My hard drive gave up. Now I’ve got a brand new 320 G empty hard drive. Only OS X 10.6 installed. This is a great time to see what I need to make it. These are the apps and docs I’m installing in sequential order (not of importance, but there might be a bit of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Apps’
Essential and non essential apps for my Mac
Sunday, August 22nd, 20107 days of Emacs
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010Geoffrey Grosenbach, producer of the PeepCode screencasts gave me some quick advice on how to get started with Emacs (here). Unless I have some really urgent work to get done, for which I’ll surely fire up Textmate, I’ll give Emacs a try. I’m already an every once in while VIM user and remember it was [...]
Try Emacs. Or maybe not.
Monday, March 15th, 2010On the Nuby on Rails website I came across this post on Emacs. I was in a good mood with my mind full of curiosity and then a thought hit me. “Could it be that I somehow missed the good parts of Emacs?” I remember having used Emacs before, when I was using Ubuntu all [...]
TaskPaper and the Pomodoro Technique
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009I’ve been practicing the Pomodoro Technique for about 1 month now. It’s been an incredibly useful tool for me. It’s brought about changes on many levels. One of which is the kind of To-Do lists I create. I’ve loved the GTD methodology since I found it 2 years ago. I’ve used many of the most [...]

