Avinash kaushik is author of best selling book, Web Analytics: An hour a day and blogs on Occam’s razor .

I had been following his blog regulalry and he is a heck of smart guy and one can definitely learn so much about web analytics. Avainahs is co founder of online learning learning startup Market Motive, which will help you to learn and expertise in the field of SEO. Market Motive offers  three month structured course (with exams and quizzes) and costs $3500.

It may not pinch US and Europeans (although with plunging value of pound and Euro , I think it might !!) but is definitely a big investment for Asian community.

Pricing aside , if you look the the faculty, it is impressive and I think it would be worth your money. One cannot learne everything by reading from the book.

Good luck Avinash with this new venture.

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One-to-One mapping can be done in 2 ways:

1. Primary key association:
2. Foreign key association.

My previous post described about the Primary key one-to-one mapping in Hibernate. This post gives an example of Foreign key one-to-one association in Hibernate. Read more…

Spring framework is very popular and need of spring knowledge among the IT industry is raising. But I found that getting a spring certification is not very easy.  To get the spring certification voucher you have to take spring training from spring source, which are available in few major cities of India or you have to have a prior work experience in spring.

You can find spring training locations here…

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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 ?

Over 250,000  students take the prestigious CAT exam every year in India . The test was conducted using pencil and paper.  Indian Institutes of Management, a network of India’s top business schools in India which conducts CAT had a  $40 million deal to computerize IIM’s Common Admission Test. This deal was bagged by none other than Prometric.

For $40 million , Prometric has done a very lousy job.  When students went in to take the exam on 28 Nov, the servers crashed. And not all of the 250,000 students were taking the test. It was only 20% of them.

The students who took the online Common Admission Test, some of them were not quite convinced about the new format of the examination. And their fears had come true.

Well 50,000 stduents concurrently taking test should not be a rocket science . Compare to ebay , Amazon and twitter which handle multiples of traffic every minute. Looks like prometric did not even bothered to conduct a pilot run.

No update on when the service will be restored and if IIM can afford to have this kind of glitch again.

You can test your knowledge of spring by taking the Spring technical test or Spring Interview questions

This test will also help in Spring Certification exams

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Skill-guru is pleased to announce the release of 56 questions for SCJP mock test.  Skill-guru is a test platform which allows users to create and publicize their tests on any subjects or topics.

SCJP 6 mock test is based on SCJP 1.6 syllabus of Sun Certified Programmer for the Java Platform, Standard Edition 6.0 (CX-310-065)

The questions on the test are original and are completely free. We had these test running under our old site etattva. Close to 6000 people had taken the test last one year. Now we heve moved the tests and the test taker database to this new site.  Here we plan to offer more tests to test takers on a variety of subjects.

The best part is that you can register your self as guru and create your own tests.

You would have to register to take the test. Please post in your comments and feedback which will help us make the test better.

So enjoy your free scjp mock test.

Update : There is one more SCJP Mock test with 125 questions and explanations added by Kalyan .

Common Admission Test also know as CAT,  is the main admission decider used in the selection process for the Indian Institutes of Management, a network of India’s top business schools in Ahmedabad, Bang­alore, Calcutta, Indore, Kozhikode, Lucknow and Shillong. Of the 250,000 students who take the exam each year, just over 1,500 are admitted, making it one of the most competitive admission exams in the world.

Baltimore-based Prometric, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Educational Testing Service, focuses on technology-enabled testing and assessment services with test development, test delivery and data management services. The company delivers and administers more than 7 million tests a year for 450 clients in industries such as education, health care, government and information technology. It offers online testing or use of a network of more than 10,000 test centers in 163 countries.

To handle the CAT deal, Prometric will use its 185 employees in India and add resources, including test development and support staff, in India, according to the company. Prometric began doing business in India in 1997 and has worked with companies in the country such as Microsoft Inc., Oracle Corp., the Project Management Institute and Infosys Technologies Ltd.

Prometric had been in the middle of a strong stretch of growth, with five years of 7-8 percent growth annually. The company was purchased by Educational Testing Service in 2007. Brannick expects continued growth in 2009. This year, the company is also increasing investments in test center security and Web-based services and operations.