Interesting Sites

Two new interesting sites

Security Tools and Market Share of them - @ sectoolmarket 

Collection of useful tech talks available @ techtalkshub 

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VodQA Presentation

My VodQA presentation slides

Leveraging Functional Tools and AWS for Performance Testing from ThoughtWorks



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Good Interview Questions

Engineering Management Interview Questions

Interview Questions for Software Development Managers and Leaders

Hiring & interviews

Build the Skills You Need to Qualify – Part 1: How to Get Any Job You Want

Questions for Candidates to Ask in an Interview

10 Minutes a Day to Your Dream Job

Perspectival Interviewing

Note to self: how to be really productive?

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Testcomplete - VBScript Notes

Tip #1
Change browser locale setting using registry edit. IE browser locale changes

'Browser language local setting function

Sub SetLanguage_FR()

Set wshShell = CreateObject( "WScript.Shell" )

wshShell.RegDelete "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\International\AcceptLanguage"

wshShell.RegWrite "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\International\AcceptLanguage", "fr-FR", "REG_SZ"

Set wshShell = Nothing

End Sub

Tip #2

Dictionary object example in VBScript

Sub CreateDictionaryExample()

'Dictionary Adding Values

 set ExpectedValues = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")

   ExpectedValues.add "label17", "User Name:"

   ExpectedValues.add "label23", "Password:"

   ExpectedValues.add "label2", "Please enter Details"

   ExpectedValues.add "Btnlogin", "Submit"

  'Dictionary Listing Values

   nofElemtns = ExpectedValues.Count

   keys = ExpectedValues.Keys()

     for i=0 to nofElemtns-1

        k = keys(i)

        v = ExpectedValues.Item(k)

        Call Log.Message(k & ": " & v)

     next

End Sub 

Tip #3 - Disable windows pop up 'Your computer is at Risk' feature. 

This link . was useful to fix group policy changes

Tip #4 - Vbscript Kill all browser instances

This stackoverflow code snippet link was useful 

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Good Read - Managing your IT career in 30's

Great Read from Quora. Usually I share my readings / learnings. This post was compelling, practical to manage work in 30s.

Read Quote of Michael O. Church's answer to What do software developers age 30 and over know now that they wish they had known in their 20s? on Quora


Read Quote of Michael O. Church's answer to Since programmers on average produce $500,000 for the tech companies they work for, why aren't they paid more? on Quora


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Good Read - IOT Startup Ideas

IOT Startup Ideas - 50 Sensor Applications for a Smarter World. This covers all below categories

• Smart City
• Smart Environment
• Smart Water
• Smart Metering
• Security
• Retail
• Logistics
• Industrial Control
• Agriculture
• Farming
• Home Automation
• eHealth

Lot of Startup Ideas!!

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QA Tools (Eliminate Repetitive Efforts)

Very Interesting post Reusable Software? Just Don't Write Generic Code

I echo similar thoughts on developing tools. I personally prefer smaller utilities / tools than a large consolidated Suite. This again depends on knowledge depth / design exposure. Some of Advantages of smaller components / utilities are

• Working throw away solution solves current hunger while prioritizing on next set of applicable changes
• Smaller components with dedicated code ownership would help in better maintenance, customization
• Usually tools developed by one person ends up modified by someone else in team. The time to learn a complex solution which solves lot of use cases needs greater functional knowledge and time

When we develop / consolidate different framework we would end up implementing

• Abstraction layers
• Inheritance

Level / Depth of it depends on skillset, exposure. The intent of the post was to minimise efforts to maintain tools developed. Considering the team skills, functional knowledge, ownership aspects, maintainable tools would be a better option than developing a large suite over extended period of time

Interesting line reposted from the post

"Writing small components will give your software a high chance of survival: all individual components are easy to use and understand, and are usable on their own in various use cases"

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Databases - IOT - CES

CES notes on IOT had a interesting tag line posted in MEMSQL blogpost

Tag line copied from the post

Also, vast landscape of DB products in multiple categories (RDBMS, NOSQL, In-memory, Hadoop, Stream processing) check-out 451 research paper. Depending on the application needs you can identify top products to evaluate / get started

Data Platforms Landscape 

Updated Data Platforms Landscape Map – October 2014 http://t.co/qhJawLQhNX Free download - now fully indexed pic.twitter.com/cH3QL5GFcm
— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 18, 2014

NoSQL LinkedIn Skills Index – December 2014

NoSQL LinkedIn Skills Index – December 2014 http://t.co/bCvR4ipSGG
— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 18, 2014

Current State

It is remarkable how many database vendors are struggling despite apparently pre-emptively designing their products to be perfect for IoT
— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 11, 2014

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Productivity Tools list for Developer / DevOps / QA

Compiled list of Productivity Tools for Developer / DevOps / QA

• MTPutty
• Rapid Environment Editor
• Agent Ransack
• Heidisql
• SSMS Tools Pack
• Programmers Notepad
• TextPad
• Notepad++
• SOAP UI
• SSMS Tools Pack
• HeidiSQL
• Atlantis SQL Server
• Snip-it Utility
• Mtail

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RDBMS Vs CEP

Came across this slide in presentation in link. Below slide on RDBMS vs CEP processing was very clear in terms of compared attributes, representation of facts. Many thanks to author.

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