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sunil.singh

Merge replication — Points to be considered

20. April 2012, by sunil.singh

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While setting up merge replication I came across different hurdles and read many articles/blogs to get around those situations. With this write up I have tried to consolidate some of the important points which can be taken care while setting up merge replication or while trouble shooting merge replication. 1. Make schema changes with sp_repladdcolumn and [...]

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PG

Social Network Theory with MATLAB Code

2. April 2012, by PG

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In the last few decades, interest in Social Networks has seen explosive growth with Facebook being the poster child. Indeed work had gone on before that time in Physics especially in the area of “random networks” (Erdos and Renyi are famous names). In such networks, each new node is randomly connected to any previous node [...]

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Sachin Gupta

Where the Big investments flowing in…BIG DATA

23. March 2012, by Sachin Gupta

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Hot technologies attract money and interest from top executives of the firms. And when it comes to extracting useful information from unruly datasets, the firms open their exchequers to get the best and the latest solutions. The Big Data has been the paramount banner story in data management, advanced analytics and business intelligence for last [...]

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Amol Umate

Is your design SOLID?

19. March 2012, by Amol Umate

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There are good and bad designs but how do we measure them? Design is very subjective in nature and quality of design depends on various factors. In fact, having the same context, there can be possibility that two designers doesn’t converge to same/similar design. Software design principles represent a set of guidelines that helps us [...]

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Peter Harrison

It’s a marathon, not a sprint!

15. March 2012, by Peter Harrison

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We humans have a tendency to bite off more than we can chew, and this is especially true in the world of software, where faster is always better. But this breakneck pace can lead to physical and mental exhaustion within a team and drastically affect the quality of software and the expectations of clients. There [...]

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Rajender Aggarwal

Introduction to Java 7 Featuers

29. February 2012, by Rajender Aggarwal

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Date and Time API A new and improved date and time API for Java. The main goal is to build upon the lessons learned from the first two APIs (Date and Calendar) in Java SE, providing a more advanced and comprehensive model for date and time manipulation. Strings in [...]

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avinash.sharma

Managing Software Releases in Offshore Product Development

23. February 2012, by avinash.sharma

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In Offshore Product Development (OPD), we always focus more on having best practices for software development and quality testing than the best practices of delivering the software to our clients. Managing software releases also involve quality work which is actually the representation of what is contained in a software release. For example, a release report [...]

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Piyush

Agile can be Dangerous

21. February 2012, by Piyush

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CAESAR Good friends, go in, and taste some wine with me; And we, like friends, will straightway go together. BRUTUS[Aside] That every like is not the same, O Caesar, The heart of Brutus yearns to think upon! Julius Caesar: Act2, Scene2 (the scene right before Caesar's death) I wonder if it is not the same with Agile. Many projects which fail [...]

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rajkumar.subrayan

Sybase (SAP) DataWindow.NET

20. February 2012, by rajkumar.subrayan

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About Sybase (SAP) DataWindow .NET Sybase DataWindow .NET is a 4GL RAD product that helps boost performance of .NET application development by rapidly building and deploying data driven applications, easily incorporating complex business rules and delivering sophisticated data presentation. Just One Product Does it All Some .NET plug-ins will simplify data binding, but don’t offer many display [...]

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farida.khan

JSMS Configuration on Various Platforms

27. January 2012, by farida.khan

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Introduction Its been a tough job configuring this API on various platforms for the project. There was no striaght and simple way I could get from even the Internet. So writing down my own experience I have followed to configure this SMS API on Windows and Linux Platforms. Hope it would be useful for others who would need [...]

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