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March 18, 2008 .
I’m picky about IDEs in which I write my code. I usually move between writing small code in vi or larger code in Visual Studio or some other IDE. One IDE I loved was the Code::Blocks IDE, but there wasn’t a stable release for several years, though there was a tremondous amount of development going on, and the SVN version of the IDE had several great features. Finally, after nearly three years without a stable release, they’ve gotten version 8.02 out, and are actually following an ubuntu versioning scheme.
check it out at codeblocks.org
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March 8, 2008 .
I’d like to point out that I’ve been on the lookout for the perfect blog editor, and I’ve found it. It’s vi. I’m using it for virtually everything now, and I absolutely love it.
For those of you who don’t know, vi is a small simplistic text editor with gazillions of keyboard shortcuts. While I haven’t started using all the keyboard shortcuts properly, I have found it is great for writing code because it automatically detects the code type, auto indents and automatically colorizes. You can do just about anything with vim without ever touching the mouse.
I was actually a little worried a while back because I didn’t want to hurt my hand now that I’ve started coding a lot more. I spend nearly two hours writing code in python and php, and the fact that I don’t have to move my hands back and forth from the keyboard to the mouse has reduced the stress on my wrists tremondously and I’m hopefully going to avoid getting into trouble like the IT workers who get really bad cramps and other problems like carpal tunnel syndrome.
Also I have been studying from MIT opencourseware (search for it, I’m not linking right now). I’ve been meaning to do some computer science courses, and their course on artificial intelligence is amazing.
Endquote:
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, “Where have I gone wrong?” Then a voice says to me, “This is going to take more than one night.”
-Charles Schluz
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March 5, 2008 .
I’ve put aside some time to work on my flagship project “OneClick”. I started from scratch completely and the new version is insanely cool and powerful with features like detection of plugins, themes, confirmation and auto activate, among many others. I will be releasing it hopefully next week, and will have support for the futuristic wp-filesystem(hopefully)
is being developed and tested for good support for file writing and deleting, and has a SafeWrite mode which allows users to delete their files without any chmodding.
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March 2, 2008 .
I spent most of today writing python and practicing the bass, so fingers hurt(more on python later)
On a related note, I had a very disturbing dream that the sun runs out of hydrogen/helium for the fusion and the earth is plunged into eternal darkness. At the end of the dream I’m running towards the sunset, soaking in what would be the last sunlight I’ll ever see, worrying how humanity will survive when the night comes.
I woke up after that and ran out just in time to see the sunrise.
Best morning ever.
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March 1, 2008 .
I’m gonna try out a new idea for getting things done. The famous “two a day plan”. Yes folks, you heard it first here, and here’s how it works:
Every day, without exception, fix up three things you want to do eventually, and work on it with two units a day. For example, my current plan is:
- Do two chapters of OpenCourseWare material.
- Revise notes of two subjects.
- Pick up two songs on the bass(depends on the length of the song, however, but that’s a technicality. one song can be equal to one or more units)
- ..or so on.
I’m hoping that setting small and easily attainable goals will help get more work done rather than spend endless amounts of time on pretty much nothing.
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