Order of the day – A flexible workforce

It is imperative that future of IT Industry belongs to a highly flexible workforce. Business environment being highly unstructured, unstable and dynamic no one can be sure of any kind of pipeline. Only thing that can be done is to … Continue reading

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Migration to Zend Framework 2 (Custom Plugins) – Series 3 of 5

There are many inbuilt plugins in Zend Framework 2 like Flash Messenger, Layout, Redirect etc. But many a time we need our own custom plugins. It was pretty easy to write plugins in Zend Framework 1; create a class extending … Continue reading

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Structuring HR Processes leveraging Microsoft Excel

At Software Associates we are running all the standard HR processes. However, we decided to bypass a centralised system for managing these processes and instead we tried out Microsoft Excel sheets to manage them. Fortunately this experiment has turned out … Continue reading

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Migration to Zend Framework 2 (Query Builder) – Series 2 of 5

One of the great components of Zend Framework is its SQL Query Builder. Even though Zend Framework 2 (ZF2) is entirely different from ZF1, Query Builder is somewhat similar to ZF1. If you know ZF1 Query Builder then you can easily … Continue reading

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Migration to Zend Framework 2 – Series 1 of 5

I have been working with Zend Framework 1 (ZF1) for quite a long time. I was hearing a lot about Zend Framework 2 (ZF2), before checking the ZF2 in detail I thought it will be a quick migration from ZF1. … Continue reading

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Future Applications with Software Defined Networking

Earlier, who defined networking? It was the switches, the routers and such hardware that controlled the flow of data over networks. This was something which a programmer does not need to bother prior to software defined networking. However, programmers today … Continue reading

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