DCKAP Builds HealthCare Infotainment for Lyceum Health

DCKAP Builds HealthCare Infotainment for Lyceum Health
MyHealthTips.com brings accessible & entertaining evidence-based health information

Useful and funny health films from Dr. Robert Buckman, with MONTY PYTHON star Terry Jones help people understand and manage chronic diseases, complemented by online tools and coaching-support systems from Lyceum Health. The health tips are validated by evidence-based research from medical experts.

Myhealthtips.com brings the top ten tips for health videos featuring Dr. Rob Buckman and Terry Jones. Myhealthtips.com also has News & Digests, Online Tools & Resources, Points & Rewards, Experts Stories and Patients Stories. The site offers five online, subscription-based programs created with medical experts and award-winning entertainers. Videos discuss Type 2 Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, Weight Control, How to Quit Smoking and Asthma.

DCKAPdeveloped the health care application Myhealthtips.com for Lyceum Health. Powered by the open source content management platform running millions of web applications, Drupal, this versatile edutainment site was built by DCKAP to the unique business requirements and precise client specifications in seventy seven days. The site effectively demonstrates configurability and customization, creative use of media, content delivery and payment processing functionality, with a delightful user experience. And don’t forget the gift option at checkout!

Technologies Used

• Drupal 6.22
• PHP 5.3
• MySql 5.1.37
• Wowza Media Server 3.0.3

Myhealthtips.com implements Ubercart for online sales of the programs offered (videos, web tools and pdf documents), along with processing for VAT. It helps the users to purchase the programs in their currency of choice, including the US Dollar, the Euro and the Canadian Dollar.

Payment processing in enabled using Paypal Payment Pro.

Videos of all the chapters of every program are shown on the site using JW Player.

WowzaMedia Server and Windows Media Security are used to make the videos highly secure. Health Programs content is loaded as a PDF documents. Document reader is embedded in the website using Scribd so that the user can easily read, search, print and download the files.

Wowza Media Server is a unified server software used for streaming of live and on-demand video, audio, and rich Internet applications (RIAs) over public and private IP networks to desktop, laptop, and tablet computers, mobile devices, IPTV set-top boxes, internet-connected TV sets, and other network-connected devices.

A team of world-class support program facilitators, health educators, medical copywriters and editors, designers, medical illustrators and technology experts, Lyceum Health researched and developed over 1,500 patient and family education programs over the last 14 years. Lyceum Health teams up medical experts with award-winning comedic entertainers. MyHealthTips.com is owned and operated by Lyceum Health.

In 1994, Dr. Buckman was made Canadian Humanist of the Year, and in 2003 received the Fleming Medal of the Royal Canadian Institute for the Advancement of Science. Rob had passed away in his sleep on his flight home to Toronto in October 2011. This would honor Rob’s legacy, not only as a leading expert in doctor-patient communication, but also as a gifted comedian and entertainer.

Writer, film director, performer, comedian, popular historian, political commentator and TV

documentary host Terry Jones is best known for his Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Terry studied English and History at Oxford. He continues to lecture and has received honorary doctorates from several universities.

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Open Source Sees Surge in Q3/11 – Client Interest in Drupal Up

Open source technologies for business applications, from small business solutions to enterprise-grade systems, registered higher interest from clients during third quarter 2011, DCKAP has noted.

New projects during this period have shown a distinct preference for the open source web development platform Drupal.

Fremont, CA Oct. 21, 2011 – Open source technologies for business applications, from small business solutions to enterprise-grade systems, registered higher interest from clients during third quarter 2011, Fremont based global technology services company DCKAP has noted. New projects during this period have shown a distinct preference for the open source web development platform Drupal.

Globally, open-source software is driving innovation. Recent research confirms the trend in corporate governance with high profile, scalable sites increasingly migrating to Drupal. The study also shows 187 of the Inc. 5000 companies have their main site on Drupal. Business, education, government and many other sectors see Drupal as the next generation platform to create a robust Web presence. Corporate world continues to gain significant benefits from open-source web and database applications. Drupal has demonstrated that it can significantly improve SEO rankings.

DCKAP, with its extensive expertise, has been at the forefront of offering services in Drupal development, having developed numerous Web applications using Drupal. DCKAP provides comprehensive Drupal services for business web applications.

DCKAP has developed many successful Drupal applications with MySQL, such as. DCKAP’s Drupal development group is staffed with experienced developers, programmers, designers and SEO specialists.

With DCKAP’s custom online content applications and user communities in Drupal, you can publish rich content, interact with customers, build communities around your products and services and achieve a competitive edge. Drupal’s extensible architecture also provides a significant advantage and is well suited for enterprise web applications.

Drupal enjoys a steady growth of its user base. A study by w3techs showed that currently, nine websites among the top million every day, decide to start using Drupal. While during the year the usage of Drupal grew steadily from 1.4 per cent to 1.7 per cent of all websites, it has seen a steep rise during July-Sept, 2011.

Usage of Drupal for websites
src: W3Techs.com, 3 Oct 2011

About DCKAP
DCKAP (www.dckap.com) is a Fremont, CA based global technology services company delivering technology driven business solutions that meet the strategic objectives of the clients. Founded in 2005, with offices in USA, the UK, Australia and development center in India, DCKAP has earned appreciation from well respected Fortune 100 companies for its competent applications development services.
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DCKAP Hires New PHP Talent in July 2011

Adds fresh talent and continues to move on the growth path

Aug. 03, 2011

Indian companies will continue to hire aggressively during the remaining months of the current financial year, with the Information Technology (IT) industry expected to offer the strongest hiring prospects. According to a most recent study, India Inc has now begun to accelerate hiring of candidates fresh from college. The IT & ITES sector has hired sixteen percent more people in the first quarter. The entry-level recruitment has increased by 32 percent year-on-year during April-June.

DCKAP has completed the July 2011 cycle of the special recruitment process for entry-level positions of Trainee Software Engineers. Based on academic record, performance at the written test and face-to-face interviews, DCKAP has filled several critical positions in applications development, Internet technologies, PHP scripting language expertise and other skill sets. They will receive focused training after which they will work on global technology projects at the Chennai development centre.

DCKAP wholeheartedly thanks every one of the large number of candidates who went through the selection process and extends them its best wishes for career success. Every young person should strategically acquire accomplishments and qualifications, which are not only valued by employers but also consistent with their own preferences, goals and individual talents. DCKAP believes they should build their career choices according to their personal strengths and aspirations.

Talent induction is an ongoing process at DCKAP and many current openings in various technology areas are already on the job boards.

Web Application Development- Your innovative way of development

We live in an era, where time means everything, right from getting things done faster to saving that extra buck. The advancement of technology has enabled us to carry out most of our work electronically. Electronic process of doing things not only reduces the time required but also energy involved in it. Application Development is a process of developing customized software according to the needs and requirement of clients and the nature of their job. It helps the organization to carry out its functions electronically in a faster and smarter manner for better results.

From the <BLINK> tag to the modern day XML, Web Application Development has come a very long way. With Internet becoming a basic necessity of our daily life, there has been a steep rise on the number of users as well as the number of websites.

A number of languages are available that can be used to make software applications of a website. These purely depend on the client requirement and the webpage structure or the platform in which the proposed application is to run on, i.e., mobile or web application. PHP, ASP, JavaScript, Dot Net are some of the major coding languages used. Each language has its set of own distinct features. Also each language varies from other languages in terms of functioning and requires an in depth understanding of the technology to be used for the development process. In case of website creation, each of these requires different set of software applications to run the server.

Web application development is a specialized skill which involves development, maintenance and updation of software applications to be used in creation of web pages. As with each of these languages, even each of the web applications differ from others in terms of functions and uniqueness. So based on one’s requirement one needs to go ahead choosing the appropriate language so suit their requirement. One more important point which has to be kept in mind is that in order to use any of these languages or applications, complete in-depth knowledge of the language should be there in order to make complete use of them.

One final point to be kept in mind while doing Web Application Development is that, these applications are not made just to serve current customers but rather it’s a way of attracting more and more people to your site, hence getting additional business, so having this in mind Web Application Development has be proceeded.

Having mentioned the precautions and expertise needed in working with Web Application Development projects, DCKAP Technologies is one perfect example who for the past 4 years has been dealing with such projects and has been delivering consistently. Utmost care is taken right from the analysis stage till the maintenance to ensure that client gets what he wants. With 24×7 support services, DCKAP ensures that clients system is up and running at all times thus ensuring that his routine business does not get affected at any cost.