Scaffolding

I know that this topic is well covered everywhere, but I have to admit that until today I’ve always underextimated the power of gedit. I’m a Mac user since 2004 and I usually prefer TextMate as an editor for my toy experiments. I still currently use the trial version because I’m basicly stingy, nevertheless I think it’s the best guy on the block. I tried gedit when I had to work on Debian first for an University project some years ago, and I really liked it, but then the iBook came, and TextMate came as well, with a brand new set of cool features.

Recently I started using Linux (Ubuntu) again on my desktop machine, and I needed a good editor. I’ve used Komodo Edit for a while, since I’m interested in Perl development, but I think it’s still kind-of crunchy on most machines. Then gedit came again. In it’s basic configuration it looks like a plain text editor, but if you tune a little the settings you can really obtain something similar to TextMate.

It still lacks my favourite TextMate-like theme (All Hallow’s Eve), but maybe when I finally ultimate my recent project I can give it a try.

Ubuntu as well has become a very good piece of software, it’s easy, shiny and stable and the recent Darkroom theme just rocks.

We started our videogame project. Again. Since in the whole summer we didn’t get to anything, we(I)’ve decided to include more developers in the team, lucky guys …

Unfortunately, to convince them I had to omit the Perl detail, but that’s ok, maybe the translation of the project in Perl can be a personal project of mine, soon or later (yes, yes). In the meanwhile we’re still deciding which language to use, and the holy war is still at its top. More news later.

This week-end I’ve been working on a small C++ project that will probably turn out to be useful for an University course as well. Since the project started growing large I decided to recall some of my make notions to get the compilation, linking and cleaning less boring. I should have set up a backup system.

I’m going to London on November 20 with a pair of friends. I’m quite excited for the trip, I’ve never visited London before and I have great expectations about that.

Since I realized that it’s unlikely I could finish my Wordpress template anytime soon, I decided to start my blog with a ready-to-use one. My thanks to the guys of Design Disease.

I’m configuring the new blog, please show patience and your curiosity will be satisfied.