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Zyxware conducted a session on "Introduction to Free Software" at College of Engineering, Trivandrum on 2014-01-18. The session was taken as part of an Android application development workshop organized by IEEE and Innovation Club at CET. The session was conducted by Mr. Anoop John, CTO of Zyxware Technologies. The session covered

Zyxware conducted a 3 day workshop on Drupal at IIT Madras as part of the recently concluded technical festival Shaastra 2014. The workshop was conducted from Jan 4 - Jan 6 by Mr. Anoop John, CTO of Zyxware Technologies.

One of the challenges with working with dynamic websites is that you have to keep fighting malicious users who regularly sap your server capacity with rogue crawling of your site. To do this you would have to monitor and analyze the traffic patterns on the server regularly. You would definitely want to do this when you have load spikes on the server and you wish to find out the IP addresses, user agents and the specific URLs which resulted in these spikes.

As part of the ongoing process of migrating computers in Kerala Legislative Assembly to Free Software, we got the opportunity to offer GNU/Linux training to the first set of 120 employees of Kerala Niyamasabha. Zyxware Technologies conducted trainings for 8 batches of staff of Assembly. Each batch had a session of 2 hours each. This was spread over 8 days between November 26, 2013 to December 6, 2013.

We are happy to announce that Zyxware is now a Featured Service Provider on Drupal.org, a select club of Drupal providers with only another 4 members from India. This is a recognition of our contributions to Drupal over these years. We thank all our employees who have helped make this possible through their sustained contributions and members of the Drupal community who have guided,mentored and helped us as we grew in the Drupal space.

If you are looking for an opportunity to lead exciting web application development projects across sectors like news media, community networks, e-commerce, non profits etc. then this is the right time to drop in your resume to us at careers@zyxware.com. We are looking for Project Leads who can lead our team of talented Drupal programmers towards delivering true value to our clients. APPLY ONLINE

The first thing that you have to do when you want to improve something is to understand what is it that you are trying to improve. To do that you have to have some way of putting that thing which you are trying to improve into a quantity you can measure and get some kind of numbers on. This is applicable not just for your web traffic or social media marketing efforts but with anything (or rather most things) you do in your business.

In the last year or so we have been in the process of transitioning from a small business to a medium size business. With over 50 people in the rolls it was time we moved away from a bunch of people working with and around a single individual to a more structured organizaiton. As part of this transition we have been looking to change gears on our marketing initiatives. For the first time since we started our business we now have a business development team and we have active business development activities going on.

If you are in the habit of running queries directly on your production database to generate custom reports then you will run into the requirement of having to connect to your Drupal database on the Acquia cloud hosting. One of our clients wanted to do this and this is how we got this working for them. When you host your Drupal site on the Acquia cloud your site resides on a set of different VPSes that runs Varnish, Apache, MySQL and memcache. Additionally you have your staging server, your development server as well as your production servers - all of them being VPSes.

We are looking for interns who can implement responsive Drupal themes based on the designs provided. The themes should be grid based and responsive. The themes created during the internship period will be uploaded to www.drupal.org by Zyxware if the quality standards are met and the interns will get proper attribution on www.drupal.org. The candidates will get mentoring and support to implement the responsive theme for Drupal from expert Drupal developers in Zyxware. Desired candidate profile