"Cannot get Mail" The user name or password for imap.gmail.com is incorrect iOS

For iOS if you are using Apple configurator to setup gmail make sure you follow these steps. https://discussions.apple.com/message/26827218#26827218 If you followed the steps above and still getting...

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The this keyword in javascript explained

this keyword in Javascript is a source for confusion. The confusion is mostly due to the fact that the 'this' keyword is used differently in other languages compared to Javascript. I was also confused of this (Well I still am sometimes) as I was coming from a C# background where the 'this' keyword...

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ASP.NET Concurrent Ajax Requests and slow performance

While working on a client project I came across an interesting issue. That is when concurrent Ajax requests (originating from Jquery ajax) came in the asp.net web service (A set of aspx web methods in this case) were performing ridiculously slow. The methods it self were executing pretty fast. It turned...

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cassandra vs rdbms data model

If you are coming from a relational database world like me then the initial terminology used in cassandra will be a bit confusing. I'll state some keywords which are used in cassandra and try to draw parallels of them to the relational world. Note: These parallels are just for ease of understanding...

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Cannot read remote side has closed Thrift Cassandra C#

I was seeing this error ("Cannot read remote side has closed") while trying to get Thrift API to work with Cassandra using Csharp. For the life of me I couldn't figure out what was wrong as even though the error is saying something like "Hey I think your Thrift server is down". That was not the case...

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SQL GROUP BY Example

The GROUP BY clause causes data in a table (or any data source) to be divided into groups based on the expressions (or conditions) given in the GROUP BY clause. Seems confusing? Probably.. Let's see what it means, Say you have Column1, Column 2..etc on your table. Now you say GROUP BY Column1 , what...

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ASP.Net Webforms Inline tags and code blocks

There are many elements inside a webforms (.aspx) page. To somebody beginning asp.net webforms these may seem quite similar and be confusing at first. (Well it was for me when I started learning asp.net webforms) So hopefully this might help another soul. Elements of a asp.net page (Inline tags and...

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