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Zyxware was invited to participate in the recently conducted ICFOSS Interaction with Small and Medium Enterprises on SME IT Requirements and FOSS. The meeting was organized at Kochi for SMEs in Central Kerala. At the interaction we presented our ideas about how a Small business can take the first steps towards enabling their businesses with IT. You can see our presentation at the following URL IT Enabling SMEs with FOSS - an introductory presentation

A Drupal website can be improved with lessened rate of defects and increased usability, when quality assurance is well implemented. Once you validate your Drupal site against the following checkpoints, you can assure a quick remedy for any glitches or compatibility issues that might occur: Quality Assurance

A "Package", the name seems very familiar but what exactly is a package when it comes to a web hosting manager. As the names itself says its meaning. Yes!!! it's a collection. But when you ask "what ?" the answer is "The collection of some predefined specifications". Thus a package can be explained as a collection of predefined specifications which define what a user or domain may have access to. WHM should have at least one package configured to start creating new user accounts with it.

Online testing was an idea we stumbled upon when we were looking for an efficient and scalable way to select people who had good programming capabilities. Our earlier approach to selection of programmers was to shortlist based on the resume and call the person for an interview where we gave them a small programming task. And then we had the technical and HR interviews as well. But, in our view, this approach had a couple of weaknesses and we think these have effectively been taken care of by the new online testing approach.

Zyxware was invited to participate in the recently conducted ICFOSS Consultation of “Future Directions of Free Software in Kerala” held at Tejaswini, Tehcnopark on 9th August 2011. Anoop John, CTO, presented Zyxware’s perspective on how to create a viable commercial Free Software ecosystem in Kerala. The state has grown in leaps and bounds in terms of end users for Free Software but not much has happened on the commercial front. You can see our presentation at  

We are looking for multiple Project Leads to join our fast growing software development operations at Kochi and Trivandrum. As a Project Lead, the person will be working on multiple projects and will be responsible for ensuring timely delivery and quality in these projects. She/He will be responsible for client interaction for requirements gathering and reporting on progress. The person will be developing timelines and milestones, managing resources, coordinating with Technical Leads and guiding the development team.

We are looking for a Product Manager to join and lead a team of developers working with an exciting web based financial information services start up from the US. The Product Manager will be managing the development of a portfolio of web based information services catering to retail and institutional invesors in financial markets in the US.

We are looking for more Software Engineers to join our fast growing software development division. Visit our careers page to see more details or APPLY ONLINE. Selected candidates will be expected to Design & develop web based applications using PHP/MySQL. They will also have to interact with clients and analyze requirements as and when needed. They will also get opportunities to mentor new developers. They will be placed at either of our offices in Kochi or Thiruvananthapuram.

Zyxware is happy to announce the fact that the Malayalam wikisource community has released the off-line version of their Wiki today, which is touted to be the very first version of such a venture. You can get a copy of the Malayalam wiki source offline version via our RequestCD program. This is the first time in history that a wikisource project has released the off-line version of their content. This is in addition to the release of the first version of Malayalam Wikipedia a year back. With this release, it has become the biggest off-line digital archive of Malayalam books. The Malayalam wiki team can be proud of their achievements.

We are looking for an HR manager to join our fast growing IT Enterprise. The person will be responsible for drawing up a strategic human resource management framework and its implementation. The person will be responsible for recruitment, training and performance management systems across the organization. The ideal candidate would be someone with the following attributes

We are looking for a project manager to join our fast growing software development division. The person will be expected to drive design, development, testing, documentation and release processes. She/he must handle multiple projects involving different teams. The project manager will be responsible for overall delivery of the projects with attention to quality and timeliness.

We are looking for more Software Engineers to join our fast growing team of Drupal developers. Like earlier we are looking to hire people with 2+ years of experience in PHP/MySQL. Visit Zyxware Careers to get a general feel of the qualities we expect in prospective hires. As always we would love to hire Free Software contributors, so if you have creditable Free Software contributions do mention it in your resume. Confirmed Full Time Positions Open

One of the more cried about limitations of Drupal has been the seeming lack of quality themes. Wordpress, another popular CMS framework, has a vibrant design community and therefor has some breathtaking themes. Additionally all themes published on Wordpress.org are GPLed. We have taken one of the recently created wordpress themes - icandy - and have ported this to Drupal and have contributed it to the community. You can see the Drupal icandy theme here

We have been working with Drupal for the last 3 years now and we just love Drupal. Every day we work with it, we get more and more reasons to love it even more. As a token of our respect for this system, we have become official paid members of Drupal association. We can now proudly flaunt the association badges on our site.