Vim

How to make node.js, CoffeeScript and Jasmine play nice with Vim

July 10th, 2011

In order to understand what the tools for the upcoming technologies are and how we could use them most efficiently, I fleshed out a little proof of concept.

I created a simple web application in a behavior driven manner and  learned in the process how to integrate the above mentioned units to form a small and simple, yet very effective development environment.

I blogged about it in detail here.

Reading Source Code on iPad with Vim syntax highlighting

June 5th, 2011

The best way to learn new languages/technologies is to read some good sample source code.

Incidentally there is an abundance of source code, but only so little time. I thought it would be nice to read some on my iPad while I’m on the train. Of course it would be even better if I could have it syntax colored.

Fortunately as I mentioned in my previous post, there is an easy command in Vim to convert any text to html, including the colors.

:TOhtml

does the trick.

So here is what you need to do in order to view it on your iPad.