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I can't really remember how long ago it began but it seems months ago. I doubt the BCCI will consider constructive feedback about the duration of the event, but what they might do is listen to the fact that even in cricket mad India the public have got a little bit fatigued by too much cricket. Pubs have reported much lower audience for IPL matches and in some cases they've stopped showing the IPL. And the huge number of games means that the BCCI have made more money than last year from advertisers I hear, but is it significant that they've made less per advert? To be honest, the IPL 4 was a drag. Too many matches and way too long to even recollect good matches of the tournament. According to a recent report, the brand value of the IPL has fallen by 11%, while it had doubled last year. Currently, the IPL is valued at $3.67 billion, against last year's $4.13 billion (over Rs. 18,000/- crore). Keeping Modi factor aside, can the IPL survive in the longer run? It is ...

This is one of the most pretended question that comes  in technical interview and the way to look at it varies from condition to condition. When looking beyond the RAD (drag-drop and configure) way of building User Interfaces that many tools encourage you are likely to come across 2 design patterns called Model-View-Controller and Model-View-Presenter. MVC is a fundamental pattern which has been tweaked quite a bit to fit into various platforms. For instance if you had asked anybody how to implement an MVC in ASP.NET (prior to release of ASP.NET MVC framework) you would get very different answers. So let’s start with basic. The common motivation behind both is separation of concerns, cutting flab from UI (good for UI designers), swapping UIs (for instance windows to web), make UI easy for Unit Testing, etc. MVP Pattern Three components. But dependencies change (look at arrows in the diagram). Over here we replace Controller with Presenter (one which presents the changes don...

What does a good test resume look like without “Microsoft Test Manager”? I recently browsed 15 resumes of testers and none of them revealed how well each can test. One of the most rated interview question by a poll is “What’s your favorite bug?” Can you answer this? Testing has always been one of the most sensitive area by any team and with this tool it adds smoothness and a fine finishing to any application developed. For testers, there are many new features in Visual Studio 2010. You can now plan your testing effort. This includes creating test plans, test suites, test configurations, and test cases with individual test steps using the new application for testers called Microsoft Test Manager. As a tester, you benefit from being able to gather diagnostic information when you run tests and automatically add this information to a bug. You can collect details of the actions that are performed when you run a manual test case. These details can be used the next time to fast forwar...