Tag: files

Summary Of Software I Like

Posted on by kairacapri

If you publish software written in Microsoft’s .NET, you should definitely look at the code obfuscator Babel For .NET. Unlike some other ones, it is affordably priced and full of features. I’ve had my software reverse compiled and hacked in the past, before I found out about Babel, and most certainly you want to close the door before the horse bolts. The author of Babel has done the world of software developers a huge favour by producing this work.

Axialis IconGenerator is a good tool to generate icons for Windows and Apple Macs. Its separately downloaded object packs are full of high quality icons, which really get you off to a good start.

Nicepage is new software (as of 28 February 2019) and has helped me get a website designed quickly. It generates HTML pages, as well as themes for Joomla and WordPress. I haven’t kept up with HTML, CSS and responsive web design (web pages adjusting to the smaller screens on smartphones) and so I can no longer hand-write a web page today that looks acceptable. That is where Nicepage comes in!

When I am writing sofware or collaborating with other authors, finding out how one text document differs from another is really useful. Comparing two folders of source code files to see all the changes is again really useful. TextDiff has helped me a lot. I can’t recommend it enough. It has saved me hours of time.

Now What Has Changed In My Source Code?

Posted on by kairacapri

Back in the days, Microsoft Visual Studio came with a nice little tool called WinDiff. Everytime I created a new release of software, I would run WinDiff and compare the current source code files with the ones for the previous version. I would see all the changes I made. Likewise in a company a manager could review all the changes an employee has made.

I did this to check to see what exactly I had done and so I could review all the new code I had written for mistakes.

Well eventually Microsoft in their wisdom removed WinDiff from Visual Studio. So what’s a programmer to do now?

I’ve found a nice little replacement for WinDiff called TextDiff available from the website https://compare-text-files.com/. I just point it to my current set of files and to my old ones and it runs along and points out all the new files, the removed files and the changed files. For each pair of modified files, I can double-click the entry and it automatically does a “diff text” on them. It works like magic. I even reordered some class methods and it dutifully picked out they were rearranged rather than newly added. I can’t recommend this enough. It has saved me hours of time.

It seems full of hidden features. I also managed to compare a pair of Microsoft Word documents, although it only seems to compare the text part of them.

It has a lot of very useful options. Its ability to just show the differences and leave out the unchanged text is really very useful. If you just want to see the differences and nothing else, then this software utility is worth its weight in gold!