Comparing (Open)Office documents versions using TortoiseSVN !

Call me a noob for not knowing this already, but I just discovered a ‘prittttty’ useful trick for comparing Office (/ OpenOffice) documents versions. (Windows boxes only sorry)

Cool thing is that Word and Excel 2007 support documents comparisons / reviewing.
And called with the right arguments, reviewing can be automated using external tools.

See, as I’ve got my technical documents versioned by SVN along with my code files, I discovered TortoiseSVN is capable of launching different Diff/Merge tools based on the file extension.
You will only need to provide it with some script files that are not currently packaged with the Tortoise setup.

diff-scripts on github

Simply put them into the Diff-Scripts folder of your tortoise setup

“C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\Diff-Scripts\”

Then you can right-click on your .docx / .xlsx / .ppt / .od* / .sxw document that are under revisioning control and needs to be reviewed/committed and simply click ‘Diff’ in the TortoiseSVN right-click menu.

It will open the corresponding software in review mode.

Have a look at what it looks like in Word :

neat !

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FlexUnit assertNotEquals

why is there an assertEquals and no assertNotEquals in FlexUnit ?
there may be a reasonable explanation, but anyway I needed it, so here it is in case someone searches for that

here is my TestCaseWithNotEquals.as :

package
{
 import flexunit.framework.TestCase;
 
 public class TestCaseWithNotEquals extends TestCase
 {
  public function TestCaseWithNotEquals(methodName:String=null)
  {
   super(methodName);
  }
  
  public static function assertNotEquals(...rest):void
  {
   if ( rest.length == 3 ){
    failEquals( rest[0], rest[1], rest[2] );
   }else{
    failEquals( "", rest[0], rest[1] );
   }
  }
  
  private static function failEquals( message:String, expected:Object, actual:Object ):void
  {
   if ( expected == actual )
   {
    if ( message.length > 0 ) message = message + " - ";
    throw new AssertionFailedError( message + "not expected:<" + expected + "> and was:<" + actual + ">" );
   }
  }
 }
}