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According to the latest rankings displayed in drupal.org, Zyxware Technologies recently overtook its nearest competitor to earn the top spot in Drupal.org as the highest contributor to Drupal from India. This has also resulted in improved global rankings in Drupal.org positioning us as one of the top 5 contributors in Drupal from all the companies across the globe.

Drupal scores better than most platforms for Online Marketing success. For a large part of the online marketing community, this might sound cynical owing to popular Drupal myths. However, Drupal is one of the most powerful content management platforms enjoying a high ranking. Drupal SEO-friendly features help websites achieve better ratings on the search engine for the same kind of content. On the periphery, Drupal does this through several inbuilt features:

While working on a Drupal 8 project we suddenly encountered this error after pushing the site to the development server. This had not occurred in our local machines which caught us off guard. A little debugging on the error log revealed the cause of this Drupal message. If you encounter this error unexpectedly, the first thing you should do is to check the error log of the server which is what we did. However, if you do not have access to the error log it and if the issue is only occurring in a particular server after deployment then it is most likely to be a DB issue.

Slick is a powerful solution for slideshow/carousel. It supports nested sliders and can be implemented in your custom block of Drupal 7 site. Slick has jQuery dependency. Download the latest jQuery and use in your page or use jQuery update module for Drupal 7. Download slick libraries from https://github.com/kenwheeler/slick/. Extract the folder and place it in sites/all/themes/yourtheme/ and rename the library as slick. While creating slider, we need to use only slick.css and slick.min.js in the folder slick-slider/slick.

We are running 3 instances of ODK and 2 more Java applications on a single server. If we try to load all these applications simultaneously, some will not load and some will be slow. When we check tomcat's log file, Catalina. out, it says, java. lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space. The cause of this is explained below,

You can create your custom color box styles instead of using a plugin provided styles. For creating custom color box style go to /sites/all/modules/contrib/color box/styles copy any one of the folders. (You can find plain, default, and Stockholm syndrome styles there).Place the copied folder into your theme folder. Rename the folder with your custom name. Also, rename the CSS and js files.

PHP 7 is promising substantial improvement in performance over previous versions of PHP, which was released on 2015, December 3rd. Those who are interested in using PHP 7, can easily update your PHP version.

TestNG is a tool that is used to perform unit testing. Mostly TestNG is often used to perform unit testing by developers as well as for Automation testing by software testers to view the test run results in a report. TestNG reports are very useful to analyze the Automation Run status. Selenium is used to automate any web application but it cannot generate automation run reports. We need to use third-party tools like TestNG to generate automation reports.

Speed of page load is determined by how fast the page loads when the URL for the page is called. This involves loading all the components for the webpage. These elements will affect the page load time for a webpage. This includes images, CSS, JavaScript files, etc. Load time is also affected by factors like the type of the server used for hosting, the bandwidth allocated to browse the site, the geographic location of the user, etc. To improve the user experience and sustain users to the website, it is recommended to have page load time optimized.

Like flowcharts, BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) diagrams uses a set of standard symbols. Each shape conveys a specific meaning and business context, where it’s most appropriate. Connecting objects are lines, that connect the BPMN flow objects. In Business Process Model and Notation, different connecting objects are required to represent different types of flows. There are three different types of connecting objects in Business Process Model and Notation. They are

The building blocks of BPMN are 'Flow objects'. which represents the concepts of being modeled. Flow elements refer to the elements, that form a complete process flow when connected are connected. Connectors that connect the flow elements are called connecting objects. Readers of the BPD follow the flow of elements to see, how a business process gets executed and completed. Flow objects can be separated into three. They are events, activities, and gateways.

The context-driven software testing methodology suggests for continuous and creative evaluation of testing opportunities. It is a testing way that conforms to the context of the project, more than applying a best practice. For context-driven, a good tester should ask as many questions as possible to reveal not only parts of the context but should know about the act of information.

Network emulation is used for testing the performance of real applications over a virtual network. It is the act of introducing a device to a test network that alters packet flow in such a way as to mimic the behavior of a network. Netem is a network emulator tool provides functionality for testing protocols. It will emulate the network properties of wide-area networks. Netem is already enabled in the kernel and a current version of iproute2. The netem kernel component is enabled under:

The Webform Insightly module is used for the integration of unsightly CRM with webforms. This creates a new contact for each web form entry of our site. It adds opportunities for every subsequent entry of the contact. In this module, all configurations can be done from the admin side and any number of webforms can be added to the configuration. Here there is another option to import the Webform Insightly configuration in JSON encode format and similarly export the saved web form unsightly configurations.

A content management system lays the foundation for building an online presence for your venture. If you want to make the best use of your website to attract an audience and offer an amazing user experience, then you need to select a content management system which allows you to manage content effortlessly while saving you time and resources. CMS is a significant investment and plays a vital role in expanding the reach of your business. However, due to the presence of several content management systems, it can be confusing for buyers to pick the suitable CMS. Here are some of the common mistakes business owners make while selecting a CMS for their website

The term 'Events' represents the events in a business process. Specific details in a process can be represented by styling each event. There are three event type in business process, they are start events, intermediate events, and end events. Following are the event symbols contained with start event, which can be combined with any event type. Some commonly used event symbols are following BPMN Message Symbol

Drupal 8 was released on Nov 19th, 2015. Though Drupal 6 end of life was declared on February 24th, 2016, there are still over 84,845 Drupal 6 websites on the web. What does end of Life Mean for Drupal 6? As per Drupal 6 end of life, the security team will no longer provide support or security advisories for Drupal 6 and the core of Drupal 6 will no longer receive community support.

When a user is successfully authenticated to OpenAM, a session will be generated in the server. Sessions generated in the server are identified by a unique token, named SSOtokenID. The SSOToken is a C66Encoded string, that points to the session in memory, and the Session Key is a Base64 Encoded string that is used to identify the location of the site and the server where the session is maintained. There is a period delimiter that separates the SSOToken and session key. As the session key is a Base64 encoded string, we can decode it using any Bas64 decoders.

Today's Internet world, urges Single Sign On for multiple web applications as an inevitable requirement. It's not an easy task to implement SSO (Single Sign On), if the web applications are developed on different platforms. User authentication and maintenance of user's "logged in session" on web applications, is completely dependent on HTTP cookies. No web browsers allow to read cross domain cookies, as if it allows, it's a security issue then. I.e; Two web applications cannot share a single cookie, if they are deployed in different domains.