Rajiv Popat - September 2006 Entries

Free Tools To Magnify Your Screen / Parts of it in Real Time (For Creative Guys / Designers and Guys who want to Magnify stuff during presentations).

A Few days ago I had a discussion with a person from our creative team who informed me about (and liked) the fact that in MAC you could just zoom in and magnify any part of your screen in real-time. This was one feature I could use during technical presentations as well. So I decided to go searching for some free tools that let me do this same thing in windows and met a whole throng of free tools that let me do this. Here are the best two that I came across: http://www.sysinternals.com... ......

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Get the Size of a Directory in Linux the Easy Way

du -sh for the quick answer, ncdu for the cleanup, df for the disk itself: every command for checking directory size in Linux, plus why du and df never agree.

Vim Search and Replace: The Ultimate Guide

One :%s command replaces every match in a file before a find dialog would even open. The Vim substitute patterns worth the muscle memory: flags, ranges, capture groups, and multi-file edits.

Because of AI, You Need a New Development Team

Your existing team is buried in the complexity of your existing product. AI rewards the team with a blank slate. Most companies don't have one.

The Offshore Problem That Starts With a "Yes"

The stories about offshore "not working" are rarely about skill. They are about an invisible communication gap, and it starts the moment someone says yes.