Thursday, August 26, 2010

Syntastic Plugin for Vim

vim online: Syntastic - Automatic syntax checking
"Syntastic is a syntax checking plugin that runs buffers through external syntax checkers as they are saved and opened. If syntax errors are detected, the user is notified and is happy because they didn't have to compile their code or execute their script to find them."

Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Create a Local Ubuntu Repository using Apt-Mirror and Apt-Cacher

Packt Publishing Technical & IT Book Store - Create a Local Ubuntu Repository using Apt-Mirror and Apt-Cacher
"Apt-Cacher differs from apt-mirror in that it does not mirror the entire repository contents, but simply caches (stores) any packages requested by clients within the network. In other words, it works as a middle man between the public repository and the LAN clients, sharing any common downloads internally."

Beautiful Markup

Envy Labs - Beautiful Markup
"One of the best talks at Railsconf was given by John Athayde on Curing Div-itis with Semantic Html, CSS, and Presenters"

Hanselminutes - Developers and Designers

Hanselminutes #222
"Scott sits down with designer Jin Yang to talk about the fundamental differences between developers and designers. Are we a totally different breed? How should designers and developers work together? Should designers code their own sites?"
This was a good discussion. Enjoyed Jin Yang's practical view of being a designer.

Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Screem HTML/XML Editor

Screem HTML/XML Editor
"In addition to excelling as an HTML editor, SCREEM also lends itself to being a versatile XML editing package, perfect for use as a general purpose structured data editing environment."