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I had hoped to attend to some of my work backlog this weekend. Instead, after a Friday afternoon that i frittered away, and a Friday dinner of pizza and oreos, i spent the weekend going through the digital notes that had piked up since the beginning of December. I spent time thinking about what i want to do between now and my birthday. I know i want to use it as "seed in winter" time, but there's also an opportunity to take a class on Software as a Service starting late February.
So, that's put me on a track where i'm taking advantage of a "learning track" offered by the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). I'm going to at least skim through using python (a programming language) before the the class begins.
That had me looking for an IDE, integrated development environment. I knew i wanted minimal fuss and minimal setup, and ideally to use something that would be applicable elsewhere. My team uses Eclipse, which seems to be high fuss, particularly if all i'm doing is "Hello World" programs. A promising environment wasn't yet available for the Mac, so i moved on to emacs.
Emacs is an antique, designed for use before point and click, with hundreds of quick keyboard commands. There were some strong criticisms of emacs, but the criticisms were from folks starting off with emacs, and that wouldn't be me, exactly. There seemed to be some praise too, and plenty of references on setting up emacs with python, so i did that.
When i started using emacs for the first time in ages, i began to recall the ease of working in the environment. Yes, it requires learning the arcane key chords that execute commands one would do with mice and menus now. On the other hand, i've been applying that experience to my Mac's windowing system as soon as i new how. Quicksilver and now Alfred are applications one can invoke from any program to execute other applications, search, etc.
Just a brief time in the emacs interface and my fingers itched to use the same commands in other programs. I remember how wonderful it was to Just Have Emacs and not open a million other applications. I don't know if i can go back: while there's a twitter mode for emacs, i suspect it doesn't offer the integrated account management of seesmic.
One small note: if i picked up enough lisp to help with the emacs evernote mode, would that help bring me to the attention of evernote folks?
I didn't spend that much time with emacs: where i spent most of my time was sorting out my expectations for myself in evernote, where i had been dumping aspirations, goals, and to-dos for over six weeks. All the @followup, attention on 2012-01-15, and untagged notes have been reviewed and sorted.
So, that's put me on a track where i'm taking advantage of a "learning track" offered by the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). I'm going to at least skim through using python (a programming language) before the the class begins.
That had me looking for an IDE, integrated development environment. I knew i wanted minimal fuss and minimal setup, and ideally to use something that would be applicable elsewhere. My team uses Eclipse, which seems to be high fuss, particularly if all i'm doing is "Hello World" programs. A promising environment wasn't yet available for the Mac, so i moved on to emacs.
Emacs is an antique, designed for use before point and click, with hundreds of quick keyboard commands. There were some strong criticisms of emacs, but the criticisms were from folks starting off with emacs, and that wouldn't be me, exactly. There seemed to be some praise too, and plenty of references on setting up emacs with python, so i did that.
When i started using emacs for the first time in ages, i began to recall the ease of working in the environment. Yes, it requires learning the arcane key chords that execute commands one would do with mice and menus now. On the other hand, i've been applying that experience to my Mac's windowing system as soon as i new how. Quicksilver and now Alfred are applications one can invoke from any program to execute other applications, search, etc.
Just a brief time in the emacs interface and my fingers itched to use the same commands in other programs. I remember how wonderful it was to Just Have Emacs and not open a million other applications. I don't know if i can go back: while there's a twitter mode for emacs, i suspect it doesn't offer the integrated account management of seesmic.
One small note: if i picked up enough lisp to help with the emacs evernote mode, would that help bring me to the attention of evernote folks?
I didn't spend that much time with emacs: where i spent most of my time was sorting out my expectations for myself in evernote, where i had been dumping aspirations, goals, and to-dos for over six weeks. All the @followup, attention on 2012-01-15, and untagged notes have been reviewed and sorted.