Colin cannot tell a lie: he wrote this himself. He likes Ruby, Rails, Linux, and Apache, and would also like to thank Subversion and Capistrano for making things easy. He likes playing the trumpet and playing with his puppies, but not necessarily at the same time. He does not particularly like eating meat or getting a headache. Most of his blog posts are just a bunch of made-up words strung together. Just kidding.
JAN
06
I've been using Bash for years now and have gotten relatively comfortable with the Emacs-based commands necessary to navigate around a previously entered command that neede...
JAN
04
Useful (though random) vim tips
Following Thoughtbot's excellent example, I thought I'd also put together a few random vim tips for others who've made the scary jump from Textmate. Searching Assuming...
DEC
22
Updating NERD Tree Key Mappings
As I get more into using Vim and learning all of the keyboard-based commands, I occasionally run across something that doesn't act quite the way I think it should. Cas...
DEC
18
Branching My Face Off... with SVN
To answer the obvious question up-front: yes, I'm very aware that Git is hott: proof . In fact, I'm using it to manage my pet soon-to-be-open-source projec...
DEC
02
Foxmarks: Changing a Keyboard Shortcut
So I recently installed the very interesting Foxmarks add-on (plugin) for Firefox, in the hopes of syncing my bookmarks between my home and work computers. Things worked a...
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I created a site for my trumpet playing and teaching - check it out. I play for weddings and other events!