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Emacs and VC AKA Version Control and an excessive list of handled backends
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Customizing-VC.html I am working for a customer on WinXP with GNU Emacs 24.2.1 through Tramp resp. putty plink (“pscp”) on AIX files. They are using CVS on AIX, but as I am actually the only Emacs user there, I don’t really bother going through the set-up for using Emacs with CVS on WinXP. Recently I…
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ISAM, C-ISAM, D-ISAM, DISAM, … – a few links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISAM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Informix_C-ISAM http://IsamCentral.com – Byte Designs’ IsamCentral http://www.connx.com/products/disam.html
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“More Instantly Better Vim” – Damian Conway customizes his favorite editor
http://programming.oreilly.com/2013/10/more-instantly-better-vim.html (a presentation) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damian_Conway http://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/2247 = Damian Conway at oreilly.com as author http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_(text_editor)
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OS X Mavericks’ privacy default: “Send diagnostics & usage data to Apple”
No, I don’t want to get crash reports sent out automatically, no, no, no!
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created utility “cvsgrep” from “rcsgrep” shipping with O’Reilly’s “Unix Power Tools” (the code TAR ball)
Derived cvsrevs from rcsrevs, and cvsgrep from rcsgrep. This is really nice!! Imagine this: $ cvsgrep -a SEARCHME files… I knew, rcsgrep and sisters would be very, very useful. svngrep should be quite useful as well.
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downloaded and installed the latest OS X 10.9 AKA “Mavericks” last night – you get it for free from Apple
https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/os-x-mavericks/id675248567 These applications are experiencing trouble now after installing OS X 10.9: https://adium.im – crashes …
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O’Reilly Media book: Effective Akka
Effective Akka Avoid common mistakes when building distributed, asynchronous, high-performance software with the Akka toolkit and runtime. With this concise guide, author Jamie Allen provides a collection of best practices based on several years of using the actor model. The book also includes examples of actor application types and two primary patterns of actor usage,…
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O’Reilly Media book: Learning R
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028352.do Learn how to perform data analysis with the R language and software environment, even if you have little or no programming experience. With the tutorials in this hands-on guide, you’ll learn how to use the essential R tools you need to know to analyze data, including data types and programming concepts.
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crime story “Sebastian Bergman” from Sweden on public TV sender in Germany
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Bergman http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1790954/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1790954/reviews As opposed to the reviewers on IMDb I like the stories (broadcast on 2013-10-13 and 2013-10-20 on ZDF.de) – although just as a simple-minded viewer. (I am writing this in English, as all the articles referred to are in English, too.)
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O’Reilly Media book: High Performance Browser Networking
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028048.do http://atlas.oreilly.com/books/1230000000545/index.html – read online for free How prepared are you to build fast and efficient web applications? This eloquent book provides what every web developer should know about the network, from fundamental limitations that affect performance to major innovations for building even more powerful browser applications—including HTTP 2.0 and XHR improvements, Server-Sent Events (SSE), WebSocket,…