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About Harshal Shah

Harshal Shah is CEO & Founder of Xhtmljunkies, Located in Gujarat, India, XHTML Junkies is one of the best companies that offer unique eCommerce solutions by the virtue of its dedicated professionals. Our professionals are extremely proficient in offering development services pertaining to eCommerce. You can find Harshal on and Twitter.

MVC Pattern-Simplifying The Coding Methodologies

After PHP came into existence, people have been working to improve its standards to make it much faster development language and came up with many open source solutions. After then frameworks have been introduced to keep things clear and unique and to make it easier to understand the code to anybody and keep on customizing it. MVC (Model View Controller) is proven to be the best framework which is used to make things simple and more flexible. And it can also be used with other programming languages like JAVA and .Net.

 

MVC framework is separated into Models, Views and Controllers. Models are responsible for program logic. Views are responsible to handle the user interfaces and visual options and Controllers works in between and handles all transactions in the system. The main beneficial aspects of it are one can re-use the object code and its really easy to change some part of your code that makes less development and maintenance cost.

 

The following are some of the benefits of MVC:

 

  • Suitable User Interface.

  • Easier to change user interfaces.

  • Multiple simultaneous views of the same model.

  • Easy to test.

  • With MVC, one can deliver a different view based upon the type of device.

PhoneGap- Deploy Your Web Based Skills to Multiple platforms

Mobile phones have become a necessity in our daily life to fulfil our personal and business needs and also made life convenient to a large extent. The demand for mobiles and smart phones is increasing day by day. Accordingly, there are many frameworks emerging to make mobile application development quick and easy.

 

PhoneGap is an open source and cross-platform development framework which in-turn have lots of advantages. It has got it unique identity among all other frameworks as it is the only open source that supports seven[7] platforms namely iPhone, iTouch, iPad, Android, Palm, Symbain, Blackberry by using JavaScript and HTML. One can add PhoneGap Plugins to the projects and also can access native features.

 

Some of its great features are:

  • One can use built-in features of a mobile device such as instant messaging, location services and push notifications.
  • The apps can be scattered to multiple platforms through app stores.
  • PhoneGap applications are user-friendly and also highly functional.
  • It allows easy interaction with mobile device hardware such as Accelerometer, Geolocation and so on.

 

Here at Xhtmljunkies, we have highly committed PhoneGap developers resulting to produce better applications. We are glad to say that our team have successfully delivered our first project based on PhoneGap technology and got appreciation from Client who is really satisfied with our quality work.

Most Crazy Development Technologies That Refuse to Die

Technologies are changing so quickly that developers are forced to learn new things day by day. Where as some are so hard to replace as they are maintained for decades being rewritten but never actually replaced. Here are some technologies that will be using for longer time.

  • COBOL: It is probably all over the place. It is the most important that there are millions of lines of COBOL code is written which powering banks and insurance companies.

  • VBA: VBA is the macro language for Microsoft office and many people depends upon it doing their jobs.

  • .NET: Developers used WinForms to make applications. Microsoft is replacing WinForms with XAML, Silverlight and Metro. There are tons of WinForm applications were built leading to the fast rise of .NET.

  • C: Thousands upon thousands of developers learnt C and used it to write thousands of cutting-edge applications. The popularity of C will ensure that it will be used for application development.

  • FLASH: Flash is everywhere. There will be existing Flash work for ages and will be maintained and extended.

  • FORTRAN: It is the language for certain industries and sectors and replacing its code is highly impossible. It runs things like weather prediction where COBOL runs the banks.

  • SQL: It is no surprise that SQL language itself is there in spades. Many developers find a need to write SQL and if anyone stop writing SQL by hand after some time, though there would be systems that automatically generating it anyway.

  • JAVA: It is a strong, vibrant ecosystem. It is often called as the ‘modern day COBOL’ by industry observers. It has made impressive inroads that hold a prime spot in the world of big iron.

  • HTML: HTML is now a widely popular development sytem which has enabled an unimaginable revolution that how computers are used. IT is hard to imagine a computing world without HTML5 or its descendants in future.

Microsoft working on its Windows and Windows phone platforms

Microsoft is taking a further step to unify its Windows and Windows phone platforms. It is planning to make the windows apps shareable under the Windows umbrella. Currently, windows phone apps cannot be sold on Windows store which contains Metro UI style apps without adequate modifications.

Windows 8 store has 35,000 apps. Microsoft is adding applications to the windows store at a rate of 415 apps per day. Microsoft officials claims that a considerable amount of code reuse is possible between Windows phone apps to be moved to Windows 8 or Windows RT. Where as developers says that lot more work is needed to put while making applications shift platforms. A smooth transition will be need to made as Microsoft has admitted in the past that the developer platforms for Windows phone 8 and Windows 8 are similar but not the same. Many users are excited to see some of their favourite applications from one platform available on the other often a cross platform compatibility. Microsoft is planning to make the platforms very even so that one can buy app form Windows phone 8 store and making it run on all windows 8 devices.

Modern IE for Developers by Microsoft

Microsoft introduced the new IE, a set of tools to make developers easy to write better code across a variety of browsers and operating systems. The new site serves to promote web standards and help developers to avoid mistakes like only supporting web kit browsers. It is simple ,easy to use and is very smooth which is a part of Microsoft’s idea to spend less time for testing and more time for building extra ordinary sites.

It also announced its patnership with Browserstack which is a leading browser testing service to test one’s website on any browser and on any operating system. Three months of free service is available for developers who visit browserstack via modern IE. It created add-ins for browsers using chrome and firefox which gives a single click access to the Browserstack service. Also Microsoft faciliatates with free virtual images for developers to download and run local versions of IE for testing with Windows, Linux, Mac or PC. Microsoft incorpated multiple changes in the product including adopting automatic updates to attract customers to the latest version of IE. It has also introduced platform previews for early developers to give feedback and modern web standards with advanced touch capabilities which is accepted by the web developer community.

PHP- An increasingly Popular Coding Language

PHP, in short for Hypertext Preprocessor, is the fifth most popular coding language in the world. It is fast and cheap and is designed for developing web-based applications. It is an open source and there are no royalties to pay as it works on any operating system. Also it is much easier than learning a programming language like ‘Java’. It is the most adaptable and fastest language that can be used to bulid a real world and also processes faster when compared to other coding languages. Where as ‘Java’ involves much complexity and development takes long time.

What makes PHP easy is it can make applications written on it compared to those written in other programming languages such as Java, C, C++ and so on. It has got great demand among other programming languages as it provides web developers with a full suite of tools for designing dynamic websites. Its clarity in design and organized modules make it the most popular language in the online industry today. Also has multiple extensions and is extremely scalable. It interfaces effortlessly with MySQL/Apache. Due to these pretty good features of PHP, it is gaining its own identity that one can choose it undoubtedly.

New Etouch Pens to Convert Your Old Monitor Into Touch Screen

Touch screen devices has a huge demand in the market. The new etouch pen facilitates the conversion of non-touch based laptop or PC into touch screen devices. It is especially designed for Windows 8 operating system as it provides an ultimate experience for touch devices. It can also be used for PC’s running on Windows 7. This device is far more better than using mouse even though you cannot use your fingers directly on screen, but gives a fluid and pretty good response while using it.

The device mainly works on combination of ultrasonic and infrared technology. It consists of two parts i.e., receiver which is clipped onto the screen and stylus pen which acts as transmitter. The signals are transmitted to the receiver.It is operated by using a battery which has few brushes at the end that can pick up the vibrations when it is moving. It includes components like a cordless electronic pen and detachable USB cable connector.One can draw,edit and write on the screen by using this device as well as perform many other functions. There is no need for installing additional drivers or softwares. It is gaining its demand among all other devices by its attractive features.

New Social Networks That You Haven’t Heard of

Everyone knows that Facebook and Twitter are the largest social media across the world. But the new social networks are started exploring new avenues to share and interacting with each other. Also you can send an image across all the people in a room and get feedback for it.

 

Here are some of them, have a look at it.

  • Chirp: It is the best way to send with a sound. Your phone emits high pitched robotic squeak and the other phones with audio range pick up the sound and download the photo or message instantly. It saves lots of time rather than sharing it on facebook by selecting each friend and tagging them or bluetooth by pairing.
  • Flayvr: Here you can share your photos effortlessly. This app automatically organizes your videos and photos into creative albums. It even pulls location, date and titles from your iphone calender which makes things easy for you. You can easily share the photos and albums with your friends and family by social media or using email.
  • Chirpify: It is a truly chirpy way to deal. Here you can buy and pay with just the words. This can be useful for noble causes like fundraising, charity, donations, giveaways etc. You can send money to your friend via twitter by just typing “pay” and “buy” when something you want to buy and its all yours.

 

  • Conversations: Conversations brings the domain of the social media into a corporate setup. A team can interact with eachother as facebook users posts a status and others comment on it. This is private to the members involved in conversation.

 

  • Pheed: This is completely for the business minded. The idea behind it is why to share something for free when you can sell them. It is a forum where you can sell your images, videos and thoughts at a subscription rate.

5 Steps to Disable Java in Your Browsers

Everyone is aware of the latest stream of Java insanity and want to get rid of it. It is not simple to disable Java in windows computers. But you can do it in a step by step procedure. Follow the below simple steps to disable.

Step-1: Find out which Java version that you are using: You can do this easily through the Java control panel. Bring up the windows control panel and you can find the java icon in it, click on it. If you can’t find the java icon, then go to C:Program FilesJavajre7bin and double click on it.

Step-2: Make sure that you have Java version 7 update 11:Click the About button under about in java control panel. It shows you the version number and it can be version 7 update 9,10 or 11. If you don’t have it, go to Java’s download site and install the latest update version and then restart your browser.

Step-3: Turn off the Java run time in all your browsers: Tap on the security tab inside the control panel and deselect the enabled box in the browser. Click OK and restart your browsers and thus runtime disables in all of your browsers.
Note: You can enable the disabled box to get back Java by repeating the same steps.

Step-4: Turn off Java in each of your selected Java-free browsers: Choose add-ons for your browser and click disable for Java(TM) or Plug-In and then restart the browser.

Step-5: Test for browser: Test finally by running each of them against the Java test site. It should ask the permission to run Java for once.