MakeMyTrip and Goibibo Merger
India is seen as next big internet market owing to digital revolution, economic growth and potential market strength. MakeMyTrip and Goibibo join hands to become a market leader in travel industry of Indian online travel segment. (IndiaTimes, 2016) views this as a potential move to grab Indian market and tighten its grip over the market that MakeMyTrip already enjoys 35% stake. About MakeMyTrip MakeMyTrip is a travel company operating through online booking portal –...
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It is a challenging job for asp.net software companies and developers to deal with culture dependent number parsing say, string to decimal or string to double etc. If these cases are not handled properly, it breaks the system anytime. ASP.NET software companies should aim at writing culture-safe and managed code that safe guards your applications from culture related issues. What is number parsing? All numeric types have two static parsing methods, TryParse and Parse, those are...
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ASP.NET software companies or developers find it challenging to manage String operations like sorting, comparison etc. if it is culture dependent. Such issues are difficult to troubleshoot and it has potential to break the system. What is StringComparison? The StringComparison is enumeration that is used to specify what string comparison should use among the options available. Current culture or the invariant culture Word or ordinal sort rules Case-sensitive or...
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A time zone is a region on Earth with uniform standard time (UT) and have a legally defined borders which coincide with the border of country or some subdivision for commercial, legal and social purposes. 15 longitudinal degrees, the time changes by one hour. Thus, there are 24 time zones in the world. Over the period, local governments of various countries have altered, accepted or rejected GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) as they saw fit per their country’s requirements. Custom software...
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Programming is fun and gives the sense of accomplishments to programmers and developers. First it is due to sheer joy of creation and solving business problems. As the child takes pride in mud pie, so the programmers and asp.net software companies do enjoy building things and solving the business problems. Programming sounds easy however it requires a hell lot of thinking, thinking and thinking. Common areas programmer fall prey for are handling different culture issues in programming....
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