July 14, 2006

Oh, BTW.

Jackie is pregnant. Looks like I’m gonna be a father.

July 14, 2006

Intro to Vim Tip #4 (Pasting)

If you need to paste into vim from somewhere else, and your code has tabs or spaces in it, you’ll notice that vim may add extra tabs. see, vim doesn’t see it as a paste event, it sees it as “you typing really fast”- and one thing vim does will is auto-indent. The problem is when you paste, you don’t want auto-indentation because your code is already indented. to temporarily turn off auto-indenting, try this from insert mode:

July 13, 2006

More IE Fun

ran into a problem with mod_rewrite and IE- a real one this time. IE was choking on files that were being downloaded via mod_rewrite. same script worked without rewrite, died with it. Did some research and with a lot of help from noodl of #apache figured out it was because mod_rewrite adds a “Vary: Host” line to the header, which apparently IE chokes on. loaded the header module in apache and added “Header unset Vary” after my rewrite and all is good- cvs, pdf, zip all download properly.

July 11, 2006

[IE] sorry, I’m sorry dave, I can’t do that.

So apparently my problem yesterday with aw_foo.jmorgan.example.com didn’t work because _ is not a valid dns character. Every-freakin-other browser allows it to work except IE. Figures- the one time microsoft didn’t embrace and extend and did the minimum amount of work, it bit me in the ass.

July 10, 2006

Rage against the IE.

ok, here’s my latest bout of IE stupidity. The new system I’m setting up will have several developers working on several projects. We’d like to be able to use subversion to manage the projects without dealing with pathname stupidity, hence all new projects should have / as their base since they will later become full fledge sites. So, how do we do that? I had the simple idea of mapping http://foo.

July 10, 2006

Intro to Vim Tip #3 (Visual Mode)

Another well used mode is Visual Mode, which turns your cursor into a hilighter. open a textfile with several lines of text ad move the cursor to the middle switch from command mode to visual mode: v You’ll notice as you move the cursor around, you highlight different sections from the point you started to the point you left. you can press [esc] to return to command mode. hilight a few lines of text from command mode:

July 10, 2006

Intro to Vim Tip #2 (deleting)

Deleting in vim can be done several ways- in insert mode, the delete key and backspace key perform as you’d expect them to, but what if you want more? delete the character to the left of the cursor: [esc]d[left arrow] delete the character to the right of the cursor: [esc]d[right arrow] deleting the current line from insert mode: [esc]dd deleting the current line and the one below from insert mode:

July 10, 2006

Intro to Vim Tip #1

Vim is a great tool, but using is can be a pita in the beginning- hence, we go through the basics. There are several command modes, but we’ll only discuss a few at first: Command Mode and Insert Mode. Command mode is used to perform actions like saving, searching, etc. Insert mode is used to insert and delete text. You’ll be switching between them a lot. Open a file from the cli:

July 9, 2006

NOT Face Cancer.

Biopsy came back; irritated mole, not face cancer. that’s good to know.

July 7, 2006

Guitarday Thursday, July 13th, 6:30PM

ok, having another guitarday- looks like thursday is the day of choice from now on. 6:30pm till whenever. Let me know if you’re interested and bring an instrument. Thursday, July 13th, 6:30PM There, now you know.