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by etwigg 14y ago
People have suggested that I put the engine behind a web service. I don't personally have strong web skills, but I could learn / find collaborators. The thing that I'm most interested in is building diff for things which haven't had very g
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by etwigg 14y ago
Working in embedded software for aerospace is what drove me to make DiffPlug. When I built the Simulink differ, I spent a lot of time making it very general so that I could go after PCB schematics and layouts, some of the FPGA toolchain, e
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by etwigg 14y ago
No way! My little brother drew most of DiffPlug's icons (and took the photos used in the demos). He is also just finishing high school, and part of why I made the image differ was to help bring him into the version control fold. Thanks fo
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by etwigg 14y ago
I actually think there's an even bigger market for desktop diffing than web diffing. Most files that need diffing start their lives on a desktop. And most of the time, the diff happens before those files hit the cloud - while you're commi
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by etwigg 14y ago
Welp, this doesn't mean that either video is good, but more people were downloading it with the "teaser" video, so I'm going back to that one. I've definitely got a lot of work to do on the marketing side.
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by etwigg 14y ago
Funny you should ask! That little blue/green eye that's used in the demo was the logo for "PictureDiff". I took out all the heavyweight stuff, and made it just a filmstrip, and you could click images in the filmstrip to open diffs. It al
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by etwigg 14y ago
Do you recall if one of the videos was the "Getting Started" video on the documentation page? I had been using a fast-moving "teaser" on the front, hoping that it would get people interested enough to watch the "getting started". My conve
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by etwigg 14y ago
Right now I've got two videos: the teaser on the front page, and a "getting started" video. My goal was for the teaser video to get people interested enough to start the download and watch the "getting started" video. Based on my google an
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by etwigg 14y ago
Thanks! I must be doing something wrong with flowplayer, I'll dig into it.
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by etwigg 14y ago
How much do you think you'd be willing to pay for an SVG diff? One issue I'm grappling with is that I think people are willing to pay a lot to diff their CAD files, and probably nothing for their text files. There's a lot of useful stuff
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by etwigg 14y ago
It's all free! Paying is only for the Simulink diff features. Time for me to make that more clear...
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by etwigg 14y ago
I spent the last 3 years building this differ thing. It has plugins for different filetypes (text, image, and simulink) and for different filesystems (local disk, web, and S3). Right now I'm working on turning it into a good version contr
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