Thank you, Steve

Thank you, Steve

This night, I woke up to the news that Steve Jobs passed away. I did not expect to be this touched by the news, although it was to be expected.


Chords + Lyrics

It’s been quite a while since I took the time to update this blog. Many things have happened in the meanwhile, though. The most important happening for me is that I launched an iPad app and I founded a company called 3rd Cloud last week.


A git-flow screencast

A git-flow screencast

Dave Bock created a nice video on using git-flow.


Survey: Python vs Ruby Test Ecosystems

Survey: Python vs Ruby Test Ecosystems

In this post I call out for participation in a survey that I quickly put together this evening to get a better overview of the most-used unit testing, spec and code coverage tools for both Python and Ruby.

Suffice to say that I will blog about any interesting results or conclusions that I will draw from this survey.


How I boosted my Vim

How I boosted my Vim

A few weeks ago, I felt inspired by articles from Jeff Kreeftmeijer and Armin Ronacher. I took some time to configure and fine-tune my Vim environment. A lot of new stuff made it into my .vimrc file and my .vim directory. This blog post is a summary describing what I’ve added and how I use it in my daily work.


A whole new blog

A whole new blog

Finally, I’ve made the move to a static blog engine! I’m using nanoc now. nanoc is a very flexible and customizable static site generator, written by Denis Defreyne. As with all static site generators, nanoc lets you write your source files in a simple markup language. However, nanoc is much more flexible and customizable than most of the others out there. Let me show you a sneak peak of its internals.


An upgrade of gitflow

Last week, I silently tagged gitflow 0.2. These are the most important changes since 0.1.