It has been a long while since my last blog post. A lot of stuff has happened in my personal life, but I have a feeling that it has calmed down significantly enough for me to enjoy my life once again.
I have been reading some books lately, all programming related:
iPhone SDK Development: this is a [...]
As a pre-cursor to my promised larger articles, a post about Emacs and some of the development tweaks I did last week.
The last weeks there has been quite some chatter about development setups. Most notably Sacha Chua figured out that she could be more productive in Emacs then in Eclipse in her current project, read [...]
Since switching to github last weekend I have very pleased with it, so pleased that I also have put worklog onto it.
You can find it on the worklog page on github. I also added the documentation to the wiki.
If anyone wants to work on it, please create a github account and I will add you [...]
With the release of Emacs 22 on June 2nd a new set of version control (vc for short) modes was released as well. The Emacs Tour briefly touches on it, however it fails to point out the geniusness of this feature.
As of 22.1.1 the following version control backends are supported: RCS, CVS, SVN, SCCS, Bzr, [...]
I write a lot of code in Java and as you might know (if you have read some of my blogposts before) I love to use Emacs for all things related to typing on the keyboard.
When you write large applications in Java, or any other language really, you will eventually need to utilize the debugger. [...]
So I decided to write a plugin for maven 2 to generate my prj.el files for the JDEE in Emacs. This was a horrible mistake because shortly after that decision I found out there is a *complete* lack of proper documentation for plugin writers.
I scavanged through source code for about 2 hours of various other [...]