Web Scraping : A basic know-how

A Web  Scraper is a computer program that browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner or in an orderly fashion. Other terms for Web Scrapers are ants, automatic indexers, bots, web spiders, web robots, etc. The process is termed “web crawling”, and most site engines use it as a means to provide…

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Load testing of webservice with Apache Jmeter

Web services are application components that communicates through open protocols. It is self contained, self describing and can be used by other applications. A Web service is designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. It has an interface described in a machine-processable format (WSDL). Other systems interact with the Web service by its…

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PMB OPAC TRANSLATION

PMB is an Integrated Library System named PhpMyBibli at its beginning . PMB (PhpMyBibli) is a fully featured open source web-based integrated library system , developed in French. PMB is based on web technology. PMB requires an HTTP server (such as Apache, but this is not an obligation), the MySQL database and the PHP language..…

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Cucumber Basics

Behavior Driven Development (BDD) is an agile software Development technique that encourages collaboration between developers, QA team, non-technical persons in software development. RSpec and cucumber are the BDD tools for Ruby developers. 1. Cucumber Cucumber works with Ruby, Java, .Net, Flex or web applications written in any language. It has been translated to over 30…

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GREEN CLOUDS ON OUR PLANET

One of the most simplest definition one can give about cloud computing is that “they are basically computers on the Internet”. Even dating back to the primitive ages, computing was carried out using three levels of computing resources, Infrastructure; Platform and Applications.Fingers, stones or sticks were used as infrastucture to carry out simple applications like…

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Geocoder Gem and HTML5 Geolocation Javascript API

Geocoding :- is a process of tracking latitude and longitude (geographical coordinates) of a specific location, IP address etc. The comparison between Geocoder Gem and HTML5 Geolocation Javascript API comes with finding coordinates of geographical position of user only. Geocoder is a Ruby Gem, used for geocoding. It can find geographical coordinates as listed above including…

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