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Overview: While upgrading a rails application from rails (3.0.10) to rails (3.1.12), we encountered a gem attachment_fu that needed to be replaced either by the famous Paperclip or Carrierwave or any other gem of your own choice. The reason being attachment_fu is a plugin and plugins support is no more available in rails latest version....
We deal with many cut-and-dry projects. Occasionally, however, we’re approached with a concept that’s slightly outside-of-the-box. Recently, we were asked to develop a point-of-sale application for one client who needed to print sales and credit card authorization slips from an attached network (LAN) printer. This idea was born of the need....
We occasionally get hefty requests, but one recent project was especially notable. A client asked us to import the data from a SQL Server Database to a MySQL Database. It wasn’t such a routine task that floored us but more the information that came afterward: the database was more than 10 GB in size, an amount so large that there was no....
Most smartphone users are familiar with the push notification service; sometimes painfully persistent, occasionally irritating but most frequently a valuable function that alerts us when an update has occurred that we need to know about.
We've mentioned Murphy's Law, haven't we? Its impeccable application to the software development world and how it never seems to fail? This project was no exception. When we discovered issues within an application causing vital cron jobs to fail, it…
While we're well-versed with creating customizations on any platform, anytime, anywhere for our own clients, it's slightly less frequent that we're asked to enable their customers themselves to customize at their leisure. This situation was different. According to our client…
We're not going to beat around the bush because we respect anyone looking to start a new project and we can relate; a shiny new initiative, brimming with promise, is one of life's greatest treasures.
Posting multilingual content to a corporate WordPress blog is supposed to be made easy with its qTranslate plugin. Our client––who has us maintaining and developing several projects simultaneously––reported the WYSIWYG editor in WordPress 3.9.1 was broken and they were unable…
native iOS- requirement of ‘meetings and to-do tasks’ application for iPad. Besides the basic to-do tasks functionality
Recently we integrated Netsuite with a custom designed portal. Our client wanted to use NetSuite data in real-time to prepare custom quotes on the portal. A key requirement was to sync data between NetSuite and the custom MySQL Database without…
This article throws some light on working with Core Data background threads as it is not documented in any of Apple’s Core Data guide: Requirement and Idea: In one of our existing iPad application, we had to implement offline feature…
SYNOPSIS: Team span: January 2013 to February 2013 Duration: 1 week Technology: Magento Development Manager: Mobeen Zafar Engineers: Hammad Ali Reason for closure: Estimate was not good In the world of IT Outsourcing, it pays to be honest with clients.…
