Symfony bundles and their edge for Symfony development

Bundles in Symfony mean the same as plugins, the main difference is that Symfony is a set of bundles in its essence. Bundles make Symfony development flexible. The most savoury bundle feature is bundle inheritance. Due to bundle inheritance web developers can insert one bundle into another and fine tune their web application development to cut down on repetitive tasks as well as create an elegant, concise code. Read more about Bundle system in Symfony development.

Symfony developers use Twig for rendering presentation

Twig is a handy templating engine that comes bundled with Symfony and streamlines Symfony development for web developers. They can focus on functionality rather than on replicating code for the view component. Twig is one of the key factors that ensures rapid application development and enables IT development companies to come up with app solutions earlier. Read more on Twig and Symfony development tasks with this engine.

Awards for Symfony development community

SensioLabs established a reward system to acknowledge the contributions of all Symfony community members. A new badge-award system has been introduced and now any Symfony contributor can be rewarded for their passion-driven Symfony development efforts with a badge on their profile. But this is not the only thing that has been suggested by SensioLabs. The Symfony project establishes Symfony Community Awards with 7 nominations. The winners will be chosen by the vote of web developers, code contributors, and other members of the community, the first winner-candidates will be announced in January 2012.

IDEs for Symfony development

Web developers have a number of IDEs for Symfony development and can choose the best one to fine-tune their production process. Eclipse, NetBeans, PHPStorm and PHPEdit are just some of the options for web development projects. Read more in our article Choosing IDE for Symfony development.

Oxagile showcases its Symfony development competence

Oxagile developers and tech professionals use a variety of PHP development technologies and Symfony is one of the most favored among our PHP development team. With Symfony framework our team ensures fast launch of web applications to the market and guarantees that these solutions won't lack performance edge. Oxagile showcases its Symfony development capabilities and the range of our symfony development services.

New version of Symfony released

New version of Symfony framework with patches to the older version has been just released. Symfony 2.0.5 addresses the most common issues connected with Doctrine, HttpKernel, HttpFoundation, Routing and some other problems that many Symfony developers confronted before. With new release of the framework Symfony development should become more convenient and in conformity with standards practised by many software development companies and professional web developers.

Symfony development outline

Many PHP developers choose Symfony framework out of all PHP frameworks in the stack for their web development projects. Symfony development gives the flexibility of the future app, while ensuring its robustness. Bundles allow Symfony developers to build up new functionality for the existing app and extend its features. In addition, MVC components of the framework enhance web application development: Twig templating engine empowers a developer to reduce coding for the presentation layer, Doctrine and Propel optimize app-database interaction via object mapping and controller layer ensures easier implementation of PHP function. Read more on this topic in Oxagile article Briefly on Symfony development basics.

Oxagile focus on Symfony development services

Symfony is a flexible web technology, used in IT application development. It is based on MVC model and compiled of bundles (modules), which makes it convenient for professional Symfony developers to stick to agile development methodologies and easily customize web applications of various complexity. Symfony has gained traction among Oxagile PHP developers, who offer you end-to-end solutions, built on this framework.

Orion – web development tool for developing in the web

Eclipse has launched a new open source software aimed at web developers. Orion, introduced by the Eclipse Foundation, is a web development tool that will enable web application development in the cloud. Today more services are shifted to the cloud, and now even software development companies have an opportunity to leverage the possibilities of cloud computing in their work and develop web applications in the web.

MySQL – database system for PHP web development

PHP web developers make use of MySQL for the development of web applications. MySQL makes part of LAMP stack and often goes together with PHP, Perl and Python programming languages. This database system employs standard SQL queries, which makes it easy-to-use for web application development. Hence, a myriad of software development companies take advantage of a winning combination PHP & MySQL.

Ruby on Rails to accelerate web development in agile environment

In agile environment many web developers harness the capabilities of Ruby on Rails, web application framework that allows faster and simpler web application development. Software development companies, which have adopted agile development methodologies, are able to reduce the development cycle by employing the framework, which enables creating basic modules automatically and customizing the development process itself.

Mobile money payments will be soon introduced in the UK and the USA

While Japan, South Korea and Malaysia actively make use of NFC technology for mobile money payments, the UK and the USA are still not very eager to make this payment system ubiquitous. However, the UK have made its first steps towards adopting the technology of mobile payments and one of the British leading mobile carriers is going to roll out the technology of electronic mobile wallets. Hence, software development companies may soon include custom mobile wallet solutions in the range of their mobile app development services.

Why Flex technology for RIA development?

RIAs provide rich expressive user experience and make the work with web applications more interactive and engaging. Web developers’ favorite technologies for RIA development are Microsoft Silverlight, Ajax and Adobe Flex, though Flex development tools are dominating this realm. Software development companies make use of Flex technology because it ensures easy development of cross-platform RIAs and allows Flex developers to boost the performance of web applications. Read more about Flex technology in RIA development in our article.

jQuery Mobile streamlines mobile web development

With the constantly growing community of mobile users there is a need to adapt many of web applications for diminutive handhelds and ensure enhanced experience for mobile users, who try to access web apps via their devices. Software development companies provide mobile web development services in order to build mobile versions of popular web solutions and jQuery Mobile is a tool, which makes the development process smooth, fast and easy.

Create custom mobile solution with an offshore outsourcing software company

Today companies strive to optimize their work by implementing mobile solutions customized for their business, however, many of them are not ready to maintain their in-house IT department to put into practice mobile application development ideas. In this case cooperation with an offshore outsourcing software development company will be a reasonable solution, which will allow reducing costs and focus on the key activities of the company. Contracting mobile application development services will help your company create and deploy top-notch custom mobile applications, while spending your company’s resources more efficiently. Read more about outsourcing mobile app development services in our article.

Android sets off for space exploration

British scientists are going to send Android-powered mobile device into space. Their aim is to check the efficiency of mobile device performance and the platform supporting this device in hostile conditions in order to reduce the costs of space projects and provide more economical equipment to control spacecrafts and satellites. Maybe Android-powered “astronaut” will mark another milestone in the history of mobile app development and open up new possibilities for software development companies.

Leverage more business opportunities – get an Android app developed

According to the number of applications represented in Android Market (it amounts to more than 200,000 apps) this mobile platform reigns the market of mobile application development services. Android-powered devices have also caught on among users, therefore, the decision to have an Android app developed will take your business to #1 mobile platform. Our software development company takes advantage of the latest technologies to provide top-notch services in mobile app development for Android platform.

Why do web app developers choose IIS7 web server?

IIS7 is a web server, which provides ample opportunities for both .Net and PHP web app developers. That’s why it has quickly caught on among web professionals and has become the second most popular web server used for web application development and deployment (after Apache HTTP Server). IIS7 enables easy components customization and comprises flexible in use content, security, compression and caching, logging and diagnostics modules. Software development companies take advantage of IIS7 features and capabilities to create and deploy state-of-the-art web application solutions.

Floating point fault in PHP patched

PHP bug in FPU spotted by a computer scientist Rick Regan has been fixed by PHP language developers. This bug had an impact on 32-bit systems and might have interfered with the process of serving PHP-based pages. PHP is a popular scripting language in web application development and new flawless versions provide workarounds for PHP web application developers so that they are able to write cutting edge web applications.

Why Zend Framework?

Zend Framework is an open-source web application framework used in PHP application development. It enables PHP professionals to create cutting edge web projects rich in Web 2.0 features, including cloud-based web solutions. Zend Framework comprises such components as MVC, authentication, search and session management components and provides for web application developers RAD tools. Our software development company takes advantage of Zend Framework to build state-of-the-art PHP web projects.

Focus more on patient treatment rather than on organizational issues: medical software solutions

Medical software allows physicians and medical staff to relieve themselves from the burden of keeping paper medical record, billing customers and to simplify appointment scheduling process as all these issues will be solved with the help of a special application. Medical software development is another area of software development services, which is growing in demand as it enables medical institutions to optimize the work of organization itself and concentrate on its patients. Our software development company makes use of cutting edge development technologies and tools to provide our customers with top-flight medical software solutions.

IPTV apps as a way to make your web services more appealing

Global network becomes more and more interactive and dynamic medium and users can be no longer satisfied just with text content and the role of passive onlookers that’s why IPTV web application development services may turn out to be a great solution to draw more users to your web-based services and, hence, generate more profits. Therefore, the range of web application development services provided by software development companies and web development professionals also comprise top-notch IPTV solutions, which will allow your business to meet the ever growing customers’ demands and keep your positions on the market.

Blizzard and heavy snowfalls led to ecommerce boom

Christmas holiday season on the East Coast of the USA was marked with heavy snowfalls and blizzards, which encouraged even greater online shopper activity and boosted sales figures of online retailers by 17% over the last week before Christmas in comparison with the same period last year. According to recent surveys the credibility of online retail business has increased over the last years, which fostered rapid development of ecommerce sector. Today there is a wide range of software companies offering their web app development services and providing top-notch ecommerce solutions. Read more about ecommerce blossom due to the bad weather conditions in our article.

Why JBoss technology?

JBoss is one of the most popular middleware among developers. JBoss technology supports Java EE and allows to develop top-notch Java enterprise solutions. It comprises Java Beans, Hibernate, JBoss Seam Framework and provides Eclipse IDE to ensure interoperability and robust, flexible app development process. The Java developers of our software development company take advantage of this technology in order to deliver cutting edge custom apps and meet clients’ demands.

Go mobile with BI solutions for your handheld devices

As mobile devices and various handhelds have become ubiquitous many companies strive to introduce BI systems on their employees’ mobile devices in order to facilitate and optimize their work and to speed up decision making process. At the moment business owners can take advantage of more affordable technologies. There are plenty of software development companies that provide mobile app development services to help business companies implement mobile BI development solutions and boost their business opportunities.

iPhone alarm glitch

On the first days of New Year iPhone alarm clocks fail to go off, which causes a lot of inconvenience to iPhone owners – many of them were late for work or missed their planned train and plain journeys. It was not the first iPhone glitch during the last three months as the devices were subject to the same glitch late in November when the clocks changed. Apple administration suggested setting recurring signals to avoid malfunctioning while the bug is being fixed by its developers. Despite all the recent events iPhone gadgets still remain one of the most popular devices on the mobile phone market.