The iNexus

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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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.

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.

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!

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.