I’ve created a new port of the Solarized color theme for Emacs 24. While there is another existing port of the theme I’ve decided to into a separate direction since I’ve wanted to keep the developm...

Prelude Anyone who’s ever dabbled in the dark art that is Emacs knows that chances are you’ll be overwhelmed before you start making sense of Emacs’ unique view of the world. There is just too muc...

Newcomers to Ruby are often confused by the fact the Object class defines three methods related to equality - ==, eql? and equal?. Of the three the one that it’s easiest to describe is equal? - it ...

Good developers are very careful about the proper use of whitespace in their files - there should be no empty lines at the beginning of a file, no empty lines at the end of a file, no trailing whit...

Prelude Often in comparisons between Django and Rails, one of the Django advantages being cited is the automatic admin interface you get for free out-of-the-box there. I guess a lot of people don...

Prelude If you are a professional writer – i.e., if someone else is getting paid to worry about how your words are formatted and printed – Emacs outshines all other editing software in approxim...

Sometimes it’s useful to be able to open the file you’re editing in Emacs in an external program. For instance - you might be editing some HTML file and you might want to see how is it looking in a...

Prelude I’ve started my personal blog some three years ago. Back then in was hosted on wordpress.com and was called Devcraft (https://devcraft.wordpress.com). I had a lot of interesting (at least ...

Prelude Heroku is an amazing cloud hosting solution. It’s extremely well documented, very easy to start with, very stable and provides you with the option to use free hosting for some small applic...

Prelude Last month I’ve blogged about the exciting things are coming up in Emacs 24. What I failed to mention originally is that although Emacs 24 is slated for a Spring 2012 (tentatively) release...