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Cloud Computing: Amazon RDS


CLOUD COMPUTING: AMAZON RDS

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud.

We do not need to install and configure MySQL over the server/hardware which is a time consuming process, so Amazon provides RDS Service which is pre-installed and optimized MySQL Database Service. RDS Service provide a Administrator level user to you so that user can do Database administrative work like assigning/revoking privileges, changing global variables, changing database engine etc..


Guide To Social Networking Development

Social networking sites have become an integral part and parcel of the World Wide Web and is undergoing rapid changes and transition which is making it the most sought after websites in the internet not only for those who are seeking new friends but also to the businessmen and advertisers promoting their products to the whole world. Today, people search for information that is useful. This is one of the most important points for the success of social networking development work of websites. You have seen the popularity of niche social networks like Myspace and Facebook to increase rapidly during the past few months. The reason behind this fast growth of these networks is the introduction of very useful social networking software’s. There are some cool social networking software’s in Myspace which makes the visitors stick to their seats for long hours.

The present state of website development in India

Developing your website involves a number of processes and steps. The first and foremost is careful planning, creative thinking and smart and easy execution of the website. Since this is the initial step, the web developers should pay considerable attention and design the website step by step. The first stage in building a website is designing the site. The history of Internet is not very old in India. But though it is quite new, it has made its presence felt in all spheres in the country. Along with the progress of internet, the development of the techniques and skills required for developing and designing websites has also made rapid progress in India. In addition to the presence of skilled employees, India also has access to cutting edge technology. As a general rule, the presence of technology is also very essential because experts and skilled technicians cannot work or progress due to the lack of technology. India has a large number of expert and reliable web development companies which have flourished since the last decade and caters to the needs of the clients in the country

HTML 5 - New Event Attributes

Standard Attributes Introduced In HTML 5

The new standard attributes in HTML 5 are given as below:

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Get Connected

Who would have thought around two decades ago that what started as a form of generalized online communities would shape up to become one of the leading platform not only to share information and connect to friends but also to market products and services. Yes, you guessed it right we are talking about the “Social Networking Websites” here.

In the world of social space, where one looks forward to a social networking platform for being connected with friends, families and the whole world, more and more companies are seeing this as a primary source to promote their products, practices and business.
As a beginner in the Blog space, I start my first blog talking about how and why social networking platforms have become the soul necessity for most companies in today’s Web 2.0 era no matter which industry they belong to.
Be it media houses, job portals, travel space, entertainment or pharmaceutical industry every industry has gotten the urge of using this platform to promote their businesses and maintain their own social networking websites.

Blackberry Application Launch for Indian Financial News

The 'social media product development' group at Tekriti had started looked at medium other than web from the last year, and iPhone and Blackberry applications were one of the first ones to have been targeted. There have been a few interesting applications done on phone for the customers, but my favorite one is the recently launched (internally so far) Blackberry application by Tekriti. I will share the screenshots once it is publicly launched, but for now this post acts as a teaser as well as a outlet for my excitement :) This application is built on the lines of Wall Street Journal Mobile Reader and is built for a customer, and is built in such a way that adding other online media property shouldn't be too much of work. I just installed the same on my Blackberry Curve 8900 and it works great - so far.

HTML 5 - New Markup and New Elements

In previous blog you came to know about the difference between HTML 4.0 and HTML 5.0. Today you will know what are the new markup and new elements used in HTML 5.0

New Markup Using HTML 5

It provides a number of new elements and attributes. Some of them are replacements for common uses of generic block (<div>) and inline (<span>) elements, for example <nav> (website navigation block) and <footer>. Other elements provide new functionality through a standardized interface, such as the <audio> and <video> elements.
The HTML5 syntax is no longer based on DOCTYPE, SGML despite its markup being very close. It has, however, been designed to be backward compatible with common parsing of older versions of HTML. It comes with a new introductory line which looks like <!DOCTYPE html>, which enables standards-compliant rendering in all browsers that use "DOCTYPE sniffing"

New Elements Introduced In HTML 5

HTML 5 - First Tests and Analysis

As a Web Development Lead at Tekriti, I have been at the forefront of developing the HTML, CSS and JS for several projects which Tekriti has been executing. What has been notable in this entire experience of mine is how little the HTML markup has evolved in the past 10 years or more. Sure we have definitely moved from table'd layouts to table less layouts, we have made concentrated efforts on keeping the HTML fluid, using CSS 2.0 and following W3C standards to the maximum. All of the above was the learning which me and my team has had over the past 4 years as Web 2.0 came calling. However there was still something lacking, as all this learning was more from a standards and discipline perspective, nothing new from a markup or technology perspective. One thing is for sure, HTML'ization of websites is a specialized job with a special set of skills and experience (especially with the plethora of browsers around these days IE6, 7, 8, Mozilla FF, Chrome, Safari, Opera).

How to Incentivize personnel in a growth company?

The assets of today’s companies are its people, and more so if the company draws most of its revenues from the services. I have always enjoyed working with people, and have almost assumed dealing with people to be strength. This was 5 years back, and then Tekriti happened. The definition of “working with people” got expanded to cover many more things than what I had assumed initially. A large part of my job is to manage the expectations of people, and ensuring that they are incentivized enough and still keep the company healthy.

Virtual Dedicated Hosting with AWS - Some notions answered

One of our prospective customers read our post on Cloud Computing and came back to us with some questions on Virtual Dedicated Hosting (yes a new term for Cloud Computing, relating only to server hosting). With their permission I am reproducing some of the questions as below with the hope that the very same questions will help alleviate the indecision from our other prospective customers:

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