Booting ‘Debian Lenny’ into widescreen framebuffer

I have a Dell D630 Latitude(running Lenny) that i use at work. While trying to push the framebuffer size, i had to experiment a bit with numbers, because i couldn’t get ready to use values off google for widescreen framebuffers. ‘865‘ is what worked for me(it gives me 1280×800). If you got a widescreen laptop(i [...]

Posted at 8:06 pm on July 2, 2009 | 7 comments | Filed Under: GNU/Linux, Operating Systems, customiation, hacking, installation | Tagged: , , | read on

Emacs: setup geared towards doing `Ruby based Web-Applications`

For me to call an editor decent(for Ruby based WebApps), it must have:

A good Ruby editor
Good Haml editor
Good rhtml/html+erb editor
Good JavaScript editor
Terrific auto-completion
Decent ruby debugging support
Decent tag navigation(eg. navigating from method/class/module/variable usage to definition)
Ability run Test::Unit/Rspec tests from the editor
Ability to show multiple files at the same time(by splitting windows)
Ability to jump between related files(controller [...]

Posted at 1:58 pm on June 27, 2009 | 6 comments | Filed Under: GNU/Linux, Rails, development, hacking, tools | Tagged: , , , , , | read on

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Janmejay Singh

I’m a developer/consultant working for ThoughtWorks. I primarily work on Ruby/JavaScript, Java and Lisp. I believe in Free Software philosophy and GNU project, and am generally interested in FOSS activities. Hacking is my hobby I get paid for pursuing it…..

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