A big part of my work has to do with code. I’ve worked as system administrator – installing, patching, and configuring someone else’s code. I’ve worked as independent programmer, writing code on my own. I also programmed as part of the team. And on top of that, I worked as Team Leader and Project Manager, where I had to interact a lot with programmers. Programming world on its own is as huge as the universe. There is always something to learn. When I find something worthy or something that I understand enough to write about, I share it in this category.
Dear all contributors to vimrcfu,
thank you very much for all my sleepless nights this week. I’ve almost forgot how my bed looks like. On the other hand, I’ve learned a tonne and have significantly rearranged my vimrc and related files, expanding it with new bits and pieces.
The sleep I can get back. The awesome features of Vim at my fingertips now – couldn’t have happened without you.
You rock!
Best regards,
yours truly.
I thought I did. Especially after all the hours spent with Ansible. Turns out I don’t. I have a very limited understanding of the YAML format. How do I know that, you ask? Well, that’s because I am reading the YAML specification now.
Holy Molly that’s an interesting format! Much recommended weekend reading.
VimGolf – a quick and fun way to learn Vim text editor. There is a whole lot of different challenges for all levels – from novice to expert – that will test your knowledge of Vim trickery.
You can also review the solutions provided by other people, from shortest to the most readable.
Andrey shares some of the advantages of base32 over base64 encoding:
- The resulting character set is all one case, which can often be beneficial when using a case-insensitive filesystem, spoken language, or human memory.
- The result can be used as a file name because it can not possibly contain the ‘/’ symbol, which is the Unix path separator.
- The alphabet can be selected to avoid similar-looking pairs of different symbols, so the strings can be accurately transcribed by hand. (For example, the RFC 4648 symbol set omits the digits for one, eight and zero, since they could be confused with the letters ‘I’, ‘B’, and ‘O’.)
- A result excluding padding can be included in a URL without encoding any characters.
Personally, I don’t think I’ve heard about base32 until today.
If you are using Vim editor to write PHP code, you probably already know about the excellent tagbar plugin, which lists methods, variables and the like in an optional window split. Recently, I’ve learned of an awesome phpctags-tagbar plugin, which extends and improves this functionality via a phpctags tool, which has a deeper knowledge of PHP than the classic ctags tool.
Once installed, you’ll have a more organized browser of your code, with support for namespaces, classes, interfaces, constants, and variables.