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How To Anonymize mySQL Data

posted by admin in Architecture, Philippines, Planning, Strategy, United States on February 20, 2011

Do you need to replicate your production mysql database into a test environment? Well, I did. But, I needed ensure the production data didn’t contain real data since it contained names, addresses, social security numbers and PHI.

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How to Save Time and Money in Ecommerce Website Design

posted by john in Outsource, ecommerce on June 30, 2010

Ecommerce Design strategy for project managers

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How-to Create Downloadable Products in Magento

posted by admin in ecommerce on June 25, 2010

How-to Create Downloadable Products in Magento
1. Login in to Magento Admin Panel using the administrator details.
2. Navigate to Catalog -> Manage Products

3. On the Right upper Corner You will find a link ADD Product as shown in figure.

4. Select the Product type as downloadable and attribute set as default as shown in figure and click [...]

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Three Ideas to Consider When Implementing Agile with Distributed Development Teams

posted by john in Agile Software Development, Outsource on November 11, 2009

The framework of software engineering has been redefined by introduction of Agile software development concepts. Agile has prompted greater improvement in the life-cycle of a software project. When implementing Agile with an offshore or distributed development teams, there are opportunities to address three aspects of the project. We will cover these three [...]

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Establishing and Managing Risk factors in Offshore Software Development

posted by john in Open source, SLDC, United States on

Outsourcing software development is usually done with the intention of lowering the cost of a project. The decision to outsource is also taken to redirect and conserve the competent skills of a particular business, or to utilize the more efficient skills of the outsourced company, its technology, and its resources.
In outsourcing a software project, traditionally, [...]

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Using Open Source in Offshore Software Development

posted by john in Open source, Outsource, Planning on

The term open source software, OSS in short, may not be known to everyone. In your IT career, you must have heard of the Linux operating system. This is the operating system that has made a huge impact in the data center. Though LINUX has made its name as OSS, there are several others [...]

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Offshore Software Development Dynamics

posted by john in Outsource on

Imagine the following article is software code. Sure, it’s English and it somewhat comprehensible, but it’s going to take an investment to make it informative, clear and useful.
This is a continuing post on the series of outsourcing article writing. Outsource Article Content Part I, Outsource Article Content Part II. There are many [...]

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Challenges in Offshore Software Development

posted by john in Outsource on

In this day and age, with globalization setting in, organizations are constantly looking for benefits derived from outsourcing software development to other countries. There is skilled software teams distributed all over the world, which are increasingly being made available to organizations as partner companies, collaborating on offshore software development projects.
Organizations have been distributing their work [...]

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Daily Scrums in Offshore Software Development

posted by john in Agile Software Development, Distributed on

Want to learn about Daily Scrums with distributed development teams? Frankly, you will be better off contacting supergloo rather than reading this article. Here is another example of article outsourcing.
It is part II in examples of original article outsourcing:
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Daily scrums in offshore software development
The concept of Agile software development has given another dimension [...]

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Example of Outsourcing Article Writing for Your Website

posted by john in India, Outsource, Planning on

Have you tried outsourcing article writing for your website? Below is one example of what you might expect to receive. The subject is “Human Resource Outsourcing in India” and it is written by a person from the Philippines.
For the record, this example is not intended to highlight efficiencies and/or deficiencies in outsourced article [...]

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