March 2010
2 posts
256 colors in your xterm!
Have you ever used emacs or vim from the command line in GNU/Linux and been offended by the horrible color scheme you saw? I’m embarrassed to admit that I’ve been through tons of vim color schemes and have never been able to understand why the colors did not show up as desired.
Yang’s blog post has changed my life. See here for more notes on which color schemes work well for...
Notes from NoSQL Live Boston 2010
I was excited to sit in on NoSQL Live Boston today. Thanks to 10gen for hosting and all of the speakers for putting the time in!
The NoSQL community is an interesting one. I was pleased to see Dwight Merriman suggest that the community look past its awkward and misleading name when figuring out how to define itself, and instead find other commonalities: removing the emphasis on joins, focusing...