BareGrep

I recently ran across a great tool ( BareGrep ) to perform UNIX-like grep commands in Windows. The more I use the tool, the more I continue to appreciate it.

You can download and use the software for free. If you purchase it, then the nag screen goes away and I think there may be more functionaity.

Anyway, today I was asked to extract all the references to color ( embedded styles and CSS classes ) from our web application. With all the RGB and HEX values dispersed across the site it could have been a tedious daunting task, however, with the help of BareGrep it didn't take very long.

I used BareGrep with the following settings to recursively search our codebase for references to RGB values.

Folder:	C:\starteam\myhealthIQ\UserInterface\Web
Files:	.*\.(cs|aspx|html|xsl|js|css|ascx|master)
Text:	(\(\s*\d+,\s*\d+,\s*\d+\s*\))

Note: I did another search for HEX values using another regular expression.

Once I got the results from the above two searches, I exported the values and ran a BareGrep "Invert Match" search against our standard colors ( example: "(196,\s*38,\s*39)|(165,\s*176,\s*65)|etc..." ) to isolate any unapproved colors.

I actually came across the above tool while I was looking for a Tail application for Windows and found BareTail. I recommend this tool as well if you need a tool to show the end of a log file in real time.

Google Code Search

Google is at it again. This time they have come out with a new tool to search open source code... called Code Search.

Some other code search tools that I found ( not associated with Google ) are

• Koders


• Krugle

Cheat Sheets

I'm a big fan of Cheat Sheets. I currently have HTML, JavaScript, Regular Expressions, and CSS cheat sheets hanging up in my cube. I have plenty of other Cheat Sheets downloaded on my Thumb Drive.

If you are interested in collecting some Cheat Sheet as well you can find many of them from Smashing Magazine.