Comments for Akshay a.k.a gakshay

Comment on Encodings in a MultiLingual Web Application by Ranjith

Ranjith — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:41:56 +0000

Hi Akshay

Thanks for the nice post…. pretty useful

In ruby 1.9.2 and Rails 3.0.4, chardet gem (UniversalDetector) which fails to work. Finally i found one good post and its solved my problem.

solution:
str.force_encoding(‘UTF-8′)

Thanks
Rans

Comment on Vim, TextMate and Gedit, make your editor rich featured by makuchaku

makuchaku — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:35:39 +0000

I use Gedit on my low-end laptop and Redcar & Netbeans where i can run power hungry Java!

Life couldn’t have been any better on Linux without these great editors

Comment on Moments, Life and Remarkability by gakshay

gakshay — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 05:46:42 +0000

Thanks! Body, mind co-ordination mismatch hehe

Comment on Moments, Life and Remarkability by Waseem

Waseem — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 05:40:41 +0000

I thought Newton coined the term ‘Gravity’.

Comment on Vim, TextMate and Gedit, make your editor rich featured by sumit

sumit — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 05:31:40 +0000

I’ve been using vim for quite some time. As u’ve mentioned its ultra light, and have some of the features which are way ahead of its generation (i’ve read it was launched in 1976).

Some of the feature like :Sex brings smile to the face of people whenever I give code walkthrough.

Comment on Job vs Life by Waseem

Waseem — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 05:25:10 +0000

The question here is how to keep the _spark_ alive. In my opinion one needs to find a thing which he loves to do. A thing which one will do even if he was not getting paid for. Finding this thing is very difficult. Doing a thing repeatedly becomes monotonous over time. Therefore this thing should be such that doing it repeatedly wont bore you.

To find this particular thing one will need to do lots of experiments. One needs to utilise his spare time very effectively. After the _job_, if you get some spare time, try doing things which you are interested in or wanted to do earlier in your life like writing, hiking, solving puzzles, reading mathematics or science instead of tech blogs, working on a new web start up or drawing. Do it for a few days. If doing this activity becomes monotonous, this thing is not for you.

By continuous trials and rejections one will definitely find that thing which keeps the spark alive.

Comment on Vim, TextMate and Gedit, make your editor rich featured by gakshay

gakshay — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 05:24:17 +0000

Very right, one can’t betray Vim

What I feel, there is reasonably more involvement of mouse in TextMate as compared to Vim, but at the same time it has distinguished feature (as mentioned), with whole project view and has a sleek working experience with it.

I myself, used both Vim and TextMate as per my usage.

Comment on Vim, TextMate and Gedit, make your editor rich featured by gakshay

gakshay — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 05:17:40 +0000

I do agree one can use gvim or e-text editor with cygwin or Heavy ones (rubymine, neatbeans, aptana-studio) and there are many more. But what I insist, editors play a important role not only for coding or programming but also for managing your machine, the way one like its machine to look like, act like, work like and since Windows is copyrighted and freedom is limited. More, now with Vista and Windows 7 they show up flashy pop-ups and all. It irritates one every time on top of that blue screen. I told you that the different topic to discuss the tug between Windows, Linux and MacOS X.

I agree with the ease of software installation on Windows but I don’t like it. As I said, I presume one like to dig into machine and little geeky. After all, software engineer is all about that

Comment on Vim, TextMate and Gedit, make your editor rich featured by gakshay

gakshay — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 05:08:15 +0000

Thanks! I mentioned thats the only licensed software which I ever used for long and liked a lot

Comment on Vim, TextMate and Gedit, make your editor rich featured by sandeep

sandeep — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 05:08:15 +0000

Thanks for such an effective and thorough comparison of these three biggest text editor giants. It true, there is nothing that can replace TextMate and VIM because of their vast list of features they supports. Heads Of to the Mac/ Linux communities for adding so many Addons/Plugins/Bundles.

Still, I’m not agree with ur point for not using windows for rails development. I have plenty of reasons for that,

1. You can use gvim on windows too now.

2. e-text editor with cygwin installed, I guess the most closet competitor for textmate. Supports all the bundles that textmate can support.

3. Ease of software installation on windows as compared to others, except few ruby gems/plugins [for those we need some work-around], but thats okay.

4. RubyMine/Netbeans-for-ruby/Aptana-studio are fully functioned IDE, works very effectively on windows.