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Web Application testing using Watir

janmejay — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:42:54 +0000

Watir (pronounced as Water) is a free open source tool which can be used to automate web applications. It is an extension of Ruby programming language. Unlike most of the other testing tools it gains the advantage of powerful features of Ruby and simulate browser interactions in very simple manner. Lets see how a simple [...]

Export complex HTML Tables to Excel

janmejay — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:41:22 +0000

I have been trying since long for the past 1 week over the Internet to find a help where I can convert a HTML page with complex table structure to be able to download in excel format without any luck.After struggling for a couple of days I was able to find a solution which I [...]

Understanding REST – For Beginners

janmejay — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:18:11 +0000

REST stands for Representational State Transfer. (It is sometimes spelled “ReST”.) It relies on a stateless, client-server, cacheable communications protocol — and in virtually all cases, the HTTP protocol is used. REST is an architecture style for designing networked applications. The idea is that, rather than using complex mechanisms such as CORBA, RPC or SOAP to connect between machines, [...]

Facebook and spotlike

janmejay — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 14:26:19 +0000

Social media is a big part of everyone’s life these days.People are spending more time on social networking sites than ever before. Of course, the most popular social networking platform is still Facebook. It surprises me how much time we spend on Facebook. People log in there to play social games and to get updated on what their friends are up to for the day or the weekend. Another [...]

Facebook tracks IP of users

janmejay — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 10:37:52 +0000

While I was in Mumbai last week, I saw a new feature on Facebook which notified me of Facebook friends who are from Mumbai. I recently saw a right hand side bar on Facebook which notified me about all my friends in Mumbai. I tried to replicate the same after I came back to Bhubaneswar [...]

Set Up Your Own Ubuntu Repository using apt-mirror

girish — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 19:48:42 +0000

What is Ubuntu Repository? It is the place where all software’s builds are stored for ubuntu. And when you make any install it downloads the package and install it. Who should create a Repository? If you have a lots of ubuntu machines and you want to update and install a lot of packages in all [...]

How to catch invisible friends on GTalk

janmejay — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:56:39 +0000

I always wondered that there must be a way to catch friends off guard when they are invisible. Luckily I came across Python’s XMPP library which helped me. On ubuntu Linux you can install this module using apt. ?View Code BASH1 $ sudo aptitude install python-xmpp python-dnspython The complete script is as below . Open gedit [...]

Google music launches in India

janmejay — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 20:29:18 +0000

Google has launched its online music service in India that enables users to search for legal music streams and downloads. For its Indian music search service (http://www.google.co.in/music) Google has partnered with In.com, Saregama and Saavn. The three digital music providers, hold rights to hundreds of thousands of Indian tracks – ranging from old and new [...]

Google’s priority mail service

janmejay — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:14:55 +0000

Don’t get surprised when you wake up tomorrow & you log on to your Gmail inbox to check your mails, you find sonething new on the left hand side taskbar. Google has this uncanny knack of surprising people & here comes a new funda called the priority mail. The Priority Inbox allows important emails to [...]

Turbocharge Your Website

janmejay — Sun, 23 May 2010 17:40:55 +0000

On the web, people have absolutely no patience. Your link pops up in Google search, someone clicks it, and the stopwatch immediately starts ticking. If your company’s website doesn’t pop up in two to three ticks, I can guarantee that before the fourth tick visitors will click the back button and try the next links [...]