2009 April | LAMPlights

20Apr/0914

Exploring Facebook’s Thrift

At work we have a number of services written in C. These services use the same core libraries our legacy C application uses. Keeping all this business logic in a central place makes life much easier, but the way services are written is horribly inefficient. I am on a mission to find a better way.

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13Apr/092

Frustration with vim.org

I started using the phpDocumentor for Vim (PDV) script written by Tobias Schlitt. Very quickly I found a bug with one of the regular expressions used to parse apart the class definition. Tobias does not seem to be maintaing this plugin anymore, so I decided I would fix the bug and submit a new version to vim.org. I packaged up the new version of the script and went to update the PDV page on vim.org only to find out I can't. There isn't even a mechanism for me to post a comment.

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11Apr/091

Choosing VIM

At work we were using VIM for all editing, except PHP. Back when the decision was made to use PHP for all web development, consultants told us we needed an IDE that offered all kinds of tools that VIM lacks. So we shopped around for IDE's and eventually bought Zend Studio licenses for everyone. Today those licesnses are collecting dust. Even with the feature rich toolset of Zend Studio, and other IDE's, none seem to satisfy our need like VIM does.

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