Category Archives: Tools

Building Apple Help with OmniOutliner

Thursday, October 9, 2008

William Van Hecke, Omni Group’s User Experience Lead has released Helpify, a Python script that turns specially-formatted OmniOutliner files into Apple Help books. Helpify provides a very simple means of generating HTML that is properly formatted for use as Apple Help, including navigation links, abstracts and the HTML comments used as segment commands by Apple [...]

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VMware Fusion 2.0 and CVSNT

Thursday, September 18, 2008

VMware recently released Fusion 2.0, its Mac virtualization product with an extremely annoying incompatibility–it won’t work properly with Windows guest systems running CVSNT, the CVS client installed with TortoiseCVS. As the release notes say: CVSNT and VMware Tools are incompatible. There is a known incompatibility between CVSNT (…) and VMware Tools. You should uninstall CVSNT [...]

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Moving (renaming) Files in CVS

Friday, September 5, 2008

Once of the main complaints about the CVS version control system is that it’s difficult to move or rename files as your project structure changes. While you can easily remove files and re-add them under a new name or location, this method loses the precious nuggets of wisdom contained in the file’s history — you [...]

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