Archive for 'Tips n Tricks'

‘Current Directory’ removed from $LOAD_PATH in Ruby 1.9.2

‘Current Directory’ removed from $LOAD_PATH in Ruby 1.9.2

I was practicing sample code in Everyday Scripting with Ruby: For Teams, Testers, and You by Brian Marick and I came across an issue for which it took me a while to find a workaround. I [...]

Is YOUR Email Address Hacked?

Is YOUR Email Address Hacked?

Background: Earlier this month a hacking group released a list of almost 62,000 email accounts and their passwords. This list was made available publicly to one and all. The original list is not available any more. [...]

Hiring Stupid People

Hiring Stupid People

One thing is for sure – no one wants to hire stupid people! But do you really put an effort to hire ‘The Best’ candidate? Not just ‘best of the lot’, nor ‘best possible’, but ‘The [...]

Social Media Marketing Tips

Social Media Marketing Tips

Here are some tips on using Twitter and Facebook for marketing. Also about planning your social media efforts. Don’t Automate Your Status Updates Don’t Be Afraid to Show You’re Human Do Post More Photos and Videos [...]

Geek4Eva – New Design Launched

Geek4Eva – New Design Launched

Finally I got over with the previous design and decided to change the complete look of the website. Along with the design I have moved the domain as well. Earlier the website was hosted as a [...]

Collaborative Consumption #collcons

Collaborative Consumption #collcons

Collaborative Consumption as the term suggests is sharing, bartering, renting, lending or swapping of a product rather than owning it completely or forever. I first came across this term through the following video on TED by [...]

What is Your Elevator Pitch

What is Your Elevator Pitch

Continuing from my last blog – at the same forum we had a senior personnel from ANZ bank, who did a keynote presentation on Strategy and Planning for managers. While presenting he touched on various aspects [...]

It’s official – We’re doing Exploratory Testing with Session Based Test Management

It’s official – We’re doing Exploratory Testing with Session Based Test Management

With increasing use of agile methodology, reducing budgets and ever chaning requirements I personally reckon ET (exploratory testing) is now more often required. We all do ET. Sometimes the deadlines are so tight that we have [...]

Clickjacking

Clickjacking is a malicious technique of tricking Web users into revealing confidential information or taking control of their computer while clicking on seemingly innocuous Web pages. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickjacking) Here is a simple example where [...]

Phishing Example #2

One more quick example of a phishing email. As per the tip in my previous post: checkout the domain name. It is actually replaced by an IP address [...]