In this post I will be explaining the concept of MapReduce and how Hadoop uses it. I will be talking mostly about what Hadoop is, what can it do, when to use it etc. So, lets try to associate Hadoop with the technical problem it solves. Suppose the application you are working on has ever [...]
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Symfony is a one of the best open-source PHP web application frameworks with a huge and comprehensive documentation. Symfony comes with default inbuilt testing framework for functional and unit testing. I recently started working on Symfony functional test cases. I personally found the testing framework very strong and useful. When I was writing functional test [...]
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Smartphones have made a deep impact on our lives. Applications not only provide services to the users or entertain them, but connect to them at an emotional level. At Xebia we strive to build apps that connect with users. Our first step in this direction was Talking Photos, an app which enables a user to [...]
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In the first part of this series http://xebee.xebia.in/2011/07/27/component-instrumentation-with-ria-test-part-1/#more-9326 , we discussed how RIATest has a default support for automation of TabNavigator component. Now lets apply our learnings and try to automate a third party component SuperTabNavigator(STN) which is a part of FlexLib components. The SuperTabNavigator is an extension of the TabNavigator navigation container and it functions exactly [...]
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One of the key requirements of any modern day enterprise product is to have the capability of Automation. While there are many products in the market today that provide UI automation testing (read Record and Play) but when it comes to automate flex applications, RIA Test http://www.riatest.com is as close as you can get to [...]
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