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Delete .svn folders recursively

December 3, 2008 – 2:31 pm

Very often scenarios crop up when we want to clean our mammoth source code repository without having to export it elsewhere. I was looking for an elegant way to delete hidden .svn folders which are created by tortoise svn to keep track of the repository state on the client. I found this site which provided [...]

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Run Commands for Windows XP

August 21, 2008 – 10:19 am

I found this incredible link to start most of the XP system apps from Run box.

Program
Run Command

Accessibility Controls
access.cpl

Accessibility Wizard
accwiz

Add Hardware Wizard
hdwwiz.cpl

Add/Remove Programs
appwiz.cpl

Administrative Tools
control admintools

Adobe Acrobat ( if installed )
acrobat

Adobe Distiller ( if installed )
acrodist

Adobe ImageReady ( if installed )
imageready

Adobe Photoshop ( if installed )
photoshop

Automatic Updates
wuaucpl.cpl

Basic Media Player
mplay32

Bluetooth Transfer Wizard
fsquirt

Calculator
calc

Ccleaner ( if installed )
ccleaner

C: Drive
c:

Certificate Manager
cdrtmgr.msc

Character [...]

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Huge list of productivity tools and utilities

August 4, 2008 – 6:51 pm

While exploring for CodeRush guides I stumbled across this website. The author has compiled a very good link to various tools and utilities which someone can use to boost his productivity a great deal. The reason I bookmarked this website and I am providing the link here is that it contains almost all the productivity [...]

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Reasons to write bad code !!

July 12, 2008 – 12:30 am

Do you write bad code ? I hope not. I also do not write bad code. Are you trying to guess what the topic is about ? Ok here goes the story…
I was new in organization. Probably around 3 months or so. It was like any other day at office. We all were working on [...]

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