This is awesome for all Vimsters out there. A guy named Michael Pohoreski seems to have had a similar problem to almost every other vim user/beginner out there. He couldn’t find a good vim cheat sheet, so he made the mother of all cheat sheets. It’s damn ugly, but pretty good:
Commands for converting from TextMate to Vim
I saw this post on Hacker News today and thought it might be interesting to the TextMate users out there.
It’s written by this person, Jack Kinsella and he goes very much in-depth into how to convert yourself from being a TextMates to a vim user.
How to Draw an Equilateral Triangle in Photoshop CS5 (updated)
An equilateral triangle, in case you’ve forgotten, is a triangle composed of lines that are all of the same length.
For some reason I started thinking about those kinds of triangles the other day and wanted to create one, for use in a pattern or something.
I could have opted to just google for an image of one, but I wanted to draw one by hand. I started by creating a shape using the pen tool (p), but I found out quickly that it’s not intuitively easy.
Palo Alto
On a professional level, the last year and a half has been pretty interesting. I’ve been managing my own projects, doing freelancing work, did some traveling, even some classes at a university, tried to work on a lot of side projects, etc. I can’t say I did everything I wanted to, but it’s still been pretty great.
However, times are going to get even more interesting in the coming months…
VimConf is hopefully coming
As a big fan of the text editor vim. I’m also a bit of a newbie and I’m constantly seeking out some new stuff to learn. Either some key combination I didn’t know, some nice nifty plugin to help out, etc.
That’s why I’m excited about this possible online vim conference. It hasn’t been planned properly yet and I believe he/they are still seeking people to participate and help. If you’re interested you should check it out.
New Vodafone in Iceland website launched
The Vodafone website in Iceland has just undergone a redesign. It was designed by the amazing web agency Kosmos & Kaos, which is also based in Iceland.
I’m very grateful to have been able to partake in the project. I helped with the CSS, initial HTML and most of the Javascript interactions on the website, and I’ve got to say I’m pretty proud of the work. That includes some nice CSS3 effects, a custom parallax slider, the modern dropdown menu etc.
Interesting perspective from a refactoring rails guy
I ran into this post on HN today. It’s from a guy who often gets brought in to help teams refactor old ruby on rails code.
My experience with rails has been that it’s pretty good at abstracting most of the crap away from your code base and gives you a nice clean structure for your code, but his argument seems to be that as soon as you start doing some spaghetti stuff, you get into trouble.
Apple’s design inspired by Dieter Rams
Somebody tweeted this link out today: 1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple’s Future. The title is link bait and inaccurate, but I found the article fascinating.
Jakob Nielsen on why the WSJ app gets bad reviews
Jakob Nielsen recently published this post, where he (and I guess his team) analyze why the Wall Street Journal mobile app gets such bad customer reviews.
It all stems from a horrible interface where the customers are led to believe that they need to pay separately for the monthly subscription to to the mobile app, when in fact it’s free for existing subscribers.
