I like to develop prototypes as we discuss ideas. The use of these prototypes is more for whetting and sharing the ideas than for demos. Whatever the idea may be about, its usage is a big factor in its evolution. [Continue]
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ifacethoughtsI like to develop prototypes as we discuss ideas. The use of these prototypes is more for whetting and sharing the ideas than for demos. Whatever the idea may be about, its usage is a big factor in its evolution. [Continue]
I have been using xmonad for almost three years. The dynamic window layout management helped me to not think about positioning the windows. However, this is the same reason why I am trying out i3 as a trial. [Continue]
If you keep going back to the shell to find and open files, every (g)vim command will open a new instance. You can tell vim to use an existing instance using its command server functionality. Replace vim with gvim for all the commands if you use the graphical interface. [Continue]
Yes, open sourced, licensed under BSD license. It is good to see action from the Yahoo! Developer Network. [Continue]
The taskmanagemenvim plugin is now available in the vim scripts repository. Finally! If you would like to modify/add to the plugin, the code is available at github.
Finally, I have converted my hacky task management script for vim into a plugin. It is still not polished, but the code is available at github and the plugin is functional. I have added file type recognition and functionality for pending tasks using vim’s internal grep command. [Continue]
I like Xfce, but I do switch to other environments, or standalone window managers whenever required. Like, I use scrotwm for long programming sessions. Or I use Openbox when I am building a heavily customized desktop for someone. [Continue]
Time is really up for IE6. Even Microsoft has dedicated an entire site to get rid of IE6. We have been warning IE6 users to upgrade for quite some time now. [Continue]
This is a neat way of organizing the thousands of useful Linux tools (via K.Mandla). I appreciate that the basic classification is by administration and hacking It is really useful someone is overwhelmed by the sudden availability of so many tools, like people coming from the Windows world.
I prefer all directory and file names in small case. But nowadays most of the Linux distributions start user directories names with a capital letter, like Music or Documents or Downloads. But like many other customizations in Linux, you can configure them to be what you want without brute force. [Continue]
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