Hello jQuery!

JavaScript libraries/frameworks have gained a lot of popularity lately. A small though significant reason for the development / adoption of these libraries has been the large number of browsers, even writing a small piece of JavaScript which works on IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox 2, 3+ and Chrome can be pain, on the other hand inclusion [...]

An introduction to soapUI for testing web services

soapUI is a free, open-source desktop application specifically designed to inspect, develope, invoke and test WSDL or REST based web services.In this blog I have tried to introduce the tool and list some of its most useful features.In my successive blogs I will dig deeper and try to explain how it can be used to [...]

Professionally qualified to a true professional

In our times, the salaries at IIM Campus Placements grab the headlines and we draw satisfaction with how many Indians are in the Forbes billionaire list. In the mad race of outsmarting others in profession, the professionalism has taken a backseat. As society interacts with the professionals, we are confronted with situations that make us [...]

Test Driven Development with Zend Framework and PHPUnit

Over the past few days I was going through the Zend Framework reference docs and I found myself pleasantly surprised with all that the latest version of this web application framework provides. My first thought was to just acknowledge the speed in which PHP as a technology has been maturing. Out of the many new [...]

Using Fonts in Flex

Recently, I came up with a requirement where I had to dynamically load a language set (English/ Dutch/German/ French/ Hindi etc.) based on the locale for which our Flex application was running. And I found out that solution to this is using localization of languages. Along with that I also successfully embedded a free font [...]