So much happened this week, without even getting into the tornado that hit Bay Ridge.
On Saturday I met with my ex-neighbor Gina Mauro – she needs a better website for her art. I think Sam and I should be able to provide one. The big part of the project is taking her requirements and picking a Content Management System off the shelf that she can use. I was playing around with Drupal and Mambo, but I think she basically just needs a styled and themed version of Gallery2, plus a contact and about page. That’s it. My biggest worry is making sure that I don’t underestimate the work involved.
Started learning to use VIM again on Monday. I just think I can get more done with it. I need to get better at it. So I’ve started trying to use it for all my basic text editing needs. Within one week of use, I’m getting pretty decent at using VIM. It seems like it encourages you to write text like a programmer, thinking about how to minimize steps as you take them.
Sent out an improved ipc batch script to my coworkers and introduced them to the wonders of autohotkey. No one really seems all that enthused by the possibility of saving some time, but we’ll see if a little prodding helps it catch on. Next week I may tell them about launchy!
The big news is that I managed to reform Ryan Stewart’s PDF Wallet into a class and an edited version of ezpdf. I’ve got the first wallet from this new page in my pocket right now and I’ll be working to migrate Ryan’s stuff with him this weekend. Most of the work was done on the subway to and from my job. All of the work was done in Vim. More on that next week!
Next week I plan to put more effort into getting Gina an estimate for her website and then trying to knock it out in my spare time.
No progress on Spanish. I haven’t given up on it yet, but if I don’t do some more learning, I’ll start forgetting.
Sam and I took out the stitches in my foot together. I’m walking fine and everything seems to be working.
Next week I plan to put more effort into getting Gina an estimate for her website and then trying to knock it out in my spare time.
Work next week should be much quieter, one of the louder folks here has gone on to a new job. I wish him luck and more happiness!
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I have a special request for the picture on my paper wallet……
My god – I hadn’t thought of that, believe it or not.
Maybe I should make that my next wallet. Perhaps the ascii art version……
I wrote a big piece about how awesome VI is but wordpress rejected me.
Anyway, to summarize, vi is cool. I wrote it on me own blog so that I wouldn’t lose it again:
http://staunchtech.blogspot.com/2007/08/vi-editor.html
–Nate