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wget can be a very handy tool during development. Combine wget with other *nix utilities (like time and cron), and you can write some very useful scripts/snippets. For example,

wget -p -H -nv http://www.my-domain.com/cart/ 2>&1

uses -p/–page-requisites to download all the files necessary to render the page while -H causes it to span domains if necessary. [...]

So I was having problems backporting some changes to a fork of our platform today. WinMerge kept reporting files as different in the summary view, but displayed no differences in the file comparison view. I looked closer and noticed the character sets were “different”.
A developer on the team had started saving files in the repository [...]

I sometimes keep and share development related scripts in the repository, but by default, svn will not remember file modes. To set the script to execute, simply type:

svn propset svn:executable ON myfile.sh

In TortoiseSVN, just set a new property on the file: