Jaxara has declared CoLA (Cost of Living Adjustment) raise for the year 2012. It is fixed at 10.4%, and will be effective from July’ 2012. This raise offered once a year considering the market inflation and adjusting the salary of employees. This is done, so that the employees can support a steady living standard.

Jaxara offers a range of benefits to reduce stress and distraction and let employees focus on their work. This approach creates an environment that integrates company values with employee needs.

Mr. Mostakimur Rahman has joined Jaxara as a Quality Assurance Engineer. He has 6+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance.

The Jaxara In-house Table Tennis tournament 2012 finally draws to an end. This tournament has been a much awaited event at Jaxara. This event had all the employees excited about some good natured fun and entertainment. After some fierce competition among the star players we have the winners of this tournament.

• Jaxara In-house Table Tennis Tournament 2012 Champion: Ali Tareque Chowdhury
• Jaxara In-house Table Tennis Tournament 2012 Runner Up: Ashiqul Islam

As a part of the GOAL 2012 program, a technical session took place on the 3rd July, Tuesday by our Senior Software Engineer Mr. Mahbub E Elahi Ron on ‘Drupal Deployment Process’. This is his second session on this topic. All the developers and QAEs from PHP team were present in the session. Participants also attended in Question & Answer session on their various issues related to site deployment. Following topics were discussed in the session: —

• Review of last session
• INITIAL_DB_SETTINGS parameter —
• Managing and deploying configurations —
• Using views Export —
• Features

The session was followed by a demo on deploying a Drupal site through Jenkins and Drupal ‘Features’ modules.