A Drop In The Stream

For those confused about the “one true editor” – let me help – it’s vi and its new browser champion the Firefox Vimperator plugin. The folks who wrote Vimperator are my new best friends. Today’s latest vi browsing coolness is being able to follow a link or paste it to the clipboard without using a [...]

It’s always a struggle to keep up with the flow of information about the tools I use and I recently caught a break when a Linux Magazine update landed in my inbox with an excellent article about some great Firefox Add-ons. There are a number of interesting add-ons mentioned but I wasn’t really excited until [...]

I struggled with multiple addressing until a colleague read this with me and saw something subtle that eluded me when setting up addresses.  The to address is included in both the body of the message and in the method invocation to send the mail.  In the body of the message it is a string such [...]

In my copious free time I’m automating some of the reporting that I do and setting up some simple crontab scripts to update environments that tests run in and such.  One of the scripts was a Bash shell script that iterates across a set of environments and sends an email list of uncommitted files that [...]