Archive for December, 2006

vim’s sweet moves

Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time editing books for my company, Guru Labs. Because of this, I’ve come to really appreciate the power of vim, and some of it’s very intuitive functionality. Many of you probably have much more experience with vim than I do, but I’d like to share some [...]

December 22, 2006 • Posted in: Editors, Tech • One Comment

Cool rsync Action

Lately, I’ve been uploading very large iso files up to SoftwareFor.org for an up coming release of Software for Starving Students. Because of this, I’ve been reminded of a really cool feature of rsync.
rsync can, if you ask it to, update an individual file block by block. I am not completely familiar [...]

December 20, 2006 • Posted in: Tech, Tools • No Comments