Calabash is a new functional testing tool for both IOS and Android mobile applications. Calabash is an open source functional testing developed by LessPainful. OVERVIEW: How it works Calabash iOS consists of two parts: To use calabash you make a special test target in XCode that links with calabash.framework. The application is otherwise unchanged. The… Continue reading Calabash: Functional Testing For Mobile Applications
The last time I went for a car wash, I did not pay with my credit card or with cash. I used my Nexus 4 instead! Sounds strange, but true! Need to go grocery shopping? Or want to buy expensive clothing in your favorite outlet? You don’t need to carry wallets with credit cards, nor… Continue reading Near Field Communication in Mobility
Office 365 and Windows Azure brings best of both the worlds together to simplify and enhance the cloud experience. Office 365 with Azure allows more flexibility and greater business agility. It helps leveraging familiar tools for simple deployment, and user experiences as well as a leaner, controlled model for enterprises. The latest version of Office… Continue reading Extend Capabilities of Office 365 with Azure for App Development
For many organizations, establishing an affordable and robust BI platform has been challenging and cost-prohibitive. Power BI took Microsoft’s popular Excel-based self-service BI features to a whole new level. The addition of Power Query and Power Map to Excel marks continued progress toward completing the BI tool set within Excel. These features along with compelling… Continue reading Power BI for Office 365: A Game-changer!
Power BI for Office 365 provides an easy way for organizations to start doing self-service business intelligence today. Going by Gartner’s definition, Self-Service Business Intelligence is defined as “end users designing and deploying their own reports and analyses within an approved and supported architecture and tools portfolio.” Power BI Self-Service Best Practices • Discover and… Continue reading Power BI for Office 365: An Introduction
Hybrid App Architecture:• Web View• Native Wrapper Integration Web ViewAll Web content/app runs inside of Web Views within a Native Wrapper/Container Responsive Web Design: A Web design approach aimed at crafting web pages to provide an optimal viewing experience—easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling—across a wide range of devices… Continue reading Hybrid App Architecture: An Introduction
Forecasting just got a whole lot easier with the additional capabilities Microsoft added to Power View for Office 365. Used for predictive analysis, these forecasting tools allow you to both visualize and analyze future trends and stats using historic data. You can also use it to measure how accurate the forecast is by utilizing the… Continue reading Forecasting in Power View
In any organization, there are several HR process workflows that impact the employee On-Boarding process as it involves various “actions,” such as approvals, reviews or follow ups that need to be executed by executives, HR, Finance, IT and other departmental personnel before a new employee begin working. Similarly, Off-Boarding process involves various actions in order… Continue reading Automated HR Onboarding and Off-Boarding leveraging SharePoint
Today, UX professionals are creating some amazing user experiences, be it designing a device App or website/intranet or web apps following user centered design principle. Guiding this movement is the practice of Lean UX, a new way of working that merges Lean Product and Agile UX development theories. The Lean UX approach to interaction design… Continue reading Going Lean Way for Better UX
While working on a recent project in SharePoint 2010, I ran into a problem with a requirement related to the ribbon. In case you have the same situation, I’m sharing what I’ve learned. For the site I was creating, the ribbon needed to appear for all users regardless of their permission set. However, SharePoint 2010… Continue reading Ribbon for READ Permission in SharePoint 2010 Publishing Page