On the nature of Planets

Posted on Thu 01 July 2010 in geek • Tagged with community, emacs, planet

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 …


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Learning to love the snake

Posted on Wed 31 March 2010 in geek • Tagged with emacs, perl, python

Yesterday I finished of what is hopefully the last testing release of the product I'm responsible for, assuming no major problems it will go gold soon. This means I can start on doing some new development work. The thing I'm working on next will be done in a scripting language …


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Adding Google Juice to mutt

Posted on Wed 17 March 2010 in geek • Tagged with data, emacs, encryption, google, gpg, mutt

As I've been mailing out invites I discovered a minor problem with my data.

My main email client is the fantastically functional mutt. It's terminal based but incredibly flexible. When it comes to mass sorting/searching your email it leaves GUI based clients standing. However now I'm a roving around …


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Thoughts on Java

Posted on Fri 12 February 2010 in geek • Tagged with development, eclipse, emacs, java, jdee, opennms

I've been spending the last week hacking around in Java. One of the components of the product I develop is the open source OpenNMS. As I've mentioned before it's been lightly modified by myself to blend in better with our code mainly in the JSP department for it's web interface …


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Finally public

Posted on Mon 25 January 2010 in geek • Tagged with emacs, git, github

After much faffing about with repeated sending of faxes to multiple numbers I finally proved I was human and accountable enough for "Edit with Emacs" to appear on the Chrome Extension Gallery. This almost immediately showed up some documentation and usage usability issues so I spent some of my spare …


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