Compare and merge
Today I was on the brink of throwing both my fists to the dual monitors in front of me at work. All because of one stupid javascript drop down menu. It worked perfectly in html, but once I migrated it to an aspx page, it borked! So I began carrying out a couple of debugging process. I created a new aspx blank page and moved over all the codes minus those aspx call functions from the old aspx page to the new page and the menu worked. So I added back the call functions and everything worked, again. So here I have two sets of almost identical codes but display different behavior when being displayed by the browser. *At this moment, I already start banging my head on the pc monitor*
So I downloaded Compare and Merge, a source code comparison program. I managed to spot the solution instantly. The culprit is one line of meta content tag. Bloody hell! Anyway, this program is so cool. It lays out both source code horizontally across the page and highlights the codes differences. In addition to that, you can swap codes between two files with just two mouse clicks. Magnificento! I have a feeling I’m going to use this a lot down the road.
Note: I’m not being paid by Compare and merge software company for this entry.
