andy piper: tumblings

praeclarum:

I submitted the Windows Phone 7 version of iCircuit to Microsoft a few days ago and was shocked (shocked!) that it failed certification by their testers.

I was in denial, how could this be? The engine is two years old, and, while it has issues, is very stable on a variety of platforms. Add to…

dalts:

For podcast hosts out there that attend conferences, especially those that only do Face-to-Face interviews like us, I’d so recommend making the most of these moments.

You get to speak to people you wouldn’t normally come in contact with, plus you get to ride on the coat-tails of the buzz that the…

thechangelog:

Marcin Kulik has released vim-pasta, a plugin for Vim that looks at the destination context to determine the indentation level for pasted text. Consider a paste with the cursor on line 1 of the following code block:

if i_were_president
<paste would land here>
  <when you really wanted it here>
  ...
end

Vim-pasta drops the text at the correct indentation level, in this case nested inside the if. Also, vim-pasta preserves indentation within the pasted code, preserving the format of blocks like this example:

obj = {
       a: 1,
       b: 2,
     foo: 3,
  barbaz: 4
}

Pasta is disabled by default for Python, CoffeeScript, and Markdown since the destination indentation level can’t easily be guessed for these languages. You can configure how vim-pasta handles other languages via its black and white lists:

let g:pasta_disabled_filetypes = ['python', 'coffee', 'yaml']
let g:pasta_enabled_filetypes = ['ruby', 'javascript', 'css', 'sh']

See the README for advanced usage.

nikf:

The catalogue is a little dated, but for £5.99 a month I’m not going to complain - especially if it ramps out with more over the coming months.

nikf:

I’m massively excited to be heading to Macworld in a couple of weeks time. We have a small booth in the OS X Zone (Booth 228), so if you’re in town be sure to stop by and say hello.

Oh, and if you’re still considering going to Macworld but haven’t registered yet, we’ve got 100 Exhibit Hall passes (normally $15) available. Just visit this link to claim your pass.