development

Ever wanted to do a diff between a local file and a remote one?  I have, so I wrote a simple shell script that'll do it for you.  It requires scp, diff, and rm to be available on your system, which should be the case on any modern *nix.  The -b option to diff tells [...]

Little Eclipse gem I just found.  On the in-file Find dialog,
there's an "incremental" checkbox.  If you check it, Eclipse will
find the first match as you type, updating for every keystroke,
just like FireFox's in-page text searching.  I've longed for that
feature for months, and never noticed that it was sitting there right
under my nose.

I've been moving all my stuff from CVS to Subversion over the past
few months.  Some of the stuff (like server config files) I've
just been moving the top revision across since the history is of little
concern.  The larger projects, however, I've migrated the whole
history with the fantastic cvs2svn
tool.  It somehow reads your CVS directory, figures out [...]

I've used Neuromancer
(from Rob Rohan)
on several projects, and I finally decided to implement form posts, in
addition to the raw posts that it already supports.  Like it
should be with a well designed library, adding the new functionality
was a snap.  I forwarded the changes to Rob, and I'd expect them
to be in the next Neuromancer release, which [...]

As is pretty common knowledge, CFMX 6, CFMX 7, and BD all ship with
JDBC drivers for MySQL 3.x.  There have been several posts (here's
one from Steven Erat)
about installing MySQL Connector/J 3.x, which is the driver for MySQL
4.x.  In particular, it supports the new authentication scheme
that was introduced in the 4 series.
I've done this on several
servers [...]