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We are looking for more Mobile Application Developers to join our mobile application development operations. Selected candidates will be expected to develop mobile based applications using iOS/ Android. They will also have to interact with clients and analyse requirements as and when needed. They will also get opportunities to mentor new developers. It is an opportunity to evolve as a well rounded software professional. They will be placed at either of our offices in Kochi or Thiruvananthapuram.

Zyxware Technologies are looking for a Test Manager who can lead our team of talented software testers towards delivering true value to our clients. The Test Manager will be managing a team of approximately 10 - 15 testers with the assistance of Testing Team Leads. The Test Manager is accountable for achieving client satisfaction and ensuring the overall quality of testing phase. We expect the Test Manager to have the ability to identify and work with metrics to ensure that testing process satisfies the organisational and project requirements. The Test Manager is also responsible for contributing to development of the organisation by upholding our values and being focused on our vision and mission. They will be placed at our office in Thiruvananthapuram.

I was deep stuck in a Requirement Analysis, when one of my colleagues came to me asking about a feature in Apache Solr search. You may be wondering why she came to me, Trust me that was the exact thought I had at that time. Well, then I realized that the reason she came to me was because I had previously built a website using the Apache solr search with the help of Facet API. While doing that project I had thought of documenting some of the tasks which I had done, but couldn't do so.

One of our clients was trying to upload a pdf file on a node page in their Drupal website. The file was more than 25 MB in size and Drupal was not allowing them to upload the file as it had crossed the max file upload limit and they needed this to be done very quickly. As we were in charge they requested to come up with an easy way to do that. If you want to now the easiest way to set the max file upload size in a Drupal site read on to know more.

The vlookup or Vertical Look Up Function in Openoffice calc can be used to search a range of cells.Suppose you have two spreadsheets and you want to append data from one sheet to another. We can use vlookup() in open office calc to accomplish this task. vlookup() searches for values in one column and given values in another column in true condition. Read on to know how to user VLookup. The syntax for vlookup() is VLOOKUP(lookup_value, table_array, col_index_num, range_lookup)

You have heard the word proportion in Architecture. If you want to call a Architecture classical, the key concept should be proportion, i.e, correlation of one element to another. Same in the case of UI. User Interface(UI) acts as a medium of interaction between the User and the Web. In a web application the most important aspect is the user interface, because this is the only part end users are going to view. Before we start, I want to you to know how we reached to this article"Why is proportion important in UI".

As the main intention of testing is to ensure the quality of the final product, understanding of various testing types is crucial for a tester. In this article we will see the main difference between two testing types- retesting and regression testing.

In Drupal, while adding a menu item, we can give it a title, description, path and such details. It is not possible to give images for these menu items at the time of creation, by default. If you are looking for a solution, then read on. This particular task can be achieved by overriding the theme function theme_menu_item_link() in our theme's template.php Use the below function in your template.php :

Integration testing is grey box testing method in which combined parts of an application is tested to determine whether all these functions works together. Let us learn this with an example. Suppose your Drupal site sells online products and the shipment charge is set in such a way that it will be applicable to the product depending on the weight and destination. While doing the unit testing, tester has to test product selection, setting price,setting shipment to the destination etc separately. But in integration testing we test all these different functionality as a whole.

There may arise situations when you would want to display the contents of a block inside a template file or along with any other output variables. module_invoke() function can be used for this purpose. The module_invoke() is a function to invoke a hook in Drupal. The syntax for module_invoke is different for Drupal 6 and Drupal 7.