Web, software developers host 'hack-a-thon' at Grandin CoLab

ROANOKE, Va. -

This weekend, web and software developers will hack several Roanoke-based organizations, but not in the bad way.

These developers have been working with nonprofits for the last several months. From 5 p.m. Friday to 5 p.m. Saturday nonstop, they'll come together to work on websites, build apps or improve these business' online and mobile presence.

Organizer David Epperly says to his knowledge, this is the first "hack-a-thon" of its kind in the Roanoke area.

The event is at the Grandin CoLab, and is free and open to any web developers who want to contribute.

The City of Roanoke, Roanoke Public Libraries and Roanoke Outside are just a few of the organizations that will benefit from this hack-a-thon.

Kids also have the chance to explore the world of web development. At 11 a.m. Saturday, kids can come to the CoLab for free to learn the basics of web design and also see what future career opportunities they can pursue.

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Jet Airways - Designing for Enhanced Customer Experience

BANGALORE, August 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

Jet Airways Collaborates With ThoughtWorks to Provide Users With an Engaging Digital Customer Experience 

Jet Airways upgraded its digital presence with an interactive and responsive website aimed at smart-device wielding travellers. Jet Airways partnered with ThoughtWorks, a global experience design and software development company, to bring the vision of providing a delightful customer experience to life. ThoughtWorks designed a website that not only reflects Jet Airways' brand of over 20 years but is poised to scale up with the latter's envisioned growth.

Jet Airways and ThoughtWorks decided to take a 'mobile first' approach, leveraging the responsive web design strategy that provides a seamless and consistent experience across desktops, tablets and smartphones. In a recent report by IAMAI and KPMG, the Internet user base in India is likely to reach 503 million and out of this more than 50 per cent of the users are mobile-only. Jet Airways is catering to this growing mobile user base with the new digital avatar.

The key guiding principles of the new Jet Airways website are minimalist design and intuitive navigation, accentuated by the simplicity of an upgraded booking engine. The new design leverages smart content to speak with customers while also providing deeper integration with social media.

Additionally, the website is compliant with Arabic and supports sixty one country specific sites including eight different languages. The site also provides for easy accessibility for differently abled travellers.

On the digital design refresh of Jet Airways, Gaurang Shetty, Senior Vice President, Commercial at Jet Airways, had this to say, "Jet Airways has always been at the forefront of adopting evolving technology to enhance guest experience across touch points. Extensive research was conducted and feedback gathered from frequent flyers, bloggers and travel writers to ensure we are in step with consumer preferences and expectations."

"The new website symbolises our continued commitment to our customer focused 'Guest First' service philosophy, which has been highlighted by the mobile first approach coupled with a personalized and seamless user experience across multiple devices," added Shetty.

Commenting on the expectations of Jet Airways' new design, Kate Linton, Creative Director at ThoughtWorks, said, "Jet Airways is a well-established brand, both in India and globally. Our challenge was to design a progressive and responsive customer experience, whilst promoting Jet Airways' brand philosophy. Through continuous collaboration with Jet Airways, we designed a product that enables a consistent, end-to-end and high quality experience for customers."

About Jet Airways 

Jet Airways currently operates a fleet of 116 aircrafts which include a mix of state-of-the-art Boeing 777-300 ERs/Airbus A330-200/300 aircrafts, Next Generation Boeing 737's and ATR 72-500/600's, and has one of the youngest fleet in the region with an average of 6.01 years. Flights to 73 destinations span the length and breadth of India and beyond including Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Bangkok, Brussels, Colombo, Dammam, Dhaka, Doha, Dubai, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jeddah, Kathmandu, Kuwait, London (Heathrow), Muscat, New York (Newark), Paris, Riyadh, Sharjah, Singapore and Toronto.

Jet Airways is a member airline of Etihad Airways Partners.

About ThoughtWorks 

ThoughtWorks™ is a software company and community of passionate, purpose-led individuals that specialize in software consulting, delivery and products. We think disruptively to deliver technology to address our clients' toughest challenges, all while seeking to revolutionize the IT industry and create positive social change. We make pioneering tools for software teams who aspire to be great. Our products help organizations continuously improve and deliver quality software for their most critical needs. For more information, visit http://www.thoughtworks.com. 

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Homeless in Vancouver: Why the SourceForge website is dead to me

Today (August 9) I clicked on a link to the once-great SourceForge website and my Pale Moon browser kicked up an alert declaring that the Mozilla add-on uBlock Origin has prevented the page from loading because it contained blacklisted code, namely:

||sourceforge.net^$other

The link I clicked on was contained in a post from the University of South Wales security and privacy blog (which I have followed for years), about using Ophcrack, yet another Windows XP password cracker. Ophcrack is a free open source program hosted on the SourceForge website.

Turns out that uBlock Origin isn't blocking code so much as blocking the SourceForge website itself—something it's been doing since at least June 24! And I guess I can't blame it; I haven't gone near the website for months.

Free download sites certainly feel free to deceive you

Back in March 2015, SourceForge was caught stealthily distributing a malware browser hijacker called Blinkiland, which was designed to be almost impossible for ordinary Windows users to remove.

Blinkiland was hidden in downloads of the Windows version of the popular and respected open source FTP management program called Filezilla (which I've used for years).

While attentive users at least have the opportunity to opt out of the crapware piggybacked on downloads of Adobe Flash Player and Oracle's Java, there was no warning that Fillazilla came bundled with Blinkiland and once it was installed in Windows, Blinkiland could not be uninstalled without going into the Windows registry!

And you couldn't exactly blame the makers of Filezilla; it was SourceForge that was doing the bundling at the installer level—just like CNET's Download-dot-com installer (which uBlock also intercepts and which CNET users have a choice to avoid).

There was a bit of an uproar and Blinkiland was removed from the SourceForge installer in late March.

But, as HowToGeeks explained in June, deceptively bundling crapware with legitimate software has become the SourceForge business model, at least since Dice Holdings bought the website in 2012.

The broken promise of SourceForge (not to mention Web 2.0)

SourceForge was created back in 1999 by Slashdot to be a banner-ad-funded website repository for free open source software (FOSS)—this was in the days when proponents of "Web 2.0" said that such large commercial sites would be to the greater good of the free Internet (how did we ever believe that?).

To be fair, it seemed to work for many years. SourceForge grew and grew to become a hugely trusted "store front" of free open source software, reliably hosting hundreds of thousands of quality FOSS projects. It was where you went, both to window shop for FOSS versions of tools that you needed and to get the freshest builds of the FOSS ware that you already used.

Then in 2012 Dice Holdings bought SourceForge and moved the website from a business model of banner ads to bundleware.

In 2013 SourceForge offered FOSS projects the chance to use a new download method called "DevShare" in which makers of crapware would pay SourceForge/Dice Holdings to piggyback their shit on downloads of legitimate FOSS software, like Filezilla and GIMP; in turn, Dice would cut the FOSS developers a piece of the profits.

Two years later, I'm not even sure if developers can opt-out of using DevShare to distribute their software via SourceForge.

Github is now meant to be the preferred central repository of free open source software (FOSS) but name recognition and sheer momentum keeps SourceForge going; that and the fact that GitHub seems to be designed more to be understood and used by software developers than users.

According to the web-ranking company Alexa, GitHit is now the second most popular open-source website behind Wikipedia but SourceForge is still number four, behind Mozilla, the makers of Firefox.

But people should understand that behind its famous and respected name, SourceForge has fallen to become just another deceptive free download site at the deliberate expense of its users; so infected with greed that it will knowingly distribute malware in order to make a buck.

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bestwebdesignagencies.com Announces Dotlogics as the Fifth Best Web Design Firm for the Month of August 2015

August 07, 2015 --

NAPLES, FL--(Marketwired - August 07, 2015) - The independent authority on web services, bestwebdesignagencies.com, has named Dotlogics the 5th best web design company for the month of August 2015. Dotlogics was chosen based on their impressive performance in an in-depth analysis of the solutions they offer. While there are thousands of companies offering a variety of solutions, the ratings consist of the best featured based on the results of the rigorous evaluation process.

The process for researching and listing the top agencies offering web design solutions involves a thorough analysis of their core strengths. The five verticals of evaluation associated with successful web design campaigns include stock quality, ease of access, project analysis, design quality, and design analysis. The results of this process are used to establish which companies to include within the rankings each month. The rankings are updated monthly to account for the latest developments within the industry.

For a more in-depth evaluation, the independent research team connects with client references. Clients are questioned to obtain their feedback on the solutions provided to them. This provides valuable insight into the internal processes and methodologies of the service offering the solution. In many cases customers contact bestwebdesignagencies.com directly to voice their opinions.

Dotlogics has been named the fifth top web design agency based on an in-depth examination of their supplied solutions. The independent research team has named them due to their continued performance and their history of successful web design and development solutions. Those looking for an effective web design solution to meet their specified needs should consider Dotlogics.

About Dotlogics

Dotlogics is a website design company offering services out of New York. They help businesses creative professional and effective websites through web design and development services. They are able to assist ecommerce businesses through custom solutions. In addition, they also offer software development, Internet marketing, branding, and mobile application development services to their customers.

About bestwebdesignagencies.com

bestwebdesignagencies.com is a well-known independent authority on web design and development. The primary objective of bestwebdesignagencies.com is to determine and release those individuals or services offering the best web design solutions all over the world. A specialized team of researchers examine thousands of applicants each month who are seeking to be ranked as a top web design product or service by the independent authority.

Those interested in applying for the rankings can visit:

http://www.bestwebdesignagencies.com/rankings/web-design-agencies/apply-for-ranking/

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Themler launches world’s first visual web design environment for WordPress, Joomla and Drupal

After 3 years of development, Artisteer Ltd has today launched its new software product, Themler, for creating responsive web designs for content management systems, including WordPress, Joomla, Ebay's Magento, Drupal and PrestaShop.

The product also supports template design for e-commerce plug-ins like wooCommerce and VirtueMart that work with WordPress and Joomla.

Themler stands out among many customizable WordPress themes by being the only design product supporting a variety of content management systems, as well as allowing developers to produce themes and templates they can own and sell to third parties.

At the same time Themler is simple enough to be installed by any WordPress, Joomla and Magento users, and used to customize their website while previewing the design changes with their live content.

With these unique capabilities, Themler is the world's first integrated visual web design environment for content management systems.

What further sets Themler apart in the marketplace is its extensive library of 200,000 modern stock photos and graphics, which Themler users can use in their themes and templates.

Themler can be installed on a Windows desktop, or used in a web browser with any environment where WordPress, Joomla or Magento is installed. Desktop versions for Mac and Linux are also scheduled.

The product especially addresses the needs of web consultants who spend a considerable amount of time designing WordPress, Magento or Joomla based websites for their clients.

Many web consultants will find it especially thrilling to be able to cater to new markets they couldn't previously serve without having programming and technical knowledge of each CMS.

While for designers and website owners who do not use a CMS, Themler also supports creating static website templates and full HTML websites with multiple pages and content.

Themler comes with access to a library of 4,000 web templates for WordPress, Joomla, Magento, Drupal and other CMS and e-commerce systems.

It is currently available at www.themler.com at prices ranging from $49 to $199, depending on the desired features.

A video demonstration of Themler in use is available at https://vimeo.com/133549765

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