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Kashmir: le Paradis sur Terre

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Jammu & Kashmir (commonly referred to as "Kashmir") is situated in one of the most captivating and tumultuous geographical regions of the world. Jammu & Kashmir is centrally located between Pakistan, India, Tibet, China, and Afghanistan. Some one has once said that if there is any heaven on earth then it is in Kashmir. The beauty of this place can easily enchant the mind of any individual. The snowy mountains, lush green grasses, forest etc. together creates a memorable moment in the life of a person. And that is the reason why thousands of tourists are attracted towards this destination every year.Gulmarg, Sonmarg, Pahalgam are the most beautiful places in the Kashmir to watch. In the month of December and January, this place are covered with snow. Doing skiing  here is just fabulous or indulging into its world class Golf course. The Snowy Mountains and valley together creates a fabulous beauty. The forest region has its own distinct place in providing scope for ad...

It is paid cricket- Not cricket for Pride...

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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 ...

MVC v/s MVP, which one’s your favorite?

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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...

Testing Can be a piece of cake, Try it…

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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...
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Guys in this modern world there are things in life never works the way you want it to be, you never know when life takes a ‘U’ turn where branches of technology have been growing like a giant in this era of jungle. Today if we compare technology what was used 10 years ago could really mean a nightmare up to a certain extent to some manual processes taken over by the sultans of machines called ‘Computers’ Couple of week’s back I read this article on “New State level grading systems for high schools”. First the board decided to do away with the conventional examination system and now they want to award grades to the students on the basis of attitude towards fellow students, teachers and environment . It is highly likely that the students in higher classes might restrict their real attitude, just to get higher grades. Will this bring justice to a student who is really working hard and other one who’s just pretending it to be? The worst victim of this is going to be student. I remem...