Srijan Blog

Hello Drupal training held at Dharamshala Government College

varun@srijan.in — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:56:35 +0000

Continuing with our efforts to evangelize Drupal and Open Source technologies across the state of Himachal Pradesh, Srijan team organised a Hello Drupal camp at the Government Post Graduate Degree College in Dharamshala on the 4th of February 2012. The camp was attended by more than 70 students of the BCA, PGDCA and MCA courses being offered by the College. The attendees also included the Vice Principal and Lectures of the Computer Science department of the College.

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Srijan's logo featured in logo design book

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:27:30 +0000

Srijan's logo had appeared in a German logo design magazine way back in 2003. An email stating an interest to find out the story behind the design of the logo came as a surprise, as the logo was deisgned and launched only a few months earlier.

Here's the PDF that the designer Ms. Sabine Hamman (if i remember the name correctly) had sent across for my verification and approval.

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Srijan is now an Acquia Enterprise partner!

rahul — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:00:58 +0000

Srijan is now an Acquia Enterprise partner!

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Drupal trainings in Chandigarh/Mohali

abhinav.sahai — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:10:44 +0000

After successful trainings in and around Delhi/NCR and Dharamshala, we are now increasing reach and stretching our legs to the beautiful town of Chandigarh. Chandigarh, the union territory, is the capital of 2 north Indian states, Punjab and Haryana.

Chandigarh would have 2 Drupal Trainings in the month of January. First one would be a FREE basic one which we term as "Hello Drupal". This would cover

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Contact Management using SyncAce, Highrise CRM, and MailChimp

rahul — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 16:34:07 +0000

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IdeaStorm like platform in Drupal

rahul — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:02:00 +0000

Ideation is a Kit specification-compliant Feature Module. It is a crowd-sourced suggestion box, which allows users to suggest ideas, vote on and discuss already submitted ideas, as well as start discussions around ideas.

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Uses the Ideation Feature built for Drupal

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Opening for "Drupal Themers" in Dharamshala

varun@srijan.in — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:12:52 +0000

We have 2 openings for Drupal application specialists in our Dharamshala unit. The job role is as follows:

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Openings for "Drupal developers" in Dharamshala

varun@srijan.in — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:28:58 +0000

We're looking for several Drupal developers to become part of our growing team in Dharamshala. The developer is required to have the following experience and skills:

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Beyond Tech: A new intitiative

abhinav.sahai — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:54:27 +0000

Things are moving thick and fast at Srijan.

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CXO Event during Drupal Camp Delhi 2011

rahul — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:32:28 +0000

Co-inciding with Dries Buytaert's first visit to India during the week of 07 - 11 Nov 2011, Srijan took the lead in organising the Drupal Camp Delhi 2011 at JNU. The event saw 250+ registrations, with over half of these being professionals working in the Drupal development space or business users of Drupal.

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Making the shift towards an agile development process

rahul — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:14:50 +0000

As a company Srijan is slowly, steadily making the move towards Agile development. The whole process of Agile is great, but it seems it is ideally suited for Time-and-Material kind of projects where the customer and the project team have a HUGE amount of faith in each other - the sponsor feels that the development team has adequate technical competencies and integrity to give their reasonable best effort.

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How does a project follow Agile processes even under a fixed-timeline and fixed-budget scenario

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First Hello Drupal training organised in Dharamshala

varun@srijan.in — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:56:00 +0000

A simple search on jobs sites for Drupal developers shows some interesting results. Delhi has close to 130 developers, Chandigarh has just 15 resumes listed and the state of Himachal Pradesh has none. Well the last stat is not correct as Srijan office in Dharamshala has 8 Drupal developers and looking for more too.

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Debug: Drupal Comment submit button disappears after validation failure

arijit — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 08:26:42 +0000

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Missing FB Connect button

arijit — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:52:12 +0000

Recently I found FB Connect button missing from comment forms in a project I was working on. Like any developer my first step was to clear the cache but it did not get the button back. Second I firebug'ed the comment form and FB Connect button tags were intact. Before going any further I decided to verify if it was missing only from the comment forms or also from the registration form(another placement of the button in the same project).

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Check every piece of code you insert

admin — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:38:43 +0000

Background: We had an issue where one of the customer sites was waiting on a particular page for over 3 seconds, sometimes more. To make it even more interesting, the site would default to xx.yy.com/undefined. The site generally hits peak loads rather often so we didn't realise for a long time that there was actually something fundamentally work in our code. We Programmers *always* write flawless code, right?

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Drupal 7 Learnings

pooja — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 04:23:52 +0000

A few months ago Drupal 7 was released and ever since then we've been working hard to adapt to the changes. Here are some of the things that I've learnt over the last few months. Thought it would be a good idea to share it with the community. Do let me know your thoughts about these in comments section below !

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Invitation to Code in Heaven

varun@srijan.in — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:25:58 +0000

We want to work with software developers who see themselves doing some cutting edge technology work in the open source space. We work on technologies & frameworks which work behind the scene of some of the worlds largest visited websites and applications. Sitting in Dharamshala, we enjoy the the mountains and yet cater to clients across time zones. If you are person who is looking to reclaim your life then this is a place to be at.

Current openings: Drupal Themer, Drupal Developer, Quality Assurance Engineer, Project Manager.

Job location: Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh

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Srijan opens its new software development centre in Dharamshala

varun@srijan.in — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:06:20 +0000

Tucked away in the beautiful Dhauladhar ranges of Himachal Pradesh is a small little hill station called Dharamshala. Known for its record rainfall and the place of residence for H.H. The Dalai Lama, Dharamshala has become the second home for Srijan family. We have recently opened our second software development centre in Dharamshala when operations started on 15th June, 2011.

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Improve your database backup policy by using automated scripts

chandrashekhar — Tue, 17 May 2011 10:21:44 +0000

If you manage hosting infrastructure for Drupal websites as we do, you would already be having a process for taking back-ups of the databases of various websites at regular intervals - daily, weekly or monthly. The size of databases grows over a period of time, thus making it neccessary to know which databases are active and need to be backed up. Not caring for these may encourage backing up of un-wanted data leading to tremendous wastage of expensive bandwidth and storage, which does delay in development life-cycles.

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Drupalcamp Delhi -16th April 2011

nitishg — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:10:56 +0000

Yes, for the first time drupalcamp was organized at delhi on 16th April in order to involve and engage the drupal community inside and outside Delhi.

This drupalcamp was mainly focussed to bring the drupal enthusiast under one roof so that new ideas and information could flow regardless of the professional background of the people. Drupalcamp was aimed at providing the platform where people could share and discuss the knowledge and innovative ideas.

Presentations that happened:

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Feature driven development for "Publications"

rkaur — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 06:56:01 +0000

About the Client

Established by the U.S. Congress in 1960, the East West Center serves as a resource for information and analysis on critical issues of common concern, bringing people together to exchange views, build expertise, and develop policy options. The Center is an independent, public, not-for-profit organization with funding from the U.S. government, and additional support provided by private agencies, individuals, foundations, corporations, and governments in the region.

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Marrying Sharepoint with Drupal - the time is NOW!

rahul — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 07:32:20 +0000

A potential client of ours in the education space in India is seeking to redesign and rebuild their website. They've been advised using Drupal open source content management system for their website, which is why they approached us. However, since they have a highly successful Sharepoint implementation on their intranet using which they manage classrooms and courses, they were seeking advise on whether Drupal would be the right move or no. And if yes, should they actually replace their Sharepoint-based intranet as well.

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TYPO3 to Drupal migration - KNR Case Study

rahul — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:20:29 +0000

The client

Our client, Greenlandic Broadcasting Corporation (KNR), is the official TV and Radio Broadcasting agency of Greenland. Their website www.knr.gl was originally in TYPO3 (retained at: http://typo3.knr.codespry.com/).

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Hudson - the swiss knife for continuous integration

ritesh — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:58:21 +0000

Before discussing the advantages of using hudson, lets underdstand the term Continuous Integration.

Continuous Integration (as defined at Wikipedia)

"Continuous integration (CI) implements continuous processes of applying quality control — small pieces of effort, applied frequently. Continuous integration aims to improve the quality of software, and to reduce the time taken to deliver it, by replacing the traditional practice of applying quality control after completing all development"

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Mega Drop Down menu system for Drupal

ravigupta — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 06:42:56 +0000

Mega Dropdown module allows Drupal websites to display a menu a Mega Menu.

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Opening for a QA Engineer

rahul — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 08:03:54 +0000

Srijan has an opening for a QA Engineer, at its office in Gurgaon.

Responsibilities

Assist Project Manager/Team Leader in gathering project requirements from clients
Write Test Cases
Build/Maintain a Test Plan
Update/Maintain Functional Specs and Design documents
Black Box testing
Write Automated Test Cases using Selenium
GUI and Browser compatibility testing
Filing bugs in JIRA issue tracking system

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Openings for a Drupal Team Lead

rahul — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 07:45:22 +0000

Srijan has an opening for a Team Lead, at its office in Gurgaon.

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Converting Latin1 charset tables with UTF8 data set

ritesh — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 05:30:31 +0000

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To migrate of TYPO3 records [pages, tt_news and tt_content] to Drupal. The TYPO3 site was multilingual - English, Danish and Greenlandic. The TYPO3 DB had Latin1 charset tables with UTF8 data stored (Are you sure about this? How do you know?) which needed to be converted to UTF8 for a Drupal database.

Initial Approach

Change the DB and table charset to UTF8, which should convert latin1 data to UTF8 with command like

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Cast Affair - a Global Model Search Network

admin — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:16:43 +0000

Cast Affair is a private and secure website that enables interactions between the world’s most prestigious agencies and the vast potential talent seeking opportunities in the fashion and entertainment industries in 20 major markets globally.

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Opening for a "Project Manager"; Location: Gurgaon

rahul — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:10:19 +0000

Srijan has an opening for a Project Manager with over 5 years experience in managing technology projects.

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Varnish-ing 2G Raja Scam

shash — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:38:25 +0000

Preface

Recently we had a fire-fighting situation at Srijan, the reason being unplanned scaling of the website.

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Getting Technorati claim token verified

shash — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:07:19 +0000

Our Technorati Claim Token : HHUCKJGD3PJS

Verifying your Technorati claim token is very easy. Here are the steps:

1 Make a new post

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TYPO3 support and maintenance services

michael — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:00:36 +0000

What do you do if your TYPO3 website has problems, or there are security patches that are released, or you need new features developed on the site? Srijan with it's well-define support team is geared to offer support for such Production and Feature upgrade requests. Srijan also has an infrastructure team competent in performance tuning and thus scaling high-performance sites.

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TYPO3 Performance Tuning and Testing

michael — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 05:20:59 +0000

As your website grows, you might find it not as responsive as it once was.

Srijan offers a TYPO3 Performance package that'll take your slow running TYPO3 site and put some much needed zip, vroom, and bang back into site delivery. I've put together this TYPO3 performance checklist to investigate and utilities to use based upon 8 years of TYPO3 development experience.

Looking into areas mentioned in the checklist below will help your site overcome system misconfiguration, badly written extensions, bad database indexing, and high server loads.

Past tunings have seen

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Drupal Presentation on Drush

aradhana — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:56:08 +0000

Drush is a command line shell and Unix scripting interface for Drupal, a veritable Swiss Army knife designed to make life easier for those of us who spend some of our working hours hacking away at the command prompt.

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Presentation on CSS for Drupal based websites

kamal — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 05:16:32 +0000

This presentation talks about basic rules and general tips of CSS that need to be followed to ensure effective theming for Drupal websites, to help you build that beautiful site your client may be looking for.

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Is "Simplenews" the only option for newsletters in Drupal?

shash — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:34:37 +0000

When a client asks for a newsletter in Drupal, we tend to look towards Simplenews module. Although it meets most of a clients' requirements on newsletter subscription and distribution, but how good or bad is it?

Lets review some of the features that Simplenews provides.

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Tuning and improving Performance of Drupal - a beginners guide!

ritesh — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:25:04 +0000

We've been tuning several of the websites that we maintain such as www.openthemagazine.com and www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in. Yesterday however, we wrote a proposal for just this piece of work for a potential client. We quite enjoyed writing it, and thought it would be nice to share the same with our readers here.

The basis of our proposal was the client-specific issues of MySQL overload which was consuming nearly 99.7% CPU usage at several times during the business day. Here are the recommendations of engagement we have suggested to our client.

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Openings for "Testing Engineers"

rahul — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:37:40 +0000

Srijan is looking for Testing Engineers with the following experience and skills:

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Apache Solr : Nuisance with "Mixed Case"

dev — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 07:02:43 +0000

Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on Lucene Java search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs, hit highlighting, faceted search, caching, replication, and a web administration interface. It runs in a Java servlet container such as TomCat.

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How to find the culprit? Debug Drupal like a pro!

sudhir — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:44:04 +0000

Many times we are in a situation where "something is not working as expected". Some of these situations are straight forward and thus are easily rectified, but sometimes the culprit is not as obvious. How to go about these situations?

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Drupal support and maintenance services

rahul — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:37:14 +0000

What do you do if your Drupal website has problems, or there are security patches that are released, or you need new features developed on the site? Srijan with it's well-define support team is geared to offer support for such Production and Feature upgrade requests. Srijan also has an infrastructure team competent in performance tuning and thus scaling high-performance sites.

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TypeKit for a beautiful web design

shash — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:29:57 +0000

This was intended to be a little post on use of TypeKit for websites but it ended up being a comparison between various methods available to break out of web-safe fonts.

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Our new Gurgaon office

rahul — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 07:05:00 +0000

We moved to a new office in Gurgaon. Post the merger with Axelerant, we were looking for a better and larger office to fit us - about 35 people now. Most of us were rather comfortable with our offices in Connaught Place and Netaji Subhash Place in Central and West Delhi respectively because of the ease of commute via the Metro. Besides, most of us live in Delhi, and working in Delhi woudl have been ideal.

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Migrating to open source - A survival guide for SMEs

Raj Oruganti — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:22:57 +0000

Open source software being what it is, has gained numerous connotations over the years since it began to figure in the consciousness of IT enthusiasts and businesses worldwide. In this post I will try and stick to talking about the “whys, hows, whats and whethers” of moving from proprietary software to open source software.

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Srijan gets listed among WorldBlu's Most Democratic Workplaces 2010

Raj Oruganti — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 07:22:24 +0000

We are pleased to inform you that Srijan Technologies has been listed among the world's most democratic workplaces for the second consecutive year.

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‘Smart Campaigner’ in Django

rahul — Mon, 10 May 2010 14:00:00 +0000

We’re nearly ready for an ALPHA of Smart Campaigner – a Contact and Campaign management tool based on Django (www.djangoproject.org). Smart Campaigner is our first venture into product development. It was project conceptualised initially to solve our own Contact and Campaign management problems, and later we came across non-profits with similar problems.

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Srijan tech-session (follow-up) March6

ishanmahajan — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:00:00 +0000

The main topic of discussion on Saturday was the emerging trends in web technologies. Vivek Khurana enlightened us with what all we can expect from HTML 5 and other upcoming web technologies like SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). He started off with an introduction to HTML 5 and how it came into being. Some of the exciting feaures were demonstrated in the form of demos. As soon as the first demo was played out everyone watched the screen with rapt admiration. The new features available in HTML 5 left all of us saying WOW!.

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Srijan Tech-Session on March 6th 2010

ishanmahajan — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:00:00 +0000

Tomorrow’s session will focus on web applications in the next five years, an introduction to emerging trends in web technologies.

Vivek Khurana will be the chief presenter. Here’s an abstract from the speaker on what can be expected

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Careers: Opening for System administrator

Raj Oruganti — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:00:00 +0000

We are looking for a spirited individual who would like to work with us as a system administrator

Personal qualities:

Self starter / quick learner (Curiosity)
Interested in identifying and solving problems pro-actively (Curiosity, again)
Interested in learning new things and expanding horizon (Curiosity, yet again)

Operational skills:

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Web Application Scalability at Srijan – Part 1

Raj Oruganti — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:00:00 +0000

The success of a web application, for most common purposes, is determined by the number of visitors it attracts and retains. Put simply, more loyal visitors == good. There are numerous factors that affect the successful attainment of this business goal, ranging from the technical to marketing. In many cases however (twitter being the most recent famous example) the attainment of the business goal itself becomes a bane. A non scalable system attracting a large number of users could grind to a halt and make it difficult to get it back on its feet.

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Careers: opening for sales managers

rahul — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:00:00 +0000

The candidate must, at the minimum, fulfill the following roles:

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Web Application Scalability

Raj Oruganti — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:18:03 +0000

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The uneasy “Happy1″ – A learning story about sending newsletters

Raj Oruganti — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:00:00 +0000

It is interesting how a seemingly simple activity like sending out a season’s greeting could turn into a veritable marsh pit.

At Srijan, in the spirit of trying to do as much as possible in-house using open source software, we decided to install and use phplist (http://www.phplist.com/) to manage our newsletters.

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FeedAPI Imagegrabber

rahul — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:22:39 +0000

FeedAPI Imagegrabber module is an add-on module for FeedAPI module just like FeedAPI Inherit, etc. FeedAPI ImageGrabber module consists of a parser which visits the original URL of a new feed item, and retrieves the main image from the posting. Once the main image has been retrieved, it is then converted into a thumbnail using the ImageCache module, and stored in the node created by FeedAPI, inside an ImageField CCK field. See the project page on drupal.org.

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TYPO3 authentication with A-Select

ritesh — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:19:45 +0000

The TYPO3 extension, 'srijan_aselectauth' utilizes native TYPO3 hooks to authenticate TYPO3 users against A-Select. A custom socket based API for A-Select abstracts the communication between A-Select and the extension. Since the API itself is TYPO3 independent, this can be easily used in non-TYPO3 scenarios as well. Apart from authentication, the extension has some other features:

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TYPO3 Photo Gallery

rahul — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:13:28 +0000

Some of the unique features of this gallery are: * Thumbails now also have floating preview feaure which displays the magnified image on mouseover * Thumbnails as well as images can be displayed in grayscale. * All the images including thumbnails can be watermarked. This option is configurable and can be turned off. * Download option of images is available in five different resolutions.

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TYPO3 error pages Modification of error handling behavior of TYPO3

rahul — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:01:36 +0000

The extension adds the facility to use TYPO3 pages as standard error pages i.e. 404 and 403. In both cases, the extension has the ability to redirect the user to the originally requested after the user has been authenticated.

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Safe Password Generation and Evaluation

rahul — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:59:38 +0000

The extension implements a TYPO3Service. The purpose of the service:

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A TYPO3 service to check existing passwords for safety and to generate passwords which satisfy such checks

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Modification of error handling behavior of TYPO3

rahul — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:55:35 +0000

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TYPO3 MS-SQL integration

rahul — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:53:38 +0000

Objective

The objective of this project was to integrate TYPO3 FE user with a proprietory system with the database residing on MS-SQL.

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The challenge was to let TYPO3 use a table from MS-SQL Database. We had to redirect any calls to the TYPO3 MySql table 'fe_users' to the MS-SQL database table.

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"Multiple File Upload" using a Java Applet

rahul — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:44:51 +0000

A 'corrupted file upload check' has been implemented using the MD5 checksum method. In this approach, the MD5 hash of the files being uploaded will be calculated once on the client machine and then on the server after the file is uploaded on the server. Matching both the MD5 hash would do the verification.

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Outsourcing to India

admin — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:20:43 +0000

Companies outsourcing back-office work to India [ Images ] save as much as 60 per cent of their cost every year, points out the National Association of Software and Service Companies.

"The differential in wages between the parent location in the US or UK and India is more that 70-80 per cent for offshorable processes.

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Moving to Open Source

admin — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:39:28 +0000

All organizations must, in our view, become social publishers who seek to remove communication barriers and enhance collaboration throughout: amongst employees, between them and their respective communities. In so doing, social publishers embrace the wisdom of the crowd, and build their authority and reputation while mingling directly and joining in the markets they intend to serve.

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Srijan Tech-Session on November 7th 2009 (jQuery)

admin — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0000

This week’s session will focus on JQuery, the revolutionary library that makes Javascript manageable and contributes to cleaner code on the web, thus making the world a better place.

Shashank will lead this discussion and will cover the following topics:

What is jQuery?
Basics of jQuery{Traversal,Selection,CSS etc.}
Whiz-bang of jQuery{Effects,Manipulation}
Power of jQuery{implemented examples}
jQuery and Drupal
Other frameworks at a glance.

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Opening for “Chief Marketing Officer”

rahul — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0000

In this role,

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OpenTheMagazine.com Drupal.org Case Study

Sidharth Kshatriya — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000

OPEN Magazine is an Indian current affairs/entertainment weekly print magazine. Srijan has built the website www.openthemagazine.com for the print magazine, and published a case study on Drupal.org, which then ran for 5 weeks on the Home Page of Drupal.org as a highlighted case study Development took place over a period of 4 months.

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Tech session (07Nov2009) Follow-up

Raj Oruganti — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000

The tech session we had on the 7th of November could be classified as a reasonable success, considering the number of people who attended and the range of topics that were discussed. Apart from the scheduled topics on SASS and CMS migration we also discussed the use of Ubercart to implement e-commerce applications easily and swiftly.

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Authenticating customer outside Magento

ritesh — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0000

In a recent project we faced a challange to authenticate user through asp. We needed only to authenticate user and not log him into the Magento store site.

After googling through the net I found this link http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/36143/#t119542

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Srijan Tech-Session on November 7th 2009

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0000

In our continuing effort to foster and mentor discussions centered around open source technologies, we are organizing a tech-session on the following topics related to web application development:

Migrating to Drupal – I (Node migration)
Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets (SASS)

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Do you practice "Appreciative Leadership"?

Rashmi Rajput — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:08:04 +0000

In today's competitive world, its difficult to sustain a organisation with high performance - a system which satisfies both intellectual and emotional needs. Such place definitely allows room for imagination as well as rational thought. SRIJAN is a work-place where, I feel, leaders look forward to create this unusual domain. Once I got an opportunity to attend a workshop on "Appreciative Inquiry (AI) by Uma Arora" and could frame out during that session, this is one of the key practice being followed at SRIJAN.

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OpenTheMagazine.com: A Case Study

Sidharth Kshatriya — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:03:36 +0000

The Open Magazine is a new current affairs/entertainment weekly magazine available on magazine stands in India. The magazine was launched in the first quarter of 2009. The publisher of Open Magazine, Open Media Pvt. Ltd. wanted a web presence for its magazine. It appointed Srijan Technologies, a content management specialist company based out of New Delhi, India to construct the website. Srijan's responsibility was to build the website from scratch and host it.

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CSS designer opening

rahul — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 05:25:02 +0000

Srijan is looking for the following a CSS designer with the following profile:

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Open Atrium - A review

rahul — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:28:34 +0000

After weeks of waiting when Open Atrium was released, I was elated imagining that our knowledge documentation challenges would come to an end. Unfortunately, a week of work on it left me quite disappointed as this was not to be so! What is our knowledge documentation challenge? At Srijan we feel that knowledge captured real-time during project implementation and development is superior to any form of documenting post project completion.

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PHP Team Lead

rahul — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:50:48 +0000

We have 2 openings for PHP Team Leaders, to develop and manage projects in TYPO3 and Drupal.

As a PHP TEAM LEADER the candidate MUST BE ABLE to perform the following tasks:

Technical Skills and Development
- Develop web applications independently (if required) in atleast any one of the following PHP frameworks : TYPO3, Drupal, ezPublish, Zend, Seagull, Symfony, ATK, CodeIgniter, Horde, CakePHP
- Understand workflow (with help from Project Manager) and purpose of web

Srijan releases www.openthemagazine.com

Sidharth Kshatriya — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:33:28 +0000

Srijan Technologies is pleased to announce the release of www.openthemagazine.com to the world.

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Resources on Apache Solr

rahul — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:35:18 +0000

I've been reading up a lot more on Apache Solr recently and it's applications across platforms and technologies (it's important for me to catch up with the techies at Srijan; I'm responsible for selling the solutions; ahem!), leading up from our Apache Solr + TYPO3 integration recently, and our ideas on the future roadmap. Thought it might be useful to create a repository of interesting material for readers of our blog. Here goes:

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First TYPO3 and Apache Solr search implementation goes live

rahul — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:31:14 +0000

On Friday, 10 July 2009, Srijan's first Apache Solr implementation on TYPO3 went live at www.ede.nl, the website of Municipality of Ede, Netherlands - a customer of our Dutch partners - Netcreators BV. Some minor code cleanup is underway.

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Drupal FeedAPI Imagegrabber

rahul — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:51:21 +0000

Srijan sponsored the development of a FeedAPI Imagegrabber module in April 2008 (unfortunately we never talked about it on our blog earlier). We have this policy of getting interns from India's top colleges to work on community projects or internal project initiatives with Drupal and sometimes with TYPO3 as well. FeedAPI Imagegrabber was a result of this internship programme at Srijan.

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Marketing Director/Head of Marketing

rahul — Mon, 25 May 2009 12:45:08 +0000

Srijan is looking for a "Head of Marketing". See the job description here (PDF).

Srijan's Corporate presentation

rahul — Sat, 16 May 2009 12:04:39 +0000

Here comes our corporate presentation covering our important TYPO3 and Drupal projects and development processes.

Srijan gets listed among "the most democratic places" to work for

Sidharth Kshatriya — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:04:13 +0000

Srijan Technologies among the world's “Most Democratic Workplaces”

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Srijan is now an Acquia Silver Partner

rahul — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 05:52:09 +0000

Srijan, India has joined Acquia's partner network, as a Silver Partner.

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"International meltdown result of intense human greed": Deepak Chopra

rahul — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:24:27 +0000

Deepak Chopra, during a recent visit to New Delhi, gave an interview on CNBC-TV18. I loved what he said, and could not resist making a post about the interview. See the complete interview transcript.

An excerpts from the interview:

...we have been so programmed to think about me and mine.

Here be Dragons

Gora Mohanty — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:42:15 +0000

Over the past year, we at Srijan Labs have been dabbling in a variety of areas. One key area of interest has been the possibilities afforded by GPS tracking, FOSS GIS tools, and location-based services centred around these. Also, of interest to us is how these services can be harnessed through mobile devices like cell-phones, and hand-held devices that are becoming increasingly ubiquitous. With this in mind, I have put down some thoughts in a document available here as PDF.

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Srijan sponsors Barcamp Kashmir

rahul — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:22:15 +0000

As part of our community initiatives, we are sponsoring the Barcamp Kashmir 2009. It feels good to be part of a community event in Kashmir.

Delhi Drupal meetup

rahul — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:23:07 +0000

As part of it's objectives of promoting open source adoption, and in specific proliferate Drupal in India, Srijan co-sponsored the Delhi Drupal meetup, at IIT Delhi on 01 March 2009.

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TYPO3 and Apache Solr

rahul — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:47:40 +0000

We're working on integrating Apache Solr with TYPO3 at the moment. We had started work sometime back, and recently during a project assignment from Sweden, we realised that Apache Solr would be a best fit in this case, as there is a lot of Meta content associated with the primary search content in this portal that we're building.

We feel institutions working in the following areas can get immense benefit from implementing Solr in their IT systems as a search and filter tool:

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Drupal themes vs TYPO3 templating

admin — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:43:17 +0000

This is a first draft presentation we prepared which talks about Drupal theme advantages versus TYPO3 templating practices. We're working on a more detailed version of this to cover code aspects as well. Stay tuned! See the presentation (PDF).

avoiding the speculative trap

Navin Pangti — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:12:33 +0000

a lot of times one is confronted with a situation where the design team is asked to create and show 'something' even before a project has been awarded. lot of companies conduct this exercise with multiple service providers who 'work for free', expecting a good project at the end of it.

Technical Project Manager :: opening at Srijan

rahul — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:36:26 +0000

We're looking for a Project Manager for working with our development team. Our development process internally is more 'agile' - however, an adaptation to our own ways of working. Each Project Manager would typically need to manage 2-4 projects of varying sizes, across 1-2 project teams (4 people per team).

The responsibilities of a (technical) Project Manager at Srijan are detailed out below.

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Business Analysis
Work with the customer in getting requirements in place. Make use of 'wireframes' and 'user stories' as an estimation process.

TYPO3 performance tips

ritesh — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:29:52 +0000

All these years I was wondering, what would be the best practice and configuration to have TYPO3 running huge number records with several connections. I found answers to some of the queries, but still working to get a clean solution. TYPO3 can play havoc if not configured properly. So here are the few tips that should be considered while setting up your server. It is better to get your own dedicated server for a TYPO3 hosting.

Do not use unused extensions

TYPO3 writes information about the every page display. So disable any TYPO3 built-in statistics.

Opening for a Project Co-ordinator

rahul — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:33:42 +0000

We're looking for a Projects-coordinator to help us manage timely project communication with customers across all our projects and new business enquiries.

Skills required

Excellent spoken and written English communication skills
Good inter-personal skills to be able to coordinate with people across Srijan - approximately 25 people
Good personal time-management skills
Training in any software development environment - such as a Diploma from NIIT/similar is required

Roles and Responsibi

Part-time project managers

rahul — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:54:01 +0000

We're looking for part-time Project Managers, who can be available onsite for half-day each work day, for managing TYPO3 and Drupal projects.

These managers must have a technology background, although not necessarily in PHP/ TYPO3/ Drupal. They must have excellent skills in

client communication
project planning
task allocation
release management
quality assurance
bug tracking
tech experience in PHP and Linux sys admin would be helpful

Our development center is in Nehru Place, New Delhi.

The Secret: Attract good things to your life

rahul — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 11:00:41 +0000

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XSS sanitization for php

ritesh — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:28:49 +0000

Sanitising your code:
Ahm... Ok adding some techie stuff to your php knowledge. Before accepting any thing from web make sure it is a clean input as you can never trust user input, it may be malicious, So you have to always check your php input. To sanitise this you have to check all global arrays like $_GET, $_POST, $_REQUEST, $_COOKIE, allow only known variables and make sure that they contain the right type of data.

What does this mean ?

"get up every morning and really feel like going to work"

rahul — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:06:51 +0000

One of my colleagues during a general chat said this:

actually for me srijan has become one of those few places where i can get up every morning and really feel like going"
it does not give me a feeling like "i am doing a job, so i have to go to the office no matter what", that compulsion is not here, thats why i am here at srijan

Now, this speaks a lot for Srijan, and the work culture we have been able to create for ourselves.

I'll not name the person, and wait till he puts up a blog post about this feeling/experience himself on this blog, which he's committed to wri

Controversy on IPR with the India Environment Portal

rahul — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:02:00 +0000

Live Mint, the Wall Street Journal and HT venture in India, recently issued a notice to CSE to remove all its articles from its website, and called it "theft" at their blog: http://blogs.livemint.com/blogs/romanticrealist/archive/2008/10/18/whose-ipr-is-it-anyway.aspx. I am not an expert on IPR issues, but being promoters of open source philosophy for promoting "equity" and "justice" I believe that IPRs can be regressive.

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Pictures of our office

rahul — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:09:57 +0000

We realised that we did not have one place where we had pictures of our office. So are some pics from my mobilecam.

[gallery]

India Environment Portal : A case study

rahul — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:38:29 +0000

URL: www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in

Highlights

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Analysis of the site uptime using Website Monitoring Services

ritesh — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:02:18 +0000

I am evaluating the reliability and response time of different website monitoring services that are freely avialable on the internet.

To begin with I have considered the following website:

I will soon post the results/analysis of services with the alerts received.

8 secrets of success

rahul — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:38:01 +0000

Passion, Work, Focus, Persist, Ideas, Good, Push, Serve.

"A Leader Should Know How to Manage Failure"

rahul — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:04:11 +0000

Some words of wisdom from our former President (for a lot of us - especially in the open source world - still our President) - Dr.

Rise of Collaborative Networks

rahul — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:58:50 +0000

Here's a beautiful presentation on how the power of self-organising groups of people, who are more adept to innovate, will cause a shift in how institutions in the future are going to be structured. Although, it provides an insight on this development, the presentation does not give any answers on what practices institutions should adopt. However, I guess those examples are all over with Ricardo Semler and Semco in Brazil, Scott Bader Commonwealth in UK, Mondragon in Spain, and many others.

MBA-IT interns

rahul — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:26:52 +0000

We are looking for 1-2 interns with an MBA in IT, who would like to become Project Managers for IT applications in the coming years.

It is important for the candidates to grow into roles defined in this spreadsheet: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p7fub_vJsx_uk7OIVuIEnew. We're also looking at interns from a long-term perspective.

Where are all the good PHP developers and team leads?

rahul — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:15:37 +0000

We're still looking for a Team Leader / PHP Tech Architect / PHP Project leader role, with about 2-4 years experience. We must have interviewed atleast 25-30 odd people from small to large sized ocmpanies over the last 2 months, and not selected even one, so far.

We've rejected people with over 3 - 4 years experience, as their basics have not been clear, and yet they claim to (and truly are) building big live projects. I have no clue how these companies maintain quality, or deliver projects that perform well.

There seems to to be very little desire in people to excel these days.

Organisational democracy : a great introduction

rahul — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:52:11 +0000

A rejoinder to my earlier post. Here's a video of the CEO of WorldBlu, with a beautiful introduction or organisational democracy.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFpk1B-DS38

The world's most democratic workplaces

rahul — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:57:10 +0000

Here's the The WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Workplaces™ 2008. WordlBlu's mission is to have 20,000 democratic organisations globally by 2020. Wonderful idea! However, I think their goals are underplayed a bit. In 2009, we hope to have Srijan find it's way there in this list.

The rise of collaborative networks

At the rate collaborative networks are being formed, I feel this goal of 20,000 organisations is a relatively low target. Besides 2020 is way too off.

Change in our blog theme

rahul — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:58:43 +0000

Just changed the theme from a dull boring corporate Blue, to this new colourful one (it's a little bit of an overdose of colour, I must accept, yet a very good one). Now that is well-suited to represent the "Spirit of Srijan". :-) Also, this one is much better organised and visually tight.

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Recovering Passwords in Yahoo - what a mess!

rahul — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:14:52 +0000

I cannot seem to understand the logic of these "Secret Questions".

TYPO3 content update and management support services

rahul — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:09:53 +0000

We're intending to start a service to manage content - text and images - for businesses running TYPO3 websites.

Such services are difficult to find in Europe and USA (and other western countries), as it costs hiring skilled TYPO3 operators maybe quite high.

The ultimate tool for matching 'strings'

ritesh — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:11:29 +0000

As per client project requirement, I had to do some string matching ...... and behold, Ahm... that too keeping the pattern intact. So googled through the few pages, then suddenly came with an idea to give a try to regular expression [regexp].

Now who is going to help me out. Bingo!! take help from PJ [Our Sys Admin]. Hey PJ can you help me out with the problem. Sure , he forwarded with a link and page 192 of the OReilly book for perl. Hmmm... now i got some idea.

A Year to Live : a powerful way of living your life

rahul — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:58:38 +0000

Writing this very inspiring post as a lot of us sit at Centre for Science and Environment, working on our overnight mammoth effort to get the India Environment Portal ready for launch this afternoon by Mr. Sam Pitroda, the head of the National Knowledge Comission (we heard that our Finance Minister - Chidambram - is also going to be present for the event).

What has changed at Srijan?

rahul — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:52:12 +0000

A few days back we got in touch with a customer who had stopped working with us about 3 years back. After the initial pleasantries, he wrote back asking me the following:

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Project Manager opening :: TYPO3 and Drupal applications

rahul — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:53:44 +0000

We have a Project Manager opening at Srijan, for managing a team of TYPO3 and Drupal developers.

Now, in order to define the role and skills, as is traditionally done in a job description format, I decided to write down User Stories - what innovative adoption of agile methodologies to look for for a Project Manager ;-) .

Drupal Cache

rahul — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:11:59 +0000

Here's a preview on how our Drupal training is proceeding with Jacob Singh. After a day long session hacking around on Drupal, we spent some time understanding best practices to follow in case of websites with large amounts of data.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MOYWiF8Ets

analysis of a screw up

unclepeej — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:05:17 +0000

slick professionalism

One of our clients wanted a shutdown scheduled one night at 10pm. This was a suitable job for the "at" command, and I set it up.

Then I noticed the time on the system was out by several minutes. (This was nothing to do with what I'd just set up with the "at" command - this was simply due to hardware clock drift. This system had been running for over a year non-stop - a record we were proud of. But, yes, I reckoned I should fix it instead of having the client wait a few minutes extra past 10pm, twiddling his thumbs.

An Inconvenient Truth :: Global Warming

rahul — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:21:10 +0000

Just finished watching the movie "aninconvenienttruth" on Global Warming. Almost feel like jumping outright into taking some hard steps from Srijan, about pitching in to solve this crisis. This is not the first time I've learnt about the environmental crisis, but it has never come out so beautifully, so clearly, and so very starkly.

The concern of the next project, and the next deliverable for some reason still hold precedence.

The SCRUM approach with Drupal for rapid product prototyping

rahul — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:06:33 +0000

After several months of conceptualising, discussing, wireframing, and delaying, we finally started development of a pet product for the Tourism industry. Today, early (Sunday) morning, I create a product Blog and completed five posts on the same.

automatically mailing a daily backup

unclepeej — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:37:42 +0000

Introduction

For files a few MB in size, users can do backups to their google mail using their local cron.

"Few MB"? What does "few" mean?

Well, we have a back-end that uses Google mail, and google has 20MB as their message size limit. So we're talking around 20MB, less the encoding overhead. MIME-encoding, the encoding standard for this sort of thing expands a file. So in practice, the file size limit is probably about 17MB.

Why have a limit anyway?

This is because mail is a terrible way to do file transfer (google for more on this).

How would life be, if we made "better choices" everytime

rahul — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:35:19 +0000

How would life be, if we made "better choices" everytime.

In today's session with my coach, this point came out very powerfully for me. We have a choice in whatever we 'do', 'say', or "be" - in a conversation, in a relationship (with others, and ourselves), in our work, in our general attitude.

What if we constantly asked ourselves "is there a better choice I can make in relation to _________" (fill the blank with any current situation, circumstance, etc.)

Just wanted to share this, to me, a very powerful way of living.

The Case for Drupal-- Why the Open Source CMS is Well-Suited for a Medical Academic Library

rahul — Wed, 28 May 2008 06:48:00 +0000

We came across this brilliant presentation as a case for Drupal, specifically to be used in institutions and in libraries: http://www.vimeo.com/991273. This has a comparison between the proprietary CMS Fatwire and Drupal.

There is a brief intro to Apache Solr working with Drupal including some sites where it is in production. We're looking to use the "Apache Solr" module with Drupal for the "India Environment Portal", coming up for the Centre for Science and Environment.

Ritesh Gets his Clone

hari@srijan.in — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:56:05 +0000

Buoyed with the growing work pressure and peer support, Ritesh had planned to create his clone....however since he couldn't spare the required time to create a proper clone, he ended up with creating a monster...

Now it has become a community project to send this clone back to the depths of hell...else he may turn out to be Frankenstein monster...

Unusual Working Postures

hari@srijan.in — Tue, 20 May 2008 06:09:05 +0000

The pictures of postures uploaded below have been done by experts or under the guidance of experts. These must not be imitated or tried without proper supervision or guidance.

Working Hard - Hardly Working

hari@srijan.in — Tue, 20 May 2008 05:56:54 +0000

"LY" These are just two letters that give an absolutely different meaning about the concerned person. Following are the pictures which were taken during a marathon working hours.

monitoring remote servers

unclepeej — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:47:59 +0000

Intro

When we monitor a site we usually think of looking through logs or a gui front end like munin to look at how the server is doing. But if the site itself is down, how do you access this data?

Well, you could figure out some way to do this (a common method is to pipe the logs to another location so you have a chance to diagnose things when they go wrong). But most of the time you just want to be alerted and run basic remote checks on failure to narrow down the possibilities.

The most common things to check remotely should be, in my experience:

Anand Dhara - Spiritual reading

hari@srijan.in — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:25:08 +0000

Hi All,

Our colleague, Chandraji(fondly called Prabhuji) has co-authored a spiritual magazine by the name "Anand Dhara". At the moment its in Hindi version only.

Influencing is the best way to 'Lead'

ipsita — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:14:52 +0000

In Feb'2008, I got a mail from Rahul saying "anyone interested in this? Training on Customer Service Excellence through NLP Tools ". It fascinated me and I did not miss the chance. During those days, I had already started playing a new role in the organization that involved client interaction and also dealing more with internal customers(employees of the organization, my colleagues) as well. Thus, the training was a timely help. We are living in a time when customers have an abundant choice of goods and service.

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Jacob Singh with Srijan's Drupal team

rahul — Fri, 02 May 2008 06:37:46 +0000

Jacob Singh, a well known Drupal guru, agreed to drop in to our office and spend some time understanding the sort of Drupal projects we were engaged in, and assess the level of competence of our people, with the objective that he gets engaged with our team as a mentor for our Drupal projects, specifically the India Environment Portal, which Srijan is building for Centre for Science and Environment, and backed by the National Knowledge Commission.

Jacob, who has

Focus on training

rahul — Fri, 02 May 2008 06:23:27 +0000

A manual on organisational effectiveness written by a management consultant, mentioned that a survey conducted across companies in USA showed that organisations which 'laid-off people actually went down further in profits'. It further said that organisations that after such lay-offs spent on people training, actually made increased their profits.

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Bound and Ragged!!

shash — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:37:27 +0000

Its my first blog on Srijan. So i'd like to project myself as a good person here!!

I'd like to state that now i am a part of the tribe called Srijan and it took a bit of ragging by the tribesmen(and tribeswomen) to help me become a part of it..

Rails and Python openings at Srijan

rahul — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:55:52 +0000

We are looking for self-motivated, enthusiastic and diligent people to join our team of Python and Rails programmers. This is a chance to work with a highly skilled and versatile team on some of the leading Web 2.0 technologies of our times.

Successful candidate will possess a significant number of the following knowledge and skills:

Solid experience with Ruby on Rails.

O3spaces - wotsit all about then?

unclepeej — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:24:12 +0000

I got tasked with figuring out how O3Spaces 2.2.1 might fit in with Srijan. Here’s my report. Skip it if making openoffice do groupware-like stuff is not your thing.

What is O3Spaces about?

Think of this common collaborative way in which a document is built:

You email a group of people with the latest version as an attachment, asking for comments. People suggest modifications.

Social bookmarking for the enterprise

rahul — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:44:57 +0000

Social bookmarking in a business environment, can be such a powerful tool for documenting knowledge and ideas. Websites, blogs and other internet resources that a group visits and logs in sections or folders just as we do in our browser, can be such a powerful medium of collaborative business development, research during product development, and in general as a learning resource center. I've not been able to find any such resource. Was searching today once again, and learnt that IBM has started a research project in this direction (I'm flattered!) called dogear.

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Global food crisis :: An appeal

rahul — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:20:47 +0000

While driving back home from office I occasionally, listen to a business related AIR FM radio show called "Market Mantra". One of the topic of discussion, recently was the global food crisis, with specific focus on India.

I must confess, that I have been completely ill informed about this emerging food crisis and the global repercussions of the same.

The Lunch Hour

hari@srijan.in — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:40:23 +0000

One of the awaited hours @ Srijan, the Lunch Hour. Here's a video of a bunch of nature loving, ancestors reminding folks trying to eat in the most civilized way.

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Do we work?

rahul — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:30:46 +0000

On the eve of a major client deadline.....

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Taking screenshots on Windows

rahul — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:26:32 +0000

I'm one of the few Windows users in our office and had been searching for this utility for some time to help report CSS bugs to developers internally. Finally, got lucky today while Googling, and reached http://www.kabatology.com/01/03/take-your-screenshots-on-windows-with-li....

You could download Lightscreen from http://www.qt-apps.org/content/show.php/Lightscreen?content=72757. It does not have features to highlight areas you want to draw someone's attention to.

CSE's Knowledge Portal

rahul — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:37:09 +0000

Here's the first media release for the portal, as it takes shape, at our office: http://sify.com/finance/fullstory.php?id=14632463 Some key highlights:

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Party at Srijan on getting a new contract and TYPO3.com listing

rahul — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:45:02 +0000

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Srijan gets TYPO3.COM listing

rahul — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:16:15 +0000

This is an exciting day for us. We got the prestigious and scarcely offered TYPO3.COM listing today.

Check the link: http://typo3.com/Consultancies.1248.0.html and search for "India".

Partnership with crocsystems, Germany

rahul — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:04:00 +0000

In order to offer top-quality services to our customers in Europe, Srijan has set up an alliance with crocsystems, a technology and design agency, based in Germany.

Account Manager/Project Manager opening

rahul — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:08:05 +0000

We're seeking an Account Manager who MUST BE ABLE to perform the following tasks:

Project Acquisition and Management
- Understands web applications and their workflow
- Advises customers actively on features and workflow after having understood their requirements and ideas
- Think through gaps in the project workflow, and ask right questions from customers
- Actively supports Project Leaders (technical people, who are typically owners of projects at Srijan) in breaking down the project into achievable tasks and modules

Logout@work :: says Srijanites

hari@srijan.in — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:45:36 +0000

[please note: this is the 1st part of the 5 part series related to the office tour to Shivpuri in Uttaranchal]

Well, this could have been aptly titled as Logout form world atleast for a couple of crazy maniacs.

LAMP Technical Manager/Architect opening

rahul — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:17:26 +0000

We're seeking an Technical Manager/Technical Architect who MUST BE ABLE to perform the following tasks:

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Digital Resource Management and Information Outreach : A CSE Case Study

rahul — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:20:35 +0000

I was invited to make a presentation on "Digital Resource Management and Information Outreach" to a group of of researchers, environment journalists and web content managers, attending a brief course at the Centre for Science and Environment's (CSE) university.

The presentation was agreed to take CSE's Environment Knowledge Portal initiative as a Case Study for the presentation. The Knowledge Portal is a brilliant initiative by CSE to free up its 15-20 years of digitally stored data, so far hidden inside their Library Management System (several of them over the years).

Case study: Agile development at Srijan

admin — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:53:53 +0000

In my earlier post, I touched upon the processes we go through while designing and planning for a project. This entry is a more detailed look at the initial phases of such a project. The application under discussion is highly focused and yet multifaceted, therefore it would seem surprising that much of the concept was crystallized during the development process.

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Bluetooth GPS devices with Linux

Gora Mohanty — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:46:22 +0000

A. Talking to Bluetooth GPS devices with Linux

Other Details

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What web framework should you use?

admin — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:16:05 +0000

As professional web developers, a query that we handle often these days is ‘What web framework should we use?’ If the person is somewhat knowledgeable about web technologies, then the question usually is ‘Should we use Ruby on Rails for this project?’ Though frameworks like Ruby on Rails has been responsible for a major shift in the process of web development in the past few years, actual technology choices have much more to do with real world needs of the project.

Making active choices

rahul — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 14:47:46 +0000

I just read a very beautiful anecdote by T.T. Rangarajan, the founder of Alma Mater, an organisation based in Chennai, whose mission is to awaken humanity. The message was so beautiful that I decided to put this down, before I go off to sleep. Rajan, as he is lovingly called, is being interviewed by a Life Positive journalist who asks him if he could illustrate an example of his skill where he uses stories from Indian mythology to impart transformatory learning.

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Creating win-win agreements

rahul — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:27:43 +0000

Win-win situations are least understood. Most people see win-win situations as a "compromise" between what you wanted to achieve and what the other party wanted to achieve. Most such compromises however, lead to lose-lose situations.

A "compromise" is such a negative term anyway. It literally, means that something inside of you died in order to create an agreement; and yet this agreement is not really an agreement. It is just what you began with - a compromise. No true "agreement" can be made which does not leave you happy.

CSS/XHTML developer

rahul — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:52:31 +0000

Hi, We’re looking for a CSS/XHTML developer with experience (even a couple of live sites is good for us) in making XHTML Trasntional 1.0 compliant templates. The applicant must be able to demonstrate some live work which passes the http://validator.w3.org/ automated tests.

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Articles on Management with Head and Heart

rahul — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:26:13 +0000

During the previous week's coaching session with my business and life coach, I shared with him that for the last few months we have discussed some business or personal life challenges (ofcourse there is often sharing of successes, positive events and what I learnt from them) , that I encounter, and explore how to deal with them and find the next action steps. However, my life purpose, is beyond business and related challenges.

Freetds - A boon for *nix geeks

ritesh — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:42:39 +0000

I am always fascinated by the work which involves some challenges and of course which can be passed onto others for a good cause and reason. Recently while working on project for some client, we were required to write an ongoing migration script.

Few facts about Drupal that may help you before choosing it for your next website.

ipsita — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:10:38 +0000

Drupal is no doubt a user friendly web platform that is specially designed for the convenience of the users. The step-by-step guidelines prepared in the website are easy to follow. But adding features (modules) to the system isn’t always simple and some of the contributions take a bit of “help” to work properly. Drupal serves several specific features that shape the attractiveness of the Drupal platform. But , I would like to point few things that may bother you while developing a site with drupal.

Business and Life Coaching for Entrepreneurs

rahul — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:19:44 +0000

About a year back, when I read the practical handbook for the bestseller, "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari" by Robin Sharma, one of the things that stuck with me was the advise to "Get a Coach". During the years 97-99, I had been through the entire Landmark course series, including the extremely transformational (for me atleast) 'Self-Expression and Leadership Program' (SELP), and fondly remembered the dialogue and self-exploration I would have an opportunity to engage in during the sessions with coaches.

Why work with Srijan?

rahul — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:05:20 +0000

We're looking for good developers and managers currently, and while writing to potential people to who could join Srijan, we are often asked more about us. So, I thought of writing this blog to describe the work we do, team strength, environment, culture, core-values, and other stuff which may be important for any person considering Srijan as a career option. Let me try and classify things under several heads and write bullet points to describe all the above aspects of Srijan.

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Srijan is now in USA

rahul — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:21:04 +0000

Srijan has registered Srijan LLC in the Virginia, USA.

Resource Mint Blog

rahul — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:29:55 +0000

We've launched a blog for Resource Mint at: http://resourcemint.wordpress.com/

Resource management system integrated with Basecamp

rahul — Tue, 29 May 2007 14:04:14 +0000

We love Basecamp project collaboration tool! It has helped us improve our Project Communication with our customers. Our customers love it too.

However, Basecamp has not solved the issue of internal project and resource management. After experimenting with several open source tools, and various versions of spreadsheets, we decided to write our own tool, using Basecamp.

We are looking for people

admin — Wed, 16 May 2007 04:19:25 +0000

The key characteristic for a good new recruit is hunger. We don’t want people who think they have achieved something, we don’t want people who are already considered a big shot by their associates. We want people who for whatever reason have a drive to go that extra mile.

That done, there are some other desirable characteristics :

Some sort of obsessive-compulsive disorder about details, technicalities, etc. These sort of people will usually ponder on minor technical/logical issues.

Sorcery in Indian language spelling

Gora Mohanty — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:40:10 +0000

Introduction Spell checking software has always had the aura of black magic, which is probably why another meaning of spell is the enchantment cast by a magician. The best-known, and most widely used open-source spell-checking engine is aspell, and thanks to the needs of some folk at an Indian language search site, we had a chance to delve into the guts of aspell, in order to customise it for Hindi. Relevant aspell features aspell has many useful features that made it well-suited to our task:

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Looking for PHP experts

rahul — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:13:28 +0000

We're constantly looking for good PHP developers. A brief profile of people we're seeking:

Great PHP and SQL skills
Experience in implementation of websites and programming extensions with Content Management Systems like TYPO3, Drupal, eZPublish, WordPress
Exposure to PHP Frameworks and Libraries such as PEAR, Seagull, ATK, Symphony, CakePHP
Penchant for web standards
Comfortable with working on Linux desktops
Good spoken and written English is absolutely mandatory

Srijan co-sponsors Freedel 2006

rahul — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 06:10:09 +0000

Srijan is co-sponsoring Freedel 2006.

Dr. Gora Mohanty, alongwith with several other members, is volunteering in personal capacity.

Srijan's not presenting any talks this time; hope to organise ourselves better, to deliver a talk an area of our core-expertise, possibly on open source Content Management Systems (CMS).

Freedel website: http://www.freedel.in/

Making Websites Business Ready

rahul — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:09:04 +0000

An article on how Indian businesses can get the most out of moving their websites to open source Content Management Systems, such as Typo3. The article has been published in BenefIT magazine, part of the Linux For You (LFY) publication group.

Read the article: Making Websites Business Ready

Read the published article in BenefIT magazine:
http://www.benefitmag.com/admin/issuepdf/Typo%203.pdf

Python based Desktop Timesheet

rahul — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 05:08:31 +0000

The Business Head of our R&D Unit, proposed the idea of having a session similar to Hackathons conducted by open-source geeks around the world, to attack a tough problem or ethically hack a new open-source product. A few people came forward, and discussed various areas of interest such as:

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Presentation on Open Source Software in Education at Digital Learning 2005

rahul — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 05:03:04 +0000

I gave a presentation to a gathering of bueaucrats, government officials, reserchers, educationists and business leaders at Digital Learning 2005 and Conflux 2005 (e-Government conference), jointly organised by Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS), GIS Development, and Department of Information Technology, Government of India.

The presentation was met with an immense response from the audience who got very interested in Typo3, and wanted demos of the same at their research institutes and companies.

This was Srijan's 1st presentation with a lot of focus on Typo3, apart fr

A Better Way to Work

rahul — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 05:01:03 +0000

Recently, while stuck in a traffic jam on the way to a client meeting, I shared with a colleague the vision of transforming Srijan into a company in which all its members collectively manage the company ? customer relationships, investments, salaries, domain expertise, growth, hiring, etc. In response, he said that we already had a good work environment, and why must we bother with such things at all?

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Srijan's business purpose

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Open Source Software in the Indian context

rahul — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 04:50:59 +0000

As part of our initiatives in educating our customers, specifically, government, social and education sectors we have prepared this list of Questions and Answers on Open Source software.

Our objective is to shed some of the concerns that customers have in taking pioneering initiatives in adoption of Open Source software.

It is indeed our mission to help businesses, government, social/developmental organisations and educational institutions to use software and business tools based on Open Source software, to help cut their software costs, and more importantly, leverage the best-of-breed softw

River Rafting excursion on the Ganges

rahul — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 04:48:59 +0000

We all needed a bit of a break, and what better place to chill over the weekend than a River Rafting excursion on the River Ganges, considered one of India's holiest rivers.

On this 2 day retreat, we stretched our mind limits, and broke some fear-barriers, by 'slithering' down a 100 foot bridge, right into the mighty Ganga, and jumaring on straight rock of nearly 60 feet. Kayaking was another new experience this time, while Rafting on the nearly 20 rapids (and jumping into some as well) was as thrilling as ever.

Not all of us, could make it to the trip, unfortunately.

Srijan's logo as a Case Study

rahul — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 04:41:24 +0000

Srijan's logo has been taken as a Case Study by Ms. Sabine Hamman, the author of "Logo Design" a book published in Germany, on designnig logos for build good brands.

This is the only logo to be featured from India, alongside, global brands.

We, at Srijan, see this is a reward for the passion and purpose we have as a company, and for our efforts to ensure that our logo reflects the same.

See scanned excerpts from the book (PDF) : Srijan’s Logo as Case Study

Open Source: Towards a self-reliant India

rahul — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 04:33:21 +0000

This presentation was delivered by us at the Annual Convention of Department of Economics, University of Delhi

This was part of our ongoing initiative in educating government, educational institutions, social not-for-profit (NGO) organisations and small-medium enterprises on the benefits of using Open Source technologies.

See the attached Presentation (PDF) :
23_oct_04_presentation_open_source_phdcc.pdf

Srijan Blog

Hello Drupal training held at Dharamshala Government College

Srijan's logo featured in logo design book

Srijan is now an *Acquia Enterprise partner*!

Drupal trainings in Chandigarh/Mohali

Contact Management using SyncAce, Highrise CRM, and MailChimp

IdeaStorm like platform in Drupal

Opening for "Drupal Themers" in Dharamshala

Openings for "Drupal developers" in Dharamshala

Beyond Tech: A new intitiative

CXO Event during Drupal Camp Delhi 2011

Making the shift towards an agile development process

First Hello Drupal training organised in Dharamshala

Debug: Drupal Comment submit button disappears after validation failure

Missing FB Connect button

Check every piece of code you insert

Drupal 7 Learnings

Invitation to Code in Heaven

Srijan opens its new software development centre in Dharamshala

Improve your database backup policy by using automated scripts

Drupalcamp Delhi -16th April 2011

Feature driven development for "Publications"

About the Client

Marrying Sharepoint with Drupal - the time is NOW!

TYPO3 to Drupal migration - KNR Case Study

The client

Hudson - the swiss knife for continuous integration

Mega Drop Down menu system for Drupal

Opening for a QA Engineer

Openings for a Drupal Team Lead

Converting Latin1 charset tables with UTF8 data set

Objective

Initial Approach

Cast Affair - a Global Model Search Network

Opening for a "Project Manager"; Location: Gurgaon

Varnish-ing 2G Raja Scam

Preface

Getting Technorati claim token verified

TYPO3 support and maintenance services

TYPO3 Performance Tuning and Testing

Drupal Presentation on Drush

Presentation on CSS for Drupal based websites

Is "Simplenews" the only option for newsletters in Drupal?

Tuning and improving Performance of Drupal - a beginners guide!

Openings for "Testing Engineers"

Apache Solr : Nuisance with "Mixed Case"

How to find the culprit? Debug Drupal like a pro!

Drupal support and maintenance services

TypeKit for a beautiful web design

Our new Gurgaon office

Migrating to open source - A survival guide for SMEs

Srijan gets listed among WorldBlu's Most Democratic Workplaces 2010

‘Smart Campaigner’ in Django

Srijan tech-session (follow-up) March6

Srijan Tech-Session on March 6th 2010

Careers: Opening for System administrator

Web Application Scalability at Srijan – Part 1

Careers: opening for sales managers

Web Application Scalability

The uneasy “Happy1″ – A learning story about sending newsletters

FeedAPI Imagegrabber

TYPO3 authentication with A-Select

TYPO3 Photo Gallery

TYPO3 error pages Modification of error handling behavior of TYPO3

Safe Password Generation and Evaluation

Modification of error handling behavior of TYPO3

TYPO3 MS-SQL integration

"Multiple File Upload" using a Java Applet

Outsourcing to India

Moving to Open Source

Srijan Tech-Session on November 7th 2009 (jQuery)

Opening for “Chief Marketing Officer”

OpenTheMagazine.com Drupal.org Case Study

Tech session (07Nov2009) Follow-up

Authenticating customer outside Magento

Srijan Tech-Session on November 7th 2009

Do you practice "Appreciative Leadership"?

OpenTheMagazine.com: A Case Study

CSS designer opening

Open Atrium - A review

Srijan is now an Acquia Enterprise partner!