It’s been a while so I released a new version of Edit with Emacs for Google Chrome(ium). To be honest most of the changes are to edit-server.el. The most major change is moving all the frame configuration options into a single edit-server-new-frame-alist which might cause confusion if people don’t read the change log which is: [...]
Archive of entries posted on July 2010
The power of Tramp
The project I’ve been working on at work the last few weeks has involved bringing up a brand new embedded system. As part of that I’ve been tweaking a lot of start-up scripts and configuration files on the new system. For part of that task I’ve installed GNU Zile which provides a nice Emacs-like experience [...]
A few paragraphs
There are a number of potential topics for blog posts swirling in my brain which I’m not going to have time to write. I shall therefor attempt to address each on in paragraph form (Twitter style is a little too brief for me). We were at Maelstrom this weekend. We splashed out for a van [...]
New Phone
One of the advantages of the current bread of smart phones is they are field upgradable. As so much of their functionality is basically software it makes no sense to treat the phone as a static product once it leaves the factory gates. Coupled with the rapid development of the Android OS means that updating [...]
But will it make the boat go faster?
Yesterday I attended an all day away event with work. It was a combination of motivational speaking, team working exercises as well as management Q&A’s and board level views. There was talk about vision and values. We had pretty much the entire company in the same place including the teams from South Africa and Malaysia. [...]
While you were out…
On Sunday we headed down to the Shelford Feast to catch up with my parents and generally enjoy beer in the sunshine. However while we were out thieving scumbags attempted to break into our house. Apparently there is a bit of a spate of break-ins around fete times as it offers a weekend opportunity when [...]
Managing Mammals
I’m writing this post the Sunday house break-in attempt. However much as I’d like to vent and praise I thought I’d stick with some positive commentary on the weekend and save the rest for another post. This weekend has involved a variety of mammals and their interactions with their human masters/slaves/overlords*. We started on Friday [...]
Emacs Daemon and Handling Projects
All my machines have been running persistent Emacs daemons for some time now. Every time I edit a web-page text area or a tweak a configuration file the Emacs client whizzes me to the file with efficient enthusiasm. However I’m still running individual sessions for each “project” I work on. For example at work I [...]
On the nature of Planets
I upgraded my WordPress install yesterday which inadvertently broke the ‘emacs’ tagged feed to Planet Emacsen. The aim of having a sub-feed from my blog was so I didn’t pollute the planet feed with my rambling life story which is probably of more interest(?) to my friends and family. They tend to read the other [...]
Digital Democracy
Our new Coalition Overlordstm have launched a new web-site to solicit feedback from the citizenry on what laws should be repealed/modified. This is a little more involved than the current option to sign e-Petitions at the number 10 website. The site supports commenting, tagging as well subscribing to feeds for each idea. I’m quite impressed [...]
