Blog Posts

Vim & Rails

I did a little write up on my general vim workflow and presented it at the hamburg rails user group meeting . I didn’t quite manage to get it as smooth as I originally planned, but anyway you can find the slides

Organizing Entourage in Threads

UPDATE: it’s a lot easier in outlook 2003 since group by conversation actually works as advertised

Blog redesign...

As you can see I changed a lot on the site. It’s not yet completely working but it’s coming, so bear with me please…

A prettier Terminal in OS-X Part 3 (urxvt and screen)

I was a bit annoyed of having to set TERM=xterm-256color. A more or less proper solution can be found on the rxvt-unicode ml from John Eikenberry.

A prettier Terminal in OS-X Part 2 (urxvt and more awesomeness)

Update: thanks to Sung Pae you don’t need to rename perl, you can just set the environment variable:

Proper snippets for vim... wooohoooo!

For a very long time vim has had only snippets plugins, which were using nasty regex hacks to get TextMate like snippets going…

A prettier Terminal in OS-X Part 1 (awesome is awesome!)

o I recently switched over to awesomewm on my desktop because either the desktop wm’s suck(kde,gnome) or fluxbox,fvwm weren’t quite what I needed.

So I went looking for a good terminal that supports 256 colors. There’s mrxvt and whatnot, but again the Probleme with these is that either utf-8 is missing or they’re in some other way ugly, dependency wise or whatever.

UTF-8 and bom problems in php

So I was trying to debug on of our Sites because we we were having an odd sign at the beginning of the files.

Better tab completion for scp file names

As a lot of you may know, zsh offers tab completion for scp: filenames.
Normally it would connect and then list the files. As you can imagine this isn’t really that efficient.
The solution is quite simple… By adding

New Skype themes in OSX

So yesterday skype released a new version of Skype for Mac. You con get it here.