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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

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

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

How To Sync 24TB Of Data In No Time?

BitTorrent allows for much more reliable DNS Failover capacity Our client operates a web portal linking to a large and growing media database mostly in the form of mp3 files—24 Terabytes and counting. Wanting to enhance their back-end performance and…

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  • Post published:September 29, 2014

Implementing Batch Payments Using Stripe

Stripe is an Application Programming Interface (API) that allows websites to process payments directly, without establishing a merchant account first. It does have a transaction fee, but no monthly fees, setup fees, validation fees and so forth. And until now,…

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  • Post published:September 23, 2014

How to build tree structure using native iOS UITableView

Our client came with a requirement of ‘meetings and to-do tasks’ application for iPad. Besides the basic to-do tasks functionality, this application had a complex UI requirement: The task list should be organized in a hierarchical nested list structure. It…

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  • Post published:May 16, 2014