I discovered recently that people are really using my repositories and getting pull requests for the same. So I just wanted to mention here about the updates to these repositories so far since the last time I wrote about them. dotvim The biggest change to my Vim environment is that I switched from vim-addon-manager with vim-scripts.org to Vundle, thanks to Anirudh’s comment on my previous post. The second major change was the discovery of Solarized which was an amazing color scheme that I just have not been able to live without ever since I first saw it seven months ago. A great side…
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Updates to dotbash and dotvim environments
Swaroop C H - India, Technology, Life Skills8 Feb 2012 | 11:59 pm
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Swaroop C H - India, Technology, Life Skills
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Updates to dotbash and dotvim environments
8 Feb 2012 | 11:59 pmI discovered recently that people are really using my repositories and getting pull requests for the same. So I just wanted to mention here about the updates to these repositories so far since the last time I wrote about them. dotvim The biggest change to my Vim environment is that I switched from vim-addon-manager with vim-scripts.org to Vundle, thanks to Anirudh’s comment on my previous post. The second major change was the discovery of Solarized which was an amazing color scheme that I just have not been able to live without ever since I first saw it seven months ago. A great side… -
Two nuggets from Coders at Work book
30 Dec 2011 | 11:14 pmI’ve been reading Coders at Work on and off, and it is a good read for coders who want to learn how coders, who they admire, think and approach programming. Two favorite nuggets of mine so far are from JWZ and Brad Fitzpatrick who are definitely two of my programming heroes: About taking things apart Seibel: Is there a key skill programmers must have? Zawinski: Well, curiosity – taking things apart. Wanting to know what’s going on under the hood. I think that’s really the basis of it. Without that I don’t think you get very far. That’s your primary way of… -
Book Review : Start-up Nation (story of Israel)
20 Dec 2011 | 8:30 pmI read the "Start-up Nation" book last week. This book was so engrossing that I read it within 2 days, keeping aside everything else. After reading this book, I started seeing the patterns about Israel being high tech hotspot, for example consider just two pieces of news in the last 3-4 days: Apple buying Anobit, an Israeli company, for $500 million as well as building a research center in Israel and Cornell won the bid to build a university in New York city… in collaboration with Technion university of Israel. What is important This book taught me the importance and… -
Inspired by companies incubated at RTBI, IIT Madras
4 Nov 2011 | 3:04 amI am here at IITM, Chennai to help out NextDrop in some technology discussions, and have been blown away by the kinds of companies incubated at the Rural Technology Business Incubation facility (RTBI). For example, consider Stellapps which is developing an automated cow milking system! To get a taste of what I’m talking about, definitely watch this talk at Google by Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala (the good stuff starts at 17 min 13 sec): -
Syncing Android with Mac
2 Nov 2011 | 3:21 amI switched to a Samsung Galaxy S-2 phone a couple of months ago, after my old iPhone 3G (not 3GS) became slower and started having button issues. The biggest problem I faced with the new phone was how do I sync data like music and contacts without it being a constant manual effort and without going through Google’s servers? I paid for and tried Missing Sync ($39.95), but it would refuse to sync music complaining that there is no space even though there was clearly 10GB of free space, even support couldn’t solve this issue. And there were other annoyances like having to install an…
