Visual design and story telling..

Posted on: August 22nd, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: Design, User Experience, Zigron Inc

This week I had the pleasure to attend An Event Apart design conference. It was a great experience to hear some great presentations and learn new approaches towards design. In next few posts I will try to share all of my experiences.
Starting off the best presentation of the day one was by Jason Santa Maria who is the Creative Director at Happy Cog studios. It was about “Storytelling by . [More]

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Mobile Development Overview..

Posted on: August 21st, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: Development, Mobile, Zigron Inc

Mobile space is the next paradigm of computing where more and more mobile devices are getting the computational power to now host interactive native applications. Offcourse iPhone has taken a giant leap but now other devices are also catching up. Recently we spent sometime to figure out which development environment will be best suited for new generation of mobile applications. In this report we have not covered FlashLite and iPhone.  As a result we produced . [More]

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Technology + Transparency = Helps you hire better

Posted on: July 26th, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: PingMyCompany, Zigron Inc

PingMyCompany.com was started with a pure and simple intention to gather more data about ourself as a firm and know about others too. I have explained it before and Rashid also shared his development story. 
Now after 3 months since its launch I have witnessed a change which I was hoping to happen but didnt expected to happen so quickly. Before PingMyCompany’s launch people hardly knew about Zigron and what it does. It . [More]

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It Makes A Real Difference When We Work In Teams

Posted on: July 21st, 2008   By: Qurratulain Akhtar
Under: Zigron Inc

We’ve been working in different teams for long, and have known that there are few factors like motivation, communication, flexibility etc that make better performing teams. But, we never knew the extent which we need all these to be. So ZEDCo [Zigron Education Company] organized an event where we could find this extent.
It was basically a game that we played on July 16, 2008 at Zigron office. The game was comprised of 8 analytical and . [More]

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Wherever.Tv is launched and brings international tv to you…

Posted on: July 10th, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: WhereverTv, Zigron Inc


Wherever.tv was launched yesterday in SINO Consumer Electronics Show, China. It recieved great reception from both conference attendees and press. It was covered on Forbes.com , Engadget.com , PittsburghLive.com and Examiner.com
Wherever.tv is a sleek new device that delivers hundreds of international TV channels straight to your television instantly over a broadband internet connection. You can learn more at their site.
Wherever.tv is one of Zigron’s Inc startup based . [More]

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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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