The Pros and Cons of Website Templates
Web site templates can help you get a start on your online business. With the emergence of the Internet, it is not uncommon for a business to have its own web site. In fact, most businesses now have...
View ArticleDefine Site Requirements – Initial Questionnaire
Here is a list of questions that should be asked to the client during the initial interview for a web design project. Management What is the main objective of the site? How about secondary objectives?...
View ArticleCustom Development – Requirements Documentation
A requirements document is a very powerful tool if used properly. This maybe the most hated task of developers, yet it is essential. As the saying goes – “Do the right things, then do things right“....
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Analyze Site Architecture
Analysis of website architecture used to be simply organizing the information and contents into a logical presentation such that any user can easily navigate your site. The good old way is to follow...
View ArticleWeb Site Design – Navigating Towards Success
An important consideration with web site design is navigation. Users and prospective customers who visit your site would want to easily find their way around, or else they leave. If you have an online...
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Continuous Integration with Continuum
After setting up Continuum, I find it reasonably good to support continuous integration (for a free/open-source solution).The package for download is ready to run and easy to configure. This supports...
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Unfuddle – Great tool for project tracking
I’ve recently come across unfuddle(http://www.unfuddle.com) which is a project tracking tool and hosted source repository. This site is built on RoR and behaves similar with Basecamp. I’m currently...
View ArticleArtistic Codes – The Art in Software Programming
Many conceive that programming is a science of computational logic but that’s only half the truth. Programming is more than science, it’s an art. If you disagree, then you’re as good as someone fresh...
View ArticleElegance in Approach – The Art in Software Programming
Elegance in Approach Another form of art in programming is the approach or architectural design. This topic requires strong technical background and experience, but still, designing your architecture...
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Agilism at Ideyatech
As defined in Wikipedia: Agile Software Development is a conceptual framework for software development that promotes development iterations, open collaboration, and adaptability throughout the...
View ArticleLow-tides : JS/CSS Merging and Minification Tool
As recommended by Yahoo on YSlow – tip #1: Make fewer HTTP request and tip #10: Minify javascript- we aim to implement these tips on all our projects with minimal head-ache. While these recommendations...
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Continuum vs. Hudson
We’ve been using Continuum for quite some time now. While Continuum does seem to do a good job managing our builds, its limited support for JUnit Test reports made us evaluate an alternative, Hudson....
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Apache Ivy : An Agile Dependency Manager
Like most of us often hear, “its another framework or dependency management tool”. But what exactly differentiates Ivy from Maven? Ivy is much easier to use. The library is simpler since it doesn’t do...
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Success factors in outsourcing
Outsourcing helps your business by allowing it to focus its energies and resources on its core strengths. However, the success of outsourcing depends on a lot of factors, the top of which comes from...
View ArticleCustom Dependency Injection, Simplified Spring-like Framework
I’m a Spring fan, but I decided not to use Spring in our recent project because I don’t want bulky jar files in our application but I wanted to have spring-like configuration. So, I’ve decided to write...
View ArticleConverting to Tiff on Mac using Java Advanced Imaging
While there are a number of resources on the net talking about converting images to tiff in Java using JAI, I wasn’t able to come across one that works on a Mac. JAI is a separate download from the JDK...
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Dashboards: How to make it effective
We’ve seen effective use of dashboards with various applications. Dashboard shows the summary of the entire system operations in just one page. In addition, they make your application look cool and...
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Using CSS Position in Creating Boxes w/ Rounded Corners
There’s this CSS trick I came across a couple of years ago that never seize to amaze me. It’s the use of two position attributes to control elements within a defined boundary. It is, by far, one of the...
View ArticleVirtualization with Ubuntu 10.04 – Lucid Lynx
With the growing projects, we’ve decided to upgrade our test servers to a production grade server and setup virtual machines within the server. This move really makes sense because instead of...
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Book Review: JavaScript: The Definitive Guide 5th Edition
Considered as an essential resource for JavaScript programmers. O’Reilly’s JavaScript: The Definitive Guide 5th edition is one of the books to look for when it comes to JavaScript. As good as the...
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HTML5 – A Step Forward Towards Semantic Web
Back in 1999, Tim Berners Lee expressed his vision about the semantic web: I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and...
View ArticleRecursively Retrieving Values using Java Reflection
I recently came across this Java code snippet we created for Open-tides and still find it very useful in developing flexible and dynamic applications. So, why is there a need to retrieve values using...
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Externalizing Application Logic: Business Rules Approach
Enterprise applications usually consists of multiple layers. Primarily presentation layer, business logic layer and persistence layer. The business logic layer is considered the heart among these...
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Introduction to Twitter Bootstrap
Twitter Bootstrap is a UI Framework for Front-End Developers, which is known as the most popular project from GitHub. A wide range collection of tools for developing websites and applications. It has 5...
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How will WebRTC Transform the Internet?
WebRTC is the latest technology in video conferencing and peer-to-peer network that is contributed by Google to the Open-Source Community. Since its release to public, developers around the world has...
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Push Notifications using Atmosphere and Spring
Most recent applications rely on push notifications to alert users of events that they are interested in. Just like how Facebook alerts users of new friend requests or messages. This can be implemented...
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Shelled! A Bourne-Again Introduction
Bourne-Again Shell In the past few years, Linux has started to become the operating system of choice in the enterprise server space, with distributions such as Red Hat Linux, Ubuntu, SUSE Linux...
View ArticleREST in Java for Payment Gateway Integration
In case you are in need of code snippet that needs to access REST APIs securely (e.g. payment gateway integration), here is a sample client code in Java using Apache HttpComponents. // set the...
View ArticleHow to create your own Automated Backup Scripts in Linux with S3
As a software development company, we make sure all our production servers have proper backup and restore scripts for disaster recovery. Follow this step by step guide how to create your own backup...
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A QA’s Guide to the World of Software Automation Testing
Automation can improve and speed up software testing in your projects if you know how to choose the right automation testing tools to use. With the huge variety of tools available it can be...
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MonstarLab Manila QAs Goes TestConPH2017!
Last November 2017, Monstar QAs had unique experience attending the TestConPH 2017 event. This annual conference aims to boost the local software testing industry. The event was organized by the local...
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MonstarLab QA Competes at Testathon PH!
We all know what a hackathon is right? It’s a pretty fun event that’s usually for developers only. But how about the testers? Enter Testathon. It is basically a hackathon for passionate testers....
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Easy Guide to Creating a Software Test Plan Document
If you're assigned to create a Software Test Plan, then here's how to save you from a lot of headaches. Creating one may sound hard but it will prepare your project or product development in terms of...
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