Making Life Simple

How to save password in TortoiseSVN

lalit — Fri, 18 May 2012 06:00:27 +0000

Follow these steps
a) Right click on local code repo
b) Go to TortoiseSVN > Settings
c) Go to “Network”
d) Browse for SSH Client and use following
“C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin\TortoisePlink.exe” – Can be found in TortoiseSVN installation folder
d) Append following replacing username and password with your user name and password
“-l username -pw password”
e) Click OK/Apply

Solr import URLs

lalit — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:13:11 +0000

Full-import

http://:/solr/dataimport?command=full-import

Delta-import

http://:/solr/dataimport?command=delta-import

status

http://:/solr/dataimport

reload-config

http://:/solr/dataimport?command=reload-config

abort

http://:/solr/dataimport?command=abort

Steps to speed up Eclipse

lalit — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:19:03 +0000

I found an interesting link which helped me to speed up the eclipse loading time. Let me know if that helped you.

Set autoincrement value in mysql

lalit — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:59:38 +0000

Sometimes it is necessary to set the starting value of MySQL auto-increment value. This can be set as

alter table table_name auto_increment=XXXX

where table_name is the name of the table and XXXX is the starting value of auto increment

Access AWS with Putty

lalit — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:56:46 +0000

When accessing EC2 amazon cloud, you would receive a .pem file to login to the shell. Putty does not use .pem file and you would need to convert that file to .ppk file which putty uses. In order to convert it, you would need to download puttygen.exe from the website. Run the program and follow the following steps:

Click “Conversions” on the menu and select “Import key”
Browse to the .pem file
Click “Save private key” button
You would get a warning that you are saving the key without a passphrase. Please ignore it and click “Yes”
Save the .ppk file

On putty:

Select the session you created and click “Load”
Open “SSH->Auth” from the tree on the left
Under “Private key file for authentication” browse to the recently created .ppk file
Save the session and you are ready

MySQL export/import database

lalit — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:06:49 +0000

The easiest way to export is use syntax in command prompt (cmd):
mysqldump -u USER -p PASSWORD DATABASE > filename.sql

To import the same file, the syntax is:
mysql -u USER -p PASSWORD DATABASE < filename.sql

Enable XDebug on WAMP using Eclipse

lalit — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:38:20 +0000

For Windows machine running WAMPServer:

1) Install PDT plugin on your eclipse
2) Download XDebug to match your php
3) Install XDebug – save XDebug dll to wamp_path/bin/php/php5.3.5/ext folder
4) Enable XDebug – update php.ini file
4a) comment zend debugger information
4b) enable xdebug
[xdebug] xdebug.remote_enable = on xdebug.profiler_enable = off xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger = off ; xdebug.profiler_output_name = cachegrind.out.%t.%p xdebug.profiler_output_dir = "path to tmp folder" xdebug.remote_handler = dbgp xdebug.remote_host = localhost xdebug.remote_port = 9000

5) restart apache
6) Update PHP settings on eclipse to enable XDebug

MySQL server has gone away

lalit — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:32:03 +0000

While importing a mysql dump file, I was receiving an error “MySQL server has gone away”. The reason is that the maximum allowed packet size was less than the dump file size.

Edit “my.ini” file and update the value for
max_allowed_packet = XXM
where XX is the maximum size.

This should fix the issue.

CSV to Excel – keep leading zeros

lalit — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:36:57 +0000

When opening a csv file in excel, leading zero’s are displaced as below:

if the CSV file has “010101″, when opened in excel, it becomes “10101″.

To overcome this issue, store data in CSV file as =”010101″ (add ‘equals’ sign before the first quote.). If now you would open this file in excel, the leading zeros will stay as is.

Generate SSL certificate for Tomcat

lalit — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:21:00 +0000

Following are the steps to create an real SSL certificate (verified by VeriSign/Thawte etc.) for Tomcat:
1. Creation of keystore
keytool -genkey -alias XXX -keyalg RSA -keystore ./XXX.keystore

2. Generation of CSR
keytool -certreq -alias XXX -file XXX.csr -keystore ./XXX.keystore
Send the generated XXX.csr to the signing authority and get the certificate from them. Save that file as “XXX.thawte”

3. Install the certificate in the keystore
keytool -import -alias XXX -trustcacerts -file XXX.thawte -keystore XXX.keystore

That’s it.