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Author Archives: Sharpy
Software is hard
Allan Odgaard’s Textmate Blog lead me to the linked article:
If you’re doing top-down design, you produce a specification that
stops at some level of granularity. And you always risk discovering,
come implementation time, that the module or class that was the lowest
level of your specification hides untold worlds [...]
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The complexity stick
Humanity has a habit of glorifying complexity. "Gritty" movies are hailed as masterpieces, whilst wonderfully simple stories of love and loyalty perform poorly. I wonder if someone hit me with the complexity stick too many times. I wonder if it was me.
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Thematic
Wrote a post a little while back saying that I’d returned to the default WordPress theme Kubrick. This is no longer the case. (I can’t actually remember when I switched away.)
Now I’m actually using the theme framework known as Thematic. It’s got a nice minimalist default stylesheet, with great support for extensions and customisations through [...]
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The purpose of serving in the church
So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists,
the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so
that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in
the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and [...]
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Ryan Bates’ TODO List Textmate bundle
After wracking my brains to try and remember a random website where I’d watched a video about TextMate so that I could find the To-do List bundle he mentioned, it turns out a simple search solved my problem. The wonderful GetBundles for TextMate returned what I was after, Ryan Bates’ todo-list.tmbundle.
It’s pretty simple to use:
A [...]
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A month of Vim (including Ruby, cron and GeekTool)
The general idea
Teach myself Vim by using it exclusively for 1 month
Write my first (somewhat) useful Ruby script to show me how long I have left (i.e. how long until the month is complete)
Use GeekTool to display the regularly-updated results (via cron) on my desktop
But why?
I need to learn Vim, and this is a cool [...]
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Installing the Git man pages locally
(NOTE: The following applies to git under Mac OS X 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard). I can’t make any guarantees for other versions, but you still may find the article helpful.)
So, today I spent an insane amount of time trying to get my git install completely up-to-date, which meant installing the documentation locally on my machine. Sounds [...]
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Kubrick returns
I wrote a little while back that I was trialling a new WordPress them, Wu Wei. After using it for a little while, I’ve decided to return to the WordPress default, Kubrick, for a little while (I have made my own minor modifications).
Why? A couple of reasons: widgets such as Archives and Categories didn’t play [...]
Could the iPad be the tipping point?