ColdFusion is a commercial, enterprise level, application server product from Adobe. ColdFusion is designed to be a high availability, rapid application development platform for web applications. In addition to technically superior features what make ColdFusion more useful and relevant are its tight integration with Flex/Flash/AIR and other Adobe technologies. Plus in-built monitoring tools and frequent releases make it a favorite among enterprises.

At Mindfire we have been working in ColdFusion for a long time now and over the years we have accumulated a lot of knowledge in the technologies and frameworks involved. We have hands on experience in working in frameworks like ColdBox, FuseBox, MachII and ColdSpring. Having worked for so many years in ColdFusion application and ColdFusion Web Application Development, we know the benefits of using this technology for application development. Instead of highlighting all the features of CF let me put up a small write up on a real life client situation. This would give you a real life idea on what all can be done using CF.

Our client, who is a US based Real Estate Marketing company, had come to us with the following need: They wanted to build a Real Estate Property Management application which should have good search features, plus should have Social Media Integration and chat facility and option to show property images to end users in Google map.


The solution we gave for the search index part is explained below:

We used IDX search. This part of the application is built with the IDX Search engine that allows users to search any property related information. One advantage of this search engine is that user can save any search in this web site. In addition to storing search results IDX search engine has advance functionalities like comparing different property and sharing property information in different social networking sites like -Facebook, twitter, Pinterest. In addition to the search part the application had a lot of other features too, for example the Control Panel, which contained the search option.

This part deals with the managing of all real estate customers by admin (agents/offices) and super admin. Using this module admin can directly track the activity of every user on the site. It keeps track of the user activity in the user’s timeline, a feature similar to the timeline feature of Facebook. This Control Panel has the functionality to publish any message for any user or to different admins. Different admin have different access rights to view user’s data and answer their query. It uses different scheduling algorithm for Agent-Lead (customer) assignment.By using control panel one supper admin can create different web sites for a third party vendor and can provide access to control panel to manage their search engine and the third party vendor will have their own agent and lead.


The technologies that we had used for executing this project are:

Server Side Language: ColdFusion 9
Database: MS SQL Server 2008, SQL Server Reporting Service (SSRS), SQL Server Integration Service (SSIS)
Scripting Language: Kendo UI, jQuery


In addition to the above we have done a host of ColdFusion projects and in all cases clients were very happy with the final product that was built and delivered. You can hire Coldfusion developers for your existing Projects.

To know more about our expertise in Custom ColdFusion development services or Hire Coldfusion developers to fulfill your coldfusion requirements, please contact us at sales[at]mindfiresolutions[.]com or call 1-248-686-1424. We will be glad to help you.

Windows Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing platform. With Widows Azure, you can quickly build, deploy, and manage applications on the cloud. This Azure cloud environment consists of a global network of Microsoft-managed data centers. Azure is open, flexible, and highly robust – and especially suited for modern B2C/B2B applications requiring high availability and performance. It frees you from up-front infrastructure costs and worries associated with scale, failover, deployment, etc. It helps you focus on your core application functionality and improves overall business efficiency.

If you want to hit the market and scale elastically on demand in the fastest possible time, you will find very few solutions that can match up to Azure. No matter where you are on the path to cloud computing adoption, you can use Windows Azure to leverage its true power – from where you are & at a pace you are comfortable with. For example, you may want to move to the cloud by migrating / re-purposing your existing applications. You may want to develop for the cloud from the ground up to take better advantage of Azure’s intrinsic cloud capabilities. Or you may want to integrate with the cloud by connecting your cloud apps with your on-premises systems. Moreover, you can use the language, tool, or framework of your choice for building Azure applications. Here are some of the exciting Offshore windows Azure development possibilities:

• You can build & deploy custom websites or open source content management systems to this cloud environment taking advantage of its infinite scalability & flexible services.
  
  
• You can create highly available & rapidly scalable cloud services for your customers across the globe using a technology of your choice.
  
  
• You can make your mobile app market ready faster by adding a scalable & secure backend for common but essential development tasks like storage, authentication & push notification.
  
  
• You can have your on-premise applications use Windows-Azure just for storing their data.
  
  

The above exciting possibilities are ably supported by Win-Azure's other capabilities such as data management through SQL database, tables, blobs; business analytics through SQL Reporting and Hadoop; caching, messaging, media, commerce, and high-performance computing services. Microsoft also provides Windows Azure Marketplace where you can publish & sell your Windows Azure applications.


Services
The WindowsAzure ecosystem consists of a number of expert Windows Azure development service providers who – with their investments in building Windows-Azure expertise and accumulated experience from working with diverse Azure needs across industries – can accelerate your WindowsAzure success. For example, Mindfire Solutions, a Microsoft Gold Certified partner, provides a wide range of trusted development services including the following:

• Rapidly building proof-of-concept prototypes
  
  
• Migrating clients’ existing applications
  
  
• Extending existing on-premise applications to work with Azure
  
  
• Developing brand-new cloud applications
  
  
• Integrating Azure apps with existing business systems
  
  
• Supporting & maintaining WindowsAzure applications
  
  

If you want to leverage the power of cloud computing using Windows Azure development service and want to Hire Windows Azure developers for some development help, do get in touch with Mindfire today –- call +1 248-686-1424 or email sales[at]mindfiresolutions[dot]com.

Customizing DNN modules sure needs skills in the framework. DotNetNuke as it is popularly called is one of very robust Content Management System (CMS) product having lots of features which helps to build a complete product quickly and without a lot of programming hassles. One can build his application/product to support his business with the free version of DotNetNuke (All versions of DotNetNuke are available free at dotnetnuke.com website).

And if one needs to develop something more sophisticated or personalized than what DNN officially provides in the free version, he would need to go for the Professional version of DNN. The professional version of Dot Net Nuke comes with a host of additional features such as DotNetNuke Document Management, Advanced Content Approval Process, Granular User Permissions, Mobile Website templates, Azure and Amazon S3 Support etc.

But to be able to use these tools effectively, it sure needs advanced DotNetNuke Development skills to customize the application build. There are many third party modules available freely in the web. One of best places to get all these free modules is the DNN Store which is owned/supported by DotNetNuke corporation itself. Be it a healthcare website, e-commerce website, mobile base application, Wireless & Mobile based website, Transportation & Logistics website, Education & learning website, Insurance & Banking website or a simple photo gallery, DotNetNuke CMS is supports it. You can build amazingly quick web applications using DNN. There are many ISVs & Dot Net Nuke programmers who have developed these custom DotNetNuke modules & upload at the DNN store for use free of charge by the Dot net Nuke users. Also there are many vendors who sell their modules & skins at the store. One can easily download & use them as well for a small fee.

But businesses are almost all the time uniquely different from each other & so are their choices & needs. If you also are not able to find any suitable DNN modules for your application, then you are not alone. We invariably find the nearest best match & then we need customization, if not full installation but just custom DNN development. Although there are many offshore Dot Net Nuke custom module development companies are available but the assurance to get a perfect solution comes from vendors who have solid work references, strong portfolio & a commendable professional history. Mindfire Solutions is one of offshore based Dot Net Nuke development company in India who is providing DNN module & skin design & development services to its clients since the last 6 years.

It has hands-on experience on all versions of DNN including 4.X, 5.X, 6.X & DotNetNuke 7 (beta version). All DotNetNuke developers are Microsoft .NET certified and very rich experience on Custom Module Development & skin designing. They regularly contribute to the DNN community in term of DNN programming tricks & tips. Dedicated developers help in Custom Module Development & upload at DotNetNuke store. Many of the DNN modules Mindfire has developed have been downloaded over 500 times from the store. They have been widely appreciated as well by the DotNetNuke community members. Mindfire’s offshore DNN team India has executed several projects & has strong expertise on several industries including Education, Ergonomics, Health care, Insurance and Banking sector, NGO Industry, Wireless and Mobile Industry, Transportation and Logistics Industry, IT Service Industry to name a few. Our strong and true expertise of DotNetNuke lies in Custom DotNetNuke development, DNN Skin Designing, DNN Module Development, Custom web application development, Business logic and data integration, Business process integration, 3rd party Module integration, DNN Portal Development/ DotNetNuke portals development, DNN Administration and Maintenance, DotNetNuke Installation and Configuration, DNN Migration and Professional DotNetNuke support, DotNetNuke-SharePoint connector, DNN module testing etc.

To hire Dedicated DNN module development Company India or even just to get Custom DotNetNuke Skin Services, feel free to take up our 100 hours risk-free trial. We are confident of our DotNetNuke Developer team that they would be able to assist you in your needs. Please contact us on sales[@]mindfiresolutions[.]com or call 1-248-686-1424.

Have you been thinking lately as to how you could make great use of the Top 10 features of Adobe InDesign CS 6 version which has been only recently released by Adobe? This article is an attempt to explore the various features that Adobe CS 6 offers to its users.

CS 6 is the brand new offering of Desktop Publishing software from the Adobe stable. What makes it a universally acceptable industry standard publishing application is the fact it can be used to the utmost advantage by Print Designers, Interactive Designers, Digital Designers and EBook and EPublication houses. Naturally to be counted as a popular publishing application software used by a tribe of creative professionals, Adobe InDesign Plugin development has a basket of features to offer. Listed below are ten of the most popular features that contribute in making the designers work easy and fast.

• A greater flexibility has been added in the form of the feature PDF form tools which gives the designer the liberty to to add the actual form fields to the PDF without exporting the layout from InDesign to PDF and then using Acrobat to finish up.
  
  
• Ability to Copy/Paste HTML such as including twitter feeds and Google maps into iPad apps which was a cumbersome process. This helps save time for Digital Publishing companies.
  
  
• Ease of creating multiple layouts in one document thanks to the addition of features like alternate layout and liquid layout helps CS6 users adapt to every type of layout whether horizontal or vertical for any type of tablet
  
  
• CS6 introduces EPUB3 capability, including support for video and audio tags. However, this feature is restricted to be used on some devices.
  
  
• Ability to change column width on the fly is achieved through the inclusion of flexible column width feature in InDesign CS6 which is of great help especially when working on liquid layouts
  
  
• Another new feature known as Auto-Size Text Frames which allows text frames to expand or contract based on the amount of text contained in the frame.
  
  
• The new Content Collector and Content Placer Tools which enables the user to copy a bunch of items to the clipboard and then selectively paste them in the current document as well as any other document along with the added flexibility of mapping any text styles involved.
  
  
• Assets specific to overlays such as panoramas or audio controller images are stored in a folder named Overlay assets using CS6. This feature was unavailable in previous InDesign versions.
  
  
• An Illustrator feature which helps choose a key object to align other selected objects is now available in InDesign as well
  
  
• With CS6 users can still save all the way back to CS4
  
  
• The little bugs and fixes that were needed of the previous versions have been well taken care of in the newest version.
  
  

Hence, with all these new features are you waiting for some InDesign plugin development help to create those visually engaging documents? Turn to Mindfire Solutions, a 12 year old IT company from India whose skilled InDesign developers have considerable InDesign experience in all the versions that have come to market. They have made good use of tools and features to help clients in the Publishing industry grow their business by significantly improving upon their quality.

To know more about our expertise in Indesign Plugin-Developers or Hire Indesign developers, please contact us at sales[at]mindfiresolutions[dot]com or call 1-248-686-1424. We will be glad to help you.

Are you interested to avail Quickbooks to NetSuite migration services? Do you feel the need because your existing Quickbooks accounting software does not offer you the additional benefits of an associated Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution which your business needs at present? Do you want to follow the success stories of all those firms like you who have migrated to NetSuite and are able to do business better with the help of an enhanced software solution like NetSuite? Do you then feel the need to hire the professional services of an experienced software development company to help you migrate from Quickbooks to NetSuite? Rest assured, you will get all your answers by the end of this article. Read on to know how.

Information Technology industry veterans who have been working in the area of business applications have a firsthand knowledge about the various difficulties that crop up while converting data related to finance/accounting, customer relationships, and other transactional systems etc. from one system to another system. What poses as another fairly risky proposition is that in most of the cases clients would typically demand that all their data should be converted into their new system. When cases like this happen only a trusted software development company would be able to guide them and discuss with them the ways in which the clients can minimize the scope of data that has to be converted so as to keep the costs time to implement low.

It is universally known that upcoming small businesses are experiencing the same problems as their mid-sized counterparts. They are using several disparate systems each addressing different needs to manage their business which eventually frustrates them as they have to track different applications for critical business information which eventually they are unable to integrate. This problem is solved by using NetSuite website customization which offers a slew of business beneficial software products that help integrate all the applications into a single integrated application that is accurate on a real time basis. Once these businesses start using NetSuite, they realize that all their important business metrics can be incorporated into a single dashboard which is universally accessible at any given time without compromising on the accuracy of the data. Also owing to the fact that it is built on the powerful and highly popular Oracle database, NetSuite can grow with its customer’s business.

Mindfire Solutions has experience in helping its customers migrate from Quickbooks to NetSuite or integrate Quickbooks with NetSuite. Mindfire is also a member of the SuiteCloud developer network which makes it eligible to be your trusted NetSuite development company. More than 20 members’ development team and close to 6 years of NetSuite and Quickbooks development experience should excite you to explore working with Mindfire Solutions to migrate your application software from Quickbooks to NetSuite. Perhaps a look at the NetSuite development projects done so far would help you decide upon the advantages of choosing Mindfire Solutions as your trusted NetSuite development partner.

To hire Mindfire Solutions expert NetSuite Developers or want to develop Netsuite report customization call 1-248-686-1424 or email sales[@]mindfiresolutions[.]com We will be glad to help you.

Today, the web content management system (WCMS) is very popular because anybody can build/develop his application or website without any programming knowledge or very minimum technical knowledge. There are many CMS products available in the market. One of very popular and highly used CMS product is DotNetNuke. DotNetNuke is the one of best CMS product which is runs in .NET framework/ platform. DotNetNuke provide its very simple wizard, by using that one could easily set-up his DNN website. DotNetNuke also provides many free DotNetNuke modules through which anybody can meet his requirements. Despite the all easy and free thing, if someone needs to enhance or want to Custom DotNetNuke Development which will help him to build DNN website with his chose, then he needs some programming knowledge on DNN core architecture to do that. One can develop application for any business domain say an example, Healthcare Industry , Mobile Industry, Transportation and Logistics Industry or IT Service Industry etc. but DotNetNuke can’t provide all necessary modules free of cost which will meets your exact requirements. To enhance any existing module or to develop DNN module from scratch you have to do some DNN module programming. To do DNN module programming or enhancing existing module need certain skill. There are many instances how business house like you need DNN coder to do their application programing.

A giant in healthcare industry want to develop his business application in DotNetNuke. He is a pioneer service provider of online fitness management. The main focus of that healthcare provider was to maintain a healthy food benchmark in a short period of time for his customer. To meet this vision, they wanted to develop a CMS system to manage the content and other frequently changed stuff easily in his website. Initially, he managed his business with a system which was a bit wretched to get track of his user activities and their diet plan so he planned to migrate his application to a DotNetNuke (a best CMS product). In addition to that he wants to develop few more functionality and module for his existing application. He was searching for a custom DotNetNuke Development Company India who will help him to Custom DotNetNuke Development and design DotNetNuke skin for his healthcare and fitness application. He searched and talks many offshore DotNetNuke module Development company India and finally find and work with Mindfire Solutions. Mindfire Solutions offshore DNN programmers are understand his business logic and give him DotNetNuke Administration and Maintenance supports.

Mindfire Solutions is a 12 year’s old software development and testing company has extensive experience and expertise in DotNetNuke Development and skin Designing for more than 6 years and counted as leading company in DNN application services in India. Mindfire offshore Custom DotNetNuke Development Team India has hand on experience on all versions of DNN including, DotNetNuke 4.X, DotNetNuke 5.X, DotNetNuke 6.X and DotNetNuke 7 (beta). All its expert DNN developers are Microsoft .NET certified. Several of their DNN expertise lie on module Development, Skin Designing, Custom web application development, Business logic and data integration, Business process integration, 3rd party Module integration, DNN Portal Development, DNN Administration and Maintenance, DNN Migration and Professional DotNetNuke support, DotNetNuke-SharePoint connector, DNN module testing etc.

If you have any running DotNetNuke application and want to Customize DNN skins or just want to enhance existing Dotnetnuke module development then drop an email at sales[@]mindfiresolutions[.]com or call 1-248-686-1424.