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Talend phone number handling example

Talend phone number handling example.

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Insufficient Disk Space Warning When Attempting to install

Quick easy fix for Insufficient Disk Space Warning When Attempting to Unpack and Install a Sage ACT! Update or Hot Fix. The error arises from the fact that the free space on the drive is a multiple of...

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RSS Reader of choice is Feedly

This post is for Jared. I use the Feedly rss reader to keep track of news.

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Why Bitcoin matters – Micropayments

This was new to me: A third fascinating use case for Bitcoin is micropayments, or ultrasmall payments. Micropayments have never been feasible … because it is not cost effective to run small payments …...

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Business is good

Source: Savage Chickens.

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Using a ternary operator in Talend Open Studio

I’m currently preparing some data for import into SugarCRM for a client. The source data has a column that contains the given names (i.e. “Jane Mary”) and a second column containing the surname (i.e....

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Multiple ternary expressions

This is how to use Talend to concatenate multiple columns (fields) into one field neatly. Say we have three fields, row1.field1, row1.field2, row1.field3 that we want to insert into a output.notes...

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iCloud folder location

On Mac OSX (Mavericks) you can find your ‘iCloud’ documents in the relevant application folder like this: /Users/USERNAME/Library/Mobile Documents/CODE_AND_APP_NAME/Documents/ Each application keeps...

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Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents

Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents.

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Blind smartphone camera comparison

iPhone 5s tops our blind camera comparison, Xperia Z1 Compact takes last place.

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The four horsemen of mediocrity

The four horsemen of mediocrity.

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Using a ternary expression to check if a value is null

Simple test to see if a field is null. I’m using this in Talend to determine if I copy the value into a new note field. You could use a length test, but if the field is a date, then you need to do it...

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Java for Talend Tips

Java for Talend Tips.

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Show the robber your work ID

I was just sent a link to this (source). Funny :).

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Using GeekTool to display key timezones

I’m using GeekTool to display some key time zones on my wallpaper, which happens to include world map. The key to this is to add Shell Geeklets using a command similar to this: env TZ=Pacific/Auckland...

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Find duplicate records in SugarCRM

Find duplicate records in SugarCRM version 6.5 and version 7.1.

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The four horsemen of mediocrity

[The four horsemen of mediocrity](http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2014/01/the-four-horsemen-of-mediocrity.html)

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Remove thousand separator in Integers in SugarCRM

We want to record a ‘Year’ value on a record in SugarCRM, but we don’t have a day and month to do with it, you can’t use a field that is of a ‘date’ type as that requires a full date (year, month,...

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What to expect when upgrading from SugarCRM 6.5.x to 7.1.5

What to expect when upgrading from SugarCRM 6.5.x to 7.1.5.

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What is the difference between \r and \n?

What is the difference between \r and \n?

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