PHP Consultant

Many business today have discovered different revenue channels through collaboration with their partners and 3rd party services.Such collaboration is made possible by opening up company’s data asset via API.

While partner API is essential for growth of the company, building them needs efficient planning and good start. One such good start is building a private API first.

Companies have turned towards API first approach with a vision to build strong revenue stream after few years.Hence one may feel API is not worth investing from way beginning.But the reality is on the other side.This blogs share few thoughts on immediate benefits of private API.

Also read: A drive into the core principle of REST API 

Today I have revamped a my blog design. The new design is attractive, mobile friendly and more informative. Cover photo of this article hosts the new design of the website.

But wait, what’s wrong with the old design ?

After using the old design for year and half I have found many drawbacks of the old design.In simple words It was not impressing the customer who have landed on my website. Below are the few things which every consultant like me must have in their website.

Have a vision: Have a vision for your website.Just having blog don’t get more customers. Vision of my website is to introduce myself & my service to my customer.

Today I have launched a brand new design for  my personal site. This new website design which you have landed on is more mobile friendly and loads fast.This is more attractive than the former one.

 

Today I got a chance to talk in one of the PHP Meet up . My presentation was about “REST API Best Practices & Implementing it in codeigniter”. Below is the presentation and few pictures of the same.

Last few days ago I got a request from a client to develop a website just like naukari.com. My first reaction for that was “yes! I can develop a job portal for you”. Then he replied “I want it exactly like a naukari.com”. So after that I requested him to give me the list of requirements. He said “I need all the features of naukari.com”. He just wanted me to clone the website! Realizing this I happen to explain him why this doesn’t work. Today I am writing a blog about the same.

Cloning a famous website will not help you to establish the business. The straight forward reason for this is that a person who wants to clone a website generally does not have a domain knowledge in which he is trying to establish the business. Want to realize this? -read the above paragraph again wearing the hat as my client. Read his replies and think of his approach to build a business.

We term such a kind of business as “me too business “.  Mostly these kinds of businesses build all the features of a famous website without knowing the reason for that. In fact one thing these people fail to understand is the big websites found today were not big from day one. They started small, studied the market, established in market, found a problem to solve, built a product/business which solves the problem and adds the business value. That’s the right path to walk on.

The other reason that makes the “me too business” to fail is their lack of understanding of problem. These kinds of businesses try to solve the same problem what already existing website without understanding the depth of the problem. Building a product is not about giving many features; it’s about solving a real-time problem. In fact the software itself is worth nothing if it doesn’t solve the problem to the fullest extent. It’s not the software makes the product, the approach taken to solve a problem does.

I just found this infographics about startup via Facebook . Of course the money making is not a only factor for an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs will have a very good product idea . Even most of this Web Developers take a step ahead with their great product idea and find a startup.

 

 

The title of this write up is bit confusing at first – that’s because it’s half baked ideas which hit my mind during my regular routine. Let me share the insight of this thought.

We are pushed to socialize online in many ways that coexists with their daily activities. We use facebook to keep up with friends, twitter to express thoughts to world, foursquare for check-in, pinterest to pin images, slideshare for slides & documents, delicious for bookmarking, digg & reddit for news, LinkedIn for professional networking & so on – in fact it’s never ending. Do we use all of them in a day…?

Sometimes we may not speak to one of our friends on slideshare or foursquare for months. Even they do the same with us. That’s because both are virtually connected & so is our depth of relationship. There you have a message – The physical connection cannot be replaced by social connection.

Let me start off my saying PHP Developer is not a PHP Consultant. If you have ever worked with a PHP developer before, you may have noticed few annoying things – unrealistic development promises, absence of long term commitments etc. May be you have seen a PHP developer quitting the project in between or not responding to your calls for weeks together. If you think why it is so – I would say that’s why they are called PHP Developers.

Yes, that’s a basic difference between a PHP Developer & PHP consultant. The PHP consultants are oriented towards fact & time. They speak the hard truth no matter what would be after effect – facts are facts!

Being made a point above, that is not an only reason to choose a PHP consultant over PHP developer. If you have spoken to a PHP consultant before the way they put their thoughts are much different than PHP developer.PHP developer speaks in terms of what needs to be developed , but PHP consultant speaks in terms of what needs to be achieved & how it helps the business or client. PHP consultant take the “ownership” of the project they do – let me tell you ownership mindset come by hard way.

Google Chrome Frame is an open source plug-in that brings Google Chrome’s open web technologies and JavaScript engine to Internet Explorer. With Google Chrome Frame you can right away use HTML 5 tags such as canvas and other technologies that aren’t yet supported in Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8, or 9.One can take advantage of JavaScript performance improvements to make the apps faster and more responsive. Before we move ahead, please note that there is huge difference between chrome and chrome Frame.

The reason for Google to come up with the Chrome Frame ideas is a pretty interesting. As far I remember, it all started with Google Wave. Google Wave had HTML5 feature which Google engineers spend around 3-4 days to make it work in IE. They succeeded to do so by innovation of Google Frame for IE.

You can detect whether or not your users have installed Google Chrome Frame by adding a single tag to your pages.

• If Google Chrome Frame is not installed, you can direct your users to an installation page.
• If Google Chrome Frame is installed, it detects the tag you added and works automatically.

For all the above to happen, you just need to have the following tag in <head>

This write-up is about thought process of the business owners. I have tried to put them together here. You may also discover solutions for a problem of same nature you are facing. So read on…

Many business owners ask very first question about SEO –

“Sachin, tell me….. How much time will it take to get my site on first page of Google?”

The immediate answer I would be give them –