Disclaimer: Yes, I know about the typo “briding” in screenshots, but I’m lazy to redo all, so please ignore and read the article in peace :-)

I was cleaning up my mac before handing it to systems on my last job. I had a couple of days just for the Knowledge Transfer of projects and nothing else. I have always run two or three passive self policing apps like Rescuetime and Timing etc.,

TL;DR: Yes, you can. If you are only interested in the steps skip to the relevant section.

I own a Raspberry Pi for closer to a year now. I was not able to use my Netgear N150 (WNA1100) dongle until last week with it, I was kind of lost my enthusiasm by this bitter experience and hold my experiments for long time. Other than installing some console emulators and XBMC in last 6 months, I have not done anything with my Raspberry Pi.  You can refer my adventures here and here.

I have used this command sparingly in the past and I recently learnt more options by solving couple of my problems. I really don’t know whether grep is the right choice here, but hey! it worked :-)

The Forgot password email template has been the same for more than a decade. It is time to include more information in the email.

TDD (Test Driven Development) was introduced to me around 2006 with PHPUnit. As a naive, I couldn’t see the benefits, eg., I saw the pattern of code has been updated very often (growing organically) and frequent failing test. I was like, Why should I write unit test to test my own code? with the same data I used for manual testing? As they say I was seeing the forest for the trees. I failed to realize the failing test is actually the benefit of practicing TDD.

If you want to quickly disable internet/networking to test offline features. Doing it frequently with System preferences GUI is quite a slow workflow.

Finally I found a good usecase to test the Sudden Motion Sensor of my macbook pro. I was curious to know whether there is an impact of cooling pad’s fan.

Project planning is always a difficult task for me. I could do anything to skip the project planning because for following reasons:

Last Thursday one of my iPad app’s provisioning file has expired. Client brought it to us at the very late moment, the iPad app was distributed internally as an enterprise app. App users are for HVAC technicians, app integrates with their organization’s CRM (Salesforce) so distributing it with App store doesn’t make any sense.

A Bookmarklet or a Browser extension to select the root element of a DOM (UL/OL) to view the Inverted tree structure of its child nodes.

Wish you all a very happy new year!

It is 2013, another chance for us/me to start a new beginning. I believed in Mayan so much, I never had a plan post 20th Dec 2012 :)

I wrote a small plugin for sublime text to develop salesforce. I’m glad to share one of my idea to project execution.

If you are experiencing frequent disk I/O and your console is full of

25/08/12 4:30:19.506 PM ALSPlugin 235.55[62]: Failed to get brightness for displayID 0x042731c0

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Chrome updated its policy to not to install extensions and scripts outside of Google webstore by default. (Gatekeeper, everyone wants to be the police)

Here are the collection of snippets to do CRUD operation with ZKSforce (Force.com toolkit for iOS).

Remember this is a SOAP based API, there is a new alternative library available from salesforce called MobileSDK for iOS.

I recently uninstalled all previous versions of xcode (I had all xcode from ios 3.2.x) to install 4.2 on my MBP. Although I freed around 30 GB, noticed an issue shortly. A process named BTServer is utilizing high CPU usage.

One of my long time wish to write a Chrome extension completed last week. It all started when my answer was down-voted at apple.stackexchange.com, the original answer was based on my experience sometime ago I was searching to migrate my links between my Instapaper accounts.

Update: I recently found this site called diawi.com which allows you to distribute the app similar to file-sharing sites, drag and drop ipa file and share the link to the testers.

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Recently I was in need of generating sample images for no. of products in my db. I really hate to create a copy of image for each products in my db.