Putting Talend Open Studio projects under version control

When you are working on OS X (I’m not sure if other OS’es have the same issue) your Talend Open Studio workspace is located here:

/Applications/TOS-<version>/TalendOpenStudio-
macosx-carbon.app/Contents/MacOS/workspace

That’s right, the workspace is placed inside TalendOpenStudio.app, which isn’t a very convenient place.

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Pretty-printing JSON and XML on Mac OSX

Like the rest of my colleagues at Avisi I’m an avid OSX user. One of the reasons I like OSX is it gives you the power of Unix right under your fingertips while still providing a nice user interface.

Now suppose you’re working on RESTful services and you need to verify or debug some JSON output. Digging through an unformatted JSON string can be a real pain. Here’s a simple solution…

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