Innovation + Product Development

In July 2016 there was an international joint conference on artificial intelligence held in New York City where many experts and professors meet together to share their recent research and the commercial use cases. Machine learning (ML), deep learning(DL) and natural language processing (NLP) were the hot topics on the agenda. There are some interesting […]

One of the most common issues when starting a project for the 1st time with FACELETS (XHTML + XML) is that it does not handle very well JAVASCRIPT enclosed in a normal <SCRIPT> tag within the JSF file. The reason behind this is that XML has five special characters which have a special treatment by […]

In my first post in this series, we walked through the process of building a simple component. Let’s go a bit further now and build something very useful in Sitecore: a custom form. While a module like Web Forms for Marketers can definitely help you build forms, it can be heavy handed and sometimes doesn’t quite fit the bill. That’s where form components come in. Luckily, BrainJocks SCORE has a few features and patterns that can help you out, and keep your content authors happy at the same time.

Introduction : The cost of any Data Management (DM) or Business Intelligence (BI) project is dependent on the decision of the architecture to be employed for the project .ETL is the traditional method that has been followed for many years. Considering the new technologies and toolsets that are available currently, a new approach can be implemented. […]

Abstract: Bing Maps is an online mapping service that enables users to search, discover, explore, plan and share information about specific locations. It provides a variety of service API to support a lot kinds of the map application. I believe you can find a one that will be useful for your applications and systems. Introduction […]

What is Pokémon Go? The game, now available on iOS (Apple) and Android, gets you to go out and explore the real world with your mobile phone while you have the app turned on. It’s now bigger than Tinder and close to beating Twitter’s “daily active users,” since its launch on July 6th. The game […]

I was reading a short blog post by Adobe about IoT and Personalization. That got me to thinking about how different companies think about what the Internet of Things  (IoT) really means.  Here’s a view into Adobe: More and more brands have jumped on the IoT bandwagon. We have an excess of wearables—activity trackers, smartwatches, […]

There is no doubt that cloud computing has been the buzzword for several years and will continue to dominate the IT and business world for quite a long time. In the cloud computing world, the computation resources, storage, algorithm, application and big data analytics are centralized and their service is provided to the consumer just […]

Last weekend there was a meetup in Hangzhou for the Spark community, and about 100 Spark users or committers attended. It was great to meet so many Spark developers, users and data scientists and to learn about recent Spark community update issues, road maps and real use cases. The event organizer delivered the first presentation […]

Based on my 13+ years of experience as a professional software developer; I would like to discuss about “Agile”; its virtues and its dangers, its myths and misconceptions, its pros and cons; and also some of the common pitfalls I have encounter during the years. Agile, not Agile? What the Heck are we Talking About? […]

When creating load testing projects, we usually integrate JMeter with Apache Ant to run JMeter scripts in a batch. The test result auto-generated by JMeter ONLY provides the data collected during the load testing run. To present a comprehensive test report, visualizing such data to charts or diagrams are required. One of the solutions for […]

I had come across this requirement recently to insert data into a Stored Procedure which has Oracle object as input type. It is not as straight forward as a simple call to Stored Procedure with primitive data types as input. Since the input parameter is a Oracle object we will have to do additional steps […]