One of the things that makes vim great is that it can be extended through plugins. There are plugins for more than you would expect. I have gathered together the 15 best plugins. I also include a tarball which when extracted in your home directory will setup my vim environment with all the plugins and configuration.
July 2008
Implementing a Corporate Wiki
It seems all of a sudden, the two buzz words in the corporate IT world are wiki and blog. Corporate wikis are emerging as cheap, intelligent, flexible systems for shared-document collaboration and content management. Because they are browser based, wikis are quite easy to implement and deploy.
The wiki works well in the corporate world as it solves two problematic areas, the need for internal collaboration and document management.
Bash Script Skeleton
I commonly write a quick bash script to solve certain problems. I found myself typing the same code over and over again. Looking for a better solution I googled for a bash script skeleton and found a good one at withouthat.org. I customized it a bit and updated it. Here is my version.
The New Facebook in depth review
Facebook just unveiled their biggest change yet. The http://www.new.facebook.com website is a preview of the next design of Facebook. The new design places more emphasis on friends and actions and downplays the applications. There is a lot more than just design going on. They also reveal some new functionality. I will present an in-depth review of what to expect from Facebook complete with screenshots.
Why are you not on Twitter?
Over the last 2 weeks I have found myself asking that question more times than I can remember. When I first heard about microblogging—or Twitter, the primary service that started the microblogging movement—over a year ago I thought it was a stupid fad and wouldn't last. I mean what value can possibly be passed along in 140 characters or less. 2 weeks ago I was convinced to try Twitter and I am hooked.
Be more productive using GNU Screen
Despite living in the age of multicore processors, GUI everything and mountains of ram, I continually find myself more productive with a terminal open. Especially when that terminal is running GNU Screen.
Bio
Timeline
1986: NES. Mario. Zelda. I was hooked, I wanted to know everything about computers.
1993: Started ‘hacking’ into local BBSs, this was the internet before there was the internet.
1994: Wrote my first program, Solitaire for the TI-85.
1995: Caught the internet bug, HTML 2.0 and Netscape were ooh so tempting.
1996: Started playing with UNIX, DigitalUX, Solaris, FreeBSD and Linux.
Developed localized search engine in C.
1997: Joined largest LUG; hacked into university servers.
Provo was an exiting place to be tech wise.. Novell, Corel, Caldera, Word Perfect.
