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Video: Quick HTML Editing With Vim

2011-05-19T11:22:02Z

This is the minimalistest of minimalist web casts, just to show off the awesomeness of a couple of vim modules for quick html h4x0ring. Specifically Surround and snipMate. w00t!

Geekery

2011-03-13T10:27:22Z

Some useful snippets of technobabble, code and such for the discerning geeks and programmers amongst you.

Tool: Google Creative Commons search for New Internationalist

2010-11-12T16:01:33Z

At New Internationalist, where I work, we often struggle to find Creative Commons images that are large enough to use for print. This is a custom google search form that sets up parameters for a search of commercially reusable and modifiable images suitable for print at sizes of 5.333x4 inches or smaller to make that process a bit easier. Search:

Vim tip - Preview webpage source

2009-06-14T12:23:45Z

Here's a neat little trick for people who have a *nix setup, vim and lynx browser. I've remapped my F8 Key to use lynx to dump the nicely formatted source of a web page in a new window. Useful for testing if your site is working. In my .vimrc I added the following lines: " split at the bottom of the screen set sb " map F9 to open the new window, and type the lynx command for you noremap :10sp /dev/null:r! lynx -prettysrc -source http:// " well, you have to be able to refresh! noremap :%s/.//:r! lynx -prettygg0"