Fortune magazine publishes a list of the largest companies in the US by revenue every year. Here is the list of fortune 500 companies for the year 2014 and their websites. Check out the current list of fortune 500 companies and their websites.
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International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS) and Free Software User Group, Trivandrum are hosting a Software Freedom Day celebration event on Saturday, 20th of September, 2014 at the Main Hall, Trivandrum Press Club between 3:00 PM and 6:00 PM. Zyxware Technologies is coordinating and sponsoring the event.
We are organizing a company wide blood donation drive at Zyxware to celebrate India's 68th Independence day. We will be going to Sree Chithira Thirunal hospital (SCTIMST) at around 11AM on 16th Aug, 2014. We invite people who are interested in donating blood to come and join us. We can meet in front of SCTIMST and then go to the blood bank from there. SCTIMST is a Government of India institute and is a prestigious educational institution. (Google Maps)
If you have been using Skype on Ubuntu and you have been unable to login to Skype recently then it is only that the old version of Skype for Linux is no longer supported on Skype servers. You can solve this problem by purging the existing skype installation on your system and then re-installing the latest version of Skype from skype.com
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Zyxware Technologies Pvt. Ltd. is delighted to share the news that it has successfully completed the Free software migration endeavour it had taken up at the Kerala State Legislative Assembly. The Kerala Legislative Assembly (Niyamasabha) as of July 17, 2014 produces all its documentation, both printed and digital, on a Free Software platform based on Ubuntu Linux.
I was deep stuck in a Requirement Analysis, when one of my colleagues came to me asking about a feature in Apache Solr search. You may be wondering why she came to me, Trust me that was the exact thought I had at that time. Well, then I realized that the reason she came to me was because I had previously built a website using the Apache solr search with the help of Facet API. While doing that project I had thought of documenting some of the tasks which I had done, but couldn't do so.
One of our clients was trying to upload a pdf file on a node page in their Drupal website. The file was more than 25 MB in size and Drupal was not allowing them to upload the file as it had crossed the max file upload limit and they needed this to be done very quickly. As we were in charge they requested to come up with an easy way to do that. If you want to now the easiest way to set the max file upload size in a Drupal site read on to know more.
The vlookup or Vertical Look Up Function in Openoffice calc can be used to search a range of cells.Suppose you have two spreadsheets and you want to append data from one sheet to another. We can use vlookup() in open office calc to accomplish this task. vlookup() searches for values in one column and given values in another column in true condition. Read on to know how to user VLookup.
The syntax for vlookup() is
VLOOKUP(lookup_value, table_array, col_index_num, range_lookup)
You have heard the word proportion in Architecture. If you want to call a Architecture classical, the key concept should be proportion, i.e, correlation of one element to another. Same in the case of UI. User Interface(UI) acts as a medium of interaction between the User and the Web. In a web application the most important aspect is the user interface, because this is the only part end users are going to view.
Before we start, I want to you to know how we reached to this article"Why is proportion important in UI".
As the main intention of testing is to ensure the quality of the final product, understanding of various testing types is crucial for a tester. In this article we will see the main difference between two testing types- retesting and regression testing.
In Drupal, while adding a menu item, we can give it a title, description, path and such details. It is not possible to give images for these menu items at the time of creation, by default. If you are looking for a solution, then read on.
This particular task can be achieved by overriding the theme function theme_menu_item_link() in our theme's template.php
Use the below function in your template.php :
Integration testing is grey box testing method in which combined parts of an application is tested to determine whether all these functions works together. Let us learn this with an example.
Suppose your Drupal site sells online products and the shipment charge is set in such a way that it will be applicable to the product depending on the weight and destination. While doing the unit testing, tester has to test product selection, setting price,setting shipment to the destination etc separately. But in integration testing we test all these different functionality as a whole.
There may arise situations when you would want to display the contents of a block inside a template file or along with any other output variables. module_invoke() function can be used for this purpose.
The module_invoke() is a function to invoke a hook in Drupal. The syntax for module_invoke is different for Drupal 6 and Drupal 7.
Forgetting a password is a usual scenario. The first thing that may come to your mind when you forget the password of your site is resetting it. If it is a live site, then we can ask to send a new password by mail. But what is if it is your local site where no mails are configured? well, I know a trick or two to solve this programatically. If you too want to know, then read on.
Step 1 : Create a new file and copy the below script in that.
Fusion is a base theme, with different layout and Drupal UI configuration. This theme includes a "starter" subtheme for CSS theming. If you are also looking to start a subtheme using fusion base theme, continue reading...
The apt-cacher-ng configuration requires certain changes to be made on the client side. Few changes has to be made on the client system so that during the download process the client system can check for the packages in the apt-cacher-ng server. And if the apt-cacher-ng server doesn't have the required package it will download it from the web. So the client configuration helps to make the download more faster and also helps to reduce the internet connection usage.
The few things that are to be noted before configuring apt-cacher-ng clients are
Tagging a content properly will definitely cause your website's contents to come up properly in search results. Tagging can be done manually and automatically. If you are using a Drupal6 site and you want to tag your contents automatically, I know exactly what you need. For that I would prefer you read on.
Our goal is to tag the contents automatically for which we require the following modules :
Taxonomy allows to categorize content in a drupal website. The basic elements of the Taxonomy module are
Terms
Terms are used to describe content.
Vocabularies
Vocabularies are a collection of terms.
Multiple database access in a site can create overheads. There is a chance of this being adversely affecting the site performance if the size of the website is considerably large.
Consider a function that returns the details of a new product. And if we call this function in different regions of a page, the query will be executed for each function call. ie, multiple database requests are made for the same result.
One of our Drupal clients had requested us to work on their Drupal website which was built around the ability to search the content on the site. Since the default Drupal search was a bit heavy they had opted to use ElasticSearch which was a dedicated lightweight tool for this purpose. Before developing we wanted to check ElasticSearch was running on their server. Read on to know how to check whether Elastic Search is running on your server