After quite some time I have finally updated my color theme; color-theme-arjen. There were some small issues with it, most annoying of all that an inactive buffer had it’s buffer-id indicator in red while the rest of the mode-line was gray. Besides that the nxml-mode did not have any color highlighting at all. I [...]
After reading Steve Yegge’s blog post ‘Effective Emacs’ I tried several of his tips. I already have my Capslock changed to the CTRL key (In Mac OS X this is done by going to system preferences, Keyboard and Mouse, Keyboard, press the ‘Modifier keys…’ button and change the mapping). But I have always used the [...]
Found this video of some guy trying to write some perl code with the windows vista speech recognition feature, needless to say, vista falls short of being usefull in this context…
Don’t think speech recognition will become helpfull for programming for a long time…
Today I found the AutoMeta plugin for wordpress. This plugin does a full text scan of your post and creates tags based on word scores. It then generates the META as well as the technorati tags…. which is quite sweet, saves a lot of hand writing them!
OpenID has been getting quite some attention lately, the most massive news I have heard so far however is that AOL has created an openid server with all AIM/AOL accounts. This means that suddenly 63 million accounts have an usable openid url. OpenID is great for online identity management, being able to leave blog or [...]
Anyone programming or thinking about programming for a company should read this story…. the soundest advice you will get