Archive for 'programming'

one line search and replace in a folder [OSX]

Posted 01 October 2008 | By | Categories: programming and tip | Comments Off

Beautiful tip to search and replace all occurrences of a string in a given folder.  I had to change it slightly to make it work under OSX so here it is for future reference:   find . -type f -exec sed -i -e ‘s/Old/New/g’ {} \;

setting up osx for some erlang development – yes – with emacs

Posted 30 July 2008 | By | Categories: emacs, mac and programming | 1 Comment

I’ve decided to dig a bit into Erlang. The setup has been painless. I first installed Macports (look here for a step by step guide). With this installed, to install Erlang is a single command: sudo port install erlang Then I looked up the recommended development environment. What a surprise: a lot of people suggest [...]

my emacs setup for python development

Posted 25 July 2008 | By | Categories: programming and python | 3 Comments

Recently I tried to give some other Python editors/IDEs a chance. I tried pydev for a while and found it good enough, but not perfect. Truth is I have been using emacs for a long time for development. And I found myself quite comfortable to develop Python code with it. With a proper shell on the [...]