March | 2011 | Cootcraig's Blog

VIM!The Amazing thing about being in the world of 2010 is we have so many more advance technologies. When it comes to linux terminal, there are so many wonders that can be done. But how come the default terminal colors are 8?

Go ahead type:

tput colors
see that number 8? ridiculous right?

As of now there is a posibility of 256 colors usable for the terminal.
Luckily this is easy to make happen!
First install:

sudo apt-get install ncurses-term

and stick the following in your ~/.bashrc and/or ~/.bash_profile:

export TERM=xterm-256color

After you edit your .bashrc or .bash_profile source that same file:

source ~/.bashrc

Now retype that command above

tput colors

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Vim installation and setup

March 4, 2011

Remove Current Vim

sudo apt-get –purge remove vim
sudo apt-get autoremove

Build latest vim from source

Download latest

hg clone https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/ vim

Build

./configure –with-features=huge –enable-rubyinterp — enable-python

(python-dev required)

make

sudo checkconfig

Dotfile folder on Guthub and linked in place

~/dotfiles

~/dotfiles/symlink.sh

~/dotfiles/vim/

~/dotfiles/vimrc

Vim Setups to Watch

git://github.com/tpope/tpope.git
git://github.com/coreyhaines/vimfiles.git
git://github.com/spicycode/Vimlander-2-The-Quickening.git

Plugins

Pathogen.vim

https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen

Pathogen is a simple library for manipulating comma delimited path options. Add this to your vimrc:

call pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles()

After adding this, you can take any plugin, unzip/untar/svn-checkout/git-clone it to its own private directory in .vim/bundle, and it will be added to the runtime path. This makes it easy to remove or update each plugin individually.

Add vim scripts to submodules

git submodule add git://github.com/nelstrom/vim-blackboard.git vim/bundle/vim-blackboard
git submodule init
git submodule update

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Ubuntu Linux Package Management

March 4, 2011

List Installed Packages

sudo dpkg –get-selections
This command will list all the packages installed on a system using the package manager. Example:

Remove an Installed Package

sudo apt-get –purge remove vim

Links

Collection of 18 Popular APT & DPKG Tips for Debian and Ubuntu

Ubuntu Linux: Uninstall / Remove Any Installed Software

Package Management with APT : Ubuntu

Advanced package management

InstallingSoftware

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JavaScript is Awesome and Ubiquitous

March 4, 2011

I have been on an intense journey into the heart of the JavaScript language. JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford totally changed my disdain for JavaScript into admiration for the elegance and power contained in the language.