As is the case with most people involved in Open Source, I’m on IRC all day long. I can help people from around the world use some of the projects I’ve helped create, as well as some of the software that I use on a daily basis. Additionally, IRC is also the preferred form of [...]
It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of Git, and of distributed version control in general; they offer a compelling toolset and degree of flexibility that you would be hard pressed to find in a “traditional” centralized version control system. Instead of discussing the merits of a DVCS or performing feature comparisons between particular [...]
One of my favourite plugins for Vim is Command-T:
an extremely fast, intuitive mechanism for opening files with a minimal number of keystrokes. It’s named “Command-T” because it is inspired by the “Go to File” window bound to Command-T in TextMate.
Sadly, the default installation of Vim on Snow Leopard does not have support for the ruby interpreter compiled in, which is a pre-requisite for using the Command-T plugin. Luckily, that’s easy enough to remedy, and in the process we’ll learn a thing or two about compiling your own custom Vim binary.
I’m quite happy to announce that I will be giving the keynote address at this year’s WebNotWar/For The Web conference, taking place on May 27th, 2010. First, it’s a free conference for attendees. Being an open-source kinda guy, I know & love the word free. Second, the theme of the conference is ‘interoperability’, which is [...]
If you were to apply a bijective function to each letter in each word of a language (e.g. English), how many pre-existing words would you obtain in the resulting image? Since that’s a pretty convoluted way of explaining things, let’s try a more concrete example. We’ll take the well-known rot13 substitution cipher (a simple example [...]