Category Archives: Tools

Useful tips and recommendations for development tools.

Retweet December 2011

By TechKnow | January 2, 2012

From time to time I just blast tweets about software development, project planning, team dynamics, or whatever else comes to mind. Here is a synopsis of recent tweets and rants. If you want to follow the conversation follow me at techknow and/or juixe. Software Development Being into computers today is not the same as it [...]

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Enable Siri on iPhone 4S

By TechKnow | December 29, 2011

A family member received the iPhone 4S for Christmas and the first thing she wanted to try was Siri. She didn’t know how to turn it on so she called me, the local family tech support. To turn on Siri on the iPhone 4S go to the Settings app. Once on the iPhone Settings, drill [...]

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Reclaim Disk Space With Spacie

By TechKnow | December 19, 2011

Recently I noticed that I had less than 3GB of free disk pace on my laptop. I have and take a lot of photos, in addition to that I download and install a lot of different development tools and IDEs. I also have a lot of music and listen to a lot of podcasts. In [...]

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The Four A’s of Email

By TechKnow | October 12, 2011

I like to adhere to the AAAA rule of email. The four A’s of email reminds you to check you email for four items before you click the send button. Check and double check for correct Address, correct Attachments, correct Attitude and tone and state an Action you want from a recipient. Recently, a developer [...]

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Create SQL Server Database and Database Tables From a File

By TechKnow | September 16, 2011

When working with a database, it’s is always handy to develop a series of scripts to backup, restore, create, move databases around. As of late, I’ve been working with SQL Server a lot so I’ve come to appreciate the sqlcmd utility. You can run the sqlcmd utility from the command line and run a input [...]

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