We’re are about halfway through our family holiday to the remote ends of the earth. It has been the first time we’ve taken Ursula on a plane so we thought we’d make it a big journey while we are at it. To her credit she was mostly fine with the 24 hours on a plane …
You can probably tell the sort of on-line company I keep from the deluge of noise on the social networks regarding Google’s decision to shut down Reader. However we shouldn’t be that surprised. In fact some companies that source content from Reader have anticipated the need to collect content themselves. I of course will have …
I have from time to time lamented the tardiness of media producers in getting content in-front of my eyeballs. It’s not a case of being tight with money, although giving Murdoch £30/month for a glut of programming I’ll never watch is *too much* for me. I’ll happily pay for the stuff I want to watch …
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In past years when I would review the year I’d flip back through my blog. For 2012 however I managed on average one post a month and the majority of those were geek related ones which in some ways are a lot easier to write. The big change has been becoming a parent of course …
Apologies for the extended delay in getting out a new release of Edit with Emacs. Real life has been doing a good job keeping me busy that spare hacking time is in short supply. A number of people have submitted pull requests and I’ve also done a bit of clean-up on the code. The JavaScript …
It’s time for another examination of Emacs LISP and a selection of ways to solve the same problem. In this case it’s the behaviour of the etags-select package. This handy function will present a selection table when it finds multiple definitions of the same tag. This is handy if your global TAGs file contains reference …
I’ve been running Emacs 24 direct from the version control tree (technically a git mirror, bzr still confuses me) for some time now. As many people have mentioned ELPA is one of the big features that helps de-clutter an Emacs users ~/.emacs.d directory. I thought it might be a useful exercise to discuss which packages …
One of the most challenging things about managing small bundles of fun is the fact their neural circuitry is brand new and developing very quickly. A key part of development at this stage is bonding with their parents. The last few weeks have been quite hard when Ursula has spent large chunks of time in …
I haven’t really had much time for hacking at home unless programming my daughters wetware counts. However a few enterprising users have been sending me in some pull requests that fix a few minor bugs that slipped through the extensive pre-release testing I did for v1.10 so I thought it was worth pushing out a …
I’ve finally buckled and now have a Windows laptop. It was mainly forced on me by the need to have some sort of access to the intranet during the large number of meetings I’m now involved in at work. I have to say the experience has been enlightening, especially seeing all the hacky stuff that …