Today at work I figured out a quick way of doing a large commit from Vim. I hope that other Vimmers can use this tip!
First, use the vim :read command, using the external command for subversion status as input: :r ! svn st
Look through the list and delete the lines with files you don’t want to commit, with dd.
When only files which you plan to commit are left in the buffer, run gg <C-V> G w d to delete the status column.
Next, enter visual mode and select all the lines and join them: gg <S-V> G <S-J>
Yank this line ( yy ), then run the external command :! svn ci <C-R>" -m 'Your log msg here'. Typing Ctrl+R and ” will expand to the last register that you yanked.
That’s all! It’s not very difficult, and it made the process of doing my commits much more efficient. Let me know in the comments if it helped you.
I was pleasantly surprised this week to discover that Lifehacker featured my Remove Gallery Links userscript on Dec. 3rd, 2009. I guess this explains why today when I checked on this script for the first time since I created it on Oct. 17, it had over 1600 users.
Last night I followed a link from Reddit to The Berlin Wall: 20 Years Later on the New York Times site. It was an interesting feature, but I thought that the use of Flash to display the before and after photos was a little bit gratuitous, especially considering that they could make the content accessible to a wider range of user agents (mobile browsers and Google image search come to mind) by using CSS and Javascript.
There’s kind of a funny story to go along with this video, and one that I should tell before I forget all about it. On August 31st, the lady and myself were back in my hometown of Burk’s Falls, Ontario for an intimate Hawksley Workman show in the Towne Theatre, which seats about 150.
While we were waiting for the show to start, a very tall and distinctively dressed woman, with a particular, familiar hairstyle walked down the aisle past us, and set down a few rows ahead of us. I thought “that has to be Genesee!” (my friend and an ex-bassist of my ex-band). It wasn’t completely outside the realm of possibility that she would be back from Whitehorse visiting her family who live in the area. Since this would be the first time I had seen her in a few years , I was excited about this and tried to stage-whisper her name to try and get her attention. After a few unsuccessful attempts, I started to feel like I was making a scene and I would either have to try again later, or find her after the show.
The show, by the way, was excellent. It was my first time seeing Hawksley with a full band, and the set list was a great cross-section of his catalogue. I was especially happy that he played “Your Beauty Must Be Rubbing Off On Me,” but the video of that didn’t turn out (too much bouncing to good music). At around the halfway point, he announced that he would like to invite a special guest on stage to help out with a song. Surprisingly, the woman I thought was Genesee stood and took to the stage… It turns out that I was wrong, and as much as I thought they looked alike in a dark theatre, Imogen Heap is not Genesee Keevil.
Yesterday I was backing up my home directory to move everything over to a larger drive and a new install of Ubuntu, and for some reason I was curious which format my Tomboy notes were stored in. When I discovered that the ‘.note’ files in ~/.tomboy/ were XML files, I was excited about the idea of creating a web interface for Tomboy with PHP.
I searched the Tomboy mailing list and browsed around the wiki, and found that I wasn’t the first person to think of this (of course). I found a blog post about a mockup for Tomboy Online, but this was more of a hosted, social type of app and I was interested in making a standalone script. Also, it was only a concept, and no code exists for it. In the comments of this article there was a link to tomboy-web, but it was written in Java, so I couldn’t really play with it.
Unzip and upload to your web server BUT not before reading the security warning below.
Put your .note files in the ‘note-storage’ directory, either by manually uploading notes every once in a while or (way cooler) following the instructions in this blog post.
Warning!
This is only a proof of concept, it’s a really bad idea to sync your confidential tomboy notes to your webserver. There are no security measures whatsoever. On the other hand, WordPress has an optional ‘blog by email’ feature which relies on the obscurity of a secret email address… if you are going to risk it, place the files in a very obscure directory (named as an md5 hash or similar).
Until I came across this on Addictomatic, I had no idea that it was possible to write macros for it in Javascript. I’m looking forward to more macros, tips and tutorials on writing my own jEdit plugins from this blog.
One of my daily reads, Lifehacker, did a reader poll recently on the best text editors… I have to say I was pretty much incensed that jEdit wasn’t even in the running!
I’d been considering eventually writing a post to extol the many virtues of this free, open source, cross-platform and feature packed programmer’s text editor, but when I saw that it was snubbed in the LH poll, I was sort of inspired to post something in defense of it.
I’ve had a snippet of jQuery and javascript kicking around for a while, that I have found handy in the past for generating post slugs. Finally I’ve packaged it as a plugin to share: jQuery Slug Plugin.
In North Bay snacking news, my friend Sherry Milford’s organic, wheat-free, vegan baking is now available at Twigg’s on Fraser street.
Sherry of Heal Thy Health is a certified nutrition consultant, and along with her partner Yan Roberts is also the proprietor of the Piebird Bed and Breakfast, in Nipissing Village.
“Hello” to everyone and anyone who is reading this. I’m starting a blog pretty late into the game, kind of like a manager who suggests “Wouldn’t it be a great idea to have a guestbook on the site? So users can leave their name, a comment and their email address?” in 2005. Besides the obvious SEO benefits of having a blog where I regularly discuss North Bay Web Design (that was cheap), I think it will give me the opportunity to be a more active participant in the web design community. I’ve lurked and read tutorials on some awesome blogs, have benefited from CSS test suites painstakingly created by volunteers and examples/workarounds of bugs, etc. and I feel that I’ve greatly improved my skills since starting out, and now I will be able to contribute something to the community that helped me along.
In the future, I plan to share jQuery plugins, CodeIgniter libraries, and anything else I code that may be useful to other developers.
I searched the Tomboy mailing list and browsed around the wiki, and found that I wasn’t the first person to think of this (of course). I found a blog post about a mockup for 
One of my daily reads, Lifehacker, did a 
“Hello” to everyone and anyone who is reading this. I’m starting a blog pretty late into the game, kind of like a manager who suggests “Wouldn’t it be a great idea to have a guestbook on the site? So users can leave their name, a comment and their email address?” in 2005. Besides the obvious SEO benefits of having a blog where I regularly discuss North Bay Web Design (that was cheap), I think it will give me the opportunity to be a more active participant in the web design community. I’ve lurked and read tutorials on some awesome blogs, have benefited from CSS test suites painstakingly created by volunteers and examples/workarounds of bugs, etc. and I feel that I’ve greatly improved my skills since starting out, and now I will be able to contribute something to the community that helped me along.