Now I am not a hardcore Vim fan. In fact I tend to use whatever editor I can get my hands on at the moment (which tends to be vim as vi or emacs). But this review, Linux.com | First look at Vim 7 makes me definitely think that sometimes it's going to be something that I really really want to have installed.
Imagine, you are editing a configuration file on your server and restarting services when all of a sudden you realize that you have put in the wrong options for the past two minutes. With this you can go :earlier 2m and get back to where you were. . . .
That's sweet.
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Monday, April 24, 2006
Virtualization Product
This Beta program is something that all OSX intel folks should get in on. It looks like very fast XP and linux on mactels and right now since it's in beta, they are giving it to you to use to give them feedback. Make it the best product you can, and it's only 40$ when it goes to the next version.
Sunday, April 23, 2006
Back from the vacation
And man this site fold-your-shirt.com would have been really handy to have. And it really works. Very cool.
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Podcasters
So, have you ever wrote a podcast asking something and never got back a reply? What are the reasons you think? I always lean towards the time or mass of emails but there are a few that I've written into and gotten an immediate response and others that I get no response ever. Odd. Comments?
Thursday, March 09, 2006
inkling
An idea market, inkling (link) is something that at the very least is an interesting thought experiment.
I really like the quote about "none of us is as smart as all of us". I only wish that there was a kanji picture for a logo or wallpaper that I could put on my desktop. Very cool quote.
Oh and the idea of inkling is to let groups of people predict things, such as language popularity, the idea being that a group of people can better pick out trends than just one pundit. And if you select something correctly, you get inklings, or 'idea cash' that show that you're in tune with the zeitgeist.....
I really like the quote about "none of us is as smart as all of us". I only wish that there was a kanji picture for a logo or wallpaper that I could put on my desktop. Very cool quote.
Oh and the idea of inkling is to let groups of people predict things, such as language popularity, the idea being that a group of people can better pick out trends than just one pundit. And if you select something correctly, you get inklings, or 'idea cash' that show that you're in tune with the zeitgeist.....
Saturday, March 04, 2006
CLOCC - the Common Lisp Open Code Collection
CLOCC - the Common Lisp Open Code Collection (link) is self-contained lisp code that provide various functions. Including the ability to parse xml with xml.lisp. Very interesting.
Oh and the net.list includes such interesting functions as resolve-host-ipaddr ipaddr-to-dotted dotted-to-ipaddr.
Sweetness. Granted I didn't see something like UDPServer but, meh, I think it might be something trivial to write.
On further musings, maybe it's time to revist that atom blogger mode in emacs-lisp. Something about Title: and then the URL: entry point that's just bugging me. That should be simple, but maybe there is something in the code that I'm not reading correctly.
Oh and the net.list includes such interesting functions as resolve-host-ipaddr ipaddr-to-dotted dotted-to-ipaddr.
Sweetness. Granted I didn't see something like UDPServer but, meh, I think it might be something trivial to write.
On further musings, maybe it's time to revist that atom blogger mode in emacs-lisp. Something about Title: and then the URL: entry point that's just bugging me. That should be simple, but maybe there is something in the code that I'm not reading correctly.
Lisp v Python
On the Relationship Between Python and Lisp: compare the two. Well this is written from a python standpoint. So there is some bias. But then again, there are some salient points in the writing. Now language wars are always something of a "I can think in X, so it's cool" stripe but then again, what works for you, is the right one for you. I guess it's all a matter of tools.
And the thing is that I found this while looking for cl-xml. cl-xml *was* something that allowed a person to parse and query xml. But it was on a mac.com webpage and apparently the person that had it stopped paying mac. So it's gone. Much sadness.
And the thing is that I found this while looking for cl-xml. cl-xml *was* something that allowed a person to parse and query xml. But it was on a mac.com webpage and apparently the person that had it stopped paying mac. So it's gone. Much sadness.
Thursday, March 02, 2006
DistroWatch.com: Link to get FreeBSD handbook free
Distrwatch has a link to get the FreeBSD handbook.(link)
The author has released the book under the creative commons license. I really really hope it helps to extend the BSD scene in ways that some people can't expect.
The author has released the book under the creative commons license. I really really hope it helps to extend the BSD scene in ways that some people can't expect.
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Is Lisp Ready to Become popular?
Google Groups : comp.lang.lisp: "Is Lisp ready to become popular?"
For me there are a few things that I need for any language to become my tinker language. A good reference that's online and offline. An editor, and a windows binary and a linux binary. Oh and if it's really going to get my attention it needs a schtick. Most of the time it is something like, well, an RSS library made by some other developer. It doesn't have to be part of the language proper, just something that I can go "Hey, you know I could cook up a distributed file pushing system with these three modules".
Oh and how fast can I "Hello World" something together. You know what I'm talking about, the ability to take some STDIN read it all in, parse and manipulate and spit the changed form back out.
For me there are a few things that I need for any language to become my tinker language. A good reference that's online and offline. An editor, and a windows binary and a linux binary. Oh and if it's really going to get my attention it needs a schtick. Most of the time it is something like, well, an RSS library made by some other developer. It doesn't have to be part of the language proper, just something that I can go "Hey, you know I could cook up a distributed file pushing system with these three modules".
Oh and how fast can I "Hello World" something together. You know what I'm talking about, the ability to take some STDIN read it all in, parse and manipulate and spit the changed form back out.
reddit: Night of the Living Python
Reddit isn't lisp anymore. Richard Cook had mentioned this in a comment today, and well, here's the blog entry.
Much sadness, but then again, each project's language is a choice or medium of expression and sometimes it's just easier to express things for people in other languages. Granted as Paul Graham had said it was lisp, it was all I went with. Actually I'm kind of suprised that if he's involved in it that he went to the python side, as I always got the idea he was *hardcore* lisp.
Thanks for letting us know about that Richard.
Much sadness, but then again, each project's language is a choice or medium of expression and sometimes it's just easier to express things for people in other languages. Granted as Paul Graham had said it was lisp, it was all I went with. Actually I'm kind of suprised that if he's involved in it that he went to the python side, as I always got the idea he was *hardcore* lisp.
Thanks for letting us know about that Richard.
Sunday, February 26, 2006
Blogger: Atom API Documentation
Blogger: Atom API Documentation
Too bad this atom-blog.el doesn't work for me. Guess some debug output in the background with the curl calls it's supposedly making might help me track down and debug what's wrong, but, you know, I'm not really going to keep beating my head into the wall for something like this that keeps refusing to work. Just plain silly.
Too bad this atom-blog.el doesn't work for me. Guess some debug output in the background with the curl calls it's supposedly making might help me track down and debug what's wrong, but, you know, I'm not really going to keep beating my head into the wall for something like this that keeps refusing to work. Just plain silly.
Emacs
Blogger Developers Network: Blogger + Emacs = Crazy Delicious: "Blogger + Emacs = Crazy Delicious"
Well supposedly this will work. Granted the defaults require xml-mode, which my cygwin doesn't have. And I'm not overly sure why. And then there is the issue of getting it to log in correctly. And it doesn't seem to work under xemacs, for some reason. Blech.
15 minutes of hack time down the tubes. I hate that.
Well supposedly this will work. Granted the defaults require xml-mode, which my cygwin doesn't have. And I'm not overly sure why. And then there is the issue of getting it to log in correctly. And it doesn't seem to work under xemacs, for some reason. Blech.
15 minutes of hack time down the tubes. I hate that.
Hotlink: Planet Lisp
Bill Clementson's Blog: Who is this guy?: "In the beginning, there was Planet Lisp, and life was good."
Definitely a link to something that I want to look at later. It's got various feeds and information about all sorts of things lisp-y and things that I want to learn.
Definitely a link to something that I want to look at later. It's got various feeds and information about all sorts of things lisp-y and things that I want to learn.
Bill Clementson's Blog
Bill Clementson's Blog talks about all sorts of things lisp. And he uses Emacs. Which hey, isn't that bad, despite what some people have said. I'll be using it more to do the blog posts once I get a module to do blogger from xemacs on cygwin.... :)
Remote File Editing
Bill Clementson's Blog article Remote Lisp Development with SLIME/Emacs mentions "TRAMP (the remote file editing package that most people use with Emacs for accessing remote files)".
Now wouldn't this be nice for editing web pages remotely, so you can insure that you have an emacs environ that you don't have to always be tweaking on each new machine?
I'm thinking of doing something like this on the local machine, but as it is windows, it'll be a bit more trick. Granted the Make the Machine a Ubuntu box is very much still in the queue of things I'm going to do soon.
Now wouldn't this be nice for editing web pages remotely, so you can insure that you have an emacs environ that you don't have to always be tweaking on each new machine?
I'm thinking of doing something like this on the local machine, but as it is windows, it'll be a bit more trick. Granted the Make the Machine a Ubuntu box is very much still in the queue of things I'm going to do soon.
TRAMP and editing remote files
Bill Clementson's Blog: Remote Lisp Development with SLIME/Emacs (link) mentioned that "TRAMP (the remote file editing package that most people use with Emacs for accessing remote files)". I am definitely thinking this would be a handy feature and something that would really make things easier for those one shot web page edits.
Granted this machine is windows that I'm posting on, so it'd be emacs for windows, but that Make my machine Ubuntu project is still very much in the queue.
Granted this machine is windows that I'm posting on, so it'd be emacs for windows, but that Make my machine Ubuntu project is still very much in the queue.
Saturday, February 25, 2006
shitinabox.net - FAQ
shitinabox.net - FAQ: "Exactly, we care nothing of your revenge..we just want your money in exchange for helping you achieve it"
Bill Clementson's Blog: The Most Important Idea in Computer Science
Bill Clementson's Blog: The Most Important Idea in Computer Science: "Lisp is the most important idea in computer science."
Remember that. And be afraid. Well, not afraid. Think about this. Lisp is it's own compiler. It's a pimp language that scares people with ()'s. And it can do darn near anything and a lot of the libraries to do it are already out there. And shoot, Reddit is written in it. And that's sweet.
Remember that. And be afraid. Well, not afraid. Think about this. Lisp is it's own compiler. It's a pimp language that scares people with ()'s. And it can do darn near anything and a lot of the libraries to do it are already out there. And shoot, Reddit is written in it. And that's sweet.
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