Prelude I’ve been using Z Shell (a.k.a. zsh) for about three years now and continue to be impressed the its immense power and flexibility. Switching from bash to zsh was a decision as good as swit...

Prelude Programming languages have always been a passion of mine and through the years I’ve learnt quite a few of them. The first one was Pascal, some 13 years ago, and the last was Scala, just a ...

Prelude I love reading - I love fiction, I love technical literature, I love newspapers and magazines. I’m also a bit of old fashioned - I love the feel and smell of paper, I love the ability to f...

One of the things I love most about Lisp development is the ability to develop applications in an incremental interactive manner - you write one function, compile it, load into your current REPL se...

During the past few months I’ve been working on a project to convert my vast Emacs configuration into something generally useful and self-contained that could help the typical software engineer. Th...

As you know I’ve recently migrated my blog from WordPress to Jekyll. One of the things I had to do was add an Atom feed (RSS sucks). It was quite the easy task. I just had to create an atom.xml fil...

This is my first post after a very long hiatus partially induced by a migration of my blog from WordPress to Jekyll, which I started half an year ago and never quite finished.1 I wasn’t particular...

After a long period of planning I finally migrated my professional CV from Word to LaTeX last weekend. Since I live in the European Union I used the europecv LaTeX class. I’ve uploaded the LaTeX c...

Most of you probably have heard that Fedora 13 will feature experimental 3D support for the Nouveau open source driver for Nvidia cards. This support, however, is not enabled by default. To enable ...

Recently I’ve been trying to switch my work environment theme to something with lower contrast (namely the excellent Zenburn theme). Swing applications, however, have difficulties with GTK themes w...