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YouTrack vi keyboard navigation (j/k and h/l)

Youtrack is an awesome bug tracker. One of it’s best features is that it can be (almost) entirely keyboard driven. Unfortunately – Jetbrains in their wisdom did not adopt god’s designated keys for moving up and down lists j/k – instead opting to use the cursor keys – forcing users to move their hands from [...]


git svn on windows speedup now in git “next” branch”

Update: This page incorrectly stated that this patch was included in git 1.7.0.1. It’s not! It’s in the git repository’s “next” branch – which will eventually become the git 1.7.2 series. I’ll update again when this is released. The lovely people on the git mailing list have accepted my patch to include this speedup in [...]


The worlds atwitter…

..and so am I. Somehow – twitter has clicked for me. It could be related to checking out clients and liking Twitterrific enough to keep it running.  It’s fair to say that twitter itself it pretty unreliable – but it doesn’t seem to matter too much. I’m living proof – somewhat available is good enough [...]


WordPress 2.3.1

<blog.service.announcement> I’ve just upgraded from 2.2.x(?) to the latest and greatest. I think everything is back to normal – but if you notice anything unusual – please let me know. </blog.service.announcement>


Enterprise plaforms – teaching new dogs old tricks

Oren is talking about building a substrate for an enterprise platform. This has been something I’ve wanted to do since I first got my hands on c# and the rest of the .net framework in 2001. I’ve never done it because it always seemed that a one size fits all solution would be unworkable. At [...]


About Me….

I spent some time last night trying to write some stuff about what I’m interested in. On the about page – if your interested.