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Monthly Archives: October 2007

Extending Vim with Python

25-Oct-07

Extending Vim with Python – Program – Python – Builder AU If you’re a user of the text editor Vim, chances are you are already impressed with the number and power of its inbuilt features. If you’ve ever tried to add your own functionality to the editor but been turned off by its arcane Vimscript [...]

GMail gets IMAP

23-Oct-07

GMail has finally added IMAP support.  It’s apparently not available on all accounts, but both of my accounts (gmail and for domains) have it. I don’t know for sure if I’ll use it since I’m so accustomed to the GMail interface, but it might be nice for offline reading.  Now if they’d just come up [...]

Moody Marlin

20-Oct-07

Moody Marlin is my suggestion for the Ubuntu release that starts with and M, should be sometime in 2010.  Sorry for the quality of the picture.  I took it in low light at about 95 mph.

Remember, This Stuff Is Supposed To Be Fun

20-Oct-07

Coding Horror: Remember, This Stuff Is Supposed To Be Fun If you love software as much as I do, you deserve to work at a company where people come to work not to punch a clock, but because they love software, too. You deserve to work at a company where software engineering is respected. You [...]

The Times They are a Changin'

19-Oct-07

Or at least, my employment situation will be.  I’ve accepted a position with Innovation First and will be moving to Greenville, Texas in the next 2-3 weeks.  This is a pretty exciting move to a small and exciting company.  I’ll post more about it after I get started.

SSH Keys Howto Quicky

11-Oct-07

Toss this little shell script in your bin dir and you can quickly create and setup ssh keys between your client and server. I called it sshkeys.sh but you can name it what you want. #!/bin/bash KEY_PRIVATE=”$HOME/.ssh/id_dsa” KEY_PUBLIC=”${KEY_PRIVATE}.pub” if [ "$1" == "" ] ; then echo “Usage: $0 <[user@]server>” exit fi if [ ! [...]