• Creating Custom HTML Module in Joomla

    • March 21, 2012
    • Posted by: Aman Thakral
    • Category: General
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    I have often been asked by a number of Joomla users and website administrators that can I add a module with some text and images in it. Also, what about adding some custom HTML on your website or a widget provided by Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. Well, I am always glad to say that Joomla

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  • Planning for Your New Website

    • October 23, 2011
    • Posted by: Aman Thakral
    • Category: General
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    So you read our blog post on “Does Your Business Need a Website” and now you have made a decision to get a website. First I must congratulate you on taking first step towards your online presence. But before you hire a web developer to get your website developed you need to plan your website.

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  • Preparing Your Website for Smart Phones

    • September 16, 2011
    • Posted by: Aman Thakral
    • Category: General
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    With the growth of sales of smart phones such as the iPhone, and various Android devices, more and more websites are being accessed through mobile devices. The StatCounter website reveals that a global average of 7% of webpage request come from mobile devices, and that number is growing rapidly. Websites that are designed in the
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  • Change Alfresco Default Port 8080

    • August 5, 2011
    • Posted by: Aman Thakral
    • Category: General
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    8080 is the most popular port for Java based web applications running on Tomcat server and hence it is a target of attacks from hackers and spammers. If you are testing your application and don’t want to overload the server with these hacking attempts you can always change the default port of Alfresco to something

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  • Set Static IP Address for Ubuntu/Debian Server

    • May 29, 2011
    • Posted by: Aman Thakral
    • Category: General
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    If you install an Ubuntu/Debian server, by default, it is only set up with DHCP and hence it fetches an IP address automatically from the DHCP server. In order to change the DHCP IP address to a static IP address you can edit /etc/network/interfaces file of your server and set it to static IP address as
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  • Downgrade PHP from 5.3 to 5.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

    • May 21, 2011
    • Posted by: Aman Thakral
    • Category: General
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    Ubuntu 10.04 holds PHP version 5.3 in its repositories. Although Joomla, vTiger and a number of applications are compatible with version 5.3 but some of the addons are still not compatible with version 5.2 so you can downgrade PHP using the following instructions: Add the repository created by Ralph Janke by using the following command:

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  • How to Reset Joomla! Admin Password?

    • April 22, 2011
    • Posted by: Aman Thakral
    • Category: General
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    In a worst case scenario of forgetting your Joomla Super Admin password you only have a few options: Get one of the other Super Administrators to reset your password Try and reset the password from the frontend (If you have front end Login turned on), and Reset the password in the database table directly If

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  • Gladinet Client Blocking HTTP Port 80

    • March 10, 2011
    • Posted by: Aman Thakral
    • Category: General
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    I use XAMPP for testing/development and demo of our web applications and I recently installed Gladinet Client to access my Microsoft Sky Drive from my computer. But next time when I ran XAMPP and started Apache and browsed to localhost nothing came up. In fact it sent me to a “Not Found” Page and this

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  • Prepare a Ruby on Rails Web Server

    • January 16, 2011
    • Posted by: Aman Thakral
    • Category: General
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    We have done the installation of Redmine on Ubuntu 10.x but what if you want to install Redmine or any other Ruby on Rails based application you need to prepare your server to have Ruby and Rails installed. You also need Passenger which will allow you to run a Ruby on Rails application on Apache.

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  • Upgrade Redmine from 0.9.3 to 1.0.5

    • January 10, 2011
    • Posted by: Aman Thakral
    • Category: General
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    This article has been contributed by our Winter Intern Sebastien Thouvenin. You may have installed Redmine 0.9.3 with this method to track bugs and manage your projects and we hope that you like it. But now you need something more… powerful? You may want to install a test case management tool which integrates with Redmine

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  • Installing Web Server Role on Windows Server Web

    • December 17, 2010
    • Posted by: Aman Thakral
    • Category: General
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    Yes occasionally we have to work with Microsoft technology as well, health of course they have the biggest market share in terms of desktops and then there is DotNetNuke which we can provide and customise for our customers. DotNetNuke, as the name suggests is a Content Management System built in .NET and hence a Microsoft

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  • How Google Works?

    • November 23, 2010
    • Posted by: Aman Thakral
    • Category: General
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    Recently, I got a chance to speak on behalf of the Education Coordinator in the South Dublin Chamber's B2B meeting. I picked up the topic "How Google Works", this topic itself probably has been explained in detail by lots and lots of internet gurus around the world and a lot of web development companies work
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  • Installing Redmine (Project and Bug Tracking) on Ubuntu 10.04

    • September 23, 2010
    • Posted by: Aman Thakral
    • Category: General
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    Every software development organisation needs bug tracking software to track the problems in the software they are creating and so does Target Integration. We were relying on Bugzilla so far but the complex architecture and user interface kept a lot of non technical users away and the absence of creating trouble tickets from emails was

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  • Link Building Strategies for Search Engine Optimisation

    • May 18, 2010
    • Posted by: Aman Thakral
    • Category: General
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    You must have received emails or phone calls from various web development companies who promise you to improve your search engine visibility by getting you a number of links from other websites. Although, “link building” is a very good way of improving your website’s search engine visibility; but you have to be careful of any
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  • Joomla! v1.5.16 Released – Upgrade Now!!

    • April 27, 2010
    • Posted by: Aman Thakral
    • Category: General
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    Thanks to the Joomla team as they have now released the latest version of their Content Management System Version 1.5.16. The latest version fixes 48 bugs from the previous version 1.5.15. Out of the 48 issues four were security issues hence users are recommended to update their websites to the latest version. Joomla being one

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