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Importance Of Architecture Owner While Dealing With Technical Debt

by admin April 4, 2024

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You have heard a lot about technical debt and its relation with architecture owner. AO is an integrated part of DAD or Discipline Agile Delivery. It helps in offering you with guidance for applying several forms of refactoring. It comprises of code refactoring, user interface and database refactoring. These services are quite small, like that of splitting database column or even renaming operation, making it part of daily development. Rework seems to be more substantial and can be planned explicitly. Now, it’s time for the architecture owner for negotiating rework-oriented work items with the current product owner.This product owner is mainly the person, known for prioritizing the work on technical debt.

Dealing with regression test continuously

The easiest ways to find problems in work is by having comprehensive regression test suite, ready to run on a regular basis. This test suite is designed in such a manner, which help in detecting the defects, as injected into code. It further helps in enabling you with ways to fix it proficiently. It can eve enable you to back out changes, in right possible manner. These are some of the interesting points for you to focus at, while working on expert services around here.

More on automated code services

Just like working on refactor technical debt, you need to work on automated code or schema analysis. There are different types of tools available and used for accessing quality of code. It works perfectly for database schema, as well. The disciplined agile team will help in including use of tools in current Continuous Integration strategy. You will come to know the areas, where tech debt exists, and primarily steps to remove it. These are some of the interesting strategies, which you better follow, while working on tech debt related strategies.

Measuring the technical debt

Firms, which are quite serious with tech debt, always try to measure it. For that, they might have to take help of code or schema analysis tools. Furthermore, you need to work hard to keep eye on the chosen trends, which might go down with passing time. You might even want to choose to track code quality metrics. You can even take help of data quality metrics, with usability metrics, time to add features, time for addressing defects and some other points, to be added in the same kitty. These are some of the interesting features, which you have to work along, while measuring technical debts.

Ways to reduce your debt

It is time for you to know more about ways in reducing technical debt. It needs to be a part of your culture. Technical debt is not going to be fixed all by itself. It might even accrue interest over time, and slower form, with expensive evolution of existing assets.You might even try to address technical debt before trying to handle over assets. If you want to know more about these features, waste no time, and consider procuring help from experts. They are available over here, and you must click here, to come in direct contact with them.

April 4, 2024 0 comment

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Keep This Guide Handy While Evaluating India Car Valuation

by admin April 3, 2024

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India is a market for buying and selling cars in the current situation with more number of people moving from lower class to middle class and from middle class to upper middle class. The population is increasing and the way in which people live the lifestyle also changes. Car has become one of the important aspects in the way of living and each family wants assets like car to show their status. Besides status, the car in a middle class family can help them travel easily, yes in an average each family has four members and a car is a great way to use them. Hence, buying a car is important for the family of middle class of more number of people prefer used car since it is cheap and great to use. This guide will help you in your evaluation car for your need in India car valuation. smart home technologies about India car valuation.

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Success to buying at fair price is Negotiation skills

Learning the art of negotiation can help you out in buying a car very easily. Make sure that you get the real picture of the car both in terms of operations and look and then decide upon the price. Read customers reviews of car of the same model which you’re going to buy in the online portal. Based on this you make sure that you fine tune your estimate and be prepared for negotiation.

Personal inspection can save you money

Yes make sure that you inspect the car personally to have a fine picture of the price of the car. Most of the people just look at a car in the online portal and then decide on buying a car. Please don’t do that when you’re evaluating the car. Please make sure that you check the inner and outer picture of the car by making sure that you get a good mechanic and inspect the car.

Knowing what you’re buying is the best guide for India car valuation

Make sure that you do a dipstick study of the car models available in the market and you can hold strong in doing an India car valuation. Spending some good time of the internet can make you feel strong and know what is happening in the world of car buying and selling. When you have decided to buy an old car and you know the model and year, do a detail study on the cars review, rate and other features before you decide to buy.

Check the Mileages before deciding on price

Every car rate depends on the mileage of the car has run and it is directly proportional to the mileage. Hence when you want a car to be purchased make sure that you check the mileage and then decide upon the price.

Insurance and other papers

Make sure that the car from whom you buy has all important papers with correct and concrete information because most of the time, there might be circumstances where a car which has been booked under accident can be sold at nominal price by sellers. Check the papers correctly before you purchase a car.

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Check the current market demand

The other important aspect in buying a car through car valuation is through understanding the resale value and the demand of the car model which you’re going to buy.

Besides this the other factors which needs to be seen in while car valuation is happening are –

Interior damages – check the damage of the car from the inner aspect like the seat cover, seat cloth and other inner parts.
Damage if any in terms of nick, dents and scratches on the car body
Mechanical and operational problems – use a best mechanic and check both the mechanical and operational problem in a car if any.

By adding all the above together you can really figure out the important things which needs to be taken care when deciding about car valuation. By this you can easily come close to the vehicle real cost and makes a better decision in the purchase. A clear understanding on the car valuation tricks through this guide can really help you out in buying a car though India car valuation at affordable price.

April 3, 2024 0 comment

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Blogging Couple Travels The Globe While Earning $60,000+ Per Month

by Loknath Das May 25, 2019

written by Loknath Das

The Johnson Family

When Greg and Holly Johnson started their blog ClubThrifty.com in 2012, they thought it would be a fun way to document their financial journey.

“We had some student loans and car loans we wanted to pay off,” said Holly. “Once we realized other people were blogging about the same things we were experiencing in real life, we decided to give it a shot.”

Since those early days, their blog has taken on a life of its own. Greg quit his full-time job as a funeral director to work on the blog in 2015, and he currently earns over $40,000 per month through his efforts. Holly, on the other hand, quit her job in the same funeral home to write full-time. She consistently earns $20,000 per month, but sometimes more. Holly also has a popular freelance writing course — EarnMoreWriting.com — that brings in around $4,000 per month.

The crazy thing is, they’re not even at home working most of the time. Follow them on Instagram and you’ll see they are constantly in ridiculous destinations like the Swiss Alps, the Greek Islands, or the Caribbean with their kids. Since their business is entirely online, the pair can basically work from anywhere. And that’s exactly what they do.

Vivian Johnson overlooking the mountains of Switzerland

PHOTO CREDIT: HOLLY JOHNSON

How They Balance Work and Play

Earning a significant income while traveling 16 weeks or more each year may sound inspiring, but the Johnsons say it’s a lot of work. They say they are always “working ahead” when they are home so they can spend some downtime on their trips. That often means working weekends or evenings for weeks at a time.

Since Holly is a professional writer, she has a lot of deadlines she has to meet no matter what. So, she often ends up working while she travels, which isn’t always fun.

“It’s a trade-off,” she says. “I get to travel all the time, but I also have a lot of responsibility.”

During a two-week trip, she said she will usually just go ahead and set aside 3-4 days to work, even if it’s just in the morning for a few hours. This helps her stay on top of her email inbox, new content, and questions from her editors, she says.

Greg doesn’t have anyone to report to so he doesn’t have as many deadlines, but he also has to put out a lot of fires. He also monitors their website traffic and affiliate income while they travel, usually by getting up a few hours before the kids while they’re on a trip.

Because they’re often working when they travel, the couple says that, overall, they probably work 30 to 40 hours per week on average.

“It’s just more sporadic,” says Holly. “I might take a week or ten days off work then wind up working for the next 20 days straight.”

The Johnsons at the Palace of Versailles outside of Paris, France

PHOTO CREDIT: HOLLY JOHNSON

How They Made it Work

Anyone who has tried to find success at blogging or freelance writing knows that neither road is easy. Both fields are incredibly competitive, and it can be difficult to build long-term income that lasts.

Johnson says she and her husband have been successful because they had to be.

“We really wanted to get out of our 9-5 jobs and build a new life — one where we were in control,” she says.

When they started their online endeavors, they both used to get up early and work at 5:00 a.m. before they started their “real jobs,” and they gave up an endless number of weekends and evenings when the kids were in bed. It was hard, they both said, because they were balancing side jobs on top of parenthood and full-time work.

Greg’s success as a blogger also didn’t happen overnight. It took years for him to learn how to position their website to earn real income. And even now, their successes are mixed with plenty of failures.

“Everything doesn’t have to go right,” says Greg. “You just need to get some of the things you try to actually work.”

The bloggers spend a lot of time along Italy’s Amalfi Coast

PHOTO CREDIT: HOLLY JOHNSON

Their Tips for Online Business Success

Whether you want to blog for a living or become a freelance writer, the pair offers some tips can apply to everyone.

For example, the couple stresses the importance of having multiple income streams and “not having all your eggs in one basket.” That’s part of the reason Holly still writes for a living when they clearly don’t need the money.

“We both like knowing that, no matter what happens, we aren’t going to lose all our income streams at once,” she said. “I also don’t feel the need to work with my husband 24/7. I like earning my own money even though we share our finances.”

Another tip from the pair: Keep your personal liabilities low.

“If you want to build an online business, the best thing you can do is build a debt-free lifestyle,” she says.

The Johnsons share a 2009 Toyota Prius that’s been paid off forever, and they don’t have any other debts. They even paid off their primary home in early 2018, so their housing expenses are limited to taxes, insurance (such as auto, life, and homeowners insurance), and maintenance.

Another tip for business success is “be yourself,” the couple agreed.

In the blogging and writing world, so many people try to find success by copying what other people are doing. In reality though, the same thing won’t work for everyone. You’ll have the best chance at success if you figure out who you are and what makes you different.

“We have tons of blogging friends who are wildly successful, and they all run their business a different way,” says Johnson.

The Bottom Line

At the end of the day, the Johnsons want people to know their life isn’t perfect. They work a ton of hours and they put a lot on the line to follow their dreams. It’s not easy to bet the farm on blogging when you have two children to take care of, nor is it easy to let go of stable, well-paying jobs.

But the couple seems to persevere no matter what life throws their way — which they say is due to the fact they never gave up. And they never will.

The couple likes having money and they love to travel, they say, but they love the freedom they’ve earned the most.

Greg Johnson says he’s basically unemployable now and that he “will never get a job again.” Holly doesn’t mind working, but she always plans to stay in a freelance role instead of employment with one company — even if the job was remote. She said she doesn’t miss the minutiae of regular 9-5 work, sitting in meetings, and all the time she wasted driving back and forth.

“Nobody would hire us anyway,” she said. “Who wants an employee who travels four months of the year and hates meetings?”

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May 25, 2019 0 comment

Internet

While You Were Offline: But (Ivanka’s) Emails …

by Loknath Das November 26, 2018

written by Loknath Das

Last week, the internet erupted when news broke that Ivanka Trump had used a personal email account to send messages about government business.
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It’s Thanksgiving Week, which means that the tryptophan haze has caused us to produce a shorter look back at online chatter in a week during which the stock market tanked, romaine lettuce was revealed to be potentially poisonous, and California remained on fire. There was, as that list might make clear, a lot going on over the last seven days despite the holiday, so let’s get to it, shall we?

But Her Emails (Reprise)

What Happened: Ivanka Trump failed to learn the most obvious lesson from her father’s 2016 presidential campaign.

What Really Happened: What’s that saying about history not repeating, but rhyming? Perhaps we should ask First Daughter Ivanka Trump.

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November 26, 2018 0 comment

Blogging

Wilson student blogging about experiences while studying at school in China

by Loknath Das February 26, 2018

written by Loknath Das

If any particularly observant readers noticed that my byline disappeared from Times Higher Education around this time a year ago, I can now reveal why. I spent this past year in Shanghai Jiao Tong University learning Mandarin Chinese, which, apart from helping me learn my 的 from my 地 and my 得, put me back in the very place that I’ve been reporting on for these past few years: university.

Specifically, the year gave me a first-hand peek into Chinese education, often an object of envy and fascination in the West. Every year Chinese universities seem to ascend up the world rankings, while such is the perceived excellence of schooling there that the BBC recently sent a team to film Chinese teachers trying to turn around a Hampshire comprehensive through China-style 7 am starts, copious note-taking and tracksuits for pupils.

But when I mentioned this Western admiration for China’s education system to anyone who had actually been through it, the response was usually one of bafflement. No one that I spoke to remembered their schooling with much fondness; instead, they recalled a tedious diet of rote learning and a heavily propagandised history curriculum.

Chinese friends were also deeply cynical about their university experiences. One described Chinese undergraduates as like “animals released from the zoo” – having passed the ultra-high stakes gao kaoexam, students simply coast through university, their intrinsic interest in learning crushed by the extreme pressure of school. This same friend also knew a contemporary who, having failed the gao kao, had bribed her way into a middle-ranking institution for the equivalent of £2,000.

Another, studying at a prestigious university in Shanghai, had to sit what were called “open book exams” – in other words, students were allowed to take their books into the exam hall, and the test was simply a long exercise in copying them out.

I experienced these rather suspect academic standards up close. In preparation for a multiple choice listening exam, our class was told that if in doubt, choose “C”. And, lo and behold, “C” turned out to be the right answer a suspiciously high number of times.

Having written about international students being treated as “cash cows” in the UK, I couldn’t help but feel that I was experiencing the story first hand. Students learning Chinese were barred from the library on account of there being too many of us. Tuition fees were still low (at about £2,000 a year) but with class sizes of more than 20, it was hard to know exactly where all this money was going.

Our teachers varied hugely in quality: some were excellent, possessing seemingly inexhaustible reserves of friendly patience when faced with our incomprehension. But another found it so difficult to answer our questions that she offered a tearful apology to the whole class. Either way, both belied the stereotype: none of our teachers demanded excessive rote learning, and usually welcomed our questions.

While I was abroad, I interviewed Yong Zhao, a Chinese-born professor at the University of Oregon’s College of Education, who has been arguing for years that the West should stop idolising the Chinese education system. The West oscillates between periods of Sinophilia and Sinophobia, Zhao argues in his book Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon: Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World (2014).

He believes that the past decade has been one of excessive Sinophilia, particular in regard to education, and we should look more rationally at what does and doesn’t work in China’s system. Having experienced it for myself, his conclusions seem apt.

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February 26, 2018 0 comment

Internet

Google Chrome 64 for Android Automatically Cleans Up URLs While Sharing

by Loknath Das February 20, 2018

written by Loknath Das

Google Chrome 64 for Android Automatically Cleans Up URLs While Sharing

HIGHLIGHTS

Users will see a primary link instead of a lengthy tracking string
Works on using the Share button or by copy and pasting a link somewhere
It does not affect referral information

Google Chrome 64 for Android- introduced in late January – has been spotted sporting a feature where it automatically cleans up messy referral links. Now, when users share a URL with someone, they will see the primary link instead of a lengthy tracking string. The new feature works automatically on Android handsets while sharing links from the Chrome browser, using built-in Share option to either share directly to an app or use the Copy to Clipboard option. somewhere else.

Quite often it is seen that URLs have a large amount of additional text attached to them. Users don’t prefer such huge amounts of junk included when a link is shared with them, as the link is unnecessarily long. For example, while sharing a tweet, it is often seen that the link includes a referrer to track how users landed up on the page. There are some URL shortener solutions to solve the issue, but since they are third-party apps, it is cumbersome to use all the time. But with Chrome 64, Google has taken care of the lengthy URLs. You can use the Share menu to copy the shortened link to the clipboard or share directly to another app.

Android Police had spotted the new feature on Chrome 64. The new feature removes anchor tags which are used to direct a user to a certain part of the page. This means that if you visit a link shared from Chrome for Android, it will take you to the top of that particular page. When we checked, the feature was found to work on links from Amazon, Flipkart, Google AMP, Wikipedia, and more. The clean up doesn’t work every time however. You can also manually copy the entire URL if you need it, by selecting the URL from the navigation bar and copying it.

The new URL shortener is a part of several other features rolled out by Google for Chrome, including an inbuilt ad-blocker. The search giant will begin using its Chrome browser to eradicate ads it deems annoying or otherwise detrimental to users.

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February 20, 2018 0 comment

Blogging

Blogging can help you earn while you have fun

by Loknath Das August 22, 2017

written by Loknath Das

Money Bait

Everyone has favorite hobbies and we all think about turning them into a career of our dreams. Who doesn’t like to have fun and earn at the same time? Blogging offers an easy way for this. A research by Telegraph showed fashion bloggers earned $1400 average per year in 2014 from affiliate marketing alone. Imagine if Pakistani women started reviewing products from Khaadi and Sana Safinaz.

With the tone set, here are some categories of blogging which can help you earn, while you have fun:

1. Food and Cooking

Around 91% people trust online sources if they want to find a recipe according to a survey by BlogHer. Pinch of Yum is a well established food blog which went from a ridiculously low $21 per month to $66,000 profit.

Yummy‘s Facebook page is extremely popular due to quick one-minute tutorials on how to make brownies or cheesy garlic bread and so on. You can get started in a similar fashion.

Food is probably one of the biggest and hottest topics on the internet. Ask yourself, you would have searched online for the recipe of Shahi Tukray or figure out how you can make the perfect milkshake. This is a hugely recommended field for those who love to cook and are eager to share their secret cooking recipes with others on the internet.

2. Fashion

The key to earning from Fashion Blogging is having your own signature line and collection of clothes from various designers which they recommend to their audience. This is one of the best ways to earn through affiliate marketing. Fashion bloggers can earn more than $1 million in revenue according to Who What Wear.

There are 100 established designer brands and 200 smaller ones competing at the same time in Pakistan according to the CEO of ChenOne. This is a great market for women to express their views regarding the latest apparel available in stores as well as recommend best suits to wear on weddings and other occasions. There is a huge lack of Fashion blogs in Pakistan so if you are thinking about Fashion and Blogging, you are in the right direction.

3. Fitness and Sports

Henry Croft quit his 9-to-5 job to start GymTalk which achieved a turnover of $15,000 in the very first year. Bloggers like him are popular on Instagram where they share their daily fitness routines. Fitness bloggers also share video tutorials on YouTube. Sometimes we feel eager to put on our running shoes and hit the track. People search online for inspiration and fitness routines to get their bodies back into shape.

You can also blog regarding cricket and share your thoughts regarding Pakistan’s performance in a recent series. It is particularly viral during the World Cup so you will be able to attract a lot of readers and hence earn revenue. Other sports can also be similarly covered.

4. Travel

Jarryd Salem and Alesha Bradford are the founders of NOMADasaurus making around $2,000 to $6,000 a month by travelling around the world, according to Business Insider. The main part of their success is photos and they have around 55,000 followers on Instagram. They earn through referrals which can get them $100 to $1,000 and their sponsors include hotels or travel insurance companies.

Your recent trip to Murree could probably earn you more money than you paid for it. There are many famous bloggers online who travel to different places in the world just to write about them and share their experiences with their readers. Just get a good camera and start your photography blog directly from Instagram. If a five-star hotel is going to pay you to stay there, will you refuse? Of course, not.

5. Entertainment

The easiest way to get started in the Entertainment niche is by a Facebook Page. You can share jokes on Facebook and make funny videos to develop a fan following. If you have an enough audience, you will be sponsored by some top companies like Sprite and Daraz.pk to endorse and promote their products. Furqan Shayk, Bekaar Vines and others earn from this model.

If you are a moviegoer, write a review of the most recent film you watched in the theatre because your friends will be dying to know your rating. If you are a voracious reader, you can write about the most recent book you read and this will not only increase your knowledge but also develop your skills as a writer. Reading is an essential part of growing your vocabulary.

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When you have decided the niche of your blog, you can set up a website within 5 minutes following our guide.

Which one of these niches suits you the best?

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August 22, 2017 0 comment