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Talk Notes: Rails Sustainable Productivity by Xavier Shay

23 days ago by Yan Pritzker on skwpspace.
http://confreaks.com/videos/815-larubyconf2012-rails-sustainable-productivity Here are my notes on Xavier Shay’s awesome video on sustainable productivity...

5 minutes a day for exponential productivity

24 days ago by Yan Pritzker on skwpspace.
As a software developer, my day is taken by two primary activities: thought work and typing. Although I am a very fast typer, they pay me the big bucks...

How to change vim syntax colors that are annoying you

~1 month ago by Yan Pritzker on skwpspace.
If you look at code all day, having readable colors is going to be the biggest thing that saves your eyes. Here’s how I tweak my colors any time they...

How to win friends with Maintenance Driven Design

~1 month ago by Yan Pritzker on skwpspace.
When I come to a design decision in writing an application, script, or interface. I ask myself only one question: What will the next guy think? I call this...

Vim – Navigating files in vertical splits

2 months ago by Yan Pritzker on skwpspace.
The two most useful native vim mappings for navigation are arguably gf (go to file, use it over any reference to a file, such as a Rails partial), and Ctrl-...

The cleanest vimrc you’ll ever see

4 months ago by Yan Pritzker on skwpspace.
Ruby developer oriented dotfiles and vim configs to make your heart sing...

Convert rspec pending to xit with vim

5 months ago by Yan Pritzker on skwpspace.
RSpec has two ways of disabling tests: pending and xit. Except one of them is truly evil. Pending actually still runs the before block even when it’...

Learn to speak vim – verbs, nouns, and modifiers!

5 months ago by Yan Pritzker on skwpspace.
.vim strong { font-size: 120%; background: lightyellow; } .vim code { background: #eee; padding: 0.5em; margin-top:1em; display:block } Using vim is like...

Vim demystified: ten commands you can start using today

6 months ago by Yan Pritzker on skwpspace.
.vimtable { text-align: left; width: 600px; border: 1px solid #aaa; margin-bottom: 1em } .vimtable td,th { padding: 1em; } .vimtable tr td {border-bottom...

Rails plugin: view a tree of all your partials

6 months ago by Yan Pritzker on skwpspace.
Trying to refactor your views? Too many partials got you down? Let PartialMap help! Draws an ascii or html tree of all your views and the partials that...