It was an eventful day on Thursday 18th March. I had a chance to be part of open house meeting of HubSpot. It was a mix of business networking and chance to meet CEO of HubSpot, Brian Halligan . Brian had some very good points on why one should focus on Inbound marketing these days , citing example of Barrack Obama’s presidential campaign. He also recalled his days when they started hubspot out of MIT and how tough it was in the early days. I really liked his passion of creating an successful company on East Coast , one block away from his Alma matter , MIT.
Brian also held a small contest with all the invitees . The invitees will pick a site and if the site rates well on Hubspot Website Grader tool which, the winner stands to win the book , Inbound marketing authored by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah. Read more…
Ravinder is our SNMP(Simple Network Management protocol) Guru and has added SNMP Interview Questions at Skill-guru .
Make sure to check out the test and give your feedback
Project Management Professional (PMP) is a credential offered by the Project Management Institute (PMI).
The PMP exam is based on the PMP Examination Specification, which describes tasks out of six Performance Domains:
- Initiating the Project (11%)
- Planning the Project (23%)
- Executing the Project (27%)
- Monitoring and Controlling the Project (21%)
- Closing the Project (9%)
- Professional and Social Responsibility (9%)
The exam consists of 200 multiple choice questions written against this specification. The numbers in parentheses describe the percentage of questions for each domain.
If you are in the preparing for PMP Certification , make sure you practice out this excellent PMP Certification Practice Test by Amit.
Use netstat -a -no to find which ports are being used in windows environment .
Useful when you get BIND ERROR which means that the server is already started by windows service and is using the port which the server is trying to use.
Spring has announced release of Spring Source TC Server Spring Edition available for download here. The advantage of the Spring Edition is the inclusion of the instrumented Spring jars that provide reporting and management via Hyperic HQ.
SpringSource tc Server 2.0 is based on Apache Tomcat 6.0.25 .
Read the complete story on Spring Source blog
SpringSource tc Server Developer Edition is provided as a free development download of the tc Server Runtime. The key component of tc Server Developer Edition is the Spring Insight console, a dashboard view of real-time Spring application performance metrics. Without changing their code, developers can use Spring Insight to detect, analyze and diagnose application performance issues right from their desktops.
Developers will find TC Server Spring Edition useful because it ships with Spring 3.0 or 2.5 preloaded and has support for running Spring applications (as well as frameworks built on Spring, like Grails and Spring Integration). TC Server Spring Edition integrates out of the box with STS. STS provides a dashboard (Spring Insight) that provides metrics on the nature of a running application, measuring crucial numbers like transactions and exceptions, automatically.
TC Server Spring Edition is free for developers. The standard edition SpringSource TC Server which is a useful for all applications, whether they’re running on Tomcat or other JEE servers is priced at US $500 per CPU. The TC Server Spring Edition is priced at US $750 per CPU
Who does not love Gmail except Microsoft ? Customers would always give examples of gmail “I want it the way google does it. Look at Gmail”.
Some technical facts about gmail
- Most of gmail is written in Java, JavaScript, C++
- There are several hundred thousands lines of javascript in Gmail – one of the biggest in the world
- No new feature can launch for Gmail that adds latency to the product
Source techcrunch
CSS3 Generator is a really cool website. You can get css code by first customizing the the look and feel desired for your site. No need to hassle with your html developer.
Web developers and applications developers must have faced this problem related to performance of their Websites.
In this post I will focus of how to track website performance. Remember the websites behave different under different browsers so if your site loads faster in FireFox , it may not load with same speed in IE.
Firefox has some very good plugins to track the performance of your website. The two plugins which I really like are
1. Yslow : ySlow analyzes web pages and suggest how to improve performance based on yahoo’s rule for high performance website. You may not agree with some of the recommendations but nevertheless , it gives very good feedback.
2. FireBug : Firebug is not only an excellent tool for editing and debugging java script, html , css but also helps you analyze the performance of pages. Read more…
