Notes from Software Testing Conference (STC 2010)

Recently I attended STC 2010, the 10th edition of the international Software testing conference organized by QAI in Bangalore on 22-23 Nov. This year the theme of the conference was Testing 3.0- From transaction to transformation. I was pretty excited to see the conference program as the speakers included a good mix of industry leaders, [...]

Flex: In-Memory Image Cache

The Need: Flex, by default, maintains an in-memory cache for all the images embedded in the application at compile time. However, for the images loaded at runtime, there is no default cache implementation. So, over a period of time it may happen that we have redundant image data (BitmapData) in the memory. This would unnecessarily [...]

Experiencing Spring Integration with Iwein Fuld

Place : Xebia India, gurgaon Day 1: 17 Nov, 2010 This morning, I was going to attend Spring Integration training by no other than the guru himself, Iwein Fuld. I was definitely excited. I entered the training location to find close to 15 people in the room, we were supposed to sit in groups of [...]

First look at Google BigQuery

In this blog I would primarily be talking about the Google BigQuery API. This has been a major step in the computing world to provide database as a service on cloud computing environment. BigQuery API has been designed to analyse huge amounts of data in really less timeframe. Interface of the service is quite straightforward, [...]

Life in a Corporate -5, Importance of Professional Character

In my opinion, the following characteristics of professional behavior (positive traits) are very important in corporate life. Positive Traits: Honesty and truthfulness, polite and courteous, down to earth, ownership and accountability, self-organized and self-dependent I give a lot of emphasis to the above mentioned traits. I believe the above mentioned traits define your professional character. [...]