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2011 Mobile Internet workshop of Hubei Province

2011 Mobile Internet workshop of Hubei Province, at the evening of December 29 at Demo@Coffee, divided into two activities: 2011 Wuhan and Hubei Association of Mobile Internet investments Sharon and Vertical Industry and Mobile Internet Applications with Business Models and Techniques. EveBit Digital as an important Internet company, PHP outsourcing company were invited into the Salon, and here to share some highlights.

Night of Demo@Coffee: 2011 Mobile Internet workshop of Hubei Province

Our company attended the 2011 Annual Party of WSOA & WHSIA

December 29, 2011 afternoon, EveBit Digital;s General Manager and several employees were invited to attend the Kingdom Hotel, third floor, for attending the 2011 Annual Party of WSOA & WHSIA.

Two Drupal websites are delivered by EveBit Digital

Drupal is an open source programming framework plus a CMS supported by thousands of developers from all corners of the World! Drupal development is becoming more and more popular day-by-day because small, medium and large businesses choose Drupal as a platform to built their web presence on. This makes Drupal development a very affordable and flexible path to build a web project.

EveBit employees participate "HTML5 Workshop" in Wuhan

As a leading PHP outsourcing provider and web based tech fan, EveBit actively participates lots of local technical activities. On 2011.11.27, our employees participated "HTML5 Workshop" held in Wuhan, and this is the place for us meet the same kind of people: those Internet nerds and geeks.

EveBit Digital moves toward CMMI Level 3 Certification

EveBit Digital, a boutique IT services firm specializing in professional PHP web development, has kicked off its CMMI Level 3 certification process from September 2011.

EveBit Digital looks forward to being able to better define its IT processes and streamline key project processes such as risk management, project management, requirements development, system design, among many others.

EveBit becomes IT service provider of China Wanderer

EveBit recently becomes IT service provider of famous travel agency China Wanderer (http://www.chinawanderer.com).

China Wanderer is a travel consultancy focused on providing non-native tourists as well as foreign business-people with all the necessary support and logistical services needed while traveling within the People's Republic of China.

EveBit participated "Cloud Computing Era of Process Improvement and Outsourcing Policy Announcement of Wuhan"

September 8,  "Cloud Computing Era of Process Improvement and Outsourcing Policy Announcement of Wuhan" was held at Optical Valley Software Park. It's for software and service outsourcing enterprises to understand the current process improved domestic and international News, enhance the level of technology development and management, the latest policy Wuhan outsourcing information. EveBit Digital also participated it.

EveBit helps clients to mobile!

Recently, EveBit helps some of clients upgrading their systems to mobile!

From Zend Framework based ERP application to websites powered by Joomla! and Magento, we brought seamless, reliable and compatible results to all kind of mobile devices: iPhone, iPad, Android and even Nokia Maemo platforms.

EveBit delivered Facebook Application for client

As the most popluar SNS platform, EveBit views the Application on Facebook.com will be the next most important media and markecting channel for Brand Owner and Corporates. Recently, we delivered a complicated application for a world famouse fashion brand.

EveBit attended Shanghai World Expo as outsourcing service provider

13th-14th October 2010, EveBit Digital attended "Helsinki Region Innovation Days" as Software Outsourcing Provider in Finnish Pavilion, Shanghai World Expo 2010.

During this two-day event, EveBit Digital introduced its successful stories by providing Zend Framework based outsourcing services for a SaaS system in Fashion industry for its Finnish partner.

How to upgrade big Magento site to v1.4 or higher version

One of our clients has a big Magento site (the database size is as big as 600MB) need to be upgraded from 1.3.x to 1.4.x. After several attempts, we were not able to upgrade it smoothly, and it's caused by the the huge database.

Some considerations about Zend Server

The Zend Server has two versions:

One is just a version of WAMP with web based gui;

One is commercial and installed some optimization of WAMP

(Reference link: http://www.zend.com/en/products/server/ )

Integration between Zend Studio and SVN

Question:

I have just installed Zend Studio, as I would like to use that program as well now.

Could you give me some instruction how it add the RemaxA project as a SVN project, that I can run locally?
It would probably save me a lot of time if you point me in the right direction...

Can Magento use Amazon S3?

A clietns who is running 3 Magento eCommerce sites now asking us whether we would integrate with his sites and Amazon S3 for his increasing resource demands.

Since recently we are help a ERP Software Company for making a migration plan of Amazon services like EC2, S3, EBS, we can answer him based our knowledge for PHP + Zend Framewrok + Amazon Clooud Computing services (EC2, S3, EBS).

How to fix a strange image displaying error on Joomla!

Recently a client asked following question regarding her Joomla! site to us:

She said some of the images are not showing:

For some reason the problem only happens on PC computer but it looks on on Mac.

Introduction to top rated Zend Framework CMS projects

The Zend Framework is no doubt  one of the most reliable and trustful PHP frameworks. It has throughout time matured into a simple, traightforward, secure, object-oriented and rigid codebase that provides simplicity and extensibility for developing Web applications and web services.

However, the Zend Framework still can be considered as a young Framework in PHP community, that's why so far there is no many Zend Framework based CMS available, and not as popluar as Joomla!, Drupal, TYPO3...

Evebit delivered first TYPO3 project

As the most complicated and powerful CMS system in the world, TYPO3 (http://www.typo3.org) is well known by hard to be understood and developed; EveBit' team recently spent 1 month for deeply study this powerful tool, and finally successfully delivered first Typo3 project for client.

EveBit fixes bug, contributing Magento development

As a professional development team o

Michael Jackson Fan Site online, powered by EveBit

At the one year anniversary of Michael Jackson's death, EveBit helps client to launch a new Michael Jackson fan site:

Man in the Mirror (http://www.mjjmaninthemirror.com)

Two real estate sites get online by EveBit

EveBit recently helped two clients' real estate sites get online. Interestingly these two sites are different on languages, business types; but EveBit successfully delivered two sites almost at same time by the rapid development approach.

And of couse, thanks to the most powerful CMS system Joomla! and related extensions.

Reasons of choosing Joomla! as web site builder for international trade company

1. There is a famous multilingual plugin JoomFish for Joomla!, which would ensure all the contents can be translated into other language from backend, and no more maintenance needed at coding level. 

Some comments to VPS providers

Part of our serivces is helping clients to install and deliver the system online; then we have to consider the certain server (VPS as we recommand) would have max flexibility to fit all the PHP based applicaions such as Magento, Joomla!, Zend Framework....

Acctually we have tried many VPS (Virtual Private Server ) provdiers, each of them has pros and cons, and here comes our comments:

Zend Framework Development for Real Estate Exchange Platform

Project Website: http://www.517mf.cn

Zend Framework was launched by the Zend PHP language-based development framework aimed to help develop staff to efficiently and rapidly develop meet enterprise business applications, and the use of our internal structure to maintain a good level.

Magento Community Version 1.4 Stable is out

Magento Community Version 1.4 Stable is out

Magento 1.4 is out and here are some notable features:

    * Implemented 3D Secure credit card validation (Visa and Mastercard)
    * Full reimplementation of PayPal modules, includes lot of new functionality and numerous bugfixes Read more: Magento Community Version 1.4 Stable is out

How to improve Magento performance, to get fastest eCommerce site

Recently a client asked us how to make his Magento based eCommerce site with best performance, here comes our advices:

1) Enable opcode cache, for example APC or Zend Guard.

2) Enable cache and compress for static files, e.g.  css,  image,  js,  swf

3) Magento needs much more memory than any other PHP scripts, so add more memory if possible.

4) If there is more than one server, we can move static files to another one, including files under /js, /media, /skin

Zend and Magento Building All-In-One eCommerce Solution

BARGENTO, PARIS – November 9, 2009 – Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company, and Varien, developer of Magento, the world’s fastest growing eCommerce platform, today announced that they have partnered to make it easier for small- and medium-sized businesses to quickly evaluate, develop, and deploy flexible, state-of-the-art ecommerce Web applications. As a result of the new partnership, the Community Edition of Varien’s popular Magento™ eCommerce software will ship with the Community Edition of Zend Server, Zend’s high performance PHP Web application server.

Read more: Zend and Magento Building All-In-One eCommerce Solution

Atliva Selects EveBit Digital as Zend Framework Development Partner!

The Web 2.0 company Atliva from Silicon Valley, USA Selects EveBit Digital as Zend Framework Development Partner for its internet application.

Preview version of new EveBit site launches

Preview version of  new EveBit site launches at the end of 2009, more contents will be added soon; it will provide more exciting blogs, articles and portfolios!

Another engineer passed Zend Certified Engineer

EveBit is glad to announce that our another engineer passed the most authoritative certification: Zend Certified Engineer (http://www.zend.com/services/certification).

Integrate shadowbox (alternative of lightbox) 3.0b with Magento

A new version of shadowbox 3.0b relasesed recently, when I was trying to integrate it with Magento, there were some troubles, so I'd like to write down my steps here to help others may have the same situation like me.

There is a wiki article discribed how to "Adding Shadowbox to Magento", but that's for shadowbox 2, which is outdated I think.

Here comes new steps to add latest shadowbox 3.0b to Magento, if you have any questions, please leave a comment so that I may help you:

Magento: Searching product by category

In "advanced search" feature, searching product by category is not the default setting.  But we can do this by modifying the foloowing files:

app/code/core/Mage/CatalogSearch/Block/Advanced/Form.php
app/code/core/Mage/CatalogSearch/Model/Advanced.php
app/design/yourdesign/yourdesign/template/catalogsearch/advanced/form.phtml

Introducing the Magento Enterprise Edition!

Over the past year Magento  seen the tremendous success and uptake of Magento in the market and the opportunities for the product are indeed exciting. Over 750,000 downloads, 85,000+ community members and the leadership position as the #1 enterprise grade open source eCommerce solution in the market.

Yesterday marked a major milestone for Varien and Magento with the release of the Magento Enterprise Edition. The product is a culmination of months of work and countless feedback from our community, partners and customers.

ShowTV is online now, powered by EveBit!

The most popular entertainment group in China: Tianyu Media Group just launched a VOD portal ShowTV (http://www.chnec.com) for its hottest TV channel: Hunan TV.