ALW decks up to participate in CeBIT Australia 2012

March 29th, 2012

AnyLinuxWork is all decked up to participate in the CeBIT Australia 2012 Show due to be held between May 22nd and 24th at Darling Harbour, Sydney. It is an absolute honour to be participating for the second consecutive year. The team is excited all the more this year as this is its second consecutive year which is sure to give it an edge over many other participants.

Like always, Team ALW is focused towards its offerings and is mainly targeting three areas namely –

1. Sourcing of open source development in PHP-MySQL and ROR; PHP with Automation Process;

2. Joint venture/Collaboration with global product Development Company.

3. Strategic partners/investors looking to work with mid-sized tier city based India IT Company.
In the software industry front, Australia has been experimenting. Australia is ranked 31st in the world for the maturity of its software industry. Start-ups are set to be crucial in helping Australia move up the ladder. Also, start-ups need to develop applications that are relevant to local companies and industry.
“This is the reason why ALW sees CeBIT as a wonderful platform to seek fresh partnerships with local IT companies in Australia. At the same time, we already have our foundation set in the country, thanks to the references of our existing Australian clients. We also get an opportunity to showcase what we have especially in the field of open source development in LAMP-PHP,” informs ALW CEO Vivek Singhal.
CeBIT is providing companies like us a chance for comparing notes on current industry trends, networking, and product presentations. A decade long history of CeBIT has proved it to be one of the biggest and most extensive business technology events in the world. And this is what gives us the motivation to register a professionally strong presence at CeBIT Show.

In addition to the three focus areas in CeBIT 2012, AnyLinuxWork would offer its three prestigious web products built on MVC Architecture, keeping Australian market in mind. These products are:
1) A ShopNetwork: This is a shopping network application based on B2B and B2C model built on MVC architecture. A ShopNetwork is basically a network of shops where shop owners can run their stores on their own domain or as a subdomain.

2) Rent A Property: This project has been developed keeping the real estate rental industry in mind. With the trend of more and more people opting for 2nd homes at holiday locations, the property owners can use this portal for renting out their properties online.

3) mFit Fitness Portal: Looking at the increasing fitness awareness coupled with social media features, AnyLinuxWork has created a unique fitness portal mFit. It can be deployed as plug-n-play system with client specific module customization. Fully developed on web 2.0 standards, mFit can be highly customized thanks to the modular coding approach followed in the development.

The AnyLinuxWork Corporate Profile exclusively includes framework-based PHP coding projects that have given us an edge over companies engaged in regular PHP projects. AnyLinuxWork is thus a ‘PHP Company’ that is equipped to deliver complex frame-work based projects smoothly as everyone on board specialises on one technology. Moreover, this year we have added PHP with Automation Process that has brought in more accuracy in terms of regression testing.

One of our biggest strengths has been a professional work flow following complete Project Life Cycle (PLC) including proper pre and post coding documentation using SRS, PPS, ERP diagrams; project management and reporting using project management tools like Base Camp, Mantis, online staging and production servers; quality analysis following unit and regression also automated regression testing as required.

We don’t take project as a one-time activity but a relationship as being in technology business, we understand there is always a requirement to make changes and addition in the application as per the dynamic web environment. We provide dedicated resources to work on the project for such changes as well as maintenance packages for the upkeep of the application on a long term basis.
We are a 100% software exports company since last 6 years, and therefore we understand Western work culture and professional requirements. This includes communication, reporting, sticking to deadlines and agreements terms, and confidentiality.

AnyLinuxWork has over a decade’s experience in off shore website development. We offer solutions for the right maintenance of the site so that the client has a hassle-free online business. We also offer several solutions for enhancing the enterprise operations of our clients.

We are excited to take these strengths at CeBIT Australia 2012 in Sydney. Our developers are looking forward to offering web development and design services that would create a positive difference for sites.

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May a thousand ‘jogging bosses’ jog!

March 29th, 2012

Jogging on the streets of Mumbai is probably the most non-Gujarati thing Anil Ambani would have ever done. Yet he is pretty particular about it. He was featured in a report published a few months ago in The Economist. The report listed many other ‘jogging bosses’ including CEOs of top-notch software companies of the likes of TCS and Wipro.

Since Indian Software Industry pretty much works as per the norms of the West, it is no less welcoming a trend that CEOs also want to look good in public. They want to stay fit to be more efficient and effective. They are often the ‘face’ of the company and that’s gotta be good.

AnyLinuxWork CEO is no different. He never misses his gym in the morning regardless of a previously fatigued day. He follows a disciplined lifestyle, meets his deadlines, sets examples and has plenty of family time too. In fact, it is his fitness consciousness that led him to get designed a plug-n-play product, a fitness portal called mFit. Well, that for later.

But what exactly works best for the CEOs? Fitness and health experts warn against going in for ‘targeted’ fitness goals such as losing a few kilos in a few weeks or trying to achieve too many things at a time. The reason why jogging works best for them is that it is usually an all-round exercise that has almost no side effects unless you already have a history of joint pains. They get plenty of fresh air in the morning that can be energizing for the rest of the day.

It’s almost ironic that they can afford the best of the gym any given day but most prefer to walk or jog. A very practical reason could be that gyms require a strict regimen to be followed on a daily basis. Since their lifestyles often require extensive travelling, going for a jog comes handy, almost anywhere. In addition, jogging helps de-stress – something that gyms often fail to.

Interestingly, quite a few research reports have been talking about a positive connection of jogging and ageing. It has been proven in most cases that keeping fit by jogging or cycling through middle age and beyond slows and even reverses the decline in muscle power, balance and co-ordination in later life. Google health articles and you might be surprised at finding how many of them recommend jogging as the topmost priority for health and fitness.

Psychologists have also stated that since jogging fights back stress to a great extent, it develops a better ‘self-image’ in people. This may be crucial for a top-notch CEO who is under a constant media glare almost all the time. Jogging increases self-confidence as it helps tone the body and provide it an athletic built.

That explains most clearly why a person in that position would do something as mundane as jogging. As for us back here at Team ALW, a great example has been set. And we have been following it for quite sometime now. What about you?

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Ageing miraculously!

March 29th, 2012

EVEN as the ‘age miracle’ creams do their usual rounds in the market and attract you through ads, natural ways to stay young continue to rule the fitness roost. The twist? You get to not only look good but also stay healthy. This approach practically goes beyond the oh-my-I-have-wrinkles mentality and helps you to view a more logical side of ageing gracefully.

More than wrinkles, the few things that really tell you are ageing are:

• Muffin Top: That ugly abdominal fat can make you look you are in your late 30s even when you are only 25 years old. The same goes for people older than that. Cut that fat and you will find yourself looking at least five years younger.

• Heart problems: Do you already have a blood pressure or a heart problem while you are still 35? If yes, this is the biggest indicator of your ageing faster than usu

• Gray hair: Grays are often the results of a stressful life. Ever wondered why even the youth aged between 18 and 25 have now started getting gray hair? That’s because a lot of stress has gotten into their lifestyles.

And why exactly are we discussing this? A study conducted in UK recently talked about the effects of exercises like jogging and cycling on the overall looks of people. About 20,000 people were questioned many of whom were found to be doing mundane things like housework or gardening to keep themselves fit.

The survey found them to be ‘younger looking’ and more relaxed about their ageing than those who did not exercise or did any kind of physical activity at all. Muscle power is one thing that is a definite advantage of physical activities like cycling, jogging and trekking.
Many other findings of the report have obvious parallels in India. It is usually found in India that women begin to lose their fitness when they are about 35. The most obvious reason being they are married, have children and feel more settled. At this age, their husbands have better incomes, more comfortable lifestyle. It cuts down on their housework as now they can afford a maid. Men in India, on the other hand, usually attain a more settlement in their professional life. Since they have left college a long time ago, they have somehow also left any charms for physical exercise. However, a disturbing trend in the country is the presence of abdominal fat, blood pressure problems etc among the IT professionals who are barely 26.
What should they do? The three most practical things that one can do are: jogging, cycling and housework. These three exercises have been proven to have delayed ageing by as many as 10 years. The reasons are simple – they help to burn extra fat, increase your muscle power and hence stamina, improve self-image, rejuvenate and energize the body.
Apart from jogging and cycling, even house chores such as sweeping the floor, gardening, cleaning fans, coolers etc are great exercises that would help delay your ageing process.

Team ALW often engages in activities such as jogging and trekking quite regularly. Quite a few of our team member are regular gym goers apart from others are who are very particular about their daily exercises and Yoga. Quite a few of our women testify of doing housework at least twice a week while the team often goes for trekking expeditions on weekends.
The reason why we are sharing it here is simply because if it’s possible in an IT company like us, it’s possible anywhere. Keeping fit can never go out of fashion and anti-ageing creams can never work wonders inside your body. You have to work from the roots. Start today.

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IT industry gets health-trendy

March 25th, 2012

Shocked by the decreasing average age of men getting heart attacks, IT industry is realizing the brutal effects of a sedentary lifestyle. There have been cases of young men aged 24 to 32 experiencing cardiac arrest. And so software industry in India is waking up to several health trends in order to prevent itself from heart diseases that creep into their lifestyles uninformed.

The health trends have come in the form of big and small initiatives from IT companies that are now suddenly very concerned about the health of their staff. Obesity is a common health condition among software professionals. It is the biggest drawback of a sedentary routine that eats into the physical activities of people. What are these health trends? And how healthy are they? Let us have a look.

Health Classes: Compulsory health classes have become quite a routine in many IT companies. The biggest advantage is that they are organized in the company premises an hour or so earlier than the usual work hours. As a result, most people have to attend it as the hours are made to count in their pay roll system. This has been by far the most practical way to achieve better health of the employees. These classes include Yoga, dancing, aerobics or simply some stretching exercise. ALW has been doing Office Yoga as part of the compulsory stretching among the staff for the last few years. We make it compulsory for each of the employees to choose a certain time of the day and do some stretching for at least 15 minutes.

Personal trainings: Personal fitness training packages have also become quite in among the IT circles. Many IT companies are tying up with local fitness centers to create packages exclusively designed to suit the work timings of their employees. Some companies have these fitness professionals come to the premises and do the training while others are providing separate fitness vouchers to be used by each employee during the month.

Sport activities: ALW ensures that at least twice a month, the employees get to really sweat it out in some kind of sport activities. Trekking is our favorite way to do that. In the past, we have trekked quite a few hills located around the city. Every member thoroughly enjoys trekking and most members look forward to it every month. During company or festival celebrations, we have cricket or races organized to make people work hard physically.

What started as a corporate health trend is slowly taking shape as a health revolution in the IT world. ALW has been quite proactive in keeping the health of its employees and is keen on setting newer trends in the times to come too.

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Corporate Health: A new way to stay healthy!

March 21st, 2012

In theory, most national-level IT companies have gymnasiums that offer fitness facilities. However, their work schedules rarely give the employees opportunities at a regular level to really take good advantage of these amenities. The concept of Corporate Health has helped to combat this problem to some extent.

Corporate Health has not been such a new concept abroad. In India too, it has been gaining momentum steadily for the last few years. Corporate Health is a concept of keeping the employees of a company fit and healthy. This involves a fitness company providing group health facilities to employees. The idea is to be able to keep people motivated for fitness and health. When you do activities in group, you are more motivated and inspired. Peer pressure plays a key role in really making people work hard on fitness.

So why must we embrace this concept? If we take a look at a few health reports, we have every reason to go for it. The World Economic Forum noted that 60% of deaths worldwide, in 2005, could be attributed to non-communicable diseases including heart disease, stroke, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes. This figure was projected to increase to 77% by 2015.

The reason why more and more companies are buying corporate health programmers is because these help in increasing the work productivity of the employees. Software professionals, otherwise, lead a very unhealthy lifestyle. This, in turn, affects their fitness and finally their productivity. Many companies have found that employees, after taking the corporate health package, had less number of sick leaves during a month.

For the software professionals, however, this can be a two-fold challenge. They must balance their work hours and keep up with the regimen provided by the fitness company in charge. And here’s where the corporate health package comes handy. Each such package is designed to suit the needs of a particular company, hence, it is more feasible for the employees and more practical.

Observations have shown that employees who took up a corporate health program have reduced blood pressure, reduced cholesterol levels, reduced obesity, better posture, decreased stress levels, reduced coronary problems.

AnyLinuxWork promotes the concept of corporate health for the benefit of its employees. It has been running several work place initiatives like Office Yoga during the last two years. The Office Yoga has helped our employees combat body conditions such as bad posture and backaches. Everyone has testified to having a better energy level after they have undergone a few Office Yoga exercises for a few minutes.

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Creating new IT trends

March 10th, 2012

One of the much hyped IT trends has been the ‘flexible work-hour-system’. No one cares what you do in the office as long as you complete your work within deadlines. Sounds pretty good in theory. However, in reality this exposes most software professionals to a work schedule which is practically not fixed. A practical implication of this is that most such professionals do not have a certain routine and they often find themselves doing only one thing – work.
The unscheduled lifestyle often takes its toll on health. And no one seems to notice this until much later when most people find themselves taking blood pressure pills. Here’s where AnyLinuxWork stands out. We have been following a fixed work schedule for many months now. And it has proved to be pretty successful so far.
Our objective is to ensure that our team members lead a stress-free life. We want them to have a positive personal life too. At the same time, professionally, it is so important to be able to learn time management in a way that you are able to have time for every priority. Thus, our team members hit work at dot 9 am every day and leave it at 7.30 pm. That way they learn to manage their time well while in the office and get to spend time back home too.
ALW has always believed in having its own ideas and work methodologies. And this system is one such idea that has struck a chord with our developers. People at ALW are more focused towards time now and are learning to manage their priorities well.

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‘Real’-ise your exercise regimen

October 31st, 2011

Did it ever happen to you that after deciding to walk on the treadmill, you realize swimming was better? Or after doing the aerobics for a week, you feel may be Yoga was a better idea? This is what we call the ‘exercise hang-over’ in which the other program somehow seems more attractive simply because you lose conviction in yours.
Some of ALW Team members were suffering from this recently and that’s what triggered a blog idea under this column. People, lets fact it. We lose conviction in our exercise program for two very simple reasons: one, we have been irregular in following it. Two, starting something is always easier than continuing it.
So let’s get realistic about it. When it comes to health, nothing works unless it is regular and consistent. And lets get it straight – changing exercise regimen often is more unproductive than being irregular but doing the same thing. So Lesson No 1: Stick to your plan, come what may.
The next major pitfall of exercising is to set some imaginative, quick-fix but unrealistic plans about losing or gaining weight. Please understand this, if someone has given you a target of losing 30 pounds in a month, this is unhealthy in more than one ways. First, it is unrealistic and so when you don’t reach the target, you will feel demotivated. Two, for your body it is extremely unrealistic to lose that much in such a short period. Lesson No 2: Make a realistic target.
Another aspect of setting unrealistic goals is also to try to do many things in a short span of time. For example, you have joined swimming. You run every morning plus you go the gym. How would you consistently find time for all this? Also, wouldn’t it affect consistently which is ultimately not conducive? Hence Lesson No 3: Try to follow one regime and stick to it.
On your gym instructor’s suggestion, you are following a certain diet. But are you also drinking enough water? That’s another important lesson. Your body has started consistent exercise, it badly needs fluids. However, instead of going in for many sweet juices, drink lots of water during the day to make up for the dehydration. Lesson No 4: Drink lots of water.
If you look at all these lessons, you will be able to really actualize your exercise regimen. It’s very important to follow timetable consistency. That’s the biggest key to be really effective in your health exercise life. So go ahead, implement it now. And trust your exercise programme.

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Holiday season, weight shoots up!

October 20th, 2011

A recent television show on fitness revealed something which should warn us on advance. Well Team ALW is already warned as it gears up to welcome the festive season. However, we thought of sharing what we learnt.

The show claims that an average person is likely to eat an extra 610 calories a day during the holiday season! Whoa, that’s a lot. But if you look at the real implications of it, yes, with the BIG Indian Holiday Season already round the corner, there’s a fair chance. Look at the amount of home-made ghee delicacies that we all devour every day starting Dhan Teras. Not to mention, the extra special meals that we all have of Daal Baati and the likes. The whole question is: can we avoid that? Nope. And so what do we do?

For one, you can start cutting down a bit of the sweets and heavy delicacies in terms of quantity if not variety. Like if you would devour some 10 Shakkar Paraas in a day, make it 3 to 5. Similarly, engage yourself in physical activity while preparing for the holiday season. Help your maids in sweeping and cleaning activities, considering that every household ends up cleaning up everything during Diwali. For example, at ALW, we have a trend of making all our employees engage in serious cleaning of their cubicles, work area etc. That helps them not only to live up to the holiday season , it also helps burn calories.

Another physical exercise that you can engage in is during shopping for the festival. Take stairs instead of elevators. Park a car a little far from the shopping center and walk some distances. This would practically help in burning extra calories that you would be consuming anyway.

Also, since you are eating the delicacies as they are almost during the entire season, try to have light dinners at home. You can enjoy in a party with ice cream, some cold drinks and some salad too, can’t you? We, at ALW, as always are committed towards our goal of fitness and hence we are doing all it takes. What about you? You too definitely don’t want an extra pound around your belly, do you?

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AnyLinuxWork to showcase plug-n-play products at The Gitex Show

October 7th, 2011

AnyLinuxWork, a web development company from India, will showcase three of its most prestigious plug-n-play products during The Gitex Show that is scheduled from October 9th to 13th in Dubai.

The three products are ‘A ShopNetwork’ – a shopping network application; Rent a Property – a rental portal for properties and mFit – a fitness portal.

The following is the detailed account of the three plug- n- play products of ALW to be showcased at The GITEX Show Dubai 2011.

1)     A ShopNetwork: A ShopNetwork is basically a network of shops where shop owners can run their stores on their own domain or as a subdomain. The registered users on this platform are able to switch membership from basic (Buyer) to premium (Store Owner) and vice-versa anytime. The portal enables the store owner to upload the products under specific category/sub category and can manage the theme of the stores. This is a shopping network application based on B2B and B2C model built on MVC architecture.

2)     Rent A Property: This project has been developed keeping the real estate rental industry in mind. With the trend of more and more people opting for 2nd homes at holiday locations, the property owners can use this portal for renting out their properties online. The holiday goers can get registered on this portal and choose their rental property for their next holiday destination at any part of the world.

3)     mFit Fitness Portal: Looking at the increasing fitness awareness coupled with social media features, AnyLinuxWork has created a unique fitness portal mFit. It can be deployed as plug-n-play system with client specific module customization. mFit can be highly customized and is a community portal for fitness enthusiasts with diet and fitness tracking tools along with Gym, Personal Trainer and Dieticians Customer Fitness management modules.

AnyLinuxWork, an Indian company at The Gitex Dubai 2011 Show is participating with a clear focus of winning more clients from the Middle East. AnyLinuxWork offers ready solutions for fitness sites, e-commerce, social-network, dating, Job board, real-estate, travel, e-learning along with custom built applications; application maintenance and support apart from on-coding SEO.

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AnyLinuxWork all decked up for The Gitex 2011 Show

September 28th, 2011

AnyLinuxWork, an India-based web development and marketing company, is all decked up with its competent software services and plug-n-play products to participate in the much acclaimed The Gitex 2011 Show slated to be held in Dubai during 9th and 13th October.

AnyLinuxWork is showcasing development and coding services on LAMP with a clear focus on PHP. AnyLinuxWork CEO Vivek Singhal said on Monday said that this year they are more aggressive in showcasing their services and products and confident that the participation would yield promising deals in future.

AnyLinuxWork is ISO certified web software and Development Company focusing on development and coding services. The India-based company offers ready solutions for fitness sites, e-commerce, social-network, dating, Job board, real-estate, travel, e-learning along with custom built applications; application maintenance and support apart from on-coding SEO. We also provide custom portals based on SaaS application. We work with Frameworks/ CMS like:
PHP framework; Zend and CodeIgnitor
Ecommerce packages; Magento, Interspire, osCommerce, ZenCart
CMS packages; Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, Moodle, etc.

Our OOPS based coding development follows MVC architecture to ensure robust and secure portals. With on-coding SEO services, we offer the services like Tableless CSS and XHTML, Keywords rich URL and filenames, Site Accessibility, W3C validation, Cross browser compatibility. We follow W3C and Web 2.0 standard for layout and website designing with CSS driven tableless and div tag.

Our internet marketing services includes – on-site and off-site SEO optimization with in-depth competitor and keyword analysis and strategizing, Pay Per Click (PPC) and social media marketing (SMM).

AnyLinuxWork  is excited to be part of the Gitex Show 2011 that offers opportunities for experiential marketing. The Gitex Technology Week held at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre (DICEC) paves way to the Middle East which is today one of the most thriving markets of ICT in the world today.

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