How to Quickly Get Started with Sonar

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This article represents steps required to quickly get up and running with Sonar and keep it handy for your personal Java/.NET/PHP etc related projects. Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed to mention one or more important points. Also, sorry for the typos. Following are the key points described later in this article: Sonar setup instructions Configure HelloWorld Project for Code Analysis Sonar setup instructions Following are two key aspects of getting Sonar and dependencies installed, configured and setup for usage. Installation of SonarQube Installation of Code Analyzer Installation of SonarQube Following is instruction-set to get setup with SonarQube: Go to Sonar community edition page and download. Unzip the …

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AngularJS – Non-nested Directive-to-Directive Communication – Code Example

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This article presents concepts and code example around non-nested directives-to-directives communication in AngularJS. The demo for the code example presented later in this article can be accessed on this page, Demo – Non-nested Directives-to-Directives Communication. Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed to mention one or more important points. Also, sorry for the typos.   Following are the key points described later in this article: What is Directive-to-Directive Communication? Service Helps Directives Communicate Code Example – Non-nested Directives Communication   What is Directive-to-Directive Communication? When the change in one or more attributes of one directive need to trigger one or more events in other directives resulting in updating of their …

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AngularJS QuizApp Framework on Github

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This article describes the QuizApp web application written with AngularJS & Bootstrap that I open-sourced it today on GitHub. Here is the link for the QuizApp Project Homepage for you to get started. I have made use of this app in my other website, Free Online Tests and trust me, creating quizzes is so very smooth experience. The primary reason why I decided to make it open-source is the fact that there are several requests that I received in the past for posting the source code. However, as I created the app for my personal usage, I went ahead and modified it suitably for easy re-use. Please feel free to suggest …

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Top 10 PHP Code Review Tips

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This article represents top 10 areas to consider while you are taking up the task to do the code review of a PHP project. The other day, I had a discussion with one of the PHP senior developers who asked me about where to start on the task related with reviewing a PHP web application and, we brainstormed and came up with the list. Interestingly, apart from few, most of them can be pretty much applied to applications written with other programming languages as well. Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed to mention one or more important points. Also, sorry for the typos. Following are the key points described later …

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ATG Developer Certification – 100+ Sample Questions

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This article presents summary information and links to the pages related with sample questions, being categorized into different mock tests, that could be helpful to clear ATG Certification exams. The primary reason why I have put up the questions (and shall be adding many more mock tests in near future) is the fact that there are not many pages on web which present questions in well categorized manned such that test takers can get help with their preparation. In past, I had setup my team and have several members clear the ATG certification exams. However, they did find it difficult to take sample tests on web during their preparation period. These …

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ATG Interview Questions – Part 2

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This article lists down a set of 20 interview questions related with ATG Commerce. The help documentation on ATG could be accessed from this page. Please feel free to comment/suggest. Also, sorry for the typos. The questions presented in this article could be taken as online tests (with answers also given) on following pages. ATG Commerce – Free Online Test 1 ATG Commerce – Free Online Test 2 Also, find following pages on vitalflux.com that consists of another set of interview questions on ATG: ATG Platform – Interview Questions Following is the list of questions: Components can be started or stopped using which of the following ACC BCC ATG Commerce merchandising …

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ATG Interview Questions – Part 1

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This article lists down a set of 20 interview questions related with ATG platform. One may note that ATG is a very popular eCommerce platform that got acquired by Oracle some years back. The help documentation on ATG could be accessed from this page. Please feel free to comment/suggest. Also, sorry for the typos. The questions presented in this article could be taken as online tests (with answers also given)  on following pages: ATG Platform – Free Online Test 1 ATG Platform – Free Online Test 2 Also, find following pages on vitalflux.com that consists of another set of interview questions on ATG: ATG Commerce – Interview Questions Following is the …

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AngularJS – Why & How to Create Custom Module

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This article represents key concepts and code samples on why and how to create a custom module with AngularJS. Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed to mention one or more important points. Also, sorry for the typos.   Following are the key points described later in this article: Why create a custom module? How to create a custom module?   Why Create A Custom Module? A module in AngularJS wires together some of the following components: Controllers Directives Filters Service   In simple words, a module could also be thought of as container of above components. As per the design, if there is a need to bundle together …

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How to Start a Big Data Practice

This article represents key aspects of starting up Big Data practice in your organization. Currently, I have started working in the same area and this blog is the result of my research. Hope you find it useful. Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed to mention one or more important points. Also, sorry for the typos.   Big Data Center of Excellence (COE) It may be a good idea to plan around setting up a Big Data Center of Excellence (COE)whose main objective would be take a holistic approach towards following two key aspects of Big Data from different perspectives such as setting up team, evaluating tools & frameworks, …

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Why JSFiddle is a Great Tool for Web Technologies Blogger

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This article describes reasons on why jsfiddle could prove to be a great tool for Web Technologies Blogger. I have been doing active blogging on Web technologies including HTML/JS/CSS. After coming across JSFiddle and playing with it for a while, I believe JSFiddle could serve as a great productivity tool for blogging on web technologies. I have listed some of the reasons below. Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed to mention one or more important points. Also, sorry for the typos.   Following are the key reasons explained later in this article: Allow users to play with your code Get rid of Boilerplate HTML/JS/CSS Code Easy to embed in …

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AngularJS – How to Create a Custom Filter – Code Example

This article represents high level concepts and code sample/example for how to create a custom filter. The demo for the code example given below could be found on this following page: How to Create A Custom Filter. Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed to mention one or more important points. Also, sorry for the typos.   Following are the key points described later in this article: Key aspects of creating a custom filter Code Samples – Custom Filter   Key Aspects of Creating Custom Filter Following are some of the key aspects that one needs to pay attention to, while creating a custom filter: To create a new filter, …

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How Sublime Editor Can be Used For Blogging – Part 1

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This article represents tips on how one could use Sublime Text Editor for writing their blogs in quicker manner. More so, if you are a developer and love blogging, you would find Sublime handy as you could write blog like coding by creating custom snippets as described later in the article. 🙂 The reason I have put this article as “Part 1” is because I believe I shall come across more such tips & techniques as I go ahead with my experience with Sublime and, I shall share them as another blogs. Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed to mention one or more important points. Also, sorry for …

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AngularJS Directives Hello World – Code Example

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This article represents high level concepts and code examples on how to create a custom directive. For detailed documentation, one could access AngularJS page on custom directive. You could check out live demo of the code example in this article on http://hello-angularjs.appspot.com/angularjs-directives-hello-world Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed to mention one or more important points. Also, sorry for the typos.   Following are the key points described later in this article: Key aspects of Directive Code Examples – Directives Hello World   Key Aspects of Directive The directive discussed in the blog is following: <hello name=”Calvin Hobbes”></hello> Following are some of the key aspects: Define directive. In this …

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Ionic Framework – Different Ways to Create List

This article represents code samples and tips to create list items in hybrid apps created using Ionic framework. Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed to mention one or more important points. Also, sorry for the typos.   Following are the key techniques described later in this article: List items created using AngularJS custom directive, Ion-List (Recommended way) List items created using ul element List items created using div The code sample below demonstrate how URLs with its name and hyperlink is stored as array in AngularJS scope and later accessed in the view with ng-repeat directive. .controller(‘HelloCtrl’, [‘$scope’, function($scope){ $scope.urls = [{‘name’:’Gmail’,’url’:’http://www.gmail.com’}, {‘name’:’Yahoo Mail’, ‘url’:’http://mail.yahoo.com’}, {‘name’:’Hotmail’, ‘url’:’http://www.hotmail.com’}]; }]) …

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Sublime – AngularJS – Useful Auto-complete Snippets

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This article presents code samples and instructions to configure your Sublime editor to include ng (angular) scripts in auto-complete fashion. I found it important to get quickly started with my new angular apps. Based on following, you could define custom autocomplete snippets for all angular scripts.   Following are the steps to create snippet file for each angularjs script: In Sublime Text Editor, go to Tools > New Snippet. A new untitled file consisting of following code would open: <snippet> <content><![CDATA[ Hello, ${1:this} is a ${2:snippet}. ]]></content> <!– Optional: Set a tabTrigger to define how to trigger the snippet –> <!– <tabTrigger>hello</tabTrigger> –> <!– Optional: Set a scope to limit …

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Sublime – Configure to Open HTML Page in a Web Browser

This article presents steps that is needed to configure Sublime to open the HTML pages you are working, in your preferred web browser. As I started developing AngularJS apps with Sublime, I got stuck at the point where I have to manually go to appropriate folder consisting of HTML file and double-click to open it in browser or, go to existing browser having that page and refresh it. In both the case, it was quite a bit cumbersome. Ideally, I wanted some shortcut keys right from within Sublime which would have helped me open the file in browser. This is where I did some research and found the way out. …

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