Freshening up Sublime Text - part three: Finding new packages
This is the third post in a series where I am cleaning up and improving my Sublime Text environment. In the first part I found a new theme and in the second...
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tools
Freshening up Sublime Text - part two: Update favourite packages
Continuing my work to improve my development environment by tinkering with my Sublime Text 3 setup started in “Freshening up Sublime Text - part one”. I will...
Freshening up Sublime Text - part one: Clean-up and new theme
Before starting a new project I always like to start with some cleaning and maintenance of my development tools. Lately, most of my development is done with ...
Sublime Text 2 tip: Get Sublime Text 3
Yes, you read that right. The best way to improve Sublime Text 2 is to get version 3. It’s pretty obvious of course, but at the moment Sublime Text 3 is only...
Sublime Text 2 tip: Synchronize settings and packages on multiple machines
Sublime Text 2 is a great text editor with a pretty flexible license agreement. The license is per user so if you buy a license you can use it on as many mac...
Sublime Text 2 tip: Reset font size
Sublime Text 2 is an extremely powerful text editor that is particularly well suited for programming and editing markup. It has in a very short time become m...
blog
Goodbye Octopress, Hello Jekyll
Refreshing my site and update the tools used to manage it. TLDR: I am eliminating reliance on Octopress and going pure Jekyll.
Migrating from Octopress 2.0 to Octopress 3.0
I have been planning to move my blog to a new server and I thought it would be a good opportunity to try to migrate to the latest version of Octopress. I hav...
New year, new look with Octostrap3
Update: This obviously doesn’t match the current site anymore. I have moved it and switched themes a few times after writing this post. I was getting a bit...
ux
The tl;dr effect
Have you ever been presented with a UI that is just overwhelming with information and gives you the feeling that it is just not worth it to digest it all? M...
I don’t like DataGrids
I recently did a review of WPF data grid controls for the company I work for. The developers are struggling with some limitations and bugs in the grid contro...
python
PySDL2: Playing a sound from a WAV file take two - using SDL2_mixer
Yesterday I wrote about playing a WAVE sound using basic PySDL2. I also mentioned that I thought that using the SDL2_mixer extension (or sdl2.sdlmixer as it ...
PySDL2: Playing a sound from a WAV file
For the last couple of weeks I have been playing around with PySDL2 to learn a bit of game programming. Figuring that prototyping in Python was a good place ...
update
So where do I start?
That is always my first thought when I get a new idea. Because I want to start right away. I’ve got a fun new idea and cannot wait to get cracking. Never min...
hardware
Upgrading the BIOS of a HP Z820 Workstation
I recently bought a SSD drive for my HP Z820 workstation for use as the main drive. This weekend when I installed it I discovered that I needed to upgrade my...