After trying nearly a zillion different shells on Windows, I’m back to Cygterm, in part because it makes cygwin happy and because I’ve just come to accept that some stuff will always require cmd.exe. Windows just sucks like that. On the upside, the Wombat VIM theme rocks my world.
Tag Archives: vim
Notes To A Future Self: Getting Productive On WinXP
December 8, 2008 – 2:15 pm
Windows XP is truly a horrid desktop OS, particularly if you’re a programmer. The default install contains roughly nothing useful, and even getting a development environment going requires grabbing the likes of cygwin, Visual Studio, and a zillion patches from Microsoft.
The truly dispiriting thing, though, is how badly cmd.exe still sucks. I fully admit that [...]
Big Questions On IE8’s Big Progress
February 2, 2008 – 9:20 pm
So IE is the first browser out of the gate to do something sane about rendering engine locking to content…and good on them for it.
Now we need to know a couple more details to see if it’s going to have real legs:
What is the precedence for resolution of conflicting rules? If the compatible rule is [...]
Roxer Goes Live!
January 22, 2008 – 12:49 am
So once upon a time, back when I had a “real” job, I used to do security (specifically webappsec) for a living. One of the shining lights in that world for a long time has been Jeremiah Grossman, and as I moved out to the Bay Area, I was lucky enough to meet him in [...]
Dojo Needs Your Projector (and room, and network, and…)! (updated)
January 11, 2008 – 2:41 pm
The votes have just come in, and the next set of Dojo Developer Days will be in the San Francisco Bay Area Feb 7-8 or 8-9, but as of now we don’t have a venue.
In years past, IBM and AOL have graciously hosted these events, provided network connections and projectors, and generally made us feel [...]
How IE Mangles The Design Of JavaScript Libraries
January 10, 2008 – 5:21 am
A lot of hyperbole gets thrown around about how painful IE 6 and 7 make the world of JS development, and so I thought I’d do a bit of cataloging to help those using Dojo understand why it’s built the way it is and indeed, why all JS widget libraries suffer similar design warts. I [...]
Kris Zyp Joins SitePen
January 2, 2008 – 6:23 pm
Some time back I posted about an opening in SitePen’s R&D “group”. The responses I got back were astounding, and I couldn’t be happier that Kris Zyp is joining me to help work on things that we feel are important to the future of the open web. This is yet another high point in our [...]
The W3C Cannot Save Us
December 16, 2007 – 3:09 pm
Things are finally moving over in CSS-land. On the positive side CSS column layouts are looking pretty nice, having dropped their dependency on the the janktastic “advanced” layout module and there’s some initial movement on improving the CSS-OM.
But all is not well, nor has it been for a long, long time. No work on hbox [...]
The Non-Relational DB Strikes Back!
December 15, 2007 – 1:25 am
When I started at Jot, one of the things I fell most in love with about the platform was the way that application developers on the system never, ever had to think about “the database”. You just had nodes (JS objects which could serialize themselves to XML) and nodes had properties. Setting a property on [...]
If You’re Not Already Subscribed To Mike Shaver’s Blog…
December 13, 2007 – 3:17 pm
…this would be a good time to go add it to your feed reader of choice. His latest post on Adobe’s attempts to increase the social acceptability of their closed platform does a great job at distilling some of the history and strategies being employed.
DWR Joins The Dojo Foundation, Joe Walker Joins SitePen
December 11, 2007 – 1:25 pm
Dylan has the short-and-sweet writeup of what’s happening with DWR and the Dojo Foundation and Joe Walker has a bit more Q&A. I can’t really add much to the “news” bit of the news other than to say that I’m tremendously excited about it. The DWR community has been amazingly level-headed in its deliberations, and [...]
Go Molly! Go!
December 7, 2007 – 7:30 pm
Finally, some progress from IE thanks to Molly’s tenaciousness.
It’s sad that it took Molly rhetorically tackling BillG on the topic to get more than witty asides out of the IE team, but beggars can’t be choosers. To that end, we (the web development world at large) need to continue to follow up, not by asking [...]
@Media Ajax Wrap-Up
November 21, 2007 – 6:49 pm
I’ve uploaded the slides for my talk from Day 2 of @Media Ajax, which was a refreshingly focused and high-quality conference. The single-track format combined with some really excellent speakers made me really regret missing any part of it. Huge congrats to Patrick and the Vivabit for putting on such a great couple of days.
On [...]
Wot Ho!
November 12, 2007 – 12:35 pm
Today I’m flying out for a trip to Edinburgh and then on to London for the @media Ajax conference.
This will be my first trip to the UK, and I’ve been fitfully canvassing friends about what I should do and see while there, but I’ve barely had time to digest it. My usual M.O. of getting [...]
Immunity
November 10, 2007 – 3:55 pm
I don’t write much about politics here, but the amnesty-for-telcos language which is being fought by the EFF really has my goat. The whole robo-fax-as-advocacy thing isn’t really my style so what follows is the letter I sent to Senator Feinstein today after finding that her San Francisco office’s voicemail box is full and that [...]
