Here is a good article about the role and value of “toy” programming tasks.
LeftParen
LeftParen is a framework for quickly creating web apps. It runs on PLT Scheme v3.99.0.23 or greater.
Emacs Faleshoods
Here is an article that documents ten falsehoods about Emacs.
Motivational John McCarthy Posters
For programmers, how motivational is a poster with John McCarthy on it?
(Mirrored here U.S. and here A4.)
Tenerife Skunkworks
Tenerife Skunkworks is a great programming blog run by Joel.
Color Theme: pink-bliss.el
Although pink-bliss.el color theme for Emacs is sure to elicit repressed memories of “Hello Kitty”, the normal confusion about why it exists doesn’t come along with it as you are simply all too lost in the ocean of pink (and pink-compatible) colors.
Color Theme for Emacs
Color Theme is an Emacs-Lisp package that lets you create and use different color themes within Emacs.
This is probably critical for anyone new to Emacs.
Uninstalling VIM
Today I uninstalled VIM.
It is the only way that I will be able to give Emacs a fair shot!
Why Emacs?
Emacs is a text editor built on top of a Lisp (Elisp) interpreter. The full API of the both text editor and the Lisp interpreter itself is available to the user.
For this reason, along with the fact that there are hundreds and hundreds of useful additions available to Emacs, I am learning it.
There isn’t anything more to it than that!
How to print a PLT Slideshow to a file
Here is how to print a PLT Slideshow to a file:
slideshow -P -c -o [output file] [input file]
- -P: print to postscript
- -c: (condense) flatten the output file in the case that you had built slides incrementally
Addendum: 05/17/08
The ‘ps’ argument doesn’t seem to work. I must have used the alternate ‘P’ originally for printing, but posted the other option, ‘ps’. As such, I’ve updated this post. I will look into this. Additionally I’ve changed the condense argument to ‘c’.