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Remove langauge resources and clean up disk space on mac

On February 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Since last few days I noticed a significant decline in performance on my mac. After opening about 8 different apps my machine would become irritatingly unresponsive. Now macs don’t slow down, or do they? Well the fact is that they do and this could be because of a number of reasons. In my case it [...]

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Best way to browse iOS documentation

On January 8, 2012 · Leave a Comment

While developing apps for iPhone or iPad I often have to look into documentation. IMO the experience of browsing through documentation within XCode is not the best. Today I found this great Mac application which so far is the best way to browse through iOS documentation. The application I am talking about is called Dash. [...]

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Connecting to Force.com from IDE

On December 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Working through Force.com tutorials I came to the point where I wrote some Apex code. Instead of doing this via Browser based interface, I decided to use Force.com IDE which as you know is an Eclipse plugin. This post documents the steps I went through to get connectivity to the warehouse application created as part [...]

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Get Temporary Folder In Java

On August 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment

This example shows you how to retrieve the name of temporary folder for your operating system using Java code.

All it takes is one line of code to get this information.

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Connect To SQL Server 2008 From NetBeans IDE On A Mac

On August 24, 2010 · 1 Comment

In this post I will show you how to establish a connection to Microsoft SQL Server  from NetBeans IDE.

I use a Mac so the screenshots here are from Mac but NetBeans IDE is the same on all other platforms. There should not be any differences.

First thing we need to do is download the [...]

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