User Xperience + Technology + Real World

Posted on: July 1st, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: Development, User Experience, Web 2.0, Zigron Inc

For some time I have noticed that in blogosphere, User Xperience has mostly been associated with Web 2.0 companies and hardware devices, well actually only one hardware i.e iPhone. So I decided to go out and see where I can find innovation in UX apart from the web.
On this great adventure the first experience I stumbled across was Bank Of America’s ATM on Van Ness street in San Francisco. I had this old . [More]

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Why we use symfony Framework

Posted on: June 28th, 2008   By: Abdul Wahid
Under: Development, Php, Web 2.0, Zigron Inc

Three years ago I was coding in simple PHP and never heard of any frameworks then after one year I started using frameworks in javascript i.e prototype etc. Soon I realize working in framework makes your life easier, your code is organized, standardized and most importantly your development is fast. It does not matter what framework you want to chose the basic aim of any framework is rapid development. Mostly client is concerned with how . [More]

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The Story Behind The Development Of PingMyCompany.com

Posted on: June 20th, 2008   By: Rashid Idris
Under: Development, PingMyCompany, Web 2.0, Zigron Inc

It was one fine morning, when I came to office and started my work on ZEPRS [an under development project], suddenly phone RANG, I picked. Who is this? I am here, sounded familiar to me, I thought for a moment and realized that my CEO is on other side. Yes Sir, was my second reply.
“I need just 2 pages, one where people can add a company and another page they can post for that company. . [More]

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Image Selection in JSF

Posted on: June 18th, 2008   By: Waqas Rajab
Under: Development, Zigron Inc

JSF is really nice, but developers sometimes feel suffocated because there aren’t enough components. Recently I ran into a problem of displaying a list of images in grid or you could say in form of rows and columns and being able to select one of them using radio buttons. I searched on the internet but couldn’t find any component that gave the desired functionality. So our team came up with an elegant extensible solution that . [More]

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Company Trip

Posted on: June 12th, 2008   By: Abdul Wahid
Under: Zigron Inc

On 24th May few of Zigron’s team member went for hiking trip to Miranjani, the plan was to go to Nathia Gali on Saturday and to have a night stay over there and the next day [Sunday] to go for a hike and then come back.
We had an amazing trip and I think beauty of Nathia Gali and Miranjani cannot be described in the words. As we reached Nathia Gali, rain welcomed us . [More]

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Page Not Found Can Be Found This Way

Posted on: June 10th, 2008   By: Qurratulain Akhtar
Under: SEO, Web 2.0

“The page you’re looking for doesn’t exist”, “Page not found” are very familiar terms that most of internet users happen to find everywhere round. In technical terms it’s 404 error. Generally that’s all about this type of error, but getting into a little more details, this 404 page on a site has close connections with traffic retention and bounce rate.
404 page does not only bounce your traffic, but you may also lose a potential . [More]

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PingMyCompany reviewed by Mashable

Posted on: June 5th, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: PingMyCompany, Zigron Inc


PingMyCompany is a Zigron Inc product. It was recently featured on Mashable.com. You can read the post here.

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HR: Behind the scene action…

Posted on: May 31st, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: Zigron Inc

This blog post covers the behind the scene action for any resource we plan to hire. For this I conducted an internal survey with few of the individuals who actively participate in selecting new hires for Zigron as we need to make sure that our vision is in aligned with what our team practices.
First I need to share what is Zigron’s philosophy behind hiring. Our main goal is to find resources who are truly excited . [More]

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Why To Outsource Software Development To Pakistan

Posted on: May 28th, 2008   By: Qurratulain Akhtar
Under: Outsourcing

Offshore outsourcing being one of the most effective tools for reducing costs of production, is much in demand in growing markets like USA. Out of all others, Software Development outsourcing is much saught after. The reasons of this increasing trend of outsourcing may include a variety, but unavailability of skilled resources at affordable cost is the main issue. Global outsourcing is expected to outgrow 8.1% more in the year 2008, as reported by . [More]

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PingMyCompany.com is launched

Posted on: May 8th, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: Web 2.0, Zigron Inc


After reading some really interesting comments on a post about Zigron Inc on Green & White blog I decided that we need a site where people can share their positive and negative opinions about different firms.
So as a fun project we decided to create PingMyCompany.com. Its a simple project where users can add different companies and give comments in favor or against different companies. Its more like . [More]

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