Archive for 'August,2009'

Watchout World! India is Coming!! Jai Ho India!!!

Watchout World! India is Coming!! Jai Ho India!!!

Who you calling Third World? – just read this article by Rakesh Krishnan, who is a features writer with Fairfax New Zealand. In which he talks about a kiwi’s experience in India and how India has [...]

Behaviour-Driven Development

I am yet to work on a project where BDD – Behaviour-Driven Development framework is used. What is BDD? Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) is an evolution in the thinking behind TestDrivenDevelopment and AcceptanceTestDrivenPlanning. … It presents a [...]

Do a Good Turn everyday – Boy Scouts slogan

As a boy scout, one is supposed to do a good turn everyday. Whether big or small, but a scout should make sure to do at least one good turn daily. A Good Turn is more [...]

The Real Leader

  Image Source: lumaxart’s photostream   Navi Radjou in his post Why Are Creative Leaders So Rare? has very well encapsulated the speech from Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (former President on India) at Cambridge [...]

Ramadan

  Image source: The American Muslim   Ramadan is the holy month in which Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family) received the first revelation of the Holy Quran. In Muslim tradition, Ramadan is [...]

Fasting when having Diabetes

If a person has type 2 diabetes and still would like to observe fast – like during the Muslim month of Ramadan, here is an excellent article on The Ismaili: Nutrition Centre with some guidelines and [...]

Compromising User Acceptance Testing

Image source In his blog post Your user acceptance testing is fixed – Is that a problem? – Shrini has quite correctly detailed the challenges of getting UAT done from the business and various ways how [...]

PlayStation 3 Slim

I am not much of a gaming junkie, the only two games that I’ve got are Need for Speed – Underground and Age of Empires III and I seldom play them. And both these are PC [...]

Gmail becomes third most popular e-mail provider

This happened almost 2 years ago when I had called one of the local council services to reserve a community center. On being asked for my email I gave her my Gmail address and the response [...]

SmartPay buys ProvencoCadmus

There is some (good?) news from ProvencoCadmus. SmartPay buys ProvencoCadmus’ payments division. Provenco merged with Cadmus and became ProvencoCadmus around a year ago. But with recession and a debt of almost $45 million ProvencoCadmus went into [...]