vteam #367 was hired to work on the client’s application which is a leading Learning Management System (LMS) for corporate training, higher education, and K-12 school districts. This LMS emphasizes a personal learning approach based on collaborative and interactive technology to develop life-long learners. The client wanted to provide his customers with....
GOOGLE performs web scraping every single day to keep its index updated, to fetch different websites, for storing information and making it presentable to the viewer. Web scrapers can retrieve data at a much faster rate than human beings, so if bad scraping practices are used then it can impact the performance of the website being scraped. In this case, server....
vteams helped out a client to fetch the data from Untangle Server through PHP. The client wanted to achieve this by creating a crawler which could gather the data from the server. However, vteams engineer knew that this is not a viable solution and hence an alternative solution was proposed. Solution The first step was to analyze the PSQL database....
Migrations are like version control for your database, as they allow you to easily modify and share your application's database schema. In this article, we will focus on a few techniques used to deal with laravel multi-tenancy migration that has separate databases (master and child databases). Let's say the existing system's migration mechanism is to handle....
Capistrano is a tool used for remote server automation and deployment, written in Ruby. It uses SSH to connect with server for performing various operations and Rake to define tasks required to perform deployment on a specific server. To automate repetitive deployment tasks, it can also be used for any language or framework including Java, PHP....
To improve operational efficiency, a CMS portal (Software Quality Management System) was required that would streamline quality management processes. This system was anticipated to manage large amounts of content for different projects. The following features were required: A Statistics display using charts or tabular form Graph updates as per analytics....
A web-based, commercial and SBA lending software required vteam #397 to develop an export feature that could convert Telerik Reports to a stable Rich Text Format (RTF). Reason being the Telerik Reports were not being generated in a suitable format when exported to RTF or Word. Whether users were creating a new mapping mechanism for filling a Word....
Software design patterns help to speed up the development process. These have been proven and tested in this field while resolving specific problems in the best possible way. These patterns are abstract solutions that can be mapped in myriad situations and are classified in the following categories: Behavioral patterns Structural patterns Creational patterns....
Recently, one of our clients requested a functionality to parse and retrieve emails from his Gmail inbox using PHP that should be based on the email content. vteams engineer completed this request using Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) – an Internet standard protocol used by e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail messages from a mail server over a TCP/IP....
CircleCI is a tool which provides us with the functionality to merge, test and deploy code automatically on the server. This helps in minimizing testing and deployment time with no errors. CircleCI is integrated with GitHub using webhook and performs all the functionality on its end. When you push ‘commit to GitHub’, CircleCI starts an action to pull down....
Google Chrome extensions are being used to enhance UI experience by many folds. You can download various types of extensions from Chrome Web Store. This article will take you through the course of building a Chrome extension that tracks the amount of time visitors spend on web pages. Basic Structure Each extension entails the following files....
Rapid developments in CakePHP framework enable the e-commerce websites to work in a structured and rapid manner. For a much smoother transition, migration of CakePHP7 to PHP7 became a necessity. Thus, after a series of incompatible versions, one official support came out in CakePHP 2.8 version that showed full consistency with the PHP7. This article is going....
