Category: Web Development
-
Watching Localhost Traffic with Fiddler
If you’ve tried to use Fiddler to debug your ajax script locally, you’ve probably noticed that it doesn’t log the traffic to http://localhost/. Well, it can! And it’s a really easy hack. Just put a dot at the end of localhost in your browser. Like this: http://localhost.:321/ AMAZING!!! (and here’s why it works)
-
Subversion Tip – What Has Changed
Have you ever wanted to know what others on your team have changed BEFORE you get the latest changes? Well, you can. From Windows Explorer, use TortoiseSVN’s context menu to “show log”. From the log messages report, you can right-click on the most recent revision and “Compare with Working Copy.” You’ll get a window like…
-
Testing Email from Local Apps with a Pickup Directory
I just learned about this neat trick that’s helpful for developing email features locally. In your web.config file you can tell your application to save emails to a folder instead of sending through an smtp server. This way you can have your application code work as normal and check all the emails it sends by…
-
Updating a Project and Editing Conflicts with TortoiseSVN
In TortoiseSVN, when getting the latest of multiple files, you may that there were conflicts in the merge process. Before you close this window, just scroll up and right click on the file with the conflict. Select “Edit conflicts” and use the Merge tool to resolve them.
-
Compare 2 Local Files with TortoiseSVN
You can compare 2 different files using SVN Diff! Just go into Windows Explorer, select 2 files (ctrl click) and right click on one of them. You’ll get a context menu like this: Just click SVN Diff (or you might see TortoiseSVN > Diff instead). You’ll get a nice side-by-side comparison of the differences in…