14Oct 2020 by Ajay No Comments

Native Windows Tools which makes my life easier

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Multi desktop (Ctrl + Win-key + Left or Right arrows) The icon next to Search in taskbar. Task View button on Windows Taskbar Usually I keep 2 desktops in my work PC where one is for my personal works, after all most of the cloud services keeps us busy personally in office ? Two desktops - My preference is to keep one for work and other for personal The shortcuts I use for easy switching the desktops are Cntl + Win-key + Left or Right arrows to switch to the desktop on left or rightTrackpad gesture 3 fingers swipe left or right. (I guess I configured it a while ago in windows settings.) Clipboard History (Win-key + V) Historical Paste This helps me a lot. Once you copy the text…
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09Feb 2020 by Ajay No Comments

Car Driving License process Ireland

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Obtaining a driving license in Ireland looks too cumbersome for beginners. And it's an especially lengthy process if you're from India. Good thing is that if you already have driving experience in India for more than 2 years, then you can reduce your license obtaining cost by about 200 euros with EDT Shortening. For all newcomers, I tried to grasp the steps below to achieve a driving license. Ireland Car Driving Lesson process steps Legends: ? Input to the step? Output from the step⌚ Time for the step? € Price for the step Step 1: Theory Test Practice Use theory-tester.com. No need for additional materials to practice.Complete all 900 questions on this website and pass at least 10 tests consistently.⌚ 10-20days? €Free? Your knowledge Step 2: Theory test booking ?…
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05Feb 2020 by Ajay No Comments

Snippet: How to show week number in Gmail & Google Calendar

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It's easy to show up week numbers in Gmail calendar view. For this you have to use the settings in Google calendar. Google calendar on Gmail showing week numbers Follow below steps Open Google calendarClick on Settings gear icon in G-calendarScroll down to enable week number visible. Also the same reflects in the Google calendar as below. You can see week number is shown up in left pane calendar and also on the regular large calendar. Week number shown in overview calendar on left pane and also on regular calendar in large pane. Below are screenshots to help achieve this. Step 1 Open Apps --> Calendar Step 2 Open Settings under Google Calendar Step 3 Check the Show week number
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16Sep 2019 by Ajay No Comments

Oracle ODBC Connection & Key Learnings

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Using an Oracle database from LabVIEW is quite jargon journey. From Instant-Client to ODBC, OLE DB, SQL Developer etc, difference between ODBC, ODAC, OLE DB, ADO etc, all can lead one to confusion easily. NI has tried to explain well on this document, it's still not very lucid in other sources like stackoverflow. I'm not confronting here to clarify all those. I found some few key learning are worth sharing. Windows has implicit classification of files between 32bit and 64bit. If you create a file using C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe, then it creates pure 32-bit file. Look at this link for more details. LabVIEW connects to the database provider purely based on the LabVIEW bitness. If you use 32-bit LabVIEW, then use the 32-bit data provider and UDL file.Never get confused with Oracle…
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08Jan 2019 by Ajay No Comments

SVN Externals

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If you are looking to reuse a project which already exists in another project and if you need that new project gets updates of the already existing project then-and-there, there is a very good feature in SVN called as externals to help on this kind of requirements. Advantages You can avoid multiple copies of the same source in SVN/source control repositories. Get updates from the root project as and when there is an update.  So no need to manually copy the project again when there is an update. SVN-logs are maintained for the root project from the new project and hence better historical control. In case you don't need updates from root project, use specific revision to freeze to selective version. How does that works? This can be best explained…
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10Dec 2018 by Ajay No Comments

Correlation

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You may often heard this word "Correlation" if you had some experience in developing a system with reference to other system.  By reference, I mean you might have been asked to develop a production system from an R&D system as a reference.  Or you might have been asked to develop a multi-line production system from the reference of single-line production system as a reference.  Or within an R&D this term could be used to compare the results of similar systems which should produce similar results.  Nevertheless, correlation is not limited to only such scaled or production systems. So what is correlation? Correlation is a systematic approach to compare the two or more similar systems.  The result of that comparison would give details whether all those system produces similar/same results or if…
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28Oct 2018 by Ajay No Comments

Vipassana Meditation Experience

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Though I know and do some meditation practices now and then, when I saw this TED talk a few years ago, Vipassana was new to me by then.  I was kind of impressed on how the Vipassana meditation has transformed those people.  I was wondering mainly about "Is it possible to do 10 days of meditation?".  "Doesn't my back pains and breaks if I do that?".  All sort of such questions were in me and other questions too.  Why not give it a try?  Obviously, I didn't find 10-day break during those time.  Somehow this Vipassana was running in back of my mind since then to try out at least once.  And I did it in last 10 days! What I can say about it? Nothing much as of now.  I…
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11Aug 2018 by Ajay No Comments

A Unique Momento from Tessolve Team..!

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It's very honourable to receive such an unique momento and team congratulations from Tessolve for the such an unique project. For Tessolve in itself this was not a regular project. I was called to develop a test system for calibrating a sensor from IDT.  It's an 8-sites parallel test executor developed with actor-framework in LabVIEW to make it highly scalable in future.  The project in itself is special in a way that water flows through the test system.  Then don't fail to imagine that water flowing in test floor too.!  Yes, literally hit happened and everyone had to ensure all safe ways to safeguard the other testers in test floor. I had great pleasure in architecting this software in LabVIEW, developing myself and getting help from a team of developers to support…
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10Jul 2018 by Ajay No Comments

Recover Files Using Window’s “Previous Version” Property

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Have you ever encountered that due to some bug in your software the imporant file has been deleted or overwritten?  May be that file could be important data logged in the production or could be your old source code.  Do you know that windows has some capabilities to recover those missed files? Recently I encountered such issue.  My own holy software which passed through all unit test cases, somehow misbehaved in the production site.  It adds more awkward moment if customer sees that issue and says "OMG..! My data are lost..!  Where is my data?". A quick google search on recovering windows files gave me a relief that Microsoft Windows in itself has some recovery given that if the restore points are configured in that Windows.  Since it's production PC,…
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