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 used this command sparingly in the past and I recently learnt more options by solving couple of my problems.

TDD (Test Driven Development) was introduced to me around 2006 with PHPUnit. As a naive, I couldn’t see the benefits, eg.

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.

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.

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.

Notepad++ on windows has this beautiful option “View all characters” to display all invisbile characters such as line endings. Programming editors on mac like Textwrangler and Textmate has an option to Show Invisibles but failed to display the character block for Carriage Return as Notepad used to.

Yes, every post you come across suggest the same thing, hold your power button and home button for X seconds. Though it is true, unfortunately I had a couple of situations my iphone doesn’t respond to the key combinations.

I love the theme of the Pure Reader for Safari (http://nadesign.net/safari/). I’ve ported the CSS as a userscript to use it with Google Chrome.

If you use GotoMeeting to record video of the shared screen, make sure that you DO NOT use G2M3 codec. It does a great job in compressing the size of the video but it is not compatible with OSX or any OS other than Windows.

Disclaimer: There is no alternative to real Mac, if you like Mac go and buy it. If buying a real Mac is too much, you can at least buy a license for Mac OS X Snow Leopard which costs $29 only.

I was planning to write a post similar to this for very long time. My intension is to help beginners to know the jargons and best practices.

PeerGuardian is a great tool to maintain your privacy. But you should be aware of a fact that it uses a sqlite db to maintain the history called history.

No matter how large your hard drive is, the data will grow to fill the disk! Recently I was running out of space on both of my internal 120Gig and external 320Gig HDD.