ORLANDO - QAI (www.qaiglobalinstitute.com), which administers Software Certifications' examinations have now announced the launch of Certified Manager of Software Testing.

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The worst recession since the great depression made a big dent on US economy and it will weigh on US labor market for many years to come.  The result of the latest Wall Street Journal  survey with 48 economists speculates that US economy will witness 3.1 % growth in Gross Domestic Product starting from the third quarter of this year. The labor market is going to take longer time to heal due to this heavy recession. The economists also predicts that chances are less that unemployment will be below 6%. Currently, it stands at 9.8 % in September.

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SILICON VALLEY - Hailing the appointment of Infosys chief Nandan Nilekani as chairman of the Unique Identification Database Authority of India (UIDAI), Silicon Valley's Indian giant Kanwal Rekhi said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should induct more professionals in his government.

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ERP(Enterprise Resource Planning ) requires the developers to develop applications quickly. This is so because, typically ERP implementation not only involves several applications, but also need the applications to be extended or reengineered to incorporate the systems of partner companies. This calls for a tool that could facilitate Rapid application development (RAD) and simplify the modification of ERP application. The tool should be integration-friendly; interface with and extend distributed systems; and offer a robust and flexible platform for interface development. Java perfectly matches up with the standards. Java is platform independent, object-oriented and flexible and modular enough to encourage design structure.

This lead us to the Java ERP software, following our stint with top 10 ERP software. Although high on performance and efficiency, most of the mainstream ERP solution require a considerable expenditure. These ERP solutions might not be a feasible choice for small and mid sized business tied to budget constraints.These SMEs have a viable alternative in low cost Open Source ERP software. After an exhaustive groundwork we fetched the top 5 Java ERP.

1. Compiere ERP
2. Apache OFBiz
3. Openbravo ERP
4. Opentaps
5. JFire

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Who could have ever imagined the social networking sites would play the front-runners in real time journalism? For quite some time now the military units are employing the social networking tools as weapons for information warfare. This has been pushed further with US forces - Afghanistan (USFOR-A) being pushed to use Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to break news from the front lines. The brains in Pentagon have realized that the vital challenge in Afghanistan is getting ahead of the strategic communications cycle of the insurgency.
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Rapidshare is the best file sharing website in the world right now. With its top notch accounts security, multiple download servers and clean interface, Rapidshare rules the world of downloaders and uploaders. But what if you are newbie or an old pro? How will you know who uploaded what to rapidshare. There is no official indexing of files for Rapidshare. What if you want to download a particular file? How do you find it out at the first place. Here are 70 resources to search for your desired file from rapidshare. Here is a list after which you will never need a second place to go and search for Rapidshare files.

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We have deployed Comment Guard Pro across all our blogs. It has been extensively tested for this internal release and we don't expect any problems. However if you do find problem(s) submitting your comments (and you are definitely not a spammer) then I would very much appreciate if you could let us know the problem(s) you faced in as much details as possible using our contact form. Thanks.

I got tired of the fat, resource-hogging DashBoard shipped with WordPress 1.5. It gets feed from God-knows-how-many WordPress blogs for no good reason and without my (or your) consent.

Update: This also works on WordPress 2.0.
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Overview
A Plugin to bounce back referrer spam attempts; requires no upfront configuration, no mod-rewrite. It is like the strong silent bouncer at your favorite club. Tested on WordPress 1.5.x and 2.0. It should work with earlier versions too.

It does one job and does it well. Enough said.
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I was responding to a pdf viewing (using java) question on Artima - http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=1&thread=96447&start=0&msRange=30.

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