NotesThis post aims to provide an overview of how to create a highly functional and easy to configure Text Triumvirate for those new to this tool chain. I try to focus on aspects of how to integrate zsh, vim, and tmux with particular focus on my experiences with two common problems—copy/paste functionality and color aesthetics.Unfurl
NotesLets walk through a basic node.js program using Test Driven Developement (TDD) and nodeunit. This program asks the user to enter a number, doubles it and returns the result.Unfurl
NotesGitHub gives us almost everything we need to do code reviews. Commit, file and line level comments, comment notifications, plus everything else that makes the GitHub experience great. The only thing missing is an easy way to initiate a review. If I want my code to be reviewed, I’ve got to go to GitHub, get the URL (and any other info), then compose an email to everyone I want to review it.Unfurl
NotesWhen a file is run directly from Node, require.main is set to its module. That means that you can determine whether a file has been run directly by testing require.main === moduleUnfurl
NotesStarting with Node's built in REPL, add in a completely redone inspect formatter, actual functioning separate V8 contexts, keybindings to create, switch, and delete between them, combine it with a bunch of color. ULTRA REPL Unfurl
NotesEveryone I’ve told this too tells me I’m an idiot and then a few weeks later tells me I was right and checking node_modules in to git has been a blessing to deployment and development. It’s objectively better, but here are some of the questions/complaints I seem to get.Unfurl
NotesWikimedia Labs is a two-part project aimed at improving the volunteer involvement in operations and software development. The first part of this project is Test/Dev Labs, and the second part is Tool Labs.FeedUnfurl
NotesUnfortunately, there’s no standard for Go to Line in Mac text editors. Each editor does it differently, and they usually screw up at least one part of it so that it’s not-particularly-usable. (Which causes me to curse through my nose, throw one of the plush toys they permit me to have, and then run back to Mama Terminal for solace.)FeedUnfurl
NotesAnd then the product just died. Sales disappeared, until we could get out a version of the product that had most of the features of the other two, and added some new twists. Even then the product didn't get on a good footing until a year after that, when we came out with a product that did a lot more than any of our previous products. But I learned a lesson I would never forget. Even when you aren't actually taking features out of a product, you can't appear to the users to be doing that. They will make you pay for it. #FeedUnfurl
NotesTraditional extensions include overlays, wherein the application can load up XUL from the extension's package and automatically apply it atop its own UI. While this makes creating extensions that add to the application's user interface relatively easy, it means that updating, installing, or disabling an extension requires an application restart.Unfurl
Notes"Patchwork is a web-based patch tracking system designed to facilitate the contribution and management of contributions to an open-source project.
Patches that have been sent to a mailing list are 'caught' by the system, and appear on a web page. Any comments posted that reference the patch are appended to the patch page too. "Unfurl
NotesCue the Tina Turner... o/` We don't need another hero o/` "Managers: stop rewarding people for pulling long hours. Don’t punish them, of course, but rephrase the conversation within your company. If someone is working at four in the morning, something is deeply wrong. Figure out what’s broken and delegate the work out evenly across your team such that it doesn’t happen again. Don’t pat your hero on the back for “pulling another late-nighter”. You’re clearly managing someone highly motivated, but you need to shape that motivation into something more constructive. That energy needs to go into design, architecture, planning, and testing, not late night patch sessions."Unfurl
Notes"Submodules allow foreign repositories to be embedded within a dedicated subdirectory of the source tree, always pointed at a particular commit."Unfurl
Notes"The scripts allow to manage a series of patches by keeping track of the changes each patch makes. Patches can be applied, un-applied, refreshed, etc." Checkpoint and maintain floating uncommitted work-in-progress changes as a stack of patches atop a moving-target project.Unfurl
Notes"The issue comes when you finally get approval for your patch and you commit it to the tree. At this point, you want to delete it from the patch series - but quilt won’t let you, because it is applied. If you pop it, then you’ll undo what you’ve just committed. So, what to do? Here’s my ad-hoc recipe"Unfurl
Notes"apply the current quilt patch to the subversion repository, commit it using the patch comments from quilt as the commit message, and remove the patch from the quilt patch series."Unfurl
Notes"the opening gambit for the vast majority of development efforts I have participated in where I have not been amongst the first generation of programmers to work on the project."Unfurl
Notes"With Leopard Objective-C 2.0 will be introduced. It gets features to make it more attractive and easier for developers who are new on the platform"Unfurl
Notes"JSSh is a Mozilla C extension module that allows other programs (such as telnet) to establish JavaScript shell connections to a running Mozilla process via TCP/IP."Unfurl
Notes"Things that aren't just functional, but easy to read, elegantly maintainable, easier--and more joyful--to use, and sometimes flat-out sexy."Unfurl
Notes"I have now gone on stage twice and talked about how useful an RSS feed is for a subversion server. About time I actually document how to set up such a thing."Unfurl
Notes"A really useful feature in Vim is the ability to split the viewable area between one or more files, or just to split the window to view two bits of the same file more easily."Unfurl
Notes"What if you could provide a seamlessly integrated, fully dynamic language with a conventional syntax while increasing your application's size by less than 200K on an x86? You can do it with Lua!" Looks like JavaScript from an alternate universe. Lots oUnfurl
dulwich - Python implementation of Git — dulwich 0.8.4 documentation
Vimbits: Save file on focus lost
Compiler Node.js pour ARM v5 - IT Wars
Vim anti-patterns | Arabesque
Wikimedia Labs - MediaWiki
Scripting News: Don't remove features from products
gource - Project Hosting on Google Code
quilt - Summary [Savannah]