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Closure Report: vteam #341. PHP4 to PHP5 and PCI Compliance

SYNOPSIS: Team span: May 2012 to February 2013 Duration: 9.5 Months Technology: Zend PHP framework Development Manager: Asim Zeeshan Engineers: Irfan Shaukat Reason for closure: Project Phase I Completed/Budgetary Reasons This project was focused on creating an online community for…

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  • Post published:January 29, 2014

HTML Agility Pack

The engineers on vteam #261 were given the task of automating content extraction. Before this solution, our client was using a laborious process to manually go to numerous sites and copy and paste content manually. The team looked at various…

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  • Post published:January 8, 2014

Rescue and Refactor: Corporate Social Media Application

vteams #360 inherited a partially developed software from India. The system --a social media / communications tool for corporations-- had many bugs and issues. The end user customers were having a problem signing up to use the system. The development…

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  • Post published:January 7, 2014

Use of checklists saves the day. Again.

Using a checklist is a very useful practice but most people ignore it, thinking it is as a trivial, useless and time-consuming effort. By nature, a checklist is a face-sheet with tasks-required written on it. A check-box precedes it. A…

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  • Post published:December 24, 2013

TeamCity with Subversion. Continuous Integration

Continuous Integration is used to avoid integration hell. When integration of source code from developers is delayed; there are more chances of problems due to dependencies in the code. Continuous integration tools automate the process of integration which can be…

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  • Post published:December 17, 2013

Ticketing System Rescue and refactoring with Yii

Before coming to vteams, our client spent 8-10 months developing his Ticketing System in India. The project was being billed regularly but not getting anywhere. We started vteam #421 to undertake the "finish the job" routine. After looking into the…

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  • Post published:December 13, 2013

SignalR implementation with page post back

vteam #344 developed a team collaboration web portal, in which anybody can create account for his/her company. Administrator can create different teams/departments and then can add company employees as team/department members. It has different modules on the client side and…

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  • Post published:December 11, 2013

Closure Report: vteam #381

SYNOPSIS: Team span: March 2013 to December 2013 Duration: 9.5 Months Technology: PHP / CodeIgniter Development Manager: Saadat Ali Engineer: Ghulam Rasool Reason for closure: Projects Completed. Client’s Initial requirements: Client came to vteams to: Develop a system using ECGrid…

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  • Post published:December 9, 2013

WHMCS Integration

vteam #240 is working on a self service commerce platform, using WHMCS. The application lets customers create online stores on our platform, customer signs up with specific package i.e. domain, sub domain with some specific disk space and bandwidth. As…

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  • Post published:December 4, 2013