Using Agile Techniques to Pay Back Technical Debt

In every codebase, there are the dark corners and alleys you fear. Code that’s impossibly brittle; code that bites back with regression bugs; code that when you attempt to follow, will drive you mad.

Ward Cunningham created a beautiful metaphor for the hard-to-change, error-prone parts of code when he likened it to financial debt. Technical debt prevents you from moving forward, from profiting, from staying “in the black.” As in the real world, there’s cheap debt, debt with an interest lower than you can make in a low-risk financial instrument. Then there’s the expensive stuff, the high-interest credit card fees that pile on even more debt.   Read more

The Strongest Words in Leadership

Leadership is hard and the leadership journey is littered with many lessons learned along the way. While its obvious leaders are human and will always make mistakes, leadership behavior will always have a direct impact on the well-being and satisfaction of the people they are privileged to lead. It’s been said people don’t leave organizations, they leave managers and in most cases, I believe this to be true.    Read more

Web Application Automation: Why open source Selenium can be a good choice?

In Agile development practice, code is evolved on daily basis with dispersed teams across globe. Maintaining quality of the product is a major concern. To maintain quality of the product continuous regression tests need to be executed to ensure predictive behavior of the product with each release. Generally companies are maintaining a set of manual test cases and run them with each product releases. With each product release new features are added and hence these test scripts are updated with new test cases and hence they becomes huge. Time of execute these huge test scripts with each product release would put adherence to the release timelines which would significantly impact time of market of the product. Hence a need arises to automate these repetitive test cycles to reduce this time and increase time to market. A good open source tool Selenium will help in automating this repetitive task. Following are advantages of using selenium over other available tools in the market.     Read more

Godaddy Nameserver not registered.

We got some free new white-listed domain specific private  nameservers courtesy of our new Knownhost  VPS hosting. But setting up private nameservers is a little different, when you try changing the nameservers with your domain name registrar.

Usually your webhosting gives their nameservers to use, like this
ns1.knownhost.com
ns2.knownhost.com   Read more

How to install and set-up Nivo Slider on Drupal

This is tutorial based on the Views Nivo Slider. Nivo Slider is the Most Awesome jQuery Image Slider out integrated with Views and Imagecache modules.

(1) System Requirements (Drupal6 Modules)

1. CCK (Content Construction Kit)
2. Views
3. Views Nivo Slider
4. jQuery Update
5. Image Cache
6. Image API
7. Image Field
8. File Field
9. Link Field
10. Token (optional)   Read more

How to add ckeditor in cakephp 1.3

CKEditor is a text editor to be used inside web pages. It’s a WYSIWYG editor, which means that the text being edited on it looks as similar as possible to the results users have when publishing it. It brings to the web common editing features found on desktop editing applications like Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.  Read more

Overview of Tags-cloud plugin in wordpress

In Word-press Blogging,Tags are like micro-categories or index keywords for your posts.
Your site should probably only have 7-12 categories, but you can have hundreds of tags.
When authenticated user is publishing new posts or pages then it can add new category/posts tags mentioned in the right side bar of the listing page of posts/pages.  Read more