I’ve spent the past ten years of my life in the IT industry, living and breathing for quality software testing. I started out as a tester and even though I’ve spent my last few years as a Quality Manager, I’m still a tester at heart. In all my experience, I’ve always encountered one phenomenon that stands out from the rest. This is the tester’s plight, wherein managers will often believe that literally anyone can test applications, their confusion whenever bugs still happen in a productive environment, even after months of extensive testing in a sandbox and the overall state of a demanding but yet unrecognized profession.

Team Foundation Server (abbr. TFS) has the promise of being an out of the box, all in one box solution to ALM within an organization. You can use it to manage your project and track your team’s work, to manage your code, to build and test your software. You can do so either with Team Foundation Server installed on your own server, or by using Visual Studio Online in the cloud.

PHP has a shaky history as far as package management goes. All this was about to change in the first part of the year 2012, when the Composer and Packagist were launched. In this article, we will explore the beautiful world and history of modern package management in PHP.

"Gogu, are you coming to the gym tonight?” Misu’s Transylvanian face suddenly appeared from behind the display.  “No, I’m going to the barrelhouse. Er… to the bar, if you want it to sound better,” Gogu rectified rapidly. 

Year 2016 has certainly been an important year from the point of view of legal novelties. In the domain of remuneration, too, there have been a few important modifications, which we will present below. The minimum gross salary in force from 01.01.2016 to 30.04.2016 is 1050 lei.

2015 was the year when Generation Y (millennial) has taken a significant percentage of the labor market in most European countries. Today we are preparing intensively for the Generation Z. Because the generational workplace diversity is an actual debate, this also generates myths, exaggerations, and uncomfortable truths. How does Generation Y answers to the family, technological, economical or emotional challenges?

DevOps is more and more frequent in today’s IT environment and it probably represents the way we will be organizing work in our communities. The following article will talk about how the need for DevOps appeared, where it stands today, and why it is considered to be a culture, not a methodology. The final section will analyze the way in which DevOps is being implemented in a Cluj company.

We live in a world where technology is growing and expanding its areas of use every single day. It’s amazing how we are able to find new ways of using mobile apps to help us in our everyday life.

In the first week of December I had the pleasure to attend, together with my team, one of the biggest and most important PHP conferences of the year: SymfonyCon 2015. It was held in Paris and it marked the celebration of 10 years since the Symfony framework project started.

Many of the web programmers need the rendering time of a web page to be as short as possible. One is confronted with this problem first of all when one has to choose the tools to work with on a new project.