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Quickbooks is a book keeping software. It combines a variety of accounting processes into a user-friendly system. The main function of this software is to reduce the use of tracking sheets, multiple tables and spreadsheets that are necessary to document and maintain accounting tasks of a company. Also the accounting figures are easily reconciled using Quickbooks for tax purpose. This software was developed by Intuit and it can be customized based on the needs of our business.
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In Drupal 7, when we do customizations we would want the custom module to create content in the form of a render array. We know that a page callback should return a render array which allows the custom module to handle the content as long as possible in the page generation process. Sometimes, wrapping two render array elements together could be an easy way out while dealing with render array manipulations. Here is how we can achieve that.
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Drupal offers a variety of ways to implement solutions when it comes to custom theming and it has been abused often due to the very same reason. Choosing the right way is what Drupal developers find tricky. If it is not done right, it is quite likely that you 'Awesome Drupal Website' would turn into a code-monster soon. This can even make maintenance difficult. Hope this 'tiny bit of' information could help you through it.
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Zyxware Technologies, a leading Indian Drupal service provider are looking for Drupal Developers to join our fast growing web application development operations. Candidates will be expected to develop web based applications using Drupal. They will also have to interact with clients and analyze requirements as and when needed. They will also get opportunities to mentor new developers. It is an opportunity to evolve as a well rounded software professional. They will be placed at either of our offices in Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram or in Kochi.
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Virtual host setup in Ubuntu is very simple, we can do this in few steps. The following commands will help you to download the latest version of all software from its repositories(that is updation) and then install 'apache2', if you have no apache2 software. Otherwise ignore the following commands and go through the main steps for VirtualHost setup.
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In Drupal 7, a theme function is a PHP function that is used to wrap the output variables with HTML. For adding a theme function in our custom Drupal 7 module, we need to implement hook_theme(). A theme function is prefixed with 'theme_'. However, they can't override existing theme functions. Such functions are invoked using theme() rather than being directly called. Also, they are faster compared to the template (.tpl) file implementations.
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Developer tool is an add-on of Mozilla which helps to debug the elements in a web page. You can get the tool from Add-ons (go to Add-ons and install web developer Tools (Add-ons > install web developer tools). On complete installing the Add-on, you can see a menu bar with items like disable, cookies, images, miscellaneous etc. You can use these items to measure, re-size, disable images, view source code, responsive view etc.
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The last release of Drupal was about three years back and Drupal lovers - site builders, developers and administrators - are more than excited to get their hands on the hottest addition to the Drupal Web Development family, Drupal 8. With over 1700 contributors working diligently at building the latest version of Drupal, it comes as no surprise that Drupal 8 has exceeded the expectations of its loyal users and arrived with a bang.
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What do you usually go to create a virtual host? If I am right, then you will copy the default file, change the contents, add entry in host file and then you will enable the site, right? Well, if you are thorough with the above steps, then I would advise you not to waste your time any more by repeating the steps each time you need to create a virtual host, because I am going to provide you a script using which you can easily create a virtual host.
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User Interface testing comes under Non Functional Testing type. In UI testing, our intention is to validate user interface which is designed professionally or not. Here is the basic check list for UI testing :
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Whenever you play back the recorded test cases in Selenium, the http secured websites will displayed an authentication popup window and it prompt you to enter the http user name and the password and it will not allow to perform any further operations until you provide username and password. Lets checkout the solution.
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As the name suggests, a preprocess function is a precursor to a theme function. It runs first, irrespective of the fact that the theme function can also be implemented as a template (.tpl file) rather than a function. Preprocess functions can be implemented in both modules and themes. However, the preprocess implementations from modules run first, and those by themes run only last.
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Drupal has grown to be recognized as the most powerful and practical modular framework used by numerous website developers and business owners. The CMS community has adapted to the versatile and extremely functional structure of Drupal very quickly and Drupal modules have risen high on the must-have charts of web developers.
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