Archive for February, 2008
Adobe efforts in the Open Source world are not new at all, but now they have better : a new open source website to keep you up to date on Adobe open source activities. Adobe projects already in the open source website include mainly : BlazeDS : server-based Java remoting and web messaging technology that enables developers to easily connect to back-end distributed data and push data in real-time to Adobe® Flex™ and Adobe AIR™ applications for more responsive rich Internet application (RIA) experiences. Flex 3 SDK : Adobe® Flex™ 3 is a cross platform, open source framework for creating rich Internet applications that run identically in all major browsers and operating systems. The Adobe® Flex™ SDK is the foundation of Flex, providing the core Flex compilers, component library and debugger. Using only the free SDK and an IDE of your choice, you can build and deploy rich Flex applications. Adobe Media Gallery : The Adobe Media Gallery (AMG) is a Flash web photo and video gallery whose appearance and behavior can be customized via XML files. Tamarin : The Tamarin project, which is based on code contributed from Adobe, is designed to implement the upcoming version of the ECMAScript 4th Edition language specification. Tamarin will be used by Mozilla within the next generation of SpiderMonkey, the core JavaScript engine embedded in Firefox®, Mozilla’s free Web browser, as well as within the ActionScript™ Virtual Machine within Adobe® Flash® Player. Webkit : The WebKit library is used to render HTML and execute JavaScript in Adobe® AIR™
February 26th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized, enterprise, experience, javascript, php, technology | No Comments
Often as a developer you find yourself maintaining legacy code that just was not built for the large stresses it is now under. Writing scalable applications should cost no more than non scalable ones, in-fact they can be smaller! And when you are planning your next web application that will take over the world you have to start somewhere. This article should demonstrate techniques for design that allow for horizontal and vertical scaling.
February 20th, 2008 | Posted in Implementation, Uncategorized, articles, php | No Comments
Tactile is a new web-based PHP CRM solution developped by Senokian and currently beta testing. Tactile is built using PHP, PostgreSQL and Apache as well as Zend, Prototype with Scriptaculos, Smarty PHP, and Amazon’s S3 for storage. Designed for small businesses, Tactile CRM is an easy to use web based CRM, contact and sales management system. Free plan is available for the curious with two users, two opportunities, 250 contacts and 10 MB storage, paid plans goes from 6 UKP (~ 11.71 USD) to 75 UKP (~ 146.37 USD) and from 2Users/250MB to 100 Users/50GB.
February 9th, 2008 | Posted in Hosted CRM, Implementation, Uncategorized | No Comments
LivePerson announced this week an interesting integration of Live Chat statistics with Google Analytics, which will help measuring the impact of Live Chat interactions on conversion rates. Some of the new reports available thanks to this integration include : Map Overlay Report: Displays volume and quality metrics of live chat interactions by geographic region Search Engines Report: Reveals the sources and keywords that drive interactive chats (and resulting conversions) Reverse Goal Path Report: Lists the navigation paths that lead to the most chats Automatically included in LivePerson’s small & midsized business (SMB) products, this new, value-added feature helps customers pinpoint which keywords and marketing campaigns drive visitors to chat; measure and track the impact of these interactions on conversion rates; and develop an accurate profile of visitors who interact via chat and subsequently make an online purchase. “Small and medium businesses want easy-to-use tools that demonstrate ROI,” said Philippe Lang, Vice President of LivePerson. “This integration with Google Analytics supplies our 6,000 SMB customers with the data they need to better understand their website visitors and act on accurate information in real time, so they can measure the success of their investments and maximize the efficiency of their marketing spend.” Complete press release is available here .
February 7th, 2008 | Posted in Google Analytics, Press, Press Release, Reports, SEO Tools, Uncategorized, php, tools | No Comments
As soon as the PAMP stack have been released, the first applications to work with it started showing and S6 PAMP manager is probably the first open source application released in this matter. S60 PAMP manager is a file manager, viewer, and editor designed for PHP development using the PAMP (Personal Apache MySQL PHP) stack for Nokia S60-based mobile phones. The application will simply let you manage your phone documents right from your PC using WLAN connection. Application released under GPL license. Some known issues include : * When uploading a file, it has to be at least 1201 bytes or it won’t work. So add some padding lines if needed.
February 3rd, 2008 | Posted in GPL, Mobile Experience, PAMP, Uncategorized, php | No Comments