July 2009
7 posts
“Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build...”
– Henrik Ibsen
vimperator
This plugin has gone a long way in making firefox my default browser instead of safari.
dynamic dsn
I am very happy with the services provided to me by DynDNS. With one domain, I can have different services on different machine, and serve them through various subdomains. I can post to my blog, ssh to my homebox, access email etc. all on different machines. Nifty.
markdown preview with vim
I was sorely missing the preview Markdown feature from Textmate in vim. However, in vim I am just a ! removed from the command line, so I wrote a little Ruby snippet that takes a Markdown file, uses Bluecloth to convert it to html, and opens the result in a browser. Then I created a mapping in my .vimrc file that calls the ruby snippet with the current file, and presto, feature implemented.
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Games on the iPod touch
I have noticed a funny thing. The games I think I like are not the games I play the most. Brothers in arms, Assassins Creed and other slick games look cool, but I don’t find them all that playable.
On top of my list are various Tower Defense style games, and pinball games. Flick fishing (to my surprise) is also a lot of fun.
Now I am looking forward to Deep Pinball and Pinball Fantasies.
“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed”
– Henrik Ibsen
vim geekery (the end of the blogging hiatus)
In my never ending quest for the perfect editor, I have returned to vim for a while. On the 43folders wiki, I came across a neat little trick to do a proto-wiki. By adding the following line
:map gf :e <cfile><CR>
to the .vimrc file, you can type gf to open a file named with the word under the cursor (or create it if it does not exist).
I toyed around with this, and was slightly...