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Systenics Website Relaunch
Our older website was starting to show age and unable to keep pace with styles. We had several internal discussions regarding a re-design but usually ended up shelving the plan since we were unable to identify and justify the reason for re-design if the outcome would just be a better design. At times we thought of just purchasing a template and updating the content and finish the process.
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Setup Phonegap 3.4 on Windows 8 64-bit to create Android applications
This tutorial explains how to setup Phonegap 3.4 on a Windows 8 64-bit machine and use it for Android application development.
Continue readingSetup Phonegap 3.3.0 on OS X Mavericks 10.9 to compile and run apps for iOS and Android
This tutorial explains how to set up Phonegap 3.3.0 on OS X Mavericks 10.9 to compile and run apps for iOS and Android. One of the main reasons for using PhoneGap on OS X platform was to make sure that we can create test builds for iOS and Android devices.
Continue readingAdding Bootstrap based Responsive Carousel to Umbraco 7
Image Sliders and Carousels are very popular elements for building any kind of modern websites. There are several JQuery based scripts available which provide a wide variety of features for building the carousel element. In this blog post I’ll illustrate how easy it is to implement bootstrap based carousel for your website. This blog post with build on my previous blog post Create a Responsive, Fluid HTML5/CSS3 based website on Umbraco 7 using Bootstrap 3.0 Framework where I have integrated bootstrap 3.0.1 with Umbraco 7. This example can be extended to use your own JQuery based slider script.
Continue readingCreate a Responsive, Fluid HTML5/CSS3 based website on Umbraco 7 using Bootstrap 3.0 Framework
Building responsive, fluid HTML5/CSS3 based websites are a rage these days delivering the best ROI for clients investing in building new web sites. Building a single website which adapts itself depending on the device screen size gives end users richer experiences. There are several ways of building responsive websites, one of the popular ways to to use an existing framework like Bootstrap which provide base scaffolding to quickly build responsive websites. In this blog post I am going to focus on how to integrate Bootstrap v3.0.X with Umbraco 7 to build a HTML5/CSS3 based fluid responsive website. The goal is to build a simple single page responsive web page similar to the Jumbotron bootstrap sample and focus on the integration part so that you can build more complex layouts as required. I plan to build upon this sample in future blog posts.
Continue readingSetting up Umbraco 7 in Visual Studio 2013 for MVC 4 development
Umbraco 7 has been released, with a refreshed administrative interface making it one of the top CMS in the market. Our earlier blog post on Setting up Umbraco 6 in Visual Studio 2012 for MVC development was found useful by many readers so its time to write and updated blog post with Umbraco 7. The Umbraco team have fully embraced ASP.NET 4.5 as well as MVC for Umbraco 7, making it far more easier for us to build MVC based web sites. In this blog post we will focus on using Visual Studio 2013 and creating a fresh Umbraco 7 website which can be built upon going further.
Continue readingSign Click Once Applications with GoDaddy Code Signing Certificate and Visual Studio 2012 for deployment over Internet
A client we recently worked for had a ClickOnce WPF application developed by some other team who could not figure out how to use the Code Signing certificate from GoDaddy with ClickOnce. Unless the ClickOnce deployment is correctly signed Windows 8 Smart Screen Filter will not let the user install the application in Windows 8. In older versions of Windows, unsigned deployments show a Unverified Publisher message and discourage the users from installing your application. This application was meant to be distributed over the internet and it meant doom for the client who had invested so much in getting the application built, but was being stopped from rollout due to this issue. We were able to resolve the issue for the client with a bumpy ride. This blog post tries to describe the process that worked for us, hopefully it will serve as a guidance to all those who are hitting against a brick wall trying to resolve this issue with very little guidance from GoDaddy documentation.
Continue readingCreating an Ajax enabled Contact Form in Umbraco 6 with ASP.NET MVC 4 and Twitter Bootstrap
In the previous blog post, I covered how to create a Bootstrap enabled responsive website in Umbraco 6 using ASP.NET MVC 4. In this blog post, I intend to build upon the previous post to add a Contact Form, which is one of the key requirements of any simple web site which will email the owner of the site with the contents of the form. The aim of this blog post is two fold, firstly we will see how to write controllers in Umbraco 6 using ASP.NET MVC 4. Secondly, we will see how we can Ajax enable the same contact form in Umbraco 6 for better user experience.
Continue readingCreate a Responsive, Fluid HTML5/CSS3 based website on Umbraco 6 using Twitter Bootstrap
Building responsive, fluid HTML5/CSS3 based websites are a rage these days delivering the best ROI for clients investing in building new web sites. Building a single website which adapts itself depending on the device screen size gives end users richer experiences. There are several ways of building responsive websites, one of the popular ways to to use an existing framework like Bootstrap from Twitter which provide base scaffolding to quickly build responsive websites. In this blog post I am going to focus on how to integrate Twitter Bootstrap with Umbraco 6 and MVC/Razor display engine to build a HTML5/CSS3 based responsive website. The goal is to build a simple single page responsive website similar to the fluid bootstrap sample and focus on the integration part so that you can build more complex layouts as required. I plan to build upon this sample in future blog posts.
Continue readingGetting Hired at Systenics as Fresher
This post is coming out of our need to constantly be on the watch to hire fresh talent. We are always in need of great talent, I think every organization is. Good employees are our biggest assets and we value them the most in this organization. We are in the business of showcasing excellence. And thus our employee's brilliance is our only wealth. Hiring an employee is a ritual of expanding our family and it has to be carefully achieved. This post is for the candidates who want to be the part of a company that values their talent the most. Following is the interview process that we follow. Step 1: Apply for Job, Step 2: Shortlisting and Getting called for Interview, Step 3: Technical Interview - Round One, Step 4: Psychometric Evaluation and Aptitude Test - Round Two, Step 5: Personal Interview - Round Three, Step 6: Interview with CEO - Round Four
Continue readingCreate a Grid View with paging and sorting feature using ASP.NET MVC Razor and LINQ
Recently, I came across a requirement to create a Grid View with paging and column sorting feature. Since, I was using ASP.NET MVC there was no server side control such as Repeater, GridView or DataList which are available in ASP.NET. I googled but didn’t come across a good solution except few third-party paid ASP.NET MVC controls. So finally I decided to code my own Grid View with support for paging and column sorting with help from information available on blogs and forums. Even though I am showing the code in context of an example its extensible enough to reuse it elsewhere.
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