Posted in 2009
Debugging Python RegEx
- 2009-10-29
Rob Sampson is learning Python and struggling to get to grips with its RegEx handling. He asks on one of our internal lists at the office:
Zsh and the VCS
- 2009-10-28
I’ve recently switched to Zsh as my login shell after 9 years of using bash, and for no particularly good reason either as they’re both great interactive shells. I guess all the Kool Kids are doing it, and I’m just playing catchup. The one side effect of that is I’m now scribbling tips about zsh too…
Three mobile broadband in Linux
- 2009-10-14
Steve Lowry is picking up his Three modem this afternoon and asks on our internal Linux list if it supports Linux.
Visual vim mode identifier
- 2009-10-13
Paul Kerry rants about his problems with vim over the cooler today, and as a long time vim user I found it hard not to respond to some of the points.
Instant web server
- 2009-10-12
Among the topics on our Linux list at work today was a question from Luke Fletcher that I was expecting to unleash a flurry of emotional responses:
Gentoo one liners
- 2009-10-09
On our Linux list at work the topic of Gentoo usage arose again today. Originally, the topic was about interesting one liners used to maintain a Gentoo system. I found myself posting extended replies to some of the questions and I’m reposting a few of those here.
Importing gmail filters in mutt
- 2009-10-08
On our company’s Linux list Ryan Abbott is preparing to move to mutt:
Sharing Xresources between systems
- 2009-10-05
In amongst the rants in our watercooler channel at work comes this question:
Simple notifications in awesome
- 2009-10-04
On seeing my window notifications in awesome from a screencast for a new project at work Matt Cooper asks:
Toggling settings in vim
- 2009-10-02
As you can never have enough keybinding tips and vim helps to prove that, the
tip for today answers Joshua’s question from ##purplism
Custom keybindings in the GTK+ file dialogs
- 2009-10-01
In Fancy_awesome_theming I included a screenshot that, by accident more than design, spawned today’s tip.
Context aware diffs with git
- 2009-09-29
Earlier this week Luke Cox asked in response to a patch I sent:
Fancy awesome theming
- 2009-09-28
People, mostly named Neil Blake, who shouldn’t look over my shoulder ask:
