Diff-ing commands on Mac

Friday, February 29th, 2008

There are several tools to compare files for changes out there for Mac OS X. I'll cover a few here. The first and most basic is diff. From the command line, it looks like this: diff -u old_file new_file Where of course old_file is the old suspected filename, and new_file is the ...

Pimp my Reader

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

I am a fan of the Google Reader application for managing my RSS subscriptions. The advantage of having all my feeds organized in one convenient web repository is proving to be quite handy (much as del.icio.us has been for bookmarks) and I like Readers' own ability to produce new RSS ...

Zend/PHP Conference, days 3 & 4

Friday, October 21st, 2005

We wrapped up the Zend/PHP conference today and overall it was quite a good show. At the very least, I have my work cut out for me here. I have a stack of books that I picked up at a nice show discount from the Sams booth, based on recommendations ...

Blueberry Tiger

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

While my old PowerBook waits in the shop for a new motherboard (yes, the PB12 shall rise again), I am using a blueberry iMac. This was a low-end 350 MHz type, and it has a decent 576 MB RAM installed. I had no problem wiping the system and installing Panther. But ...

DW8

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005

What I love about the new Macromedia Dreamweaver 8: The Mac installer is a smaller download than the windows version. CSS code completion improvements PHP coder improvements and support for PHP5 Improved CSS rendering CSS visualization of margins and padding Faster than the last ...