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Added:08 Oct 2018
Author:Mukulika Mukherjee
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Writing an Effective Thank You Email

The Email Etiquette Series is all about writing emails that people love to read. So far, we have covered the common mistakes to avoid as well as the points to…

10 Essential Hints for Python Programming Beginners

I trust that the initial phase of learning any programming language is ensuring that you understand how to learn. Figuring out how to learn is apparently the most basic expertise…

The Benefits of Enterprise Search in Healthcare Industry

A unique search driven approach is what we need to improve the quality of healthcare and business performance of the healthcare industry. By analyzing the unstructured data in the Healthcare…

An Introduction to Automation Testing

Automation testing has become a key part of software development process in most organizations across the globe today. There are several advantages of automation testing and it is experiencing rapid…

TO vs CC vs BCC: How to Use Them Correctly

The Email Etiquette Series is all about writing emails that people love to read. So far, we have covered the common mistakes to avoid when writing professional emails as well…

An App Entrepreneur? Get answers to the questions bugging you!

Even if your app idea is paramount, it really takes a lot more than just putting up your app in the play store to be successful. Though mobile apps…

Which Points to Focus On Writing a Business Email

The Email Etiquette Series is all about writing emails that people love to read. In the first post of the series, we had looked at the common mistakes to avoid…

Common Mistakes to Avoid When Writing the Perfect Email

The Email Etiquette Series is all about writing emails that people love to read. As promised, we begin with the basics and then gradually move on to tackle emails with…

Major Factors Affecting App Development Cost

With such a demanding and smartphone-centric world, having a business app is now a must. Most of your potential customers are way mobile these days and love to browse websites…

The Email Etiquette Series: An Introduction

The advent and ever growing popularity of social media and messages has overshadowed the email when it comes to communication with your friends and family. However, when it comes…

What's 2018 Holding for Mobile App Development Market?

Today, the mobile app ecosystem is considered as one of the biggest technology markets. With more than 6 million mobile applications present in the App Store and Google Play…

GUI vs Usability Testing: Understanding the Difference

When you test your web application for potential bugs and issues, before you make it live, there is a list of testing types that need to be carried out. GUI…

How Usability Tests Play a Crucial Role in Improving User Experience

Usability is one of the key aspects of web design that is often disregarded. Yet, ideally it should be considered way before even deciding which among the various software development…

What makes Python the Most Powerful and Fastest Growing Language

If you look at the rankings of the most popular programming languages, Python is stably at the top positions and surpassed only by languages (Java, C, C ++) that have…

The Pragmatic Programmer: A Book Review

Why are you here? Well, for now, it’s not a spiritual question as to why we all are ‘here’ (which should be a constant question in your mind…

Limitations of Search Databases in Medical Literature

Given the exponential growth in medical literature, finding relevant information sooner is critical. Researchers, with more content and less time to analyse it, need systems that are smart and intelligent…

Meltdown and Spectre CPU Vulnerabilities and its Remediation

Researchers from Google and the research community have independently discovered one hardware vulnerability each, that focus on a flaw in the CPU. If this flaw is taken advantage of,…

An Intuitive Way to Search with Natural Language Processing (NLP)

We know that computers understand programming languages but how about making them understand human language, the language that you and me speak? Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a field…

Serverless Architecture Set to Redefine Business Computing

Serverless is a highly trending term in the world of software architecture right now and one can judge this from the many references of the term in journals, products, and…

9 Reasons Automation Testing is Key to Successful Software Development

How is automation testing different from manual testing? Well, while manual testing involves a person in front of a computer, executing each test step, automation testing involves using a program…

Web Application Security Guidelines: Protect your Application from Threats and Hacking

Research estimates that 75% of attacks against Web servers are entering through applications and not at the network level. And when a company makes even minor changes on its websites…

Gartner Predicts Growth in Investment in Information Security Services

Gartner has predicted that worldwide information security spending will witness a growth of 7% in 2017, with the total amount spent reaching close to $93 billion in 2018.

This indicates that…

Automation Testing: Myths and Solutions

I have often observed that a lot of QA professionals get confused when it comes to what should be the automation coverage for an application.

Automation is meant to reduce cycle…

10 tips that will help protect your system against Ransomware

A massive global ransomware attack has struck hospitals, companies and government offices around the world, seizing control of affected computers until the victims pay a ransom. Majority of the attacks…

Earned Value Analysis to Know Real Health and Performance of Your Project.

The Project/Program Managers usually evaluate the triple constraints i.e. Time, Scope and Cost. While evaluating this IRON TRIANGLE, they are trying to judge if the ongoing project…

Risk Based Testing - Know the right time to account it and implement it

It is real hard to comment at what point the testing should be denoted as enough testing. It’s even more difficult to predict that the product is defect free post…

4 important tips you will need to handle your new client better

It’s quite often that we all face a lot of challenges when getting on to the newer assignments and engagements while we work on any business streams. The challenges may…

Automating tasks using Gulp

Gulp is a tool for task automation. Gulp helps in many automated tasks like parsing, watching files for changes, refreshing, bundling and minification, executing tests before build, checking against jslint,…

Domain Capability Building on New Service Offering

Your sales team/management managed to win a project in a domain that is new to the organization. You have the technology resource who can implement and/or test the solution but…

Top 3 Email Goof Ups to Avoid

Over an informal morning coffee break with the team, we exchanged anecdotes on how people sometimes goof up simply by sending an email to a wrong recipient. This is what…

Key Features of an Effective Enterprise Search Platform

The unsurmountable amounts of unstructured data that organizations have to deal with today has given rise to the need for an effective enterprise search platform. An enterprise search tool…

Working with Enterprise Search Relevancy Challenges

When enterprise searches are built from scratch, evaluation of the search quality remains key challenges of organizations implementing it. It always gives a feel of living in the darkness all…

Building A Testing Center of Excellence

Most of the organizations make huge investments in their enterprise product development requirements and over a period of time end up having a huge inventory of scattered applications developed…

High Speed Ingestion into Solr with Custom Talend Component Developed by T/DG

In this blog I will explain how to use High Speed Talend-Solr Ingestion components, released by T/DG as open source, for ingesting documents into Solr and its benefit.

T/DG released 3…

Self-Hosting Web API 2 Using OWIN

OWIN stands for Open Web Interface for .NET . OWIN is an abstraction between .NET web servers and web applications. It decouples the application from the server, making it ideal…

SOLR Security with ManifoldCF

This article explains how to implement SOLR “document level security” using Manifold Connector Framework. ManifoldCF is an open source framework for pulling content out of a repository and sending it…