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 ...

So close, and yet so far

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Microsoft recently posted confirmation that their early builds of Internet Explorer 8 pass the Acid2 test for proper CSS rendering support. This was hailed as wonderful news among web developers worldwide as a momentus occasion where we could finally adhere to web development specifications as written and as intended. And then ...

Researching web information architecture, usability, and standards

Friday, November 9th, 2007

If you are a web developer, web designer, web architect, web usability expert, in a similar role, or just have an opinion on the subjects of web architecture, usability, and standards, I need your help! I am doing a research paper on the arguments in favor of having large enterprise ...

Hosting nightmares

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

I had to change web hosts. The old one was down way too often. Unfortunately, this one seems to be not without their own set of issues. Still trying to find out why Unicode characters didn't import right into the database and why .htaccess configurations continue to fail. Hmmm... Oh and ...

Clobber and rewrite

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

It's time to redesign. I'll use my traditional method of blowing everything away and starting from scratch. Also upgraded to WordPress 2.3 today. Noticed some of my categories are missing. This is a first for me - usually the upgrades go pretty well. I wonder what design I'll come up with... I also ...