Comparing Code
When you start to customise your site from the default installation, adding contributions can become a harder job as you obviously cannot just overwrite the file with the contribution file otherwise you’ll lose your changes. So you have to compare the two sets of code to see what’s changed in the contribution file and copy that into your own file - a long and tedious job at times.
Most contributions mention about using a file comparison program which I downloaded today to try it out after I was going crossed eyed at comparing files manually. Beyond Compare is a fantastic program that makes the job ten times easier. After running this program and comparing two files I shot through the comparison so quickly I was amazed. This program could have been used so many times in the past and is definitely on my shopping list of software to buy next month! You get a 30 day trial but it works out to around $30 to buy (I think!).
If you need to compare files then this is the program for you.
[...] So today we decided to start adding the contributions to the new site. Armed with my new file comparison software I made a list of the contributions needed and set to work adding them in to the site code. [...]
September 29th, 2006 at 11:25 pm