Articles I've Written
I have written the following articles for the Adobe Developer Center:
Introduction to Regular Expressions | top
Summary: "Regular expressions are patterns that describe character combinations in text. Dreamweaver support for regular expressions empowers web developers by enabling them to find and quickly replace content with surgical-like precision.
In some cases, a web developer may want to create a regular expression that updates content such as changing copyright information throughout a site. Another example might be the case where a web developer wants to search quickly for declarations of a variable."
Configuring Third-Party File Compare | top
Summary: "Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 introduces a powerful new productivity feature that allows web developers and designers to quickly compare changes between files. To take advantage of this feature, however, you will need to download a third-party merge or "diff" utility and configure Dreamweaver to integrate with this program. Once you have configured Dreamweaver 8, with just a few simple clicks, you will be able to compare files visually and understand the differences between two versions of a file.
For any of you that have nervously uploaded or checked out files on a remote server, uncertain which changes might have been made previously, the file compare feature in Dreamweaver 8 may quickly become one of your favorite new features. In this article, I explain how to integrate a third-party file compare utility on both the Mac and Windows."
