If you are a Stock Market Addict and a Techie; normally working on Linux(es); this post will interest you as you still can get quote of your stock on your Linux prompt. Consider, we have Google Finance url for Tata Consultancy Services Stock: http://www.google.com/finance?q=NSE:TCS So, how do you get above stock price while you’re on […]
As soon as I got a pc I start looking at Configuration, Connectivity [;)] and Installations. As for humans Food, Air, Water are basic necessities; for my computer I always make sure I do have perticular softwares installed. In this post I will list my 7 most used free softwares for general usage. WordWeb: Of-course […]
I have a Mathe-crap-matical friend. Who keeps digging into graves of dead formulas and equations and all possible Math related stuffs. Since I started understanding Mathematics (that it’s not my cup of tea), I tried to stay away from it. Now, that enthu creature mailed me his requirement. He says he “eat mathematics”, I prefer […]
Prologue: Long back there were golden days of post graduation in the “great” DDIT (Now Dharamsinh Desai University), Nadiad. Assignments, termwork and journals or everything similar was in demand – I attempted a java code as my termwork on Monday, October 03, 2005. [That’s created date of .java file, I don’t remember anything.] A “variable […]
I’m hearing a lot of “NoSQL” these days. To really understand how (and) does it works, I decided to give a try on MongoDB. MongoDB (hu*mongo*us) is an open source, scalable, high-performance, schema-free, document-oriented database written in the C++ programming language. MongoDB is not a Relational Database Management System. The database manages collections of JSON […]
Editplus is a lot better than the regular text editor, Notepad. From all it’s features I like RegExp Support the most, and than comes the block select feature. Here are the quick lines to carry out regular tasks using regular expression in Editplus. It’s kinda downloadable cheetsheet list. Remove all empty lines: Find: “^\n” (Ignore […]
This post has two batch scripts: 1. Batch script to rename files with zero padded number series-prefix 2. Batch script to remove prefix of perticular length 1. Batch script to rename files with zero padded number series-prefix This script will accept file-type to be searched and lenght of zero-padded prefix to be attached. Usage: RenZeroPad.bat […]
Have you ever come across a situation called NO MORE SPOOL SPACE? My friend does and hence I studied a bit about Teradata. The query: SELECT DISTINCT fieldname FROM tablename; The error: “NO MORE SPOOL SPACE”. Correct, the problem wasn’t related to MySQL, that was for something called Teradata. Initially, I could see that query should be […]
QA-Testing Definitions-Interview Questions: III (T – Z): Race Condition: A cause of concurrency problems. Multiple accesses to a shared resource, at least one of which is a write, with no mechanism used by either to moderate simultaneous access. Ramp Testing: Continuously raising an input signal until the system breaks down. Recovery Testing: Confirms that the […]
QA-Testing Definitions-Interview Questions: II (F – S): Data Dictionary: A database that contains definitions of all data items defined during analysis. Data Flow Diagram: A modeling notation that represents a functional decomposition of a system. Data Driven Testing: Testing in which the action of a test case is parameterized by externally defined data values, maintained […]
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