My version control journey started with CVS, after that I looked at SVN, but
never really used it. The shortcomings of centralized repositories were too
obvious and with my increasing interest in Haskell I jumped on the distributed
version control train with
Darcs. I really, really
liked it, but it had some nasty things too. After a while I was looking for
something different and stumbled over
Mercurial, again I was
really happy with it but somehow my journey wasn’t over yet.
I sometimes forget to push or pull changes to or from a remote repository. To remedy the problem I wrote myself a little script to show me the status on the prompt.
It’s been a while since I wrote my Vim Introduction and Tutorial (exactly one year). A lot happened between now and then, I chose to get a better feeling about Emacs for example.
The reasons aren’t easily explained; The most prominent reason is the awesome AucTex-mode since I’m working heavily with LaTeX lately.
Anyways, learning Vim and Emacs is better than learning only one of them :-).
My article about using rsync to mimic the behavior of Apple’s Time Machine generated a lot of traffic, and more important, a lot of feedback.
In this article I’ll summarize and try to clarify a few things.
rsync is one of the tools that have gradually infiltrated my day to day tool-box (aside Vim and Zsh).
Using rsync it’s very easy to mimic Mac OS X new feature called Time Machine. In this article I’ll show how to do it, but there is still a nice GUI missing – for those who like it shiny.
Installing Mac OS X on a Mac is a breeze, yet I usually do two things after the installation to improve stability.
This weekend I tried to get my new keyboard (Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard 4000) and my Logitech MX1000 Laser mouse to work properly. The Keyboard has many extra-keys I didn’t bother to count, and the mouse has 12 buttons which can be very useful at times.
Almost accidently I solved a bugging performance problem with the Firefox browser. It was incredibly slow when opening Google Spreadsheets, well the whole system was incredibly slow while loading the spreadsheet… .
I often tried to learn the great Emacs editor/IDE/operating system. The last
time I tried it, I spent some time getting comfortable with it until I wanted
to customize my .emacs file.
That was the point when I entered vi .emacs. As soon as I realized what
I’ve done, I knew that Vim has won me over a long time ago.
Haskell is a non-strict, or lazy, language. This means it evaluates expressions only when it needs their results.
Laziness is one of the things that make Haskell special – really special. Lazy evaluation allows easy handling of infinite data-structures.
The article I wrote yesterday was just the beginning, today we’ll look at the next step in becoming Haskell experts.
Yesterday we’ve learned how to split up our program and how to compile, or run it. Today we’ll look at some basic features of Haskell.
Danger! If you are happy with your current knowledge of programming languages, don’t read on – Haskell might be responsible for some serious defects in your motivation.
I was always some kind of programming language geek. I loved learning and playing around with all kinds of programming languages1. Currently I’m trying to learn Haskell. Even though I learned functional programming at my university (two semesters using Haskell), I didn’t really learn how to interact with the outside world. This is where things start to get messy, no matter how beautiful the language is.
Firefox 2.0 is out, but has a little configuration annoyance: it prevents JavaScript to raise windows. This feature is pretty essential for some Bookmarklets (like Google’s Bookmark Bookmarklet).
Here is how to get Firefox to work like it did before.
I’m using hobix to power my blog. Unfortunately it requires some work to get the dynamic components up and running (search and comments).
So I decided to use Google’s Blogsearch which is pretty powerful.
Google launched it’s bookmarking service quite some time ago. Until recently it didn’t seem very interesting to me since I liked del.icio.us a lot.
I tried to use it several times but always came back to del.icio.us, either because of it’s tagging capabilities or some other feature. Yet the full-text search of Google’s Bookmarks is a killer feature!
Times change, now I made the switch to Google Bookmarks (for good).
Common version control tasks, and how they’re done using Darcs, a fresh approach to version control.
This tutorial shows how to pimp your Firefox to look good on Mac OS X. After it’s beauty-session it integrates itself nicely into the overall Mac experience.
