Brandon Petersen

It’s a common headache. As a web developer, you have a client who wants to distribute Word and Excel documents on their website. You explain that it’s not best practice for visitors to download your Office documents, they should instead distribute PDF’s. But Adobe Acrobat is $300, which the client won’t spend. […]

To package and compress files, I use the zip software included in Linux. It gets the job done and works great. When using Windows, I install Cygwin and use zip instead of Winzip. It’s a great tool and saves me money.
Here is the command that I run to compress files:
zip -r ZIP_FILENAME.zip […]