There’s lots of opinion about coding styles and which is best. I prefer one that helps you read the code. And, to that end, I prefer to have spaces inside parenthesis, like this:
Call me a heathen if you like, but it’s how I roll!
And it’s how I set out to configure emails to help me roll… read more
Emacs rocks.
Recently, though, I’ve been trying to streamline my use of the shell in Emacs. Here’s my Halloween Emacs tips. read more
The Arduino IDE is nice to get beginners started, but you’ll quickly hit its limitations. And if, like me, you found an option in the preferences dialogue that enables an external editor, you’ll have been disappointed to find that it seems only to disable the internal editor!
It is possible to work entirely outside the IDE, with your own editor (like Emacs or Eclipse) and build your projects from the command line (or in another IDE). Here’s one way to do it… read more
Many X applications allow you to specify geometry, like this:
Which is great. But it doesn’t let you specify what desktop you want the application to open on. read more
