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Zyxware conducted a session on "Collabrative development using git" at Model Engineering College, Ernakulam on 2013-09-26. The session was conducted as part of the MEC Excel 2013 event at the college. The following was the presentation used for the training.

As announced earlier Zyxware conducted a 2 hour training session on Introduction to Drupal at the MES Advanced Institute of Management and Technology on the 26th of Sep, 2013.

Zyxware, in association with MES - AIMAT, Aluva, Kerala, is conducting a training session on Drupal at MES - AIMAT, Aluva on Sep 26th, 2013. The session is targeted at beginners who wish to learn the basics of building a website using Drupal.

We have created and released a new module Boost Captcha to allow static page caching of pages with forms with captcha without running into the captcha session timeout errors. By helping boost cache more pages the module will allow for better performance without compromising on spam protection.

We have released a new Drupal module to fight spam - Spam Blackhole. This is a simple module to fight automated spam submissions on Drupal sites by bots that are not manually supervised. The module requires that Javascript is enabled on the site that is running the module. The module works by replacing the form action with a dummy URL while the form is generated from Drupal and then replacing the dummy URL with the actual URL when the user clicks the form submit button.

Employees, especially freshers are usually concerned about the salary they get in hand and not really keen on deductions for ESI and PF as they do not promise immediate returns. Employers are usually not keen on providing them either as it requires time, effort and money to enforce it coupled with the fact that the employees are not keen on it in the first place. However after having implemented such a policy in Zyxware for the past two years we have come to understand its significance and the reasoning that gave birth to them which has led us to write about it.

This is an article which describes how to resize the content of a page (images, texts etc) automatically after changing the window size (especially a pop-up window). There are some third party tools which will let us do the same thing but we will be looking at how this can be done using only jQuery. Read on to know how to resize the content of a page automatically after resizing the browser window using jQuery.

I was trying to get a list of MIDI files play in banshee 2.0 in an old computer. The system had Ubuntu 11.04 and banshee was able to play MIDI files except that it was not able to detect the end of each track and continued playing the same track with silence as the only output and infinitely playing the same track. So whenever there was a long silence I had to manually change to the next track. I did that a few times but then decided to write a small script to solve the problem.

In any business, the relationship between clients and the service provider is subjected to the stress of disputes often. Businesses that deliver true value to their clients over a sustained period of time have mechanisms to resolve these disputes. Often they rely on certain thumb rules also. One such thumb rule is the adage 'Customer is the king.' At Zyxware, we believe that it is a thumb rule that can, in contexts of disputes, lead to sub-optimal results for the relationship and the parties involved from the point of view of effectiveness and more importantly fairness.

Google drawing is a tool specifically designed to make image, drawing, editing and sharing easy. With this tool, you will be able to create drawings or upload drawings and edit them or let other people edit your drawing. You can even chat, comment or share views with multiple people who are editing your drawings. So in short multiple people can at a time work on a single document to make things easy. In the following article I will be giving you some basic introduction into the world of google drawing. How to Create google drawing?

One of our Drupal clients requested us for a feature in a mobile version of their Drupal website in which, a user accessing the mobile version of their website, should be able to automatically initiate a call on clicking the telephone number appearing in the website. If you want to know "How to start a call when a user clicks on a number in a mobile version of a Drupal website, then continue reading.

While working on Drupal Views, we might want to examine the query executed by the View to get its data. Analyzing the query may help us to identify why the view does not produce expected result. Read on to know how to view the SQL query executed by a View.

In Drupal, while viewing a content type it will display the content type view with a comment form. If we want to remove the comment form from the view node page we can disable/unset it using hook_node_view function. But what we have to do if we want the comment form in a separate tab. There is a module called Talk. This module removes the comment form from a node view page and display it on a separate tab.