Starting the today this blog is using a new design. I think this new design looks a lot more modern than the previous one did. There’s still room for improvement though as a single request to the front page seems to generate over 130 HTTP requests. This is a bit too much to my taste so I’ll […]
I use IRC on a daily basis and my client of choice for that is Irssi. I run it on my Raspberry Pi which is always on, so I generally stay idle in the channels I’ve joined. Some channels have a lot of users connecting and disconnecting which clogs up the backlog a lot. I
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Ack is a tool for searching your (code)files, much like grep already does, but better. Ack is written in Perl and works on all major platforms, including Windows. To use Ack with Vim there’s this nice plugin called ack.vim. Install it together with App::Ack and you’re set to go. With a single command (:Ack [options]
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Another great Vim plugin I use is NERD Commenter. Using this plugin makes it easy to comment out lines of code with just a few keystrokes. By pressing <leader>cc or <leader>c<space> you can comment out your selection using a single comment character per line. With <leader>cm you can comment your selection with one set of multipart delimiters, though
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Having done a module manager for BlitzMax called Maximus I’ve received one question several times: will you also make a module manager for Monkey? My answer at the time was ‘no’. Simply because I didn’t use Monkey nor was I planning to. To be honest, I’m still not planning on using Monkey myself. But there
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