Monthly Archives: October 2005

Vim and TextMate

Posted by Florent Thoumie on October 27, 2005 3 comments

Yesterday while cleaning my hard drive, I found the 20MinutesWiki video that presents TurboGears I downloaded some days ago and watched it. It’s quite impressive but what I seen besides technical stuff was the editor Kevin Dangoor (the presenter) was using : TextMate. It had some completion features that seemed quite nice. So, as a vim user, I decided to look if someone already wrote such a plugin and finally found it!

As an example, you can add this to your ~/.vim/ftplugin/c.vim (you need to change delimiter to ‘?’) :


Iabbr inc #include "?file?.h"^M??

There are some issues though, the most important being it breaks the indentation (well, you can still use Ctrl-F).

RoundCube Webmail

Posted by Florent Thoumie on October 21, 2005 3 comments

I’ve been waiting a long time for a webmail that would work and be good-looking at the same time.

I think I found it, its name is RoundCube, it’s written in PHP, it uses Ajax and it looks like Thunderbird on MacOS X.

For FreeBSD users, the port is available in mail/roundcube.

Silent Hill Lost Memories

Posted by Florent Thoumie on October 15, 2005 Comments Off

Yesterday, with a friend of mine, we continued playing Silent Hill 3 (yes, we’re a bit late), and while I was reading the manual, I saw that there was a book presenting relations between each episodes and haven’t been able to guess what these relations were.

So I asked my internet best friend (Google), and found pages on Wikipedia about the games and the characters. Then at the bottom of one of these pages I saw a link to a huge website, whose webmaster managed to translate a major part of the book that was only released in Japan.

Konami >> *

Now it’s all clear, I can sleep well :-)

Hardened PHP5

Posted by Florent Thoumie on October 6, 2005 Comments Off

Yesterday people asked me to patch lang/php5 to support the hardening php patchset. I read there have been some issues (try googling freebsd hardened php), but it seems to be working fine.

I’ve sent the patch to Alex Dupre though I’m pretty sure there are some modifications to make before having it committed to the tree.

FreeBSD website got redesigned

Posted by Florent Thoumie on October 6, 2005 Comments Off

I for one was waiting for this to happen for quite a long time now.

Thanks to Google’s Summer Of Code and Emily Boyd for this (and there was more rejoicing) \o/

Migrating to WordPress

Posted by Florent Thoumie on October 6, 2005 4 comments

Some minutes ago, I noticed that Typo used 80% of my CPU when it had to generate a new page so I decided to migrate to WordPress.

As it is advertised on the website, the installation doesn’t take more than five minutes. I just had to import old entries from Typo and I was done.

Now it’s fast and shiny, though Typo is sexier with its Ajax stuff.