We encountered many challenges while migrating the older socialengine version to latest socialengine version specially when the previous code was developed by novice developers team. We had the challenge to display users fields in wizard rather than a single page. Also since the previous developers didn’t break the fileds in steps and user data was already populated, …
Event Calendar can be handy for the events module of the socialengine and gives members the ability to easily invite members of the community to their events, and track their attendance.The only thing missing in the social engine module is displaying the events in the monthly Calendar.We customized the event module and created the Calendar …
The image cropping and uploading is essential part of any web application now days. Recently, I was working on a web application built on ROR platform. Initially we were using attachment_fu gem for image uploading but later there were requirements of cropping the image. I looked for the option for cropping in the attachment_fu but …
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In our last two articles Optimize performance of your website and Iincrease performance and speed up socialengine using Memcached / APC /Xcache, we discussed about the tips to improve the performance of the socialEngine or any of custom website. In this article, we shall improve the performance further by using Nginx – Apache Combo pack. …
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Many times we need integration between native iPhone application and a web application. This could be due to several reasons. One possibility is that you already have a web application and you can build a native mobile app much quickly by leveraging some part of it. Second is that the web application has been built …
In our last article, We discussed about powering your android application with Android Push Notification (c2dm) which should help any ecommerce or social networking business to send promotional offers to their end users. During implementation some developers might have faced issues like SERVICE_NOT_AVAILABLE while getting the registrationId from the android app or Issue like HTTP/1.1 …
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Recently we were working on android application and we had requirements from our client to support push notification. We already had implemented Apple Push Notification Service for the iPhone application and thought there would be similar solution for android push too. As android platform doesn’t have single vendor like Apple so we were wondering who …
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Recently we were working on the migration of socialengine v2 to socialengine v4.1.4 for one of our clients. The current socialengine website was loading very slowly even though there were not much users on the site. We tried to speed up the site by using the APC opcode, compressing the html, js and css but …
Speed up socialengine using Memcached / APC /Xcache in 2017 Read More »
We were enjoying mysql database performance until we had large data in the database. The problem started with millions of data in the tables and increasing rapidly on daily bases.It was taking much more time to retrieve data from those tables.We already had proper indexing on the columns but still it was taking some time(20-25 …
Improve database performance using Amazon simpledb on Ruby on rails Read More »
Recently one of client come up with the requirements to post data from php platform to java platform. We thought it would be simpler task as we need to fetch data from mysql database and need to do http post to the java server. We can use the php curl and post the data to …
In the last article, we developed application for android to get the data from rest web service (geo-names). Previous approach works fine for http rest web service but it doesn’t work over SSL secure connection. We were developing android application for a client whose rest web services are running over secure connection. Initially we thought …
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Recently we developed an facebook application and during the development of application, we encounter lots of issues due to vague Facebook documentation. We wanted to share our experience so that other developers can develop facebook application easily. We have used yii framework for this application as its pretty cool framework and application development on this …
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