Minting Money!!

Come on guys, this blog will not tell you how to create real money and I have no secret plates which will allow you to print real currency. This blog is about Enterprise Applications and how they deal with money.

We all work for money but no one really understands how money works. Enterprise Applications are mostly concerned with Money and Time. As developers, we always have to simulate this into our system. It is used so frequently in enterprise applications that it could be used as basic data types.

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Using Revealing Module Pattern with Web Interface Design

I recently joined a project that required me to develop a mobile website for the client. We already had a fully functional desktop version of the website. There were around 10000+ lines of JavaScript code for the existing desktop website and most of it was not at all reusable for the mobile website. The purpose of this blog post is to identify what went wrong with the original design of the JavaScript code and to provide a solution that could have saved around two to three weeks of (re)work.

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MobileJira launched at the Windows App Store

Talentica’s Mobile Team recently launched the Windows version of the popular MobileJira App. The App, which is already available in the Android Play Store, is useful for all IT professionals who use Jira to track issues, bugs, tasks or deadlines for their projects.

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Multidimensional Drill-downs using Cassandra

Multidimensional data is the type of data that has hierarchies. These hierarchies can be implicit or explicit. One of the most useful ways of navigating multidimensional hierarchies is by using drill-downs. This implies moving from summary information to detailed data by focusing in on something. These drill-downs cannot be handled through RDBMS solutions, as each additional drill-down is essentially a new where clause, and this gets progressively slower for large data.

Traditionally the problem of having consistently fast drill-downs was solved using special multidimensional data structures like OLAP cubes and MDX queries. However, with the advent of NoSQL technologies like Cassandra, we now have faster and cheaper ways of supporting these drill-downs.

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Interface Design for MoSync Applications

MoSync is an open-source cross-platform mobile application development environment that makes it easy to develop apps for all major mobile platforms from a single code base.

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MobileJira Launched for the Android Market!

Talentica’s Mobile Team launched an extremely useful app for all IT professionals who use Jira to track issues, bugs, tasks or deadlines for their projects.

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EmailApptimizer: 'Break-through' in Mobile Marketing

One of our clients, TailoredMail recently unveiled their path breaking feature called EmailApptimizer. EmailApptimizer turns your emails, landing pages and microsites into instant mobile touch-screen applications.

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Ajay bags First Prize in “CodeWarrior”

Congratulations Ajay for winning the first prize in the CodeWarrior Contest!

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Building Web Services with JAX-WS : An Introduction

Developing SOAP based web services seem difficult because the message formats are complex.  JAX-WS API  makes it easy by hiding the complexity from the application developer. JAX-WS is the abbreviation for Java API for XML Web Services. JAX-WS is a technology used for building web services and clients that communicate using XML.

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News You Like Receives Rave Reviews!

Ranjan Kumar received accolades for developing the cool News app- News You Like - for Google Chrome.

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