I had an issue today that led me to learn something new and useful.
While working on the self serve app, I discovered in testing that the import function was not working. My developer was offline and I thought I’d take a look at it. I am not a coder, and have no grid for php, but I had something to go on. I had origionally outsourced the development of the app to Charthouse, and they had completed the code work, but it wasn’t designed. So I know that when we got the code, the import component worked. In adding the design or something, perhaps the code had been mistakenly broken.
I thought I’d compare the two files. So I printed both files off to see if I could make any sense of them, see a glaring error. I quickly realized that doing a manual check like that would take ages and be prone to error. So after quick research online, I discovered that google docs can do it simply!
Here’s how to compare any two documents. Create a new google doc. Copy and paste the code (or text) into the new doc. Save it. Then copy the text from the file you want to compare, and save again. Then go to file > see revision history. Check the 2 boxes next to the 2 recent revisions, and click the ‘compare checked’ link. Google docs shows you the differences!
How easy is that! Probably works for spreadies too, but I didn’t try that.
