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WordPress 2.8!

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

I use WordPress and think its pretty dang awesome. I hate blogger blogs, am reluctant to read a blog hosted on blogger and if you use one, I am sorry.

I am not sorry that I said I hate them but I am sorry you actually use one, poor thing…

I have been using WordPress 2.8 beta since it was announced a month or so ago and I think there are some major and very awesome changes. Now that the final release is out, it’s more stable than the beta so thats nice too.

The changes I like:

  • The theme section is much better.
  • The code editor is a step in the right direction, hugely improving on the older one, but it still sucks.
  • It does seem to respond faster.

There is more stuff in this new version, but I am not gona get into them. Check them out here http://wordpress.org/development/2009/06/wordpress-28/

and if you are still using blogger, at very least, foot the $7 a year and buy a domain name!

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Text Editor Follow Up – How to be more effective

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

So you read my last post and chose a text editor to work your magic in..but apparently you may be wasting more time than you know. At the bottom of that linked article in my last post, there was a link to a video about how to be more effective in a text editor.

I felt it was pretty good (so far as I haven’t watched the entire 1.5 hours of the video) and it deserved its own post. So check out the video about how to be more effective when editing text. This goes for email, code, and any other text you may be editing.

The guy has something to do with the Vim text editor so he is a little biased, his jokes are a tad dry and his accent a bit hard to understand at times but overall pretty entertaining and insightful.

7 Habits for Effective Text Editing 2.0

Beware, the video autostarts!

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Code Editor of Choice

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

I read a pretty cool article that basically highlighted the differences of 22 code editors available for Windows.

I have mentioned I am a Linux user at heart but I do find myself using Windows a large majority of my time (again relating back to my current position as a Windows Admin) so this list was interesting and useful to me.

I have tried about half of these editors when I was looking for the editor I would be doing code work in. I landed on Notepad++ and I also use GVim occasionally. I use Vim on Linux.

Here is the list: http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/web-roundups/22-neat-code-editors-for-windows/

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