February 2008
5 posts
Emacs for Vim
I’m having a whack at trying to learn a reasonable amount of Emacs so I can attempt a project more reasonably in sbcl (and Weblocks). I’ve been programming in Vim for about 12 years and my brain/hands are very, very angry at this editor transgression. Mostly because I know I’ll give up, and then try again much later, here’s some stuff that is permanently ingrained in my Vim...
JavaScript framework
I thought I liked jQuery, but it’s just a bit too weird after using it for a bit. I kept having the feeling that it was too much magic and not enough JavaScript. So, I’m using mootools now. It’s very similar, but one or both of the design and documentation is better, and as a result I’m much happier with it.
N+ →
Nick and Kees over at Slick Entertainment just had their 360 XBLA version of “N” (a cool platformer) released today. Just grabbed the full version and it’s a heck of a lot of fun.
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Arc-ish web programming in Python
There seems to be little more sanity coming to the Arc discussion. Some people are still paniced about HTML generation, but I’m not sure that you really have to use that if you don’t like it. Others are just disappointed because they were hoping for … I don’t know what, some sort of Holy Grail, but it’s, y’know, just a programming language. The terseness it...
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better flow control
Been poking around the Arc site; I did a quick Vim integration (to allow sending files/forms to the running Arc process), and I’ve been reading its code a little, mostly to get a better understanding of the approach it’s taking for html generation. There’s bad and good, but it’s certainly very terse. Here’s the Arc version of prompt, interstitial, and results:(defop...