I’m certain all participants in the Code Warrior App contest are anxiously waiting to hear the results... For starters, let’s start with the following information. The 3-week contest took place from 19th March to 8th April, 2012: · 350 apps submitted · Of these, 160 apps were contest eligible · 250 new developers joined the platform · 90 existing

April 13th and 14thas per the Hindu calendar, brings Baisakhi (the harvest festival) for the Punjabis, Nobo Borsho (Bengali New Year) for the Bengalis, Puthandu (Tamil New Year) for the Tamilians, Rongali Bihu (Assamese New Year) for the Assamese. And then there is the auspicious day of Akshaya Tritiya, which is believed to bring success and good luck. We at txtWeb, want to make this aus

The biggest sensation in the Indian cricketing calendar has started and it is sure to engulf the lives of every cricket-loving Indian for the next few weeks. txtWeb’s latest offering has been built keeping in mind this craze, this sporting extravaganza. We have for you : @cricguru, a gaming app that lets you predict winners for every match of the IPL and win exciting prizes!!! (Devel

One month into its existence, the Developer Marketplace is witnessing some interesting times – exactly what it was aimed for when it was doing the conceptualisation rounds. We have had 180 total bids so far for the apps that were up for grabs 47 unique developers have joined the platform since the kick-off. That translates to an average of 1.5 developers per day!! 8 projects have bee

txtWeb had a need to setup a Disaster Recovery environment in preparation for the upcoming India Premier League (IPL) during which we expect to see a huge surge in user traffic. We chose Rackspace as our provider for a hot standby. Some of the reasons for the decision are discussed in detail at the txtWeb Engineering blog. Click here to go there and read all about it.

I had the pleasure of attending the first ever Ubuntu Cloud Day on 4th April,2012 at Bangalore. These days such events pertaining to the Cloud have become norm with pretty much every company claiming a stake in theCloud Computing business. So I was a little skeptical going into the conference but it was completely sold out and in fact the organizers were not expecting 200+ people to be attending

Yes, you have read it right. It indeed is ‘April Full of Action’ and not ‘April Fool….’!!! Haha.. Now on a serious note and to get you into the groove of things that are being planned for next month -- we have Code Warriors for all our ace developers at txtWeb and IPL Bonanza for all our users, developers and of course, our audience. Check this – Code War

Time for our monthly round-up and this time too, we have a mixed bag of apps –there is an app for great quotes, to find out the answers of questions that start with “How to..”, to place orders at restaurants and to stay updated on the latest events in your city. It is encouraging to find that developers are taking a long-hard look at pain areas in the daily lives of people, co

Messi’s record-breaking knock last week woke us from our slumber. Many in India said, ‘Cricket be damned. Football is what we are crazy about”. After all nothing beats the adrenaline rush of those 90 minutes where, going by a diehard’s assessment, ‘countries put their reputation at stake”… For such football maniacs, txtWeb has a fair number of &

The main aim of txtWeb’s Campus Ambassador Program, which started in the last quarter of 2011, was to take txtWeb to colleges across India, thereby roping in the youth of the country, the end user. Two ambassadors, Sameer Mallik from Delhi and Rishabha Garg from Gwalior, were identified. And over the past six months of this initiativethe following inroads have been made: Have appro