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Skill-Guru has a pretty good SEO quiz to test your SEO skills and understanding. Now Google has come up with its own quiz.
Take this Google SEO quiz to find out how good you are at SEO. It has got 40 questions and you do not get to see the correct answers immediately. Correct answers will be published after some time.
Do not forget to check out our SEO Interview questions
Steve has created two more test to on business English grammar
Business English Grammar Check – 2
Business English Grammar Check – 3
We hope our readers can benefit from expertise of Steve. Please give your feedback.
Have you ever played a game that you have been so immersed with ? You probably were too addicted that you skipped meals trying to finish a goal or a mission.Have you ever wondered how games as simple as Bejeweled, or as huge as World of Warcraft captivated the hearts and mind of both the young and the old? Well, blame it to game design.These 2 games are very well-designed that once you start playing it, it’s hard to let go.
So how can you say that a game is well-designed. There is at least 3 prerequisites(properties) to well-designed games ,namely:
a) Planned- well-thought-of; plans are usually drafted a number of times before finalization
b) Functional- it works the way it should be ; it should achieve its purpose
c) Tested -ensure everything is going according to plans before implementation Read more…
In my first blog CCNA Certification Advantages, I discussed the core reason and the opportunities that we need to explore for making the best out of the networking industry. We have determined that CCNA certification makes lots of sense since it is highly recognized in the industry as excellent qualifications for an employee. Earning a Cisco certification means that you have a good grasp of the technology and most importantly you are competent to design and implement Cisco solutions and products.
I am taking this opportunity to share with you all the details regarding the subject area that it covers, exam structure, reference materials and couple of forums that has done me good.
Since you have decided that CCNA is going to be elixir of life for your career, then chalk out your plan, first and foremost being to convince yourself that it is not at all a tough nut to crack and simple systematic approach can make you walk out with the certificate in hand to all the way to your PC to update the resume.
So let me adopt that systematic approach and avoid all my exemplary linguistic skills and stick to plain old bulleted format.
To begin with… Read more…
Spring 3.0 has added annotation support for both task scheduling and asynchronous method execution. We will discuss @Async annotation and its uses.
The @Async annotation
The @Async annotation allows invocation of that method to occur asynchronously. In other words, the caller will return immediately upon invocation.
One of the use cases of @Async function can be in situations where in user registers and system has to send confirmation mail or any similar task where you do not want to block user.
We will look at the example below to explain it more clearly . Since for most of you this will be first Spring 3.0 application, please notice the changes in applicationContext.xml. Read more…
Spring 2.5 has introduced 3 stereotype annotations: @Component, @Service and @Controller.
The most widely used are @Component and @Service and let us find what is the difference between them.
They both belong to org.springframework.stereotype.Service
When annotating your class with @Component you mark it as a regular java component class Read more…
For those whose English is not the mother tongue or it is not their first language , they might not realize that they make some minor mistakes in day to day communication. The mistakes might not seem obvious , but they do not leave a good impression especially if you are dealing with customers and clients.
Steve who runs Pro-ESL is Business English expert and is the business language Guru at Skill-Guru. He has created a small test for our reader . Take this business english test to check if you make some of the common mistakes or not.
Do you want Steve to cover some specific topic on business English ?