JSON Diff

Posted by Tom on June 30th, 2008 — in JavaScript, Programming, Web

I released a new project yesterday, diff for JSON. It’s very simple, but useful. Simply paste two chunks of JSON you want to diff into the two fields, and click “Compare”:

JSON Diff

It shows the difference highlighted in yellow (changed), green (added), or red (removed).

Mac OS X, Web Sharing / Apache, and Symlinks

Posted by Tom on June 25th, 2008 — in Mac, Web

Mac OS X comes with an Apache installation which is very handy, but by default it’s configured not to follow symlinks. A lot of times I have projects in other directories which I want to share via the web server, but end up getting errors such as the following:

Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access /~tlrobinson/Editor/ [...]



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