August 2009
6 posts
“Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious...”
– Erwin Rommel
Playing with GWT
Just for kicks, I decided to try using the Google Web Toolkit the other day, to try and realize an idea for a web application that had been bouncing around in my head. I’ve never really used Java, which has always seemed kind of gross to me, but I’m finding it reasonable pleasant thus far. Better than reams and reams of Javascript and PHP or something. Easier for me to follow than...
Frustrations
Damn it, if TextMate had just a few things, I would have switched already. As it is, it’s pretty darn hard to tear myself away from Emacs when it’s got none of:
Ability to override certain keybindings: I really want C-j to be newline and have C-h be backspace and ⌘-h be help.
No point-and-mark type region? So I can’t set point and isearch-forward to extend the selection?...
Textmate or Emacs?
As part of my switch from (GNU/) Linux to OS X, I’ve considered making my switch complete, and moving from Emacs to Textmate. I’ve heard that Textmate is basically Emacs for OS X, except nicer looking.
When I started using it though, I realized what an overstatement that is. Sure, Textmate may be featurefull, may be a straight text editor, etc, but it’s no Emacs. The biggest...
“Powerful men don’t “skip a day”. Get up.”
– Lazarus, Tasseled Loafer to the World’s Greatest Business Minds (Achewood)
The Great Switch
So, after about five years using exclusively Linux, I’ve switched over to a Mac. I’ve had my Macbook Pro for a week now and my conclusion thus far is “wow”.
The main thing that I’ve been pleasantly surprised by is the incredible difference in polish between the open-source stuff I’ve been using and the for-pay software for the Mac. There is just such a...