Vim has been my editor of choice for a long time and I try to expand my knowledge of commands all the time. I was particularly impressed with “Vim for PHP Programmers” by Andrei Zmievski.
It’s well worth a read as a refresher and as an introduction to new commands.
If I had the chance to build an app for the iPhone, I’d build an old-timey rotary dial.
That’s hot.
After installing Parallels on my MacBook Pro I installed Visual Studio C# Express to see how it would perform. Without any sort of metrics I’ll say that it seemed faster than my T60, notably compilation appeared to be much faster.
Laura rented Red Steel for the Wii. Um.. I burned through the first two levels and the entire time I was fighting with the controls. It’s not a bad game, in fact, it’s quite good for a launch title. I think that more time with the controller and more time on the cut scenes and this game would have been great. As it is, the control scheme knocked me out of the experience.
Mac News:
1. Our friend Jill just got a MacBook. Another joins the flock!
2. MacHeist is offering an excellent software bundle for a ridonkulous price. There is a fevered discussion on Gus’ site, right here.
3. CocoaBlogs is up and running, tracking the blogs of cocoa developers. I did a lot of Cocoa development this weekend.
hooray, Jill joins the cult!
Hopefully, at this time tomorrow I’ll be typing away on a new 17inch MacBook Pro. I traded in my Dual G5 about a year ago and I’ll be applying that credit to this beast.
I’m looking forward to “coming home.” I miss applications like QuickSilver and Voodoo Pad. And a real terminal. And a lot of other things.
.. and I’ll be the next hot young celebrity making the scene.
I picked up a few new books:
The Problem with Physics, by Lee Smolin Apparently, there is something wrong with string theory. Since I’ve read a bunch of string theory books, I’d like to know if I should just forget all that stuff. :)
The Laws of Simplicity, by John Maeda Read about John Maeda here. This book is about simplicity. Duh.
Creative Code, by John Maeda This is more of a playground for good looking computer stuff.
The Effective Executive, by Peter Drucker I’m accusing myself of not being as productive as I could be.
Random sexy guitar link: Sweet hooba jooba this is a beautiful guitar. And it’s a thinline.
This endeavour may not be for me, but Dana Hanna thinks it’s for him.
Follow his experiment at An App a Day.
Gordon Calvert 4:35 am on March 20, 2008 Permalink
I have an invention that most women will want and possibly young teens and some men . . . Hope season 3 comes soon . . . I hope to influence the ruthless dragon’s and make their Day . . . I believe . . . and hope they do also!
Henry Goertzen 3:27 pm on May 2, 2008 Permalink
I have gadget that I made about 5 years ago. It worked very well for me.
I made 4 units and gave them to family and friends to use. The feed back I received were very positive. One comment was that it was the best gadget that he had ever crried in his 1/2 ton truck.
The gadget is a simple pole with a speacial hook on the end to pull items to the tail gate of a truck with a cap on the box. This gadget eliminates having to climb into th truck box to to retrieve items .
This item should be in great demand for most owners of new 1/2 ton trucks due the boxes are so deep that the average person is unable to reach any articles in the box.
this item is very simple to manufacture without a large outlay of money.
I believe that with proper marketing this item should be a big seller both in Canada and tin the U.S.A.