Leap Forword

One of my dear friends from my under graduate days, Pranil Naik, has started a project in India to promote spoken and written English skills amongst financially challenged young men and women. The project is aptly named Leap Forword. Will be working on getting it promoted in the US.

Good Quotes

* We r all a part of a puzzle in somone's life. U may never know where u fit, but someone's life may never be complete without U!!!
* A smiling face doesn't always mean the absence of sorrow but the ability to deal with it.

Getting xxdiff working with svn

I simply love xxdiff as a diff tool to compare source code. Unfortunately there is no easy way to get xxdiff working with svn and hence I wrote a small python based tool implement this svn feature.

#!/usr/bin/env python import sys import os if len(sys.argv) != 2: print "%s filename" % sys.argv[0] sys.exit(0) if not os.path.exists(sys.argv[1]): print "File %s does not exist" % sys.argv[1] sys.exit(0) filename = os.path.split(sys.argv[1])[1] cmd = "svn cat %s > ~/tmp/%s.old" % (sys.argv[1], filename) os.system(cmd) cmd = "xxdiff ~/tmp/%s.old %s" % (filename, sys.argv[1]) os.system(cmd)