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Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Ten gadgets to make Google Wave more productive - and fun!

Mockingbird — Web-Based Wireframe App

noreply@blogger.com (Rajneesh Garg) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:38:00 +0000

Mockingbird is an online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application. It’s a true web app (no Flash).

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[Humor] Enterprise Architecture Made Easy

noreply@blogger.com (Rajneesh Garg) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:52:00 +0000

Enterprise Architecture Made Easy

via: Geek and Poke

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AdvertisementCode Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction

The Complete Guide to Google Wave

noreply@blogger.com (Rajneesh Garg) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:14:00 +0000

Gina Trapani and Adam Pash of Lifehacker have put together a comprehensive guide for Google Wave. Guide is available for free viewing here. A DRM-free is expected to be available for download in next couple of weeks, followed by print version in 2010.
Link: The Complete Guide to Google Wave

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Feeds 101

noreply@blogger.com (Rajneesh Garg) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:27:00 +0000

Feeds, RSS, Atom, Syndication, Subscribers... are some of the keywords floating around the web and have gained notorious prominence over the years. In this guide, Siddharth from Nettuts+ takes a look at a number of things including what feeds are, why you need to have a feed for your site, how to set up one and then publish it.

What are Feeds?

via Nettuts+

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MySQL as a web service from Amazon

noreply@blogger.com (Rajneesh Garg) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:30:00 +0000

Amazon is offering MySQL as web service in the cloud. As with all Amazon Web Services, there are no up-front investments required, and you pay only for the resources you use.

Amazon RDS gives you access to the full capabilities of a familiar MySQL database. This means the code, applications, and tools you already use today with your existing MySQL databases work seamlessly with Amazon RDS. Amazon RDS automatically patches the database software and backs up your database, storing the backups for a user-defined retention period. You also benefit from the flexibility of being able to scale the compute resources or storage capacity associated with your relational database instance via a single API call. As with all Amazon Web Services, there are no up-front investments required, and you pay only for the resources you use.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)

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Guide to Software Pricing

noreply@blogger.com (Rajneesh Garg) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:16:00 +0000

A highly useful guide on software pricing by Neil Davidson is available as e-book on author's website.
A printed copy can be purchased from Amazon.

e-book

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How to Avoid Twitter Cluelessness

noreply@blogger.com (Rajneesh Garg) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:44:00 +0000

Over at the American Express Open Forum blog, Guy Kawasaki explained how to not look clueless on Twitter. The first five ways are:

Don’t tell other people how to tweet.

Don’t tell the world that you unfollowed someone.

Don’t ask people why they unfollowed you.

Don’t constantly tweet mundane updates and babble.

Don’t use a small picture for an avatar.

To read all ten and why they impugn your intelligence, click here.

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The Tester's Pocketbook

noreply@blogger.com (Rajneesh Garg) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:20:00 +0000

The Tester's Pocketbook has been published and is available.

The book summarises the thinking on Test Axioms and the axiom definitions are hosted (and will be maintained in future) on the Test Axioms website.

The Tester's Pocketbook

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Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Generic Date Conversion Test Case Checklist

[Photo] Happiness is a way of Travel, not a Destination

noreply@blogger.com (Rajneesh Garg) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:22:00 +0000

Happiness is a way of Travel, not a Destination!

From Gatekeeper

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A Process Framework for Increasing the Probability of Project Success

noreply@blogger.com (Rajneesh Garg) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:44:00 +0000

Glen B. Alleman at Herding Cats have blogged about A Process Framework for Increasing the Probability of Project Success.

The cost estimates for the project and the basis of estimate for those costs. The customer wants to know how much the product or service will cost

A Work Breakdown Structure describing the products and their components to be delivered and the work process needed to deliver those products

An Organizational Breakdown Structure describing who is participating in the project

A Responsibility Assignment Matrix that connects the participants in the project with the deliverables of the project and identifies who is accountable for each deliverable

An Integrated time-phased plan and master schedule showing the flow of increasing maturity of the deliverables and the sequence of work needed to produce each deliverable to its planned level of maturity

A Work Authorization and Control Account process to allocate funding, control expenditures, and assure budget control of the project

A means of accumulating costs from each work activity (Work Package)

Analysis of the cost, schedule, and technical performance measures of the project

A set of management actions that use the analysis information

Baseline Change Control processes to maintain the integrity of all commitments of the project

Training needed to perform the processes

Surveillance needed to assure the process are being applied correctly and the expected benefits from these process are being delivered to the project

What form each of these processes takes is project and method dependent. But in the absence of some form of these processes, the probability of success is reduced.

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A Letter To The Programmer

noreply@blogger.com (Rajneesh Garg) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:37:00 +0000

A Letter To The Programmer

This is a letter that I would not show to a programmer in a real-life situation. I've often thought of bits of it at a time, and those bits come up in conversation occasionally, but not all at once.This is based on an observation of the chat window in Skype 4.0.0.226.

Dear Programmer,
I discovered a bug today. I'll tell you how I found it. It's pretty easy to reproduce. There's this input field in our program. I didn't know what the intended limit was. It was documented somewhere, but that part of the spec got deleted when the CM system went down last week. I could have asked you, but you were downstairs getting another latte...

From: A Letter To The Programmer

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Life in Balance

noreply@blogger.com (Rajneesh Garg) — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:47:00 +0000

life in balance:

life in balance

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Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Google Reader Absolutely Compact | userstyles.org

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Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PDT

How To Take Great Close-Up Photos

Agile vs Waterfall vs Iterative vs Lean Software Development - In Pictures!

noreply@blogger.com (Rajneesh Garg) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:26:00 +0000

Agile vs Waterfall vs Iterative vs Lean Software Development - In Pictures!: "Tara Whitaker has produced an excellent diagram to depict the key difference between Waterfall, Iterative, Agile/Scrum, and Lean software development, in pictures!

Take a closer look at it and read the explanation over on her blog, agile101.net...

Kelly.

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Web Page Profilers for Browsers

noreply@blogger.com (Rajneesh Garg) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:42:00 +0000

Web Page Profilers for Windows/Internet Explorer: "

A 'Web Page Profiler' is a tool that is used to measure and analyze web page performance. It is usually implemented as a browser plugin or add-on, and lets you see performance of web pages/objects as they are transferred/loaded/executed/rendered.

For Firefox, choosing a profiler is a no-brainer. Firebug is an excellent developer tool that includes profiling capabilities.

Firebug

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Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Imprisoned By Language - Value Research

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Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 PDT

How to hook up your US NTSC TV to work in India?

You Know You Work in Aerospace When...

noreply@blogger.com (Rajneesh Garg) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:02:00 +0000

You Know You Work in Aerospace When...: "

A little joke going around the office. This could be almost any place in the corporate world.

You've sat at the same desk for four years and worked for eight different managers

Your resume is on a jump drive, in your pocket

When someone asks what you do for a living, you lie.

You get real excited about a 3% pay raise

Your biggest loss from a hard drive crash is that you lose your best jokes and Internet sites

You sit in a cubicle smaller than your bedroom closet.

It's dark on your drive to and from work.

Fun is when "projects" are assigned to someone else.

Communication is something your Group is having problems with.

You see a good-looking person and know immediately it is a visitor.

Free food left over from meetings is your main staple.

All art involves a white board.

All real work is done prior to 9:00 AM or after 5:00 PM

You're already late on the assignment you just received.

Dilbert is your favorite carton.

Your boss's favorite lines are: "When you get a few minutes," "In your spare time," or "I have an opportunity for you."

90% of the people in your company do not know what you do.

90% of the people in your company do not care what you do.

Vacation is something you rollover to next year or a check you get each January

Change is the norm.

You read this entire list and understood all of it.

Presentation:CouchDB From 10,000 Feet

noreply@blogger.com (Rajneesh Garg) — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:35:00 +0000

Presentation:CouchDB From 10,000 Feet: "This presentation takes a look at CouchDB from 10,000 ft. CouchDB is a document oriented database with a highly acclaimed REST API and replication support, that solves problems of high-traffic, distributed peer-to-peer, and offline applications. all at the same time. You will learn to decide when CouchDB is a good fit for your project and when you are better off with a traditional database. By Jan Lehnardt"

Google Web Elements - Conversation

noreply@blogger.com (Rajneesh Garg) — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:19:00 +0000

Just added Conversation element from recently released Google Web Elements. It is available on the right side bar. Post your comments.

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Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Yahoo! Know Your Mojo!

Publishing Blog from Email

noreply@blogger.com (Rajneesh Garg) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:34:00 +0000

Test Post from Email

Regards,
Rajneesh Garg

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[Humor] Window Washer

noreply@blogger.com (Rajneesh Garg) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:08:00 +0000

(3 kids see a window washer)

Kid #1: "Oh, wow! I could never do that."

Kid #2: "I thought they had robots to do that now."

Kid #3: "Well, that's the job you get if you don't go to college."

From Overheard in Chicago.

[No offences with window washing job. It is just a joke.]

Google accounts on Twitter

noreply@blogger.com (Rajneesh Garg) — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:42:00 +0000

Like lots of you, we've been drawn into Twitter this year. After all, we're all about frequent updates ourselves, and there's lots happening around here that we want to share with you. Of course, we enjoy watching, and contributing to, the tweetstream (we hope you find our tweets useful, too). Because there are many programs and initiatives across the company, we've got a number of active accounts. Here's a list of the current ones. We'll update this list from time to time.

twitter.com/Google - our central account
twitter.com/Blogger - for Blogger fans
twitter.com/GoogleCalendar - user tips & updates
twitter.com/GoogleImages - news, tips, tricks on our visual image search
twitter.com/GoogleNews - latest headlines via Google News
twitter.com/GoogleReader - from our feed reader team
twitter.com/iGoogle - news & notes from Google's personalized homepage
twitter.com/GoogleStudents - news of interest to students using Google
twitter.com/YouTube - for YouTube fans
twitter.com/YouTubeES - en Espanol
twitter.com/GoogleAtWork - solutions for IT and workplace productivity

Geo-related
twitter.com/SketchUp - Google SketchUp news
twitter.com/3DWH - SketchUp's 3D Warehouse
twitter.com/Modelyourtown - 3D modeling to build your favorite places
twitter.com/EarthOutreach - Earth & Maps tools for nonprofits & orgs
twitter.com/GoogleMaps - uses, tips, mashups
twitter.com/GoogleSkyMap -Android app for the night sky

Ads-related
twitter.com/AdSense - for online publishers
twitter.com/AdWordsHelper - looking out for AdWords questions and tech issues
twitter.com/AdWordsProSarah - Google Guide for AdWords Help Forum
twitter.com/GoogleAnalytics - insights for website effectiveness
twitter.com/GoogleAdBuilder - re building display ads
twitter.com/GoogleRetail - for retail advertisers
twitter.com/TechnologyUK - for U.K. tech advertisers
twitter.com/InsideAdWordsDE - for German AdWords customers
twitter.com/GoogleAgencyDE - for German ad agencies
twitter.com/AdSensePT - info for Portuguese-language publishers
twitter.com/AdWordsRussia - AdWords news & tips in Russian
twitter.com/DentroDeAdWords - Spanish updates from the Inside AdWords blog
twitter.com/AdWordsAPI - AdWords API tips

Developer & technical
twitter.com/GoogleResearch - from our research scientists
twitter.com/GoogleWMC - Google Webmaster Central
twitter.com/GoogleCode - latest updates for Google developer products
twitter.com/GoogleData - Data APIs provide a standard protocol for reading and writing web data
twitter.com/app_engine - web apps run on Google infrastructure
twitter.com/DataLiberation - our initiative for complete import/export of all data
twitter.com/GoogleMapsAPI - about using Google Maps embedded in websites
twitter.com/GoogleIO - Google's largest annual developer event

Culture, People
twitter.com/googletalks - notes from our @Google speaker series
twitter.com/googlejobs - the voice of Google recruiters

Country or Region
twitter.com/googlearabia - news from the Google Arabia Blog*
twitter.com/googledownunder - Google activities in Australia & New Zealand
twitter.com/GoogleDE - Google in Germany
twitter.com/GoogleKorea - News & notes in Korean*
twitter.com/GoogleLatAm - Latin America (en Espanol)
twitter.com/GooglePolicyIt - Notes on Google policy issues in Italy

Source: Official Google Blog

How to Spin a Pencil Around Your Thumb

noreply@blogger.com (Rajneesh Garg) — Sat, 30 May 2009 16:00:00 +0000

Have you ever watched somebody in class or at the office skillfully twirl a pencil around his or her thumb and wondered how that person did it? Have you tried to do it on your own and found that it's not as easy as it looks? By following these steps and practicing - a lot - you can amaze curious onlookers with your brilliant pencil spinning, too!

A Few Unix/Linux Tips

noreply@blogger.com (Rajneesh Garg) — Sat, 09 May 2009 18:52:00 +0000

[Humor] Why the economy fell off the cliff

noreply@blogger.com (Rajneesh Garg) — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:15:00 +0000

John Smith started the day early having set his alarm clock (Made in Japan) for 6 am.
While his coffeepot (Made in China) was perking, he shaved with his electric razor (Made in Hong Kong). He put on a dress shirt(Made in Sri Lanka), designer jeans (Made in Singapore) and tennis shoes (Made in Korea). After cooking his breakfast in his new electric skillet (Made in India), he sat down with his calculator (Made in Mexico) to see how much he could spend today.
After setting his watch (Made in Taiwan) to the radio (Made in India), he got in his car (Made in Germany) filled it with Gas (from Saudi Arabia) and continued his search for a good paying American Job.
At the end of yet another discouraging and fruitless day checking his Computer (Made in Malaysia), John decided to relax for a while. He put on his sandals (Made in Brazil), poured himself a glass of wine (Made in France) and turned on his TV (Made in Indonesia), and then wondered why he can’t find a good paying job in America.

iTune installation failure on Vista

noreply@blogger.com (Rajneesh Garg) — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:03:00 +0000

Today, I received my iTouch, and as I tried installing iTune from Apple, I could not believe when the installation failed. I tried again, and it failed again. It kept on happening for some more tries (between the multiple reboots I did). But it did not installed on my Lenovo having Vista Home Premium. As I double click on 70 MB+ files I downloaded freom Apple's website, a DOS window disappears as soon as it appears. I am at my wits ends!!! I have been able to install softwares of my choice on this laptop, and never before, had a problem. I think there are many many Vista users who are having the trouble with new version of iTune. Help me if you know the problem and the solution. Meanwhile, I am downloading the previous version of iTune for installation.

[Update] - Installation of iTune 7.7 was successful; however, when I connected my iTouch, it refused to work with it, saying v8 or later is required! I then updated iTune from its Help menu option. The update was of 85 MB, and it went well. I connected my iTouch, and it immediately recognized it. No problems faced this time!

How Google Is Showing Off Chrome

noreply@blogger.com (Rajneesh Garg) — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:55:00 +0000

The Google home page has been ransacked. The familiar, colorful logo is upside down. The search box and the "I'm Feeling Lucky" tab have been uprooted and now point up at a rakish angle, jutting into white space. Other links have tumbled from the top navigation bar and lie in a heap on the side of the browser. What on earth is going on? Have the hackers taken over?

The screwy design is part of a new series, Chrome Experiments, that Google is launching on Mar. 18 to demonstrate the potential of Chrome.
The jumbled home page is actually a program called Google Gravity. British interactive design firm Hi-Res! recreated the search giant's regular home page, giving users the ability to wreck the joint. With the mouse, a user can spin the traditional elements into space. They soar, they careen, they bounce, until they settle higgledy-piggledy at the bottom of the browser window.

Links: Business Week Chrome Gravity Experiment Chrome Gravity Experiment