emacs-nav – Emacs mode for filesystem navigation – Google Project Hosting

Nav is a lightweight solution for Emacs users who want something like TextMate’s file browser, or the Eclipse project view. Unlike these two, Nav only shows the contents of a single directory at a time. Nav can be run painlessly in terminals, where Speedbar either fails on its attempt to make a new frame or …

Continue reading ‘emacs-nav – Emacs mode for filesystem navigation – Google Project Hosting’ »

Learning Python – Online Resources

I’ve been working on improving my python, here are some of the resources I’ve been using: Google’s Python Class Learn Python the Hard Way (almost a complete beginner’s guide to programming, but useful for reinforcing key concepts) (More to be added as I use them). My IDE is a customized GNU Emacs (on Linux) and …

Continue reading ‘Learning Python – Online Resources’ »

Linux 3.2 – Linux Kernel Newbies

Summary: This release includes support for Ext4 block sizes bigger than 4KB and up to 1MB, which improve performance with big files; btrfs has been updated with faster scrubbing, automatic backup of critical filesystem metadata and tools for manual inspection of the filesystems; the process scheduler has added support to set upper limits of CPU …

Continue reading ‘Linux 3.2 – Linux Kernel Newbies’ »