Author Archives: jcs

Emacs Aliases

Posted on 2011-07-12 by jcs

Xah Lee has a nice post on using Emacs aliases to increase productivity. He uses aliases for two purposes: To change the behavior of Emacs For example, he has the alias (defalias ‘yes-or-no-p ‘y-or-n-p) This gets rid of the annoying … Continue reading →

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More Dired Features

Posted on 2011-07-10 by jcs

On my old blog I wrote about calling FTP from Dired under Emacs and Xah Lee has written several posts about Dired capabilities and how to use them (search for dired at the above link). Now Bart Lantz over at … Continue reading →

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Guile 2.0.2

Posted on 2011-07-07 by jcs

By now, all you Guile users out there are aware that Guile 2.0.2 has been released. Andy Wingo over at Wingolog has a nice post that explains some of improvements and gives a road map for where Guile is headed. … Continue reading →

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A Lawsuit Waiting To Happen

Posted on 2011-07-06 by jcs

There’s an interesting, if depressing, post over at hover.com about how feedback had fueled new features. One of these new features seems particularly ill-advised. Apparently some of their users weren’t able to remember their passwords so Hover Would send them … Continue reading →

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More Dropbox Silliness

Posted on 2011-07-04 by jcs

I’ve written about Dropbox a couple of times before in a generally positive way. In this post, I’m coming to their defense again so I should state for the record that I’m neither a Dropbox user nor associated with them … Continue reading →

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Git Cheat Sheet

Posted on 2011-07-01 by jcs

The folks over at fournova, maker of Tower, a Git client for the Mac, have a really nice Git Cheat Sheet available for download. There are plenty of Git cheat sheets around, of course, but this one is only two … Continue reading →

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Better Passwords

Posted on 2011-06-30 by jcs

Over at the AgileBits Blog (the makers of 1Password) Jeff has a nice discussion of picking secure passwords. His discussion is in the context of picking a master password for 1Password but it applies more generally. Much of the really … Continue reading →

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A Parable About Git

Posted on 2011-06-29 by jcs

A Couple of days ago I wrote about Tom Preston-Werner‘s talk on Git and how he approached the subject matter in a particularly effective way. Today, I was trawling through his Web site and found a longish post entitle The … Continue reading →

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The Security Hall of Shame

Posted on 2011-06-28 by jcs

Two more inductees into the Security Hall of Shame. Honestly, I could devote a whole blog to this sort of thing. Perhaps we should start a Security Hall of Shame blog similar to Steve Friedl’s No Dashes or Spaces Hall … Continue reading →

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An Interesting Talk On Git

Posted on 2011-06-27 by jcs

Over at Ontwik, Tom Preston-Werner has a nice (video) talk on Git. I like it because instead of focusing on the mechanics of using Git, Preston-Werner shows you what Git is doing internally at each stage of the process. I … Continue reading →

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