Archive for the ‘Web Development’ Category

SEO What? SEO How? Great Tips For All

Posted by Jay Philips On 2 August 2010 109 Commented

Have you heard of this thing called search engine optimization (SEO)? You know the process of improving ranking in search engine results. There are lots of articles, tips & blogs out there on SEO. There are some great tips out there and since you don’t have time to read every single blog/article I thought [...]

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30+ Common Testing Mistakes

Posted by Jay Philips On 25 November 2009 20 Commented

I was cleaning out a folder on my machine when I stumbled on an oldie but goodie PDF called “Classic Testing Mistakes” by Brian Marick.
In the paper he states how he breaks the classic mistakes into 5 themes and how to resolve the mistakes:
1. The Role of Testing: who does the testing team serve, and [...]

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100+ Open Source/Free Security Tools

Posted by Jay Philips On 6 October 2009 28 Commented

Security testing is a process to determine that an IS (Information System) protects data and maintains functionality as intended.
The six concepts that need to be covered by security testing are: confidentiality, integrity, authentication, authorization, availability, and non-repudiation.
Confidentiality: A security measure which protects against the disclosure of information to parties other than the intended recipient(s). Often [...]

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15+ Open Source Test Management Tools

Posted by Jay Philips On 10 September 2009 26 Commented

Test Management tools are very important to any test team. Test teams use these tools to help capture requirements, design test cases, map test cases to requirements, test execution reports and much more. Companies may use one to many tools for this, which range from very expensive to open source. My advice would [...]

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100+ Open Source/Free Functional Testing Tools

Posted by Jay Philips On 4 August 2009 21 Commented

It is very important to make sure that your application functions as expected. There may be times that you add one little piece of code and all of a sudden other parts of the application no longer works. You may not have time/capacity to manually go back and regression test all the pieces [...]

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50+ Open Source Tracking Database Tools

Posted by Jay Philips On 9 July 2009 5 Commented

No matter how good you think your code is there is always going to be a bug/defect of some kind. Defect numbers may range from 1 to thousands so it’s important to have a very good tracking tool. There are commercial tools out there but I figured I’d focus on the open source [...]

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10+ Open Source Link Checking Tools

Posted by Jay Philips On 7 July 2009 18 Commented

It is very important to make sure that there are no broken links on your site. A link may be active when your first added it but as the days, months, years go by the link may end up being broken.
Below are some open source tools that can help you find those broken links.

Bugkilla – [...]

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70+ Twitter Backgrounds and Pattern Resources

Posted by Jay Philips On 11 May 2009 18 Commented

Most of you either using Twitter, know someone who is on Twitter or just want to be known as a Tweeter. On Twitter you can use a the standard background, a standard premade Twitter background or you can make your own.
Why not stand out from the crowd and create your own Twitter background?
Below are sites [...]

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Principles of Agile Software Development

Posted by Jay Philips On 25 November 2008 No Commented

Alan Shalloway, CEO and founder of Net Objectives, presented on the lean software development principles and practices and how they can benefit to Agile practitioners during Agile 2008. For those of you that weren’t able to attend (like me) the video is definitely worth watching.
I thought the video was very good and intuitive for people [...]

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Recommended: Error Search and Collaboration Site

Posted by Jay Philips On 10 November 2008 No Commented

How many times have you searched for hours on an error but couldn’t find an answer. I stumbled upon a very cool site called bug.gd today that I thought I’d share with everyone else.
The site’s goal is “No one should ever have to solve an error that someone else already solved”. I think that is [...]

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