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The Initial Days I joined Zyxware in February of 2012 as an Intern. I just graduated fresh out of college and was not at all aware of how corporate life functions. I remember hearing my cousins/seniors talk about clients, projects, on sites, etc. All this fascinated me deeply though I never really understood what it meant. The internship was for 3 months during which rigorous training was given mainly focussing on Drupal and PHP. Once the training was over, I was accepted as a Software Engineer Trainee in the organization.

There has been an argument raging on the web that Drupal is a beast when it comes to building websites, or it is not as easy to build as WordPress but it is very secure and scalable. While others argue that Drupal is the best choice! Here we would like to point out what Drupal is best suited for when it comes to building websites.

There is a paradigm shift in the way technology has evolved in the last few decades. The rate at which technology is growing has also multiplied and is exponentially developing in recent years. As we draw close to the end of 2016 it would be invigorating to project the trends for 2017 and see how it plays. As it stands let us look at some of the technologies that are projected to top in 2017.

In one of my works, I want to programmatically uncheck the checkbox option of 'Generate automatic URL alias' for a specific node editing form. For this, I have created the following form alter for the content type. I have added a custom after-build function for the necessary content type in the form alter.

Zyxware Technologies is now in the third position at the drupal.org marketplace, a coveted spot right behind MD Systems and Acquia. Yes, we are tooting our own horn, but it has been quite an uphill journey these last ten years of our existence.

According to a recent British government research, two third of large UK businesses are hit by cyber breach or attacks in the last year 1. The British government is urging business to protect themselves against cyber attacks. Cybersecurity measures can be to a large extent handled proactively with a well mapped out strategy that is reviewed continuously.

Commerce gift card module is used for creating Gift card Product types and sell it through the site. This module works with the drupal commerce module.

TestLodge is a test management tool that is used to store information such as how testing is to be done, plan the testing activities and report the status of quality assurance activities. It has reasonable price plans and can be used owning to its simple interface and its non-complexity. The system focuses on the creation and maintenance of test plans, map the requirements, execute the test cases, and generating reports based on the results. It offers the following features to the users:

For those who are new to the Linux Operating system (an open-source and mostly POSIX-compliant operating system modeled on UNIX, assembled under free and open-source software development model), may found difficulty in navigate to directories via Linux terminal. You can install a nautilus-open-terminal to open the directory in the terminal if you are using Nautilus, which is the default file manager. To install nautilus-open-terminal, follow the steps below.

Like flowcharts, BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) diagrams use a set of standard symbols. Each shape conveys a specific meaning and business context, where it’s most appropriate. Swimlanes (or swimlane diagrams) are used to organize aspects of the process.

Artifacts represent the pieces of information relevant to the model, and individual elements within a process. There are three artifact types, they are annotations, groups, and data objects. All three were used to augment and describe BPMN processes. Annotations allow modeler to describe the additional flow parts of a model/notation. Groups organize tasks/processes that have significance in the overall process.

Like flowcharts, BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) diagrams use a set of standard symbols. Each shape is having a specific meaning and business context where it’s most appropriate. If you become overwhelmed while drawing your BPMN chart, simply check this guide.

Docker is an open source platform for system administrators and developers to build, ship and to run distributed applications, whether its on the cloud, data center VMs, or on the laptops. Docker helps to automate the deployment of Linux applications inside software containers.

OpenMeeting is an open-source and independent alternative for Google Hangouts. It allows video/audio conference, collaborative editing, screen sharing, instant messaging, etc. OpenMeeting community provides plugins for integrating to common platforms like Moodle, Sakai, Jira, Joomla, Bitrix, Confluence, SugarCRM, Redmine. Unfortunately, the Drupal plugin for open meetings is not open-source. A good news is, OpenMeeting provides a SOAP API for integrating OpenMeeting with other platforms. I will explain how to create a new conference via OpenMeeting's SOAP API.

Docker is an open-source platform for system administrators and developers to build, ship, and run distributed applications, whether it's on the cloud, data center VMs, or laptops. Docker helps to automate the deployment of Linux applications inside software containers. This write-up helps you to learn, install, upgrade, and un-installation of Docker engine. Docker is supported on the following Ubuntu operating systems:

In a recent project, I had to integrate my site with the Amazon s3 storage. The entire files directory contents were being transferred there. So, every time I wanted to check something, I had to log in to the AWS console and select the bucket and had to scroll way down to get the correct files/folder. I found it very time-consuming, as I have more than 2000/3000 folders inside. It was then, I came to know about something called "DragonDisk".

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Everyone knows Drush is a very important tool in Drupal development, to execute things faster and to manage Drupal websites remotely. Drupal specifically built its shell function to update its configurations, managing modules, running drupal updates, etc.

When I planned to use media upload in CKeditor for uploading files to the site, I faced one problem, i.e. I could use only predefined image style as a preset to style my image. I wanted to use a custom preset to media upload. To achieve that we have to do some customization. Add the following custom code in our custom module.