"Peter Seibel has given me a sneak peek at his new book Coders at Work. Allow me to beat my colleague Xach to the punch by saying This book is dead sexy. When it comes out, you should definitely get a copy. Seibel is a good writer and a good programmer, and I'm a big fan of his last book Practical Common Lisp. You should get that book too.
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interview with Chong Yidong and Stefan Monnier
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"Earlier this year, Chong Yidong and Stefan Monnier took over Emacs maintainership from Richard Stallman, and they successfully completed the Emacs 23.1 release. I asked them a couple of questions about the process, Emacs-development and some of the plans for the future..."
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GNU Emacs 23.1 Provides Anti-Aliasing
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Emacs, the extensible editor of the GNU project, is available in version 23.1. The release adds countless modernizations to the traditional program, such as font anti-alising and support for D-Bus and zeroconf.
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Introduction to Web Development with Emacs
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Emacs is an absolutely wonderful text editor for designers, and it can speed up development time with a series of helpful shortcuts, even for a Textmate diehard. Unfortunately, Emacs can have a steep learning curve, so I figured I would provide a basic introduction for using Emacs as a web development environment.
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Working With Multiple Database Using Emacs
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"In my experience it is rare that you will work with a single database. even if you have data in only one region, you will hopefully at least have a QA database. Therefore to be a serious tool, you need to have some way of making it easy to query multiple databases. Can we extend sql-mode or db-mode to do what we need?
Read more »FEL: Emacs, Verilog-mode, dinotrace
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"I have just pushed dinotrace to Fedora stable repositories. This will elevate the digital design experience for Emacs users..."
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Five Questions With Dion Almaer - Co-Creator Of Mozilla Bespin
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"Dion Almaer is a name you will find 80,700 results for when searching on Google, so it is clear that people know how Dion Almaer is however, let's kick this interview of with, like the shower scene in a slasher movie, the obligatory first question, who is Dion Almaer? ..." --
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"espresso-mode is a Javascript-mode for GNU Emacs. Its features include: ..."
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GNU'S NOT UNIX - Richard Stallman with BYTE editors, July 1986
GNU'S NOT UNIX Conducted by David Betz and Jon Edwards Richard Stallman discusses his public-domain UNIX-compatible software system with BYTE editors (July 1986)
Copyright (C) 1986 Richard Stallman. Permission is granted to make and distribute copies of this article as long as the copyright and this notice appear on all copies.
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emacs starter kit - emacs made easy
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"emacs starter kit comes up with beginner friendly defaults and makes emacs learning much pain less. It sets some good default settings to get started..."
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More cperl-mode enhancements
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""I've been working on cperl-mode.el, the Emacs mode for editing Perl, again. It now comes in two flavors -- plain Perl, and Moose [...] Anyway, if you are using GNU Emacs 23, you should try this out. It's made using Perl even nicer for me."
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Time To Change: Why DHH should bring Rails closer to the GNU Project and relicense it under the GPL
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"The problem with the Ruby on Rails community isn’t simply sexism, unprofessionalism, or ghetto-ism, but that Rails is, at its core, a culture which values individual ego more than community..." -- N.B: Rinari: Ruby on Rails Minor Mode for Emacs
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Debian list spam reporting the Gnus way
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"So, recently our email overlords graciously provided means for us minions to help them in their toils and help clean up the spammish clutter in the mailing lists by helping report the spam. And the provided us with a dead simple means of reporting such spam to them.
Read more »The Power That is GNU Emacs
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"If you've never been convinced before that Emacs is the text editor in which dreams are made from, or that inside Emacs there are unicorns manipulating your text, don't expect me to convince you [...] You see, Emacs isn't a text editor. Emacs is a programming language that you can use to write your own text editor..."
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How I use Emacs for Getting Things Done on GNU systems
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"I use the Getting Things Done system to keep track of what I'm doing. It works very well for me. My personal stuff I keep track of in paper in a Filofax, but I have a lot more detail to track at work at York University, so I use text files. Here's my system..."
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