I recently re-installed Mountain Lion on my mac book pro. There were a couple of reasons why I did that. Mainly because I wanted get rid of macports and try out homebrew. The reason I wanted to do that was because I am trying to setup a build and package …

I am recently came across a youtube video about data analysis using Python by Wes McKinney. So to learn a new library I thought I would follow the tutorial. As I already had Enthought Python distribution installed on my macbook, I thought I had all the prerequisites. Sadly that was …

I knew vim was powerful, but realized recently that with combined command line tools it is really really powerful!!

Our Oracle production database was having issues at work. As a way to find out the cause, our group was asked to switch our jboss instance to point to a different …

This is an awesome trick I learnt recently. It’s a great trick if you don’t know how many times you need to run your macro. In short it is called a recursive macro :)

The gist is, you first make sure the register you are going to record your …

I have been using vim for the longest time but I know I am not the most efficient and fastest vim user. My interest in vim recently started after I watched a youtube video on how to use vim as a Python IDE. Here is a link to the video …