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Unzip files in bulk in their own directory (sh)
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Installing Latest MongoDB version on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 15.04
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Ace editor cursor position has space between expected position and the current position
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CommandLine Convert WMF, EPS etc to SVG using inkscape
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Installing New Comodo Positive SSL Certificate on Apache and OpenSSL on Centos, Fedora and RedHat
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Rackspace Cloud FIles Bulk Delete objects prefixed/* wildcard php sdk
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How to make xml_split, xml_merge, xml_pp, xml_grep, xml_spellcheck under XML-Twig tools work on Windows
Large XML files could sometimes lead to overall slowness of your program. Thus it makes sense to sometimes split them to rearrange contents within to optimize querying your XML files. This post will touch base on how to split a large XML file on windows OS and I will use a cool tool written by Michel Rodriguez. XML-twig is presumably an open source library that works on large XML files. Notable tools includes XML Grep XML merge XML pretty printer XML spell check XML split Our focus is to build this library on windows so that we can use it from windows command prompt Download XML-Twig Get this library from cpan websites. Here is the URL http://search.cpan.org/~mirod/XML-Twig-3.48/Twig.pm Download the XML-Twig-3.48.tar.gz file and extract it under c:\devtools Here is a screenshot of what it looks like on my machine Lets leave it there for the time being and install prerequisites Pre-requisites There are a couple of pre requisites that you will want to install. Perl. As this library is written in perl so you would want to install Perl on your system. ActiveState perl is something that I sometimes use and is a good option by far on Windows computers. Download for your processor arch 32 bit or 64 bit from the URL below http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads I installed it under c:\perl64 Visual studio Express 2010 for tool called "nmake" I've got Visual studio 2012 but you can get an express edition of "Express 2013 for Windows Desktop" from URL below http://www.visualstudio.com/en-US/products/visual-studio-express-vs#2010-Visual-CPP Now that perl is available from command prompt You may also want to run this command ppm install MinGW64 Above will install dmake as a perl module too just in case if you want to use that. But in this article I will use name. That's it for the pre requisites and I hope that you would have installed both of the above so that we can move on to next … [Read more...]
Google MarkerClusterer Handling Multiple Markers On Same Geo Location
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