The iNexus

Compare Folders 3.4.2 released

Brian — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:58:51 +0000

This morning is the release of another solid update for Compare Folders. This update focuses on polishing the application even more as well as fixing a regression in the copy to functionality.

See the changes in in the full article

As always, you can find the disk image for download at: http://www.infinitenexus.com/cf/

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Compare Folders 3.4.1 released

Brian — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:30:00 +0000

Today is the release of another solid update for Compare Folders. This update focuses on stability and polish, delivering a fix for a nasty copying crash as well as a fully updated Help book.

See the changes in in the full article

As always, you can find the disk image for download at: http://www.infinitenexus.com/cf/

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Copy that good buddy

Brian — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:21:45 +0000

I’ve finished up most of the coding work on a nice little update (3.4.1) for Compare Folders. As the title of this post implies, it’s all about copying.

I’ve rewritten how copying items works and successfully copied over 23,000 items (4 GB of data) and Compare Folders churned through this without blinking (instead of crashing like before.) This rewrite also addresses other minor issues with copying.

Right now I’m in the midst of updating the documentation to ship with this update. It’s been out of date for far too long [it was last updated for the 2.6 release, sheesh], and will finally be updated with all the current features.

Compare Folders 3.4 released

Brian — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:38:20 +0000

Today is the release of a solid update for Compare Folders. This update addresses a few regressions in the 3.3 release while polishing several areas of the application.

See the changes in in the full article

As always, you can find the disk image for download at: http://www.infinitenexus.com/cf/

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Heads up, with a silver lining

Brian — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:08:45 +0000

FYI, I’ve had some reports of crashes when saving comparison results as text. I’ve been able to reproduce the issue and will start testing a fix this week along with some other improvements that I just finished.

Originally I’d planned to have a month or two of work to make a substantive release but this crash is accelerating the timeline. Look for news on the next Compare Folders update and its features and fixes soon.

Update: The crash is fixed and will go into testing this weekend.

Compare Folders 3.3 released

Brian — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:38:42 +0000

Today is (finally) the release of another solid update for Compare Folders. This update is primarily focused on performance optimizations so you can compare more items but also includes important bugfixes as well as a new feature, colors for alternate differences.

See the changes in in the full article

As always, you can find the disk image for download at: http://www.infinitenexus.com/cf/

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Is this thing on? Yep.

Brian — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:39:42 +0000

If you’re reading this it means the website is live once more.

My former hosting provider, Inno-Tech, disabled my account before the cancellation date (without notice, either) and I had to scramble to get everything set up with a new provider. The upside is that Infinite Nexus is now hosted by Dreamhost, whose service has proven to be 1000% more professional and faster in both directions too. I can’t stress enough how much one should avoid Inno-Tech; if you need a detailed list of reasons just ping me.

Compare Folders 3.3 will be released ASAP now and I’ll get back to finishing DriveGauge and planning major updates for the site and Compare Folders.

If you spot any problems with the site don’t hesitate to drop me a line and let me know.

Locked up with no place to publish

Brian — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:22:12 +0000

I have to post some unfortunate news today - I’ve been attempting to publish the new version of Compare Folders and update the website but my hosting provider’s FTP access is broken. This is not an acceptable situation and I’ll be switching hosts to address this issue going forward. In the meantime I humbly ask for your patience as I deal with the backend issues and get everything transferred.

What’s in the pipeline?

Brian — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:46:49 +0000

Over the past several months I’ve worked with DeliciousSafari on Bookmarks Pro 2.0 for iPhone OS 3.0+ to add built-in search, an embedded browser, and a handy contacts’ URL list. This update has been submitted to Apple and is queued up for review currently. Personally I can’t imagine my iPhone without it; Bookmarks Pro has been an invaluable part of keeping interesting and important links in sync between all of my machines, devices, and the cloud.

Compare Folders 3.3 is wrapping up testing and will be released in the next week or so. This release focused on addressing some major crashes, performance, and polish as I’ve previously discussed.

Now that those projects are wrapped up DriveGauge 4 is going to be my primary programming focus. I’ve got some ambitious (but certainly attainable) plans to upgrade its engine and work on the polish I expect in the finished product. I have people reminding me (quite frequently) that they are eagerly awaiting DG, even in beta form, so it’s never forgotten.

To coincide with DG 4’s release I’ve been working on a new site and it too is coming along nicely; yesterday I finished a Python script that extracted all the content out of the current site to make it easier to review and add to the new system. There’s still that part of the process, as well as updating the content and some necessities (like store integration.) Overall I’m really looking forward to the results here, there’s a lot of potential in using a full fledged CSM like Drupal.

2009 is shaping up to be an excellent year for Infinite Nexus, keep checking in!

Fixes and more

Brian — Mon, 25 May 2009 08:10:51 +0000

As I mentioned in my last post, the 3.3 release of Compare Folders has been optimized for launching and memory usage during comparisons. There’s been additional performance gains since then but right I’d like to talk about some of the other improvements in store.

Without further adieu, here’s a couple highlights:

fixed: an unfortunate crash that could occur when stopping an in-progress comparison
added: the secondary difference for each difference type has its own color now, so you can have unique colors for every type of difference supported

Overall I think the release is shaping up quite nicely and I’m looking forward to getting it into testing next week and if all goes well start preparing for release the week following.