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Accessing Internal Device Memory Using OTG Cable

Sometimes, GPS device does not support OTG while connecting to android devices. When you connect your device to an OTG cable, nothing will happen. While working on a project in which there was a need to connect GARMIN GPS device to an android devices via OTG cable, we encountered an issue related to internal memory of android devices. Problem....

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  • Post published:June 5, 2015

Developed LMS – A Shift From Manual Approach To Automation

SYNOPSIS: Team span: November 2014 to January 2015 Duration: 3 months Technology: PHP 5.5/MySQL, wkhtmltopdf, HTML5, Jquery, Git, CentOS Development Manager: Umer Farooq Engineers: Muhammad Umer and Waheed-ud-din Reason for closure: Successful Project Completion If we knew what we were doing it wouldn’t be research - Albert Einstein. Learning....

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  • Post published:June 4, 2015

OpenCV in Swift MAC – OSX Project

OpenCV is basically an OpenSource library having the best frameworks for video processing. In an OSX project, we had to implement OpenCV libraries in Swift language for MAC application. This article covers that how OpenCV libraries are used in a Linux/MAC application. Following are the steps to be followed: 1- Download latest OpenCV source code for....

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  • Post published:June 2, 2015

How To Resolve Speed Issues on Windows Azure Cloud Server

vteam #472 is currently working on the product development of multiple credit repairing agencies by using Asp.Net MVC, MS SQL Server, Microsoft Azure Cloud. These agencies deal in credit repair for their customers. Their website encountered speed issues when it was deployed on server. Problem: When their website was deployed on Azure cloud server....

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  • Post published:June 1, 2015

How To Upgrade Rails 2 To Rails 3.0.0

In a project if there is a need to upgrade the rails 2 version to its latest version 3.0.0, one need to install 2.3.5 first, then install rails 2.3.18 and then finally install 3.0.0. Recommended way is to do step by step upgradation. In this way, you will be able to diagnose and resolve issuesone by one instead of trying to resolve all at once. Rails upgradation from....

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  • Post published:May 25, 2015

Migration From ‘Attachment_fu’ Plugin To Paperclip

Overview: While upgrading a rails application from rails (3.0.10) to rails (3.1.12), we encountered a gem attachment_fu that needed to be replaced either by the famous Paperclip or Carrierwave or any other gem of your own choice. The reason being attachment_fu is a plugin and plugins support is no more available in rails latest version....

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  • Post published:May 18, 2015

Better Timing (and sales) Through Notification Modules.

Real time updates means fewer lost sales! When a prospective international student makes inquiries with Living Arts College, the on-line college's sales staff has, on average, three hours to follow up with the candidates or lose them. Living Arts College's…

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  • Post published:October 15, 2014

Downloading mp3 Songs Directly to Dropbox from SoundCloud.

Here's how vteam #377 dealt with the need to download songs from SoundCloud and save them as mp3s to Dropbox: Not all songs are downloadable, so those can't be saved. SoundCloud also hosts differing file formats, including MPEG-4, so those…

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  • Post published:October 13, 2014

Inside Baseball: Team Building as Quality Assurance.

Stronger teams are good business! Expertise is the stock and trade of anyone in the IT industry. Building strong virtual teams means having strong junior resources as well as more senior developers to mentor them. For us, it makes us…

A Little WordPress Plugin Causes Problems For Us To Solve.

qTranslate wouldn't initialize! Posting multilingual content to a corporate WordPress blog is supposed to be made easy with its qTranslate plugin. Our client––who has us maintaining and developing several projects simultaneously––reported the WYSIWYG editor in WordPress 3.9.1 was broken and…

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  • Post published:October 9, 2014

Designing A Platform To Grow Businesses While Helping Causes.

SYNOPSIS: Team span: August 2013 to June 2014 Duration: 10 Months Technology: PHP 5.3/MySQL, OSCommerce, jQuery, SailThru, GitHub. Development Manager: Atta-ur-Rehman Engineer: Muhammad Rashid Reason for closure: Successful Project Completion Ethical consumption as a movement in which to grow businesses…

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  • Post published:October 3, 2014

Uploading Videos To A Newspaper Web Site From Anywhere.

Web application enables video uploads from the field! Today's newspaper websites are multimedia affairs and photo journalists are increasingly shooting both still and video images for newspapers' websites. Providing immediacy in coverage also means getting edited images and videos on-line…

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  • Post published:October 2, 2014