Workforce Management Software Helps Call Centers Save Money
One way to increase revenues in your inbound call center might be via workforce management software. For call centers that realize revenue by answering calls (be they catalogues, reservation centers,…
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Running MSBuild 4.0 and MSBuild 3.5 on Continuous Integration
With Visual Studio 2010 RC released recently, we jumped on the release and began to code with VS2010. One issue that popped up was that now all builds were targeting…
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Issues Compiling VS2010 solutions (with web projects) from Nant | MSB4064 error
Recently I upgraded a project of mine (the Dimecasts code base) to use VisualStudio 2010. In the process everything worked just fine from the IDE, but when I tried to…
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JUnit 4 Test Logging Tips using SLF4J
When writing JUnit tests developers often add log statements that can help provide information on test failures. During the initial attempt to find a failure a simple System.out.println() statement is…
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Why and how to use Jetty in mission-critical production
This article is a summary of a seminar I had on the topic. If it seems like it’s a continuation of an existing discussion that’s because, to some extent, it…
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Understand Cloud Computing in Simple Terms – Maximumbit Inc
Cloud Computing is an emerging computing technology that uses the internet and central remote servers to maintain data and applications. Cloud computing allows consumers and businesses to use applications without…
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Cloud Computing: The Computer is out the Window!
Debates have been heating up about Cloud Computing (CC). Biggest challenge is security and bigger bigger challenge is ‘control’ of a company’s tech assets. The only limitation so far has…
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Cloud Computing Selection: Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers
There are list of solution which provides Cloud Infrastructures for Hardware as a service (HAAS) or Software as a Services(SAAS). AllenPort AllenPort’s technology handles file management chores like backup, file…
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Jacksum – a java checksum utility – Introduction and usage
Jacksum, a java checksum utility Software Name : Jacksum Website : http://jacksum.net/en/index.html Version : 1.7.0 Jacksum is a platform independent checksum utility (written entirely in Java) for computing and verifying (integrity…
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Introduction of RFT(Rational Functional Testing)
Introduction of RFT(Rational Functional Testing) Functional Tester is available in two integrated development environments and two scripting languages. Functional Tester, Java™ Scripting uses the Java language and the IBM® Rational®…
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Advance Features of Smart Build Tools
Table of Contents Agile Development Challenges Deployment Challenges Build Acceleration Challenges Integration with Elastic and Cloud Computing Workflow Management Reference: Agile Development Challenges Two of the core principles of…
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Disadvantages of Bamboo – Bamboo Expert Review
Bamboo Disappointment Being a big fan of Atlassian’s Confluence and Jira, it was with much anticipation that installed Bamboo, the continuous integration (CI) engine they’ve released. Perhaps these high expectations…
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Bamboo Vs TeamCity Vs CruiseControl – Continuous Integration Expert Review
Difference between Bamboo Vs TeamCity Vs CruiseControl TEAMCITY TC pre-tested commit is good. TC integrates to Visual Studio which is our main IDE. JetBrains are more focused on supporting .NET…
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Bamboo – A Continuous Integration Server – Complete Guide
Bamboo – A Continues Integration Server Continuous integration (CI) brings faster feedback to your development process, preventing bugs from piling up and reducing the risk of project delays. Bamboo enables…
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Deployment Foundation Issues
Deployment Foundation Issues Establish Key Roles/Charter for Deployment The very first order of business is to firmly establish “who’s on first” for getting deployment done. Senior management is crucial at…
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Why Worry About Versioning? – Versioning Complete guide
Why Worry About Versioning? Having a good version scheme for your software is important for several reasons. The following are the top five things a version scheme allows you to…
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Build Management Recommendation – Build Management Guidance
Recommendation from Microsoft’s Software Configuration Management Best Practices Build Management Recommendation Recommendation for Defining a Build Define terms in your development process, and keep a glossary of them on an…
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Test Article Rajesh KumarI’m a DevOps/SRE/DevSecOps/Cloud Expert passionate about sharing knowledge and experiences. I am working at Cotocus. I blog tech insights at DevOps School, travel stories at Holiday Landmark,…
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List of Free Issue Tracking / Bug Tracking System
An issue tracking system (also called trouble ticket system or incident ticket system) is a computer software package that manages and maintains lists of issues, as needed by an organization….
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How to copy VSS project from one VSS database to another one without loosing history
If you have any of the following questions in your mind, then this article is the perfect destination for you. How to copy VSS project from one VSS database to…
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Considerations for Multiple VSS Databases – Pros and Cons
Microsoft recommends against using multiple VSS databases in simple cases. The support that was in some earlier versions of the product using Data Path doesn’t seem to work at all…
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SSARC Utility & SSRESTOR Utility – Archive, Restore VSS Project – Guide
Question: How to Archive VSS Project in Visual Source Safe (VSS)? How to Restore VSS Project in Visual Source Safe (VSS)? What is SSARC Utility? What is SSRESTOR Utility? SSARC…
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How To Create a Unique SRCSAFE.INI File ?
1. Create a new SRCSAFE.INI file and place it in the desired location. 2. If you want include the default SRCSAFE.INI in the unique copy, add the following line: #INCLUDE…
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Understand Ant command line arguments with Examples
Several tasks take arguments that will be passed to another process on the command line. To make it easier to specify arguments that contain space characters, nested arg elements can…
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ANT Builds and Subversion (SVN) | Ant integration with Subversion guide
As I have mentioned in a previous blog entry, I have come to love using ANT in my development environment. One of the things that I like about it is…
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How to Use SVN Tasks with ANT ?
This post is about using ANT to perform some of the most common source-control related tasks such as export, tagging, and branching. I am using ANT version 1.7.0 and SVN…
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Software versioning – What is Build Versioning?
Version: It is a set of code to which major/minor or a Patch of changes is made. Hence we say a build is released to the QA team for testing….
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What are AntForm / AntMenu? Usage, Installation Process and Examples
AntForm is a java tool designed to add interaction to Ant scripts through graphical forms. If you’re new to Ant, start at the Ant site (see website: http://ant.apache.org/). Ant is…
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How to access all Java system properties directly?
You could access all Java system properties directly via ${name}, e.g. ${user.name}, ${user.dir}, ${user.home}, … You could read environment properties and use them <properties environment=”env”/> ${env.ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE} e.g. …
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SET UNIX HOME DIR PROPERTY using ANT
Set properties HOMEDIR in build.xml which will be set through user logged in the current system.. Example: <project name=”test” default=”myhome”> <property environment=”env”/> <target name=”myhome”> <echo message=”My home…
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