Trying out VimRepress

Posted on February 9, 2012 by feoh

VimRePress

In an ongoing effort to immerse myself in Vim as much as possible, I’m trying out a plugin called VimRepress – a fork of the popular Vimpress plugin.
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Amazon is doing itself a dis-service by killing Stanza

Posted on November 1, 2011 by feoh

Apparently, Amazon bought the company that makes Stanza quite a while ago, and if one can believe what one reads, they did so for the sole purpose of killing it.  This is a stupid move on their part if true.

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Move over TextMate. MacVim is the new kid in town!

Posted on September 9, 2011 by feoh

For years I’ve been rather proud of the fact that I’m a total polyglot when it
comes to editors. I’m comfortable on both sides of the fence, using Emacs, Vi,
TextMate, EditPlus, or even the venerable /bin/ed whenever that makes sense.
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Sleeeepy (And old :P)

Posted on July 18, 2011 by feoh

I’ve noticed that as I get older, getting enough good sleep has become more and more of an issue… Continue reading →

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Why Apple’s Mac App Store will be good for the Mac

Posted on June 21, 2011 by feoh

When Apple said they were introducing an “App Store” to OSX a-la the iPhone, iPad, etc. there was much ranting and foaming at the mouth… Continue reading →

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Don’t buy early access (MEAP) books from Manning Press.

Posted on February 27, 2011 by feoh

I hate to write a negative blog post about a tech publisher’s ebooks program, but I’m afraid they’ve driven me to it…

[May 20111 Update: Manning has changed things and you can now download any books you've ever bought from them anytime. Yay! My other criticisms still stand, but this is an improvement!]
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Why Many Hard Core Science Fiction / Fantasy Fans Hate Harry Potter

Posted on December 8, 2010 by feoh

So, I finally did it. After a nearly non stop marathon reading of the last three books in the series (I wanted to read all the books before I saw the movies, and I’m very glad I did this. As always, the books have way more depth.), I’ve come to the following conclusions…

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Managing crontabs with Git

Posted on October 20, 2010 by feoh

April 2012 Update: Nowadays we use Chef from Opscode solutions to manage our crontabs, and just about everything else in our enterprise infrastructure. It rocks :)

Time and time again over the years I’ve dealt with the same problem – who took a random pot shot at some critical user’s crontab file and deleted things without asking?

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Green Mountains on My Mind

Posted on October 14, 2010 by feoh

My wife and I enjoyed a long weekend vacation in Vermont a few days back…

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Will Java survive Oracle?

Posted on October 6, 2010 by feoh

When Oracle bought Sun, I was initially fairly bullish on the idea – I thought Oracle might temper some of Sun’s whimsical brainstorming turned projects that it poured resources into, and create a leaner, meaner Sun.

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