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15 Awesome Open Source JavaScript Charting Library for Web Developer

noreply@blogger.com (Sachin FromDev) — Fri, 25 May 2012 15:41:00 +0000

Although a web application can use many ways to depict graphs or data, still client side processing of data reduces the load on server and improves overall latency. Open source JavaScript charting libraries are great tools for implementing data in the form of charts and graphs at the client side. The list of famous open source JavaScript charting libraries is given below-

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16 Awesome Wireframe Mockup Tools for Developers

noreply@blogger.com (Sachin FromDev) — Tue, 15 May 2012 22:43:00 +0000

A good and reliable deliverable is essential for every web designing and development program. The most important of all deliverables are the WIREFRAMES and MOCKUPS. The biggest advantage of using these deliverables is that these are easily understandable by clients and are action oriented. In addition to this, these help in communicating vision and expectations in the most realistic manner and help in easy collaboration and discussion. The progress being made can be easily tracked by making use of WIREFRAMES and MOCKUPS, thus inspiring change and action.

Following is the list of the 10 most awesome Wireframe Mockup Tools for developers:-

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Top 7 PHP IDE for Website Developers with Open source Free Options

noreply@blogger.com (Sachin FromDev) — Thu, 03 May 2012 06:29:00 +0000

In order to get success in developing PHP sites it is necessary to have a good development environment. While producing web sites it is often necessary to edit HTML, CSS and JavaScript files. That is why usable IDE should supply all those file types and provide full set of tools for effective development.
This article includes list of some most popular PHP IDEs: Codelobster PHP Edition, Eclipse PDT, Komodo IDE, NetBeans IDE, PHPStorm, NuSphere PhpED.

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20 Excellent Free Survey Web Applications to Empower Your Business

noreply@blogger.com (Sachin FromDev) — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:30:00 +0000

Many products are designed by companies based on the ideas and responses given by real customers. Web based survey applications provide fast and inexpensive surveys which can be used to find out the demand for a product or service. Web based surveys provide customer’s response and priorities in 24 hours time, and it is a necessary component for online marketing because based on the responses, companies design personalized services, discounts or products. Some of the leading free survey web applications which can be used to empower your business are -

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Recipe: Storing Articles in a Content Repository - Spring in Practice

noreply@blogger.com (Sachin FromDev) — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:12:00 +0000

Spring in Practice
By By Willie Wheeler, John Wheeler, and Joshua White

Among the tasks a content management system (CMS) must support are the authoring, editing and deployment of content by non-technical users. Examples include articles (news, reviews), announcements, press releases, product descriptions and course materials. In this article, based on chapter 12 of Spring in Practice, the authors build an article repository using Jackrabbit, JCR and Spring Modules JCR.

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Creating a Weak Learner with a Decision Stump - Machine Learning in Action

noreply@blogger.com (Sachin FromDev) — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:45:00 +0000

Machine Learning in Action
By Peter Harrington

This article, based on chapter 7 of Machine Learning in Action, shows how to use the Adaboost algorithm to create a decision stump that makes a decision on one feature only.

A decision stump is a very simple decision tree. We are going to create a decision stump that makes a decision on one feature only. It’s a tree with only one split, so it’s a stump.

While we are building the Adaboost code, we are going to work with a really simple data set to make sure we have everything straight. You can create a new file called adaboost.py and add the following code:

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Top 5 Open Source AMQP (Advanced Message Queing Protocol) Implementations

noreply@blogger.com (Sachin FromDev) — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 05:03:00 +0000

Advanced Message Queuing Protocol is an open standard protocol designed to support messaging over middle-ware. AMQP created a functional interoperability between the client and the messaging middle-ware. The model consists of a set of components that route the messages within the broker service and a network wire live protocol lets client application to communicate with server and interact with the AMQ model. The protocol is used in distributed application and it includes point- to-point, publish, subscribe, fan-out and request-response messaging system. AMQP does not store messages, instead, the messages are routed to queues on behalf of recipient. Top 5 open source AMQP implementation are given below.
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8 Best Software Testing Books every QA Engineer / Tester Must read

noreply@blogger.com (Sachin FromDev) — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 06:03:00 +0000

Software testing is the process where the Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer / Tester tries to evaluate the capabilities of a program. The jobs of a QA Engineer is to design test plans to find bugs in an software, implement test plans, document tests, find out ways which can result in repeating bugs, submit a report to the software development team informing about all the bugs, give feedback in the terms of quality and assist the development team in preventing bugs in a software application. Below is the list of 8 leading Software Testing Books providing fundamentals of various types of testing techniques, tools and test-cases in real projects.
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7 Excellent Open Source Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Alternatives

noreply@blogger.com (Sachin FromDev) — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 07:37:00 +0000

An Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a software architecture model which finds greats use in providing a platform to developers for designing the communication between the software applications. Its function is to monitor the routing of messages. The bus architecture provides and encourages a person towards a loosely coupled architecture to the designers. Complex message exchange patterns are supported by the Enterprise Service Bus. It allows a person to provide business solution with web services running on several different platforms.
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Top 6 Agile Development Books a Project Team Member Must Read

noreply@blogger.com (Sachin FromDev) — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 09:30:00 +0000

Below listed books are highly recommended by readers and project managers working on Agile Development projects as they help get a 360 degree view of the techniques, tools and procedures used in Agile Development. To know some of the best practices in Agile Development, you must read these books whose synopsis is given below:

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10 Core Java Interview Questions & Answers for Senior Experienced Developer

noreply@blogger.com (Sachin FromDev) — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:13:00 +0000

This is list of some Java fundamental questions and answers, which are commonly asked in a Core Java interview for Experienced Developers. As a senior and matured Java Programmer you must know the answers to these questions to demonstrate basic understanding of Java language and depth of knowledge.
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How to Show the Minimize and Maximize button on Liferay 6.x Portlet for All Logged In Users

noreply@blogger.com (Sachin FromDev) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:49:00 +0000

liferay 6.x portal default portlet configuration does not display minimize and maximize icons on portlet headers. These buttons are only available to admin role users. For one of our projects, we had to display the minimize and maximize button for all of our logged in users. We tried to do a lot of research and realized that there is no easy way of doing it in liferay 6.x portal. This post is about a simple workaround we have found which will start showing minimize and maximize icons on all liferay portlets including custom and out of the box portlets.
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5 Excellent Open source Database Change Management tool for complex projects

noreply@blogger.com (Sachin FromDev) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:55:00 +0000

Database change management tools are of great help to developers and database administrators. These tools increase the efficiency of their work. Earlier database administrators used command lines to delete, create and edit databases. However now with the introduction of Database Change Management tools, the work load of the DBA’s has reduced considerably.

Below are given 7 different types of open source database change management tools which are of great help to the DBA’s:
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8 Best Software Requirements Analysis Books Every Business Analyst Must read

noreply@blogger.com (Sachin FromDev) — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:55:00 +0000

Every aspiring business analyst in software development field must be aware of the software requirements analysis methods, tools and techniques to ensure timely and easy implementation of software projects. Below is given the list of eight best software requirement analysis books which should be read by every business analyst.

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25 Best Free Eclipse Plug-ins for Java Developer to be Productive

noreply@blogger.com (Sachin FromDev) — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:57:00 +0000

Eclipse offers an integrated development environment having an extensible plug-in system. This enables Eclipse to provide all functionality on the top of its runtime system. It’s also different from other applications (where the functionalities provided by plug-ins are mostly hard coded). Having the appropriate Eclipse plug is important, since it facilitates the Java developers to seamlessly develop and implement applications which are J2EE and service-based. Eclipse plug-ins also helps them to implement their application on several types of application infrastructures.

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9 Excellent Books Product Managers must read to Create Great Products

noreply@blogger.com (Sachin FromDev) — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 08:19:00 +0000

A product manager’s role involves designing, operating, building and maintaining a good service. The role of product manager differs from one project to another which involves working on directing market strategies and products, and also educating executives about the related strategies. The below list of books covers almost all the topics related to product management, presentations and Agile, and are highly recommended to entry and mid- level product managers - [Continue Reading]

10 Excellent OpenSource VPN Solutions for your Business

noreply@blogger.com (Sachin FromDev) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:17:00 +0000

VPN connections are important for business establishments because of the sensitivity of the data that are being transmitted across the web. It is quite easy to use snooping software to crack the connection and trap the packets that are being transmitted through the web. Both wired and Wi-Fi connections don’t allow the basic security of the data. VPN systems thus allow a secure connection which encrypts the data and ensures that it cannot be tapped into. [Continue Reading]

11 Most Influential Books Every Programmer / Developer Must Read

noreply@blogger.com (Sachin FromDev) — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:09:00 +0000

Every programmer needs to learn new and updated programming methods as per the changes in technology to tackle complex situations. You should make best use of clean code and latest programming methods to design efficient, scalable and top notch quality software. The 11 most influential books which provide enormous information for a computer programmer are listed below, I feel every programmer must read them at least once –

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Top 10 RSS Feeds a Java Developer Must Subscribe to Learn Latest Technologies

noreply@blogger.com (Sachin FromDev) — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:07:00 +0000

RSS feed gives web readers the freedom to choose from bulk of information spread across the World Wide Web. Though there are ways to choose, its not easy to decide what RSS feed you must subscribe and/or NOT subscribe. [Continue Reading]

Top 10 Open Source Web Application Firewalls (WAF) for WebApp Security

noreply@blogger.com (Sachin FromDev) — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 18:02:00 +0000

Web application firewalls provide security at the application layer. Essentially, WAF provides all your web applications a secure solution which ensures the data and web applications are safe.

A web application firewall applies a set of rules to HTTP conversation to identify and restrict the attacks of cross site scripting, SQL injections etc. You can also get web application framework and web based commercial tools, for providing security to web applications. Web Application Firewalls allows you to customize the rules by identifying and blocking malicious content. Some of the most popular and widely used open source web application firewalls for web application security are – [Continue Reading]

10 Excellent Free Open Source Projects to create your own CDN - Content Delivery Network

noreply@blogger.com (Sachin FromDev) — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:55:00 +0000

A content delivery network helps to host content such as images, media files, static content and style sheets of a large website by reproducing a copy of data through the various nodes of a network. Additionally, content delivery software helps to reduce load of websites and to improve downloading time of the websites. CDN is not just software; instead, it is a mix of hardware and software which helps to solve the problem of web content downloading and management using synchronization, logging, authentication and load balancing. [Continue Reading]

15 Excellent and Cheaper Content Delivery Network (CDN) Alternatives to Akamai

noreply@blogger.com (Sachin FromDev) — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 22:51:00 +0000

A content delivery network system is a collection of internet servers which serves about one third of the most visited websites. The system improves speed of access for download-able data, applications, queries, web objects and media streams, as it increases the access bandwidth and reduces latency.

It contains copies of data located at different nodes of the selected servers, providing service from servers which are located geographically close to the user, hence saving access time. Furthermore, this unique method assists in reducing load on web application and improves scalability. There are several types of Content Deliver Networks which includes third party CDN providers too.

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10 Best Free Open Source Ecommerce Shopping Cart Applications For Business

noreply@blogger.com (Sachin FromDev) — Tue, 31 May 2011 18:09:00 +0000

To design and promote a new ecommerce website, you require deploying efficacious marketing, SEO tools and most importantly, an efficient shopping cart software. Shopping cart software should integrate an easy-to-use interface, safe transaction capability, good PCI security standards and a high speed service during the shopping transaction. Here is a list of the top 10 free open source e-commerce shopping cart applications: [Continue Reading]

5 Best Core Java Books you must read as a developer

noreply@blogger.com (Sachin FromDev) — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:35:00 +0000

If you want success in JAVA, you do not need to enroll in a class. You could save a lot of money by simply reading a good book. When you refer to a good JAVA book, you are also more likely to get detailed and current information than you would from a teacher or from self-education since good JAVA books are written by authorities in the field, authorities with years of experience in JAVA coding and an educational background in the same. The fact that there are many options available is also a big plus. Below are some great options: [Continue Reading]

How To Change Company Logo Liferay Portal 6.x

noreply@blogger.com (Sachin FromDev) — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:27:00 +0000

Liferay bundle (Tomcat) comes with a default company logo for liferay.com. In this post I am going to cover 2 ways to change this logo with your own company logo/picture. [Continue Reading]