Blogs

In my grails plugin I was needed to add some fields that were common to a set of domains. For eg: for some domains we wanted to store fields like createdBy and lastUpdatedBy to keep track of users who created and last updated each record in that domain. Grails framework provides timestamping using which we […]

On January 14, 2015 one of the busiest business areas in Jakarta went down in mayhem when an explosion occurred not far from the Starbucks café in the downtown. The perpetrators of the attack also wreaked havoc by aimlessly shooting in random directions with the ammunitions they carried claiming 7 lives and 24 others injured. […]

UseCase I am using Apache Solr as a search platform integrated with AEM CMS. I had a requirement where I needed to highlight the matching part of the text in the search results. Another part was that it should work even if the browser doesn’t have javascript enabled. Solution To achieve the highlighting functionality I used […]

In this blog, Model View Controller (MVC), Model View Presenter (MVP) and Model View View-model (MVVM) are briefly discussed. We’ll see… what are these design pattern? What impact do they have in our daily coding habits?What are their different use cases? How we can implement these in our Android projects in order to reduce the […]

Database Testing Whenever we talk about any windows or web application testing, Database does always sound loud. Backbone of the application always take care with the database. So as a QA it’s very necessary for us to take care of this backbone to prevent the application from the forthcoming defects in our functional test. When […]

CSS3 buttons with animation effects that are created. Web designer easy to find more creative though on web design buttons. The effect on the buttons is created using the box-shadows and linear-gradients properties. There are two gradients used basically, one is linear and the second one is radial to make the effect much nicer. {HTML} […]

Android introduced mipmap drawables for providing more flexibility to design the launcher icons. mipmap first introduced in Android Jelly Beans 4.3.  If you are building different versions of your app for different densities, you should know about the mipmap resource directory.  This is exactly like normal drawable folder resources, except it does not participate in […]

  Market of mobile applications is growing every day and even going to become more demanding as technologies are rapidly developing. In Mobile-Internet era people use smart phones to connect to internet for work, networking, gaming, shopping and other everyday activities. Mobile devices have witnessed a phenomenal growth in the past few years and there […]

As the requirements in subsequent development cycles are shared over email or on calls, hence, they tend to get scattered. Insufficient requirements also add to this problem. Lack of documentation asks for a smarter way to collate and translate the requirements into testing artifacts such that they don’t get missed out. Hence this blog is […]

Now a days , Almost every mobile app includes some sort of network hits to perform its functionality and there are many alternatives available to perform network operations.Networking libraries are one of the best option for this.Now the question arises which library we should use.The confusion is mainly with two popular and most used libraries […]

How 2015 unfolded on Google Search Another year has come and gone, and as we look into the Global Google Search trends for the year that was, we are given an interesting insight on how events that occur on one end of the world, is reflected on the other end. In November 2015, there were […]

Ever wanted to have your own custom loader view instead of iOS default activity indicator? Is it difficult to create your own custom loader ??? No, it’s not. You can easily create custom loader using UIImageView animationImages property.You just need images using which you will create your own loader. So here is the way to […]