Archive for the 'Computing' Category
Cool URIs don’t change; so what’s considered ‘cool’?
I’ve given a lot of thought, lately, to the famous Cool URIs don’t change W3C document. Should URLs end in a slash or not? Should they end in a file-extension or not? (What if you’re serving multiple formats of the same document?)
I’ve been using a trailing slash (for, admittedly, no defensible reason: the Django guys […]
The Mac OS X Terminal Holy Grail: mrxvt
I’ve been a bit unhappy with terminal offerings on OS X since I switched. I’ve spent a bit of time working with each iTerm, GLTerm, xterm, aterm, eterm, but always end up back with Terminal.app because it’s fast and pretty. My wish list has always been speed and anti-aliased fonts. I use Gnu screen for […]
Classical learning curves for common editors
Speaking of Vim.
How I learned to stop worrying and love Vim buffers
My thoughts on ways younger users of Vim can speed the editing of multiple files. (i.e. How not to use Vim like Notepad ++.)
Learning Django with IPython
IPython is invaluable for learning Django if you don’t know much about Python or anything about object-oriented prgramming.