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Drupal is inherently secure but as with most secure systems there will always be a few security loopholes that could be utilized by a user with malicious intent to bring down the whole site. As usual most of these security flaws lie mostly with the admin users of the website. We have listed down the top 7 security mistakes commonly found in a Drupal website which can be easily rectified by using a simple Drupal Security Checklist. The easiest way to ensure that your Drupal site is build safe is to have it built by experts. Contact Us to build your drupal site for you.
There are a few common performance mistake that are commonly found in most Drupal sites. Here are the list of the Top 10 Performance Mistakes in Drupal that can easily be addressed by a simple change in settings or the addition of a module. The easiest way to solve performance problems in Drupal would be to prevent them in the first place. Contact us for a free consultation on how to build your Drupal website right.
Zyxware conducted a one day workshop on Python on 11th June at CDAC Trivandrum. The workshop was targeted at experienced developers who were about to take on a new Python project. The full day workshop was attended by 8 participants from CDAC, Trivandrum.
CSI Trivandrum and Zyxware conducted a one day workshop on Python on 28th July at Hotel Keys. The workshop was targeted at new developers who are interested in learning python. The full day workshop was attended by 28 participants from across different organisations in Trivandrum.
CSI Trivandrum Chapter and Zyxware is jointly conducting a One Day workshop on Javascript and jQuery on the 15th of September 2012. The workshop will be held at Hotel Keys, Trivandrum from 9AM to 5PM. Entry is limited to 30 participants only. You can - register online and reserve a seat for yourself for the workshop.
Zyxware had been working with Computer Society of India(CSI) Trivandrum Chapter to organise workshops and training programs on various technologies. To take this relationship forward, Zyxware Technologies and CSI, Trivandrum Chapter have entered into an MoU. Through this MoU Zyxware and CSI Trivandrum will be partnering with each other to offer training programmes in Information Technology.
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 web developer’s life becomes much saner if he/she has easy access to all page header information. Firefox offers you PLUGIN-NAME that helps you inspect headers.
Here is something for the terminally inclined ones among you - wget. To view the http headers give the following command in gnome terminal :
wget -S --spider www.example.com
For any site - be it Drupal or non-Drupal, this is most probably due to simple mistakes made while entering attributes. Let us see one very common case where a simple mistake can cause glaring issues:
We usually see the css given something like this. We do not see any glaring issue in the class defined below.
#header {
background:url("images/headback.png")repeat-x;
width:1020px;
height:120px;
font-family:arial;
position:relative;
}