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Monitor your server uptime using checkitsup.com

shibubasheer — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:38:53 +0000

Cabot Solutions is pleased to develop checkitsup.com for Grobel Tech, an Australian IT Infrastructure service company. Checkitsup.com is a free service that allows system administrators add their server to be tracked for uptime. The service pings or polls smtp or http services in a preset interval and report any downtime instantly via email.

The service is a valuable tool for system administrators to make sure they want instant notification if the servers are unavailable even for a short period of time. The service is currently free, so get your free account and start monitoring those servers.

Development of Enterprise CRM system with Flex, CodeIgnitor, and Ilog Elixir

webadmin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:53:57 +0000

Cabot Solutions was approached by Sunny South Insulators, to build an integrated web based CRM application to help manage their client contacts, project estimates, scheduling, invoices and calendar modules. The application was to assist the firm to effectively streamline and manage its business processes.

Manage client contacts and maintain a log of all communications with the client.
Easily Generate Estimates in printable PDF format.
Create, edit and print Work Orders.
Issue Invoices after work is completed.
Update status of projects.
Visually Schedule engineers to Projects in a calendar.
Web based software with Rich User Interface for a Desktop like software experience

Our Approach

Sunny South had gone through a requirements cycle and had identified the high level functional requirements for such a system. After a couple of conference calls the Project Manager was able to break down all the requirements and come up with a Functional Requirement Specification document which Sunny South reviewed and signed off after a few iterations of changes.

Once the requirements were finalized, we proceeded to develop UI mockups of each screen similar to the one shown below. This enables the stakeholders to visualize the end product even before it is fully built. Armed with the final sign-off on the UI’s the team was ready to get into architecture design, DB design, and development.

Technology Stack

Flex 3 UI
AMFPHP and CodeIgnitor Integration
MySQL 5 Database Server.
IMB’s Ilog Elixir Flex API.
XML template based PDF Generation

Drupal Based Mortgage News Aggregation Site with Social Networking Features

webadmin — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:58:55 +0000

Cabot Solutions is pleased to announce the release of Mortgagespeak.com which is the latest product developed for a Marketing firm located in Chicago. The primary stakeholder of the site Greg Janecka had conceived the idea of developing a news and networking site that catered to the needs of the Mortgage industry in the United States.

Cabot proposed to develop the site using Drupal which brought many features out of the box including Blogs, memberships, Polls, and a powerful admin area to manage content of the site. Some of the innovative features we built are:

1. RSS aggregation into Drupal.
2. Facebook connect allowing facebook users to login and participate easily.
3. Display latest twitter post via twitter API.
4. Highly interactive home page news listing using JQuery.
5. RSS feeds for different news categories.
6. Newsletters.
7. Configurable Advertisement module to display sponsorships.

See the site here.

Mortgage Speak Screenshot

New Joomla site developed for backyardaquaponics.com

webadmin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:55:20 +0000

Cabot recently developed a Joomla based solution for backyardaquaponics.com. Backyard Aquaponics Pty Ltd, is a leading edge aquaponics company based in Western Australia. Originally started by Joel Malcolm as a means to provide information packages to people, who were interested in learning more about the subject, the company has now grown and changed quite a bit since those early days. Aquaponics is the symbiotic cultivation of plants and aquatic animals in a recirculating environment.

The new site was developed in Joomla and has the following features:

Innovative new design
Search Engine Friendly URLs
E-commerce shopping cart
RSS integration with PhpBB Forum

Backyard Aquaponics Screenshot