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Philosophy of Lean principles is derived from Lean manufacturing approach also known as “just-in-time production” pioneered by Toyota – a Japanese car manufacturing company. Essentially, lean is centered on making obvious what adds value by reducing everything else. Lean aims to make the work simple enough to understand, do and manage.Lean Software Development principles are translation of Lean manufacturing principles; summarized in seven principles: (more…)

Today Facebook is the most popular social media platform for social marketing. Facebook has a larger user database so that it’s been the great platform for socializing the content. Facebook has lots of free and paid services for social marketing like tags, advertising, campaigning, image, video tagging, etc. (more…)

The working world is changing. Consider the ongoing digitization and customization of work, changing work environments, and an aging working population. To respond to these developments, it is important for organizations to be flexible... and at any time, ready for change. But how do you do that? Keeping an eye on how things are going both internally (what’s already going well, and what could be improved) and externally (what is happening in the market and with customers) is key in helping organizations respond to these changes. Although often overlooked, employees on the work floor often have a first-hand account on what is going on (internally and externally) and have ideas on how to improve. Smart organizations listen to their employees - they utilize their feedback and prepare for the future,…

As developers we often need to look at the tools we use and decide if we are using the right tool for the job. Gulp is a right tool for you. Gulp is a streaming build system, by using node’s streams file manipulation is all done in memory, and a file isn’t written until you tell it to do so. (more…)

Plivo is an open source communication platform as a service. It also provides an APIs to make and receive calls , SMS. Plivo APIs are platform independent and can easily use in PHP environment. Developers can easily integrate with our website to perform all the telephonic operations like calls, SMS, conference call, DTMF etc. after creating a SIP (session initiation protocol). (more…)

Do you work with a team of people in your business? Even if you’re the owner of the business or simply a team member, it’s nice to have support from those around you who understand your areas of expertise. There is definitely no way you can handle the workload by yourself, so you have a team behind you. In this article I'm sharing with you some tips that you can use to help your team to become more productive this year. (more…)

Introduction Sahi is an automation and testing tool for web applications. Different from many other commercial testing tools, Sahi is an open source tool. As an automation tool, Sahi provides the facility of recording and play backing of scripts. Sahi supports Java and JavaScript. Even though the Sahi script looks like JavaScript, it is not executed as the regular JavaScript on the browser. The basic idea of how Sahi work is described below. HTML responses which pass through the proxy are modified such that JavaScript is injected at the start and the end of the response. (more…)

Drupal provide the functionality to generate PDF with few contributed modules using external libraries like dompdf, mPDF, TCPDF & wkhtmltopdf. We will be using ‘wkhtmltopdf’ to generate PDF using the page html. Wkhtmltopdf is open source (LGPLv3) command line tools to render HTML into PDF formats using the Qt Web-Kit rendering engine. These run entirely "headless" and do not require a display or display service. On this page we will explain how to provide the ability to generate PDF from your Drupal website using Linux machine. (more…)

The 2016 Google I/O announced their new product – Firebase – a cloud platform with lots of spectacular features for the mobile app developers. And one of these features includes Firebase notifications. This is a tutorial about sending push notifications to Android through Firebase, based on the new release of Firebase this year (2016). This tutorial shows how to setup the skeleton for sending and receiving push notifications via FCM with instructions on server code. (more…)

Union Budget 2017 slashed the income tax rate for individuals in the lowest income tax slab to 5 per cent, a move which will also benefit individuals in higher tax brackets. But tax experts who were expecting a hike in Section 80C limit were a bit disappointed. "The limit of Section 80C (of the Income Tax Act) could have been increased from Rs. 1.5 lakh to Rs. 2 lakh in this Budget as the existing limit is not sufficient to cover various payments like PF, insurance, tuition fees, etc. Further, the cap on certain allowances like, children education allowance, medical reimbursements and hostel allowance have been fixed a long time ago. It could have been increased in this Budget," said Rakesh Bhargava, director of Taxman.Here are 10 things to know…