Author: Jay

Do what you do best in – that’s what I’ve always believed in and that’s what I preach. Over the past 25+ years (yup that’s my expertise ‘n’ experience in the Information Technology domain), I’ve been consulting to small, medium and large companies ‘About Web Technologies, Mobile Future as well as on the good-and-bad of tech. Blogger, International Business Advisor, Web Technology Expert, Sales Guru, Startup Mentor, Insurance Sales Portal Expert & a Tennis Player. And top of all – a complete family man!

Various Resourceful Places to Find Amazing New Android Apps for Android Development

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androidNow-a- days iPhone apps stores are the king in the market. Android market is growing day by day. The online apps store has reached the 20,000 mark and it is doubled as compared to the last five months. End users and Android developers struggle to get appropriate applications to meet their needs. There are various websites which are providing wonderful android mobile apps. as listed below,

Android website: Here one can get the latest apps and games. It is the showcase for some of the featured and top ranked applications and games available. The site has various lists of featured and top apps with brief descriptions with screenshots each.

Androlib: This is an online marketing store of Android apps known to human being. Here one can search apps thorough categorized. You can also get frank user reviews, screenshots, and QR codes for download, and, video demonstrations of apps. The site also contains stats, forums and special sections for games and the top app of the day

Cyrket: Cyrket is the holy grail of Android-related sites. This is the advanced data analysis and extraction which helps users to find their needed apps to buy and to allow android developers to learn how their applications fit into the mobile application. QR codes, screenshots, descriptions and user comments for most apps are available here. User can search Apps or sort by popularity, rating, price and other factors.

AndroidZoom: AndroidZoom is an easy-to-use app directory. Here the app pages contain descriptions, screenshots, rating and QR codes, but user cannot give feedback, reviews or comments on a specific app. The site does, however, show similar or related apps from the same and other developers.

Android applications are more flexible smart phones operating system whose features have increased to satisfy the users and moving it in to a new level of opportunity. Many software development companies are spending their time in developing various applications in Android but Andolasoft inc. is one of the best Android application development company in the market.

We have developed many mobile applications as per the client and user requirements. We have a team of dedicated, skilled and creative Android application developers to develop apps like shopping list, to do list, multimedia gaming applications, Social networking application, business and web based apps for various customer requirements

 

How To Implement Security Patches On Ruby On Rails Applications

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The security of any software product or application is something that every software solution provider is wary of. It is no different in the case of a Ruby on Rails application.

Even after an application is successfully developed and deployed, there can be possibilities for many unseemly activities.

US-based high-end software solution provider Andolasoft.Inc sheds some light on some of the basic precautions that are worked upon before deploying an application.

The Company’s Ruby on Rails developers pay special attention to security issues in every undertaken venture.
Authentication and authorization of the User model are two different things.

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Actions like create/update/delete always need to be protected. Even popular plug-ins like Restful authentication and Clearance only authenticate whereas providing no helper methods for authorization.

Mass assignment of sensitive attributes from re-assignment should be protected.

This can be taken care of by disabling mass assignment with the help of attr_accessible or attr_protected in the respective models. Attributes like account_id’s and user_id’ should be protected.

Also disabling updates on protected attributes can be by using attr_readonly so that the Ids don’t get updated once set.

Content types of files being uploaded can be faked, so uploaded files should be placed in protected directories or servers.

Also, file extensions should be checked and the web-server should be disabled so as not to execute such files in the uploaded directories.

Sessions are prone to vulnerabilities like hijacks, replaying cookies, and session fixation. Extra caution must be taken regarding storing data in sessions.

Active record Objects should never be stored in sessions which might change that Object’s behavior while migration and future code change.

The best practice is to only store the ids of the records. Also, sensitive data like User access privileges and money based information should not be stored in sessions.

Ruby Rails Development Sphere & Associated Myths

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Ruby on Rails development is fast changing the norms of web development across the globe.

Companies around the world are fast catching up with this magical web development framework for exploring and executing its true potentials; thereby serving their clients with really cost-effective, quick and dynamic Ruby on Rails Applications.

Ruby developers and Rails developers are becoming the most sought after skilled professionals, for Software companies to hunt for.

Ruby on Rails, being an Open Source tool, coupled with fast development life cycle, requires much less resources in terms of Programmers and man-hours; which results in the service provider and client being the ultimate beneficiaries.

Silicon Valley based leading Software firm, Andolasoft Inc. is a formidable force to reckon with as far as Ruby on Rails development is concerned.

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With a vast pool of Programmers as well as Domain Leads, this fairly young Enterprise has carved out many Social Networking Sites, Social Media Marketing web apps.

Andolasoft services include but not limited to RoR Development, RoR Application Migration, Social Media Integration, System Administration, Redesigning of Existing Apps, Performance Improvement Related Tasks and Rescue Support.

Irrespective of all its popularity, RoR also has few myths related to it.

Applications can be built hundreds of thousands times faster than other technologies: The fact is Rails doesn’t write the code automatically.

It just lets the developers work easy by managing certain functionalities; thereby allowing them to focus on other crucial modules.

It also manages the laborious part of lifting of user interactive modules. Having said that, such myths reflects a wrong opinion upon customers, whose expectations sometimes become too high for the service providers.

Even Non-programmers can build web applications: This is by far the silliest perception about Rails development. Although the simplicity of this framework and clean syntax of ruby language assist in quick development, but still experience is required as far as writing code is concerned.

Rails developers do need to write new and unique code, apart from using the Rails conventions on top a comprehensive web development framework.

Technical Enhancement Witnessed in .NET Framework 4.0

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Dot Net has evolved as a gem of an enterprise software development technology ever since it was introduced back in 2002.

Although .NET has been constantly undergoing some changes but the .NET version 4.0 has come up with some significantly important ones.

These changes are related to the overall architecture and greatly enhance its functionality.

Dynamic Language Run time (DLR): Engineers at Microsoft have come up with Dynamic Language Run time (DLR), which is built above the Common Language Run time (CLR) and facilitates easy interoperability of like set of technologies inside a regular framework.

It allows .NET developers to build applications using dynamic languages like Ruby, Python etc on top of .NET Framework run time.

A set of new services have been added through DLR, which allows the implementation of dynamic languages on the managed platform of .NET.

The dynamic type system, regular hosting model, and quick dynamic code generation are some modules that are supported by these services.

DLR comprises of 3 layers which are as such:

  • .NET Language Integration level
  • Language Binders
  • Dynamic Language Runtime Code Components

Support for Parallel Computing: Writing robust multithreaded applications and asynchronous code is possible with the parallel computing model provided in .NET 4.0. A managed library for design and implementation, called Parallel Extensions Library, will utilize the parallel hardware of a system to carry out parallel computing.

Managed Extensibility Framework: A new Managed Extensibility Framework has been introduced which can be applied to build lightweight, extensible and unified applications, by influencing the characteristics and benefits of the run time environment (CLR).

Although Windows Communication Foundation was introduced in .NET 3.0, certain enhancements like simplified configuration, IIS hosting, REST features, Workflow and Routing services have come up with .NET 4.0.

Similarly, the Windows Workflow Foundation has also witnessed enhanced extensibility in WF designer, improved activity model, and built-in activity library in this latest version.

Rush Traffic to Your Website Through Search Engine Optimization

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Search Engine Optimization can be termed as the science of flooding web traffic into a website. A website is generally built for the purpose of exhibiting the product and services of a particular enterprise.

Its sole objective is to make people aware of the services it offers and procure them. But in this vast webspace, occupied by millions of websites, it not easily feasible anymore.

It is search engines like google, yahoo etc which help us to search and view websites or information from the web.

Search Engine Optimization of such a website is indispensable nowadays. SEO not only a website from getting misplaced but also helps it to get discovered in the top search engine page results, thus enhancing visibility of the website to maximum people and facilitating in the company’s growth.

Andolasoft Inc, a SEO company situated in Silicon Valley provides cost-effective SEO services with quick turnaround time.

SEO incorporates several free link building techniques to optimize a website. These include submissions of directories, articles, blogs, press releases, classified Ad postings, etc.

It also takes the help of viral marketing techniques like social networking and media sharing to spread out the website’s brand awareness.

Viral marketing, if done in a manipulative and creative way, will bring in positive results within no time. SEM(Search Engine Marketing) is yet another method to improve a websites global exposure, although it’s a money based technique.

SEO on the other hand, comprising of free techniques, is best suited for startup enterprises and helps in getting their job done with minimal resources.

The Horizons of CakePHP Application Development

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CakePHP is an open-source web development framework for PHP. It came into prominence around 2006 and it was inspired by the Ruby on Rails framework, which was introduced around a year prior to it.

CakePHP follows MVC pattern architecture. Like RoR, it also follows the two key design features, DRY or “Don’t Repeat Yourself” and CoC or “Convention over Configuration”.

CakePHP development is a rapid development framework with thoughtful, coherent design and is well aided by friendly community contributions. It relies on a ORM (Object-Relation Model) regarding database query interface.

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Using CakePHP’s ORM, we can create, retrieve, update and delete related data into and from different database tables with simplicity and in a better way. There is no need to write complex SQL queries anymore.

Some of the key features of CakePHP are:

  • Flexible Licensing
  • Compatibility with PHP4 and PHP5
  • Integrated CRUD for database interaction and simplified queries
  • Application Scaffolding
  • Request dispatcher with good looking, custom URLs
  • Built-in Validation
  • Fast and flexible templating (PHP syntax, with helpers)
  • View Helpers for AJAX, JavaScript, HTML Forms and more
  • Security, Session, and Request Handling Components
  • Flexible access control lists
  • Data Sanitization
  • Flexible View Caching

Andolasoft Inc. offers quick and cost effective CakePHP development to built robust and scalable web applications for start-up and established business houses, institutions etc.