript 2.0 and ActionScript 1.0 content. If a programmer already knows and is comfortable with programming games in ActionScript 2.0, he/she can continue with it as Flash Player is backwards compatible with the code. There are, however, many reasons why one must take time to learn ActionScript 3.0. The primary motive is performance. Game developers tend to push Flash Player performance to the edge as they create amazing browser-based games. Flash can be used to replace text elements on HTML Web pages with Flash equivalents. This image replacement technique is called Scalable Inman Flash Replacement. Code written in ActionScript 3.0 can run 10 times faster than ActionScript 2.0 code. ActionScript 3.0 has introduced support for hardware acceleration, which will only continue to improve performance going forward.

Now let us compare the features of ActionScript 2.0 and ActionScript 3.0

ActionScript 2.0 ActionScript 2.0 was introduced in September 2003 with the release of Flash MX 2004 and along with its corresponding play Flash Player 7. ActionScript 2.0 was used for larger and more complex applications. It featured compile-time type checking and class-based syntax, such as the keywords class and extends. With ActionScript 2.0, developers could constrain variables to a specific type by adding a type annotation so that type mismatch errors could be found at compile-time. ActionScript 2.0 also introduced class-based inheritance syntax so that developers could create classes and interfaces, much as they would in class-based languages such as Java and C++. This version confirmed partially to the ECMAScript Fourth Edition draft specification.

ActionScript 3.0 In June 2006, ActionScript 3.0 was released along with Adobe Flex 2.0 and its corresponding player, Flash Player 9. ActionScript 3.0 was a fundamental restructuring of the language, that it uses an entirely different virtual machine. Flash Player 9 contains two virtual machines, AVM1 for code written in ActionScript 1.0 and 2.0, and AVM2 for content written in ActionScript 3.0. Actionscript 3.0 added limited support for hardware acceleration (DirectX, OpenGL).

The update to the language introduced several new features:
* Compile-time and run-time type checking and type information exists at both compile-time and runtime.
* Improved performance from a class-based inheritance system than that of the prototype-based inheritance system.
* Support for packages, namespaces, and regular expressions.
* Compiles to an entirely new type of bytecode, incompatible with ActionScript 1.0 and 2.0 bytecode.
* Revised Flash Player API, organized into packages.
* Unified event handling system based on the DOM event handling standard.
* Integration of ECMAScript with XML (E4X) for purposes of XML processing.
* Direct access to the Flash runtime display list for complete control of what gets displayed at runtime.
* Limited support for dynamic 3D objects. (X, Y, Z rotation, and texture mapping).

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Magento’s Updates and the 4 Million Mark

DCKAP an active acquaintance with Magento which has been providing various Ecommerce services has announced its escalation in the collaboration with Magento as it advances with the new Magento Enterprise 1.12 and Community 1.7. As Magento marked its 4 Millionth download earlier this year, it proudly engraved its name in the Hall of Fame for one of the most used open source ecommerce web application. 

 

DCKAP is one of the early firms to embrace these upgrades by Magento as they are considered to be vital and indispensable improvements. As millions of businesses are flocking Technology services like DCKAP which is a marveling firm, it is only wise for them to boost their effectiveness in their services. DCKAP has an experienced and trained team of Magento eCommerce developers, both onsite and offshore. Design services specializing in custom Magento development from Magento programmers, Magento programmer, Magento developers, Magento developer, Magento commerce developer, Magento commerce developers, Magento commerce programmer, Magento commerce programmers.
 

Upgrades and Enhancements

The new version of Magento is said to have satisfied majority of pending queries and requests for additional features which have been suggested by its customers and clients for some time now.

 

Basic factors such as support for custom currency symbols have been addressed in its release notes but Magento Team mentions that such requests can be only looked upon with respect to the forum discussions as small queries in the forums often go unnoticed if they are not experienced by a faction which is in plain sight.

 

Inclusion of captcha codes in certain forms has been highlighted as a security enhancement as well as upturn which will sweep away spam and unwanted bots. Customers who have been finding the base prices diverse from their purpose are assured that each customer will be placed in a group with respect to their requirements and aspects, and base prices will be assigned accordingly.

 

Due to increasing magnitudes of data and inconsistencies arising due to that, Magento has manifested the already existing feature of Backup and Rollback in with new exalts.  With globally spanning markets the new VAT ID validation for B2B sales in Europe has licensed all markets utilizing Magento to trade with ease.

 

DCKAP’s plunge into mobile applications is no strange affair to Magento too. As all fields of technology are falling into hands of personal users with their mobile phones it is an obvious development that Magento jumps into the Mobile platform. The new HTML5 based theme for mobile devices has moved towards an elegant and legible platform which tends to have simple GUI’s.

 

Though there are numerous eCommerce Platforms available Magento still holds the place for the most reliable and to grasp such a position and to hold to it needs immense team insight and proficiency. For any trade or business procedures the efficiency of accomplishment relies significantly on choosing the apt resource for developing and providing specifications and requirements comprehensibly.

RUBY ON RAILS 3.2 AND 3.2.3

For Web development and web application development, increasingly open source software is used along with impressive user interface for rapid development of business applications. The performance level of Ruby on Rails has reached higher norms. Ruby on Rails is a fully developed web framework that allows a programmer to create a fully functional application on a single program. A Ruby on Rails Development Company provides services including:

 

•           Ruby on Rails Installation

•           Ruby on Rails technology solutions

•           Ruby on Rails Upgrades

•           Complete Ruby on Rails application deployment

•           Ruby on Rails CMS (Rails Content Management System)

•           Ruby on Rails Customization to business needs

•           Ruby on Rails Maintenance

•           Ruby on Rails Consultation

•           Performance tuning and scaling

 

            Every ruby on rails developer wants to speed up the development process and reduce the errors. Rails provide a fast and easy development environment with quality results. With Ruby programming language, ruby on rails programmer need to write fewer lines of code compared to other programming languages to reach the same result. 

 

January 20, 2012, Rails 3.2 was released. The major improvements were the speed of resolving routes was improved. A rail 3.2 deprecates plugins which Rails 4.0 will remove them completely. Rails 3.2.3 was released March 31, 2012 with improved protection from mass assignment vulnerabilities.

 

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 change in Rails 3.2.3 now forces developers to white list fields for mass assignment by flipping the config.active_record. Whitelist_attributes property to true by default. This change affects new applications and ruby on rails developers must make sure their existing Rails applications for mass assignment vulnerabilities or to set the config.active_record.whitelist_attributes property to true in their applications.

 

There is another option featured in 3.2.3 release, it is to change to how authenticity_tokens are handled when doing remote forms, and an update to rack-cache while fixing a cookie leak. Other changes include a find_or_create_by_{attribute} dynamic method added, attribute_present fixed to return false for empty strings, a number of corrected regressions and other bug fixes – details of which can be found in the announcement and in the comparison between 3.2.2 and 3.2.3. Rails can be updated using "gem install rails" at the command line. The web application framework Ruby on Rails has been updated to fix two important security issues and several other bugs.

 

The two cross-site scripting issues that were fixed allow attackers to take advantage of improperly sanitized options tag fields and direct manipulation of a safe buffer to execute arbitrary HTML in the browser of users visiting a Rails site. The Rails 3.2.2 update also includes fixes which ensure log files are always flushed and that failing tests will exit with non-zero status codes. It also removes calls to some deprecated methods and includes various Ruby 2.0 compatibility fixes.

Ruby on Rails Developer expertise for Business on Web

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, developed by David Heinemeier Hansson in 2003, 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.

 

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. 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 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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2nd EditionTutorial For Ruby on Rails

The Rails Tutorial 2nd edition PDF is out; early access to the 2nd edition screencasts is open; use the code "rt2ndEd" through the end of April to get a 20% discount. Go to http://railstutorial.org/ for more information.

I'm pleased to announce the availability of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 2nd Edition PDF. This new edition has been specially optimized for e-readers such as Kindle and iPad; you can download a sample PDF here:

http://railstutorial.org/samples?file=rails_tutorial_2nd_edition_sample.pdf

Here's what's new in the 2nd edition:

http://railstutorial.org/#new

I'd especially like to thank the many readers who reported errors in the online version of the 2nd edition.
I'd also like to announce the launch of access to the 2nd edition screencasts. Right now this consists of Lessons 1 & 2, along with two short screencasts on installation and advanced setup. Anyone who buys the screencasts now will get each new screencast as it's produced, as well as the 1st edition screencasts in their entirety. I'm planning to increase the price to $125 once they're done, but until then they are available for $95. You can find them on the Rails Tutorial home page:

http://railstutorial.org/

I'm offering a 20% discount using the coupon code "rt2ndEd" (expires at the end of April).

Rails 3.2.3 has been released!

This release changes the default value of config.active_record.whitelist_attributes to true. This change only affects newly generated applications so it should not cause any backwards compatibility issues for users who are upgrading but it may affect some tutorials and introductory material. For more information see the mass assignment section of the ruby on rails security guide

Rails 3.2.3 also introduces a new option that allows you to control the behavior of remote forms when it comes to authenticity_token generation. If you want to fragment cache your forms, authenticity token will also get cached, which isn't acceptable. However, if you only use such forms with ajax, you can disable token generation, because it will be fetched from meta tag. Starting with 3.2.3, you have an option to stop generating authenticity_token in remote forms (ie. :remote => true is passed as an option), by setting config.action_view.embed_authenticity_token_in_remote_forms = false. Please note that this will break sending those forms with javascript disabled. If you choose to not generate the token in remote forms by default, you can still explicitly pass :authenticity_token => true when generating the form to bypass this setting. The option defaults to true, which means that existing apps are NOT affected.

We've also adjusted the dependencies on rack-cache and mail to address the recent security vulnerabilities with those libraries. If you are running a vulnerable version of mail or rack-cache you should update both gems to a safe version. There were also some regressions in the render method that were fixed in this version.

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GridGain Claims It’s Big Data 2.0

GridGain Systems has upgraded its namesake Java-based open source middleware platform for real-time Big Data processing.

Unlike complex, decade-old SQL, ERP or Hadoop ETL systems that use dead data for batch offline processing, the new GridGain 4.0 will process live data so businesses can get meaningful results faster from low-latency real-time transactional and analytical processing.

By comparison GridGain CEO Nikita Ivanov claims Hadoop is only good for long-term historical storage. GridGain is more like "Big Data 2.0."

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Rails Tutorial sample screencast vide

I'm gearing up for production on the second edition of the Rails Tutorial screencasts, and I've posted a sample video showing the setup I'm planning to use. I'm going to start screencasting within a few days, so now's your chance to give me feedback (at admin@railstutorial.org) before the screencast train leaves the station.

Here's the sample video:
Rails Tutorial 2nd edition sample video

Update: I've also included a second video at a slightly different resolution.
These are some of the items I'd like to get feedback on:

• Video. Is the video crisp? Are the size and format OK?
• Sound. Is the sound clear? Is the volume good?
• Screen resolution. The video's resolution is 1344x756, which uses the standard HD aspect ratio of 16:9 while still fitting on the screen of my MacBook Air. Let me know if it doesn't look good on your system. (If this resolution doesn't work, I might have to buy a new computer, which I'd really rather avoid…)
• Applications and workflow. I'm planning to use iTerm and Sublime Text as the principal development tools. I'm 95% likely to stick with those, but let me know if you violently disagree with either choice. Note: The main reason for switching to Sublime Text from TextMate (the editor used in the first edition) is that it's comparably good while also being cross-platform.
• The video includes some other details, so please watch it all the way through if you're planning to comment. (It's about 11 minutes long.)

Any other observations or suggestions are greatly appreciated (admin@railstutorial.org), especially if they arrive within the next couple of days. Thanks!

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The Ruby on Rails Tutorial, now with Twitter's Bootstrap

Due to popular demand, I have prepared a new version of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial using Twitter's Bootstrap framework. The result, which represents the final draft of the 2nd edition, can be found here:
http://railstutorial.org/book?version=3.2

This is a substantial revision, involving significant code changes, new mockups, and new screenshots. As usual, bug and typo reports are welcome (admin@railstutorial.org). Once it looks like the kinks have been worked out, I'll release a full PDF of the 2nd edition.

I'd like to thank reader Colm Tuite for his excellent work in helping to convert the book's sample app to Bootstrap. I'd also like to thank Thomas McDonald for his outstanding work on the bootstrap-sass gem.

Since some readers might find themselves stuck in the middle of the pre-Bootstrap version, I have included a copy here: http://railstutorial.org/book?version=3.1

Otherwise, I suggest using the latest version: http://railstutorial.org/book?version=3.2

Thanks to all those who encouraged me to make this change. It was a lot of work, but based on reader feedback I'm confident that it's the right move. Bootstrap is an excellent CSS and UI framework, and I'm excited to have it be part of the Rails Tutorial.

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Rails 3.2.3.rc2 has been released!

Rails 3.2.3 introduced a new option that allows you to control the behavior of remote forms when it comes to authenticity_token generation. If you want to fragment cache your forms, authenticity token will also get cached, which isn't acceptable. However, if you only use such forms with ajax, you can disable token generation, because it will be fetched from meta tag. Starting with 3.2.3, you have an option to stop generating authenticity_token in remote forms (ie. :remote => true is passed as an option), by setting config.action_view.embed_authenticity_token_in_remote_forms = false. Please note that this will break sending those forms with javascript disabled. If you choose to not generate the token in remote forms by default, you can still explicitly pass :authenticity_token => true when generating the form to bypass this setting.

The option defaults to true, which means that existing apps are NOT affected.

This RC includes this authenticity_token change and 2 bug fixes described below. If there are no more release blockers, I will be releasing the final version on March 30th (tomorrow). If you find something please open an issue on github and let me know through email (santiago at wyeworks.com), tweet (spastorino) or cc me on the github issue.

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WordPress Takes SXSW 2012!

The South by Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSW) holds a special place in the history and heart of WordPress. Though the conference has changed in the years since I first met Matt in the hallway in 2003 — before WordPress even had a name — it’s still arguably one of the most influential events in our industry, and we’ll be there again this year. Will we see you there?

Booth

There will be a WordPress booth at the SXSW trade show March 12-15. Our booth was packed to overflowing last year as we helped people with their blogs and gave away WordPress swag, so this year we’ll have more space to meet as many of you as possible. Stop by if you need a helping hand with your site, or just to say hi. We’ll also have buttons, stickers, and t-shirts again this year.

Party

This year’s WordPress party will be hosted by the WordPress Foundation on Monday, March 12 from 6-9pm. Space is limited, so make sure you RSVP (no SXSW badge is required). The party this year will be at the Buzzmedia Pure Volume House, and the story of how we hooked up with them is pretty cool.

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An Online 48 Hour Game Coding Competition

Ludum Dare is an online accelerated game development event that focuses on regular 48 hour competitions. Think Rails Rumble but for games! It's been around since 2002 but has had a big publicity boost recently due to the participation of Notch, the creator of the mind-bogglingly popular indie game Minecraft.

The competition tends to be dominated by Java, Flash, Microsoft XNA developers, and HTML5 developers, so it'd be great to see more Ruby entries (of which there have only been a couple so far).

During August's event, I, along with hundreds of others, was glued to Notch's livestream watching him code his game, Prelude of the Chambered (a 6 minute version is on YouTube). I was inspired enough to port his Java code into Ruby using JRuby, producing
potc-jruby (sadly far slower than the original Java version). This time, I plan to enter for real and build my own original game.

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Mega Ruby News and Release Roundup for February 2012

Oops! I forgot to post the weekly Ruby news updates from Ruby Weekly to Ruby Inside in February so.. here's a mega roundup of all that was new in the Ruby and Rails worlds in February 2012. I'll try to keep posting every week from here on - sorry.

Highlights include: a new Ruby 1.9.3 release, REE's end of life, Spree 1.0, some Rails 4 news, Devise 2.0, a new private gem hosting service.. and that's just scratching the surface :-) Enjoy! (And don't forget to subscribe to Ruby Weekly if you want to receive something like this every week via e-mail or The Ruby Show if you want it in podcast/audio form.)

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What is docrails?

docrails is a branch of Ruby on Rails with public write access where anyone can push doc fixes.

If you see a typo, you'd like to correct a factual error, complement some existing documentation, add a useful example... before docrails existed you had to open a pull request (or the equivalent in those days) and follow the ordinary workflow to get it accepted. docrails allows you to clone the repo, edit, and push. Done!

What is allowed in docrails?

You can freely push changes to any RDoc, guides, and READMEs.

No code can be touched at all. That's a hard rule. No matter how insignificant, not even a one character typo in a string literal.

CHANGELOGs cannot be edited either.

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Rails 3.2.2 has been released!

Rails 3.2.2 has been released. This release contains various bug fixes and two important security fixes. All users are recommended to upgrade as soon as possible.

Changes
For information regarding the possible vulnerabilities, please see the announcements here and here.
Some highlights from this release are:

• Log files are always flushed
• Failing tests will exit with nonzero status code
• Elimination of calls to deprecated methods
• Query cache instrumentation includes bindings in the payload
• Hidden checkbox values are not set if the value is nil
• Various Ruby 2.0 compatibility fixes

For a comprehensive list, see the commits on github.

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Rails 3.1.4 has been released!

Rails 3.1.4 has been released. This release contains various bug fixes and two important security fixes. All users are recommended to upgrade as soon as possible.

Changes
For information regarding the possible vulnerabilities, please see the announcements here and here.
Some highlights from this release are:

• thrrubyrhino is added to the Gemfile for JRuby users
• Routing cache improvements
• Assets group may be skipped with the --skip-sprockets flag
• Various Ruby 2.0 compatibility fixes

For a comprehensive list, see the commits on github.

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Rails 3.0.12 has been released!

Rails 3.0.12 has been released. This release contains various bug fixes and two important security fixes. All users are recommended to upgrade as soon as possible.

Changes
For information regarding the possible vulnerabilities, please see the announcements here and here.
Some highlights from this release are:

• require and load will return the value from the superclass
• ActiveModel confirmation validation fixes
• Increasing rack dependency

For a comprehensive list, see the commits on github.

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Flash ActionScript Developers Build Immersive Apps

Flash is commonly used to create animation, advertisements, various web site design components, integrate video, and more recently used to develop rich internet applications (RIAs). The Flash Player is an application used by web browsers to view and interact with Flash content. ActionScript is the programming language used to develop Flash.

ActionScript is an object-oriented programming (OOP) language that is designed specifically for Web site animation. ActionScript makes it possible for developers to create onscreen environments (such as games, tutorials, and e-commerce applications) that can respond to user input through the keyboard or mouse.

ActionScript developers use Flex for mobile. It is currently the easiest and most reliable way to build apps on both Android and iOS from one source.

Flash and ActionScript provide immersive multimedia experience. Flash and ActionScript are used in custom design, Flash ActionScript, PHP development and Apple Xcode for the iPhone application. PHP is used to interface with the ActionScript to create a dynamic gallery.

Adobe AIR allows Flex based applications to work and reside on the user's desktop, instead of exclusively on the web. Adobe AIR has the ability to mesh with a local database system and store files locally too.

Flash programmer and ActionScript developers with extensive Flash programming and ActionScript development experience in all versions of ActionScript (3.0, 2.0 & 1.0) provide Object-oriented Flash application development with CS5 and ActionScript 3.0 including video editing, with an excellent eye for cutting to make the most of the footage; programming complex banners for ad server.

Flash and Action Script developers build Facebook Apps and Facebook games using the Facebook Action Script API. Flash programmers and Action Script developers have experience of XML data integration and have scripted animation with tween engines as well as JavaScript-Action Script integration using external interface.

Flash programmers and Action Script developers use appropriate technologies and tools including Adobe Flash CS5, Adobe FlashBuilder 4.0, Adobe PhotoShop CS5, Sony Vegas 9.0, FinalCut Pro 5.1, FlashDevelop 3.0, AdobeD reamweaver CS4, Adobe AIR, MDM Zinc 3.0, SoundForge / Audacity, Adobe Authorware 7.0, Action Script 1.0, Action Script 2.0, Action Script 3.0, Adobe AS3 SDK for Facebook (v1.6), MXML, XHTML / HTML, XML, CSS, C++ and Javascript.

Hire Flash developer ActionScript developer Flex developer as the best option to grow your business without really expanding and spending on infrastructure and hiring on-roll employees.

Hire Flash developers ActionScript developers Flex developers who can build powerful and reliable Flash ActionScript Flex applications including websites and portals to boost your online business.

With Adobe Flash, you can export or publish your projects as Windows executables or MacOS apps. But now alternatives implement Windows GUI components, allowing for the development as real Windows apps in Flash.

Flex development has capabilities for visual design, to deliver highly usable and effective online experiences.

Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) combine the wide reach of browser based applications with the user interface of traditional Windows applications to provide the best of both worlds for serious business applications development.

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