PHP is highly flexible and so its frameworks. Like other web development tools there is no forced pattern to write code or program and the same follows with all the frameworks which are set to solve problems in web development according to their varied specialties.  Thus, if you have a particular and a unique set of problems there must be a PHP framework for the same. In fact, the idea of Darwinism fits quite well with the PHP framework brigade. Time and again, rise and fall of various frameworks have been observed. The frameworks which failed is mainly due to the inertness and inability to meet the challenges that people required from a brand new framework while those which succeeded solved critical challenges and have filled critical voids. ‘Codeigniter’ which is regarded as one of the most preferred PHP framework, remains a programmer’s top choice even after 6 years of its release. Code igniter started and capitalized with providing rich libraries that allowed faster coding and minimized development time as developers need not code from scratch. It is still one of the most preferred PHP frameworks for its speed and overall utility.

The web with its active opensource sector in web development is a highly liberal place that helps its users in solving challenges without hassles. But on the other hand, it needs equal attention from the user for its own survival which must be progressive and PHP framework communities reinforce this fact.

To fuel the sparks of speculation, industry analysts are now weighing up Apple’s interest in small-sized tablets loaded with enhanced functionalities.

Why should Apple bother to bring down the tablet size?

Price, price, price. This seems to be the #1 reason why Apple should consider chipping off the extra inches from its tablet range. By shrinking the size from 9.7” to 8”, the company cuts down on costs significantly. This can be passed on to the customers in form of features at a low price.

Success of smaller tablets such as Amazon’s 7” Kindle Fire might compel Apple to rethink about its positioning. Expert analysts believe a smaller iPad will help Apple fight back competition and regain its lost grounds due to budget tablets.

Further, smaller screen might make perfect retina display possible. Delivering 2048 x 1536 pixel resolution for a 9.7” tablet is a challenge. Crunch down the size by an inch and you can have true retina display on tablet. This will, however, slightly change the game for iPad app developers who will be required to submit retina screenshots of their apps for the App store review process.

Apple’s spokeswomen declined to comment on any speculative remarks before the official launch of iPad 3. Yet, based on the one-year update cycle which the company strictly follows, it is quite likely that iPad 3 will soon makes its debut.

Late Steve Jobs has always been against the notion of small size tablets. But now the reign is in the hands of Tim Cook and the competition in the tablet market is rock solid. As for now, a smaller tablet powered by Apple’s innovative features makes good business sense.

Currently, Openxcell is into developing mobile applications and is also a world class web developer. Openxcell leverages these services with an active team of Internet Marketing. Openxcell has a never ending trend to create successful mobile applications and games, reflected by all the positive statistics available in the android and apple app stores. Openxcell has also deployed world class Content management systems and E-commerce websites to its clients with highly complex functionalities that can only be understood after a site visit.

Receiving the trophy, Jayneel expressed his gratitude to the committee at GESIA comprising of Mr. SD Shibulal, CEO, Infosys and other prominent names such as Ravi Saxena and Sunil Kakkad who have collectively made the decision. On the other hand, the entire team at Openxcell has acknowledged Jayneel’s instrumental approach and his vision to achieve more by walking an extra mile.

Despite being driven by young minds, Openxcell is practical and client oriented in its approach. Continuing and capitalizing on client satisfaction, Openxcell has launched a new project management system. The PMS creates and interactive ecosystem with the clients sitting mostly in other countries and allows them to see their assigned projects and allow them to share ideas, updates and even files, directly with Openxcell developers.

With such initiatives and client centric approach, Openxcell is confident to keep its growth going and achieve such marvels in the future again.

The idea might look tempting but competing in the mobile market is not about a great device or an OS alone. It’s about the offerings, the value added services and the app store that is turning the market around. Consider RIM, which is still regarded as the security champ, is facing a stiff competition from iOS and Android. The blackberry might be the first choice of the IT department in corporations but they too find it a little rude to bar iOS and android devices in the corporate ecosystem. Their employees love the apps that come in these devices and get a choice to select from an ocean of half-a million app in iOS and Android as well. This is where RIM has lost the edge with its Blackberry.

Coming back to windows, we see that there are only 60k apps deployed so far. The critics say the apps are useful and the app store is growing day by day. Considering Microsoft’s technical know-how which has always made its applications run across its OS versions in the PC, we can be assured that the same trend will continue with windows phone that will allow us to enjoy a plethora of applications on windows phone as well.

Along with apps, sharing and accessing same files across devices is the new variable to competition, better known as cloud computing. Microsoft OS is already in place and a major player in the market. Microsoft can optimize the technology for its users to share files from windows phone across windows powered PCs, Windows Laptops and other devices that runs on windows. At this point, there are 400 million active users who are using windows in their PCs. This certainly will create a tough competition for Apple that is vocal about its iCloud and Android with its sync services across devices.

With reference to the complexity of the device, Nokia has the technical capability to make a wide spectrum of mobile phones. If we consider the Indian market, Nokia has made phones that ranged from as low as $25 to more than $550. With a spectrum so wide, Windows phone can create a hold in these markets which are not very affluent and could lead to flood of windows mobile apps.

Apple and Microsoft are the two best digital companies in the world and Nokia which suffered a dip in sales leading to 17000 job cuts last year will try to channel its expertise to make a leading mobile device. And as of now the chances of being successful for Nokia and Windows phone looks bright and promises a richer windows phone app market in the future. It will however be interesting to see the three horses battle.

Alfresco, one of the most popular enterprise content management systems has come out with its latest version of the mobile application called the Alfresco Mobile 1.2. Alfresco Mobile 1.2 has some interesting features that make it an important choice for a wide spectrum of users to download and use it. The application is available for free.

Here are some advantages of this mobile app-

• Alfresco mobile 1.2 is fully integrated with Quickoffice. A user can easily open an Alfresco content on Quickoffice, edit it then again save it back to Alfresco which updates the metadata description.
• The app supports multiple Alfresco repositories from which users can download data and content in a single download location.
• The preview of content is very friendly for I-Pads. Users can enjoy full screen view of any content. Be it presentations, documents, spread sheets or multimedia files, the interface supports full screen support for all.
• Availability of ‘Open-in’ functionality helps in opening alfresco files in native application in I-pad and I-phone.
• Users can see an activity feed that will allow them to make out what other users are doing on Alfresco.
• It is social. It allows your peers to comment and ‘like’ your alfresco updates.

Alfresco Mobile 1.2 is created for I-phone and I-pad users at present but that should not discourage Android users. Alfresco is optimizing the application and will have the android version roll out very soon. Hence given its utilities, alfresco mobile 1.2 can become a potential application within a short span of time with a large user base.

Considering these facts, it’s affirmative that Alfresco with its Alfresco Mobile 1.2 has given the corporate a valuable asset that will help them to manage their tasks while they are ‘on the go’.

Talking about some revelations made by Google in the last year, Google has come out with various update programs which are absolutely in tune with WordPress and benefits its users. These are-

• Google Freshness Update: Google allots freshness score to the newly updated content and newly added pages in a specific website. Editing or adding content using WordPress is very simple in any part of the website. The admin can even use mobile devices to do the same. WordPress also gives an option to create permalinks. This gives the website a better freshness score and hence more clicks, as a result of effective indexing by Google.

• Query Deserve Freshness: This algorithm benefits news and blogs the most. Query deserve freshness will give prominence to new content over the old ones and also to the hot trending queries. With WordPress, adding new content is very easy. The best features that WordPress comes with are the plug-ins that helps the user to find relevant keywords, thus complying with Query deserves freshness and better search results.

• Google Authorship Program: This leads to distinguishing and validation of the web content in the search result by uploaded by an author. This also provides better visibility and outnumbers websites with fake identity. With ‘Allow REL= and HTML in Author Bios’ plug-in installed in WordPress one can edit her/his biographical info as < a rel=”author” href=”http://www.yoursite.com/yourpost” > Your Name </a> to register the update. This gives the authenticity regarding the authorship of the published content.

Similar to real life, where authenticity and freshness is rewarded, Google is trying to mould this specific behavioral variable in the web as well. But anyone willing to join the race must have WordPress by their side.

Useful Links:

1.       http://wordpressthemesbase.com
2.       http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin
3.       http://wordpress.org/about/books
4.       http://wordpress.org/download

With Mark’s vision Facebook is continually focused to make significant changes at great speeds. This has been clearly reflected with the dynamism that it has shown changing the profile layout of users at regular intervals. Looking at these changes one can easily think of the depth of customization that is needed at the basal levels to create such interfaces.

Actually, PHP web development can offer quick deployment of software that is initiated or guided by a particular idea with robust customization. Compared to its close competitor ASP.net, PHP is often quicker with its upgrades and have a dedicated community of more than thousands of geeks to solve problems without spending a penny. This might have attracted mark to go the PHP way. Arguably!! But what about slow execution of codes that PHP suffers? Why didn’t Facebook developers use ASP.net and other programs which easily compile codes that could have given enhanced performance to the users of the most popular Social Networking site?

Digging deeper, if we try to peep into Zuckerberg’s personal beliefs we notice that Zuckerberg is a promoter and active supporter of the free web. listing ‘OPENNESS’ as one of his interests in his personal Facebook page Zuckerberg also funded the ‘ Diaspora’ , a free web server for serving Social networking sites. This gives us few hints that Zuckerberg belongs to the school which supports the idea of free knowledge and its electronic usage.

But these facts are not enough for something like Facebook, which is an innovator in itself. In fact, Facebook went so far with PHP that it actually created some path breaking web tools that are installed in Facebook and are used seamlessly by every Facebook user. In 2010 Facebook wrote the PHP runtime from scratch and released it calling it ‘Hip-Hop’. ‘Hip-Hop’ reduced the CPU usage on its web servers by 50%. Lesser CPU usage means lesser load on servers and faster code execution. This drastically reduces the expenses as lesser web servers will be put into use. however some tech experts argue that Hip-Hop is nothing special. They argue that it only omits the run time problems of codes that are common in PHP. This again compels one to raise doubts on Facebook’s mobility and being stuck with PHP.

What’s interesting, Facebook released ‘Hip-Hop ‘as an open source tool for other PHP lovers across the world so that everyone working with PHP can make use of it . This gesture certainly backs Zuckerberg’s philosophy of the free web and access to intellectual property.

Speculations and analysis will continue to surround these confusing events and decisions made by Facebook over time. But it is evident that Facebook has built an elite team of engineers over time which has taken Facebook to its current position. As the clock ticks and Facebook draws closer to the 1billion mark it becomes affirmative that it will likely bring better innovations for the PHP lovers across the world.

Top 3 reasons why you want to be present at the D44 stand at CeBIT:

1. Explore exciting Mobile, Website, Game development services portfolio developed by OpenXcell Technolabs and gain the opportunity to exchange unique ideas, views and methodologies deployed by us in the market.

2. The clients and visitors at CeBIT, will have one on one experience with OpenXcell team who will be there to share their innovative and creative ideas and the company’s diversified risk management approaches in terms of geographic distribution, technology distribution, sharing experience across various industry verticals and business practices.

3. We have uniquely positioned ourselves in European markets with long-standing and satisfying client relationships.

So mark your calendars from 6 to 9 March 2012, daily from 9.00 A.M. Do not miss this exciting opportunity to meet us at CeBIT to build long term strategic alliance.

Google TV will provide users with a powerful search bar which will be content specific. This search will flash quick suggestions to users and they can land up at the desired channel or a web link with a single command, making ordinal channel surfing obsolete. Unlike the current interactive TVs which are ‘mode’ specific, Google TV will take you directly to the specific content irrespective of the medium by which that data or information will be served to you, thus proving hassle free to its users who want to access NBA on ESPN and then suddenly might wish to watch a month old episode of ‘X-files’. The user can also jump to YouTube within no time to watch the latest videos. Google TV also gives users an option to make playlists with online radio services or view photos shared on flicker or Picasa.

The most appealing feature of Google TV will be its support for android based applications. As 700,000 android devices are activated daily, Google TV will allow more creativity to flow into android app development which can lead to development of some path-breaking TV viewing technologies in the future.

“Battery sucker”, is a term that has always been used by Apple interchangeably to describe the flash player. Apple has long rejected the usage of flash on iOS. And now with the news from adobe about stopping the development of the flash player circling the market, experts are hopeful that HTML 5 with its support for interactive media like videos, fluid animations, play music etc. will prove to be a boon for netizens accessing the web through mobile devices. As android and I-phone invades the mobile market with their seamless web accessing capabilities, the need for a universal language for web pages is catching up pace and HTML 5 promises to be at the forefront.

Let us discuss as to how HTML 5 will provide an unparalleled edge to mobile app development and usage-

• The performance and effects of interactive media will be available to mobile users using HTML 5 pages which will match the display standards of flash on a PC.
• Downloading a game will become obsolete as the games can be played in real time on mobiles without installation with HTML 5.
• It will also eliminate the usage of plug-ins hence saving valuable power in mobile devices.
• HTML 5 will also foster trans-platform accessibility of apps and games. Thus, multiple players can play the same game over phones, tabs and PCs. A user can also flip his device from PC to tab or mobile and vice versa.

SEO will also see benefits of the fifth version.  HTML 5 will be making the webmaster give instructions to the search engines about page segmentation leading to better and effective search. HTML 5 also comes with <article> and <section> tags helping in making special entries in web posts and producing different sections in the web page respectively.

As time progresses with more users accessing the web through mobile devices, HTML 5 will prove to steer the way in mobile app development.